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Isobel Asher Hamilton (she/her) is a senior reporter at The Daily Upside. Previously she worked at Business Insider and Mashable. She specializes in covering Big Tech, social media, and AI. Isobel is based in London.
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The Wall Street Journal reported Monday that Twitter (or X, pick your poison) is aggressively courting political ads on its platform.
Amazon’s October Prime sales event wrapped up Tuesday, and this year saw a massive shift in consumer behavior.
The FTC made a big splash on Wednesday with an announcement that it’s planning new rules to stamp out “junk fees.”
The EU plans to launch an antitrust probe into China’s domestic subsidies for steelmakers, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.
Google’s cloud division says it’s launching a new AI-powered tool designed to rifle through and compile patients’ medical records.
The United Auto Workers announced on Friday that it had called off a planned walkout at a General Motors plant in Arlington, Texas.
Twitter designed the community notes feature for users to add context to possible misleading tweets. Now it’s a liability for advertisers.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced on Wednesday that he plans to raise the legal smoking age by one year every year.
Meta is rolling out subscription versions of Instagram and Facebook in Europe that won’t feature targeted ads.
An intense geopolitical fight is raging at the moment, and the future of deep sea mining does hang in the balance.
The EU’s antitrust investigation claims that China is artificially flooding the market with cheap EVs via enormous state subsidies.
Amazon — along with every other Zuckerberg, Musk, and Harry — is trying to get ahead in the generative AI race.
The Securities and Exchange Commission may have to double the size of its staff just to keep an eye on Elon Musk’s tweets.
The EU is poised to pass legislation that would classify Uber drivers as employees, rather than contracted workers.
A G7 plan to crack down on sanctioned Russian diamonds has run into resistance from some of the industry’s biggest players.