By PYMNTS September 14, 2026 Main Facts In a notable shift within the ongoing tech industry legal wars, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence venture xAI and social media platform X have officially moved to drop their high-profile antitrust lawsuit against Apple. According to court filings surfaced by Bloomberg News on Monday, September 14, 2026, the companies…
WASHINGTON — In a quiet yet high-stakes maneuver that underscores the growing existential anxiety within the artificial intelligence sector, OpenAI has recently approached members of the United States Congress to explore a controversial legal question: Could a pact among rival AI labs to slow down development violate federal antitrust laws? According to sources close to…
STOCKHOLM — In a decision that marks a significant escalation in the global legal battle against Big Tech’s market dominance, a Swedish court ruled on Wednesday that Google must pay $1.97 billion in damages to the price-comparison service PriceRunner. The ruling, which follows years of litigation, concludes that the search giant violated antitrust laws by…
By PYMNTS | June 30, 2026 In a move that could fundamentally reshape the economics of the mobile ecosystem, the United Kingdom’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has unveiled a sweeping regulatory proposal aimed at dismantling the restrictive gatekeeper status of Apple and Google. The proposal, announced Tuesday, seeks to mandate that both tech giants…
By PYMNTS June 24, 2026 The legal battle between Swedish price comparison service PriceRunner—a subsidiary of fintech giant Klarna—and the tech conglomerate Google has hit yet another procedural roadblock. On Wednesday (June 24), Klarna issued a formal notification to its investors confirming that the Patent and Market Court in Stockholm has delayed the delivery of…
