WIRED Roundup: AI Psychosis, Missing FTC Files, and Google Bedbugs

In this episode of ‘Uncanny Valley,’ we run through the top stories of the week and look closely at people’s complaints to ...
The Daily Record (Maryland)

FTC sues businesses for allegedly impersonating substance use disorder treatment clinics on Google

The Federal Trade Commission has filed a lawsuit against a dozen businesses and their affiliates who allegedly impersonated substance use disorder treatment clinics in Google search advertisements to ...
Android

FTC and DOJ Unite Against Google’s Grip on Search

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has decided to back the Department of Justice (DOJ) in its attempt to break Google’s search monopoly. The FTC agrees with the proposed moves. Google, of course, ...
Opinion

AI could change the game in the Amazon case

The Department of Justice’s recent victory against Google was hailed as proof that the government’s more aggressive approach to competition is working, but the emergence of AI could ...
Silicon Valley

Amazon, Google probed by FTC over search advertising practices

(Bloomberg/Josh Sisco and Leah Nylen) — The US Federal Trade Commission is investigating whether Amazon.com Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google misled advertisers that place ads on their websites, ...
fox6now

Amazon and Google face FTC investigation over ad pricing practices

The FTC is investigating Amazon and Google over whether they failed to properly disclose ad pricing and auction terms. Regulators are reviewing Amazon’s use of reserve pricing in ad auctions and ...
Washington Examiner

Republican election committees ask FTC to investigate Google suppressing their emails

The campaign arms of the House and Senate Republicans alleged to the Federal Trade Commission that Google was suppressing their emails to supporters, routing them to spam folders. A joint letter from ...