Apple/Google will, or course, be required to provide age verification for these devices and platforms as well, via a service that the various web sites must call out to when a new user subscribes.

Apple and Google opposed the Texas bill, saying it imposes blanket requirements to share age data with all apps, even when those apps are uncontroversial. AFP via Getty Images “If enacted, app ...

A new lobbying group formed by Meta, Spotify, and Match Group is challenging Apple and Google's role in the mobile app ecosystem, arguing the company should bear legal responsibility for verifying ...

Meta, Spotify, Garmin, Match Group, and others have joined forces to form a lobbying partnership targeting the control Apple and Google exert over their mobile app ecosystems.

App makers Meta, Spotify, and Match Group are forming a lobbying coalition to take on Apple and Alphabet over age verification and other grievances. The coalition will push for legislation to ...

Google also notes that Daily Listen is kind of like NotebookLM’s Audio Overviews feature, which generates a podcast with AI virtual hosts based on information you have shared with the app, such ...