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WSJ Tech News Briefing

TNB Tech Minute: Apple Hit by First Charges Under New EU Tech Law

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

News, Tech News

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2024

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Plus, music labels sue two startups over their generative AI tools. And at least 22 people have been killed in a fire at a lithium-battery plant. Zoe Thomas hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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here's your tn b tech minute for Monday June 24th I'm Zoe Thomas for the Wall Street Journal.

0:35.0

The European Union has charged Apple with failing to comply with a new digital competition law.

0:41.0

The charges are the first to be issued under the Block's Digital

0:44.4

Markets Act which took effect earlier this year. EU regulators allege the

0:48.8

App Store isn't allowing developers to freely direct customers to alternative ways to make purchases.

0:55.0

Apple says it has made changes in recent months to comply with the Digital Markets Act

1:00.0

and that it's confident its plan complies with the law.

1:03.0

Major music companies are suing two generative artificial intelligence

1:08.0

startups that allow users to compose new tracks using text prompts.

1:12.0

The plaintiffs in the cases include Universal Music Group,

1:15.8

Sony Music Group, and Warner Music Group, three of the largest recording companies. They allege

1:21.5

the startups Suno and Udo used copyrighted works scraped from the

1:26.3

Internet to train the AI models that underpin their products.

1:30.1

Representatives from Suno and Udo didn't immediately respond to requests for comment.

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