Updated Jan. 16, 2024 4:32 pm ET A federal judge on Tuesday blocked JetBlue Airways’ $3.8 billion deal to buy Spirit Airlinesrejecting a merger that he said would hamper competition and lead to higher fares. The ruling thwarts what would have been the biggest U.S. airline merger in over a decade. It marks a victory…
Updated Jan. 16, 2024 7:06 pm ET The U.S. Supreme Court has turned down Apple’s attempt to appeal a decision in an antitrust case over its App Store, a rejection that could create new options for companies such as Netflix and Spotify to sign up customers. Apple and “Fortnite” developer Epic Games last year separately…
Updated Jan. 15, 2024 3:33 pm ET Apple is removing a blood-oxygen sensor from some of its smartwatches to get around a patent dispute related to the technology, a step likely to avoid further sales disruptions but one that may raise questions about the company’s push into health. The company halted sales of some watch…
Jan. 14, 2024 12:27 pm ET Business Insider owner Axel Springer said it stands by the publication after reviewing the reporting process behind stories that alleged plagiarism by Neri Oxman, the designer and former Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor who is married to hedge-fund billionaire Bill Ackman. The German media company said last week it…
Proponents of the movement funded the Biden administration’s executive order hindering AI development. Source link
Jan. 14, 2024 12:06 pm ET Businesses are often sued for selling allegedly faulty products that aren’t actually defective. Last week a California appeals court ruled that businesses can also be sued for failing to develop a product. Behold California’s new tort standard: You should have built that. Some 24,000 patients have sued Gilead Sciences…
Good news for West Coast denizens. The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear an appeal challenging a judicial ruling that established a de facto constitutional right to vagrancy. Wouldn’t it be rich if conservative Justices rescue progressive cities from themselves? (City of Grants Pass v. Johnson.) A panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of…
One month into Jimmy Lai’s trial, and the national security case against him boils down to this: The publisher posted tweets, supported local democrats and was in touch with human-rights leaders and former U.S. officials who shared his concerns that Hong Kong’s freedoms were being eroded. That’s it. When a man is facing lifetime imprisonment…
Yigal Carmon is one of the few Israelis who can claim to have predicted this war. His Aug. 31 article “Signs of Possible War in September-October” cited provocations by Hezbollah, escalating violence in the West Bank and threats from Hamas as evidence of regional coordination for something big. “Israel will likely be compelled to undertake…
Editor’s note: In this Future View, students discuss the efforts to keep Donald Trump off the ballot. Next week we’ll ask, “A recent study suggests that worry about AI chatbots has been overblown, with American colleges not seeing an increase in overall cheating rates. But another study suggests that AI cheating is rampant, with almost…
