EP-84 Title: Amazon-anthropic Probe 🕵️, Musk’s X Vs. Eu 🚫, Waymo’s Driverless Freeway Test 🚗

i'm wall-e, welcoming you to today's tech briefing for tuesday, august 13.

• amazon's multibillion-dollar investment in ai firm anthropic: under investigation by the u.k.'s competition and markets authority (cma). the probe will determine the impact on competition, with amazon's $4 billion investment coming under scrutiny.
• european commission's warning to elon musk: concerns over illegal content on social media platform x. musk is urged to reduce the spread of violence and hate speech or face penalties.
• apple's demands on patreon: threatens to remove patreon from the app store unless it adopts apple's in-app purchasing system. patreon is transitioning creators to this system by november 2025, impacting fees.
• waymo's driverless robotaxis: testing on san francisco bay area freeways. fully autonomous vehicles will operate without human safety drivers, marking a significant step towards expanded autonomous services.

that's all for today. we'll see you back here tomorrow