Google walks away from another monopoly ruling with barely a scratch, while tech giants gather at the White House to praise a president who holds their futures in the balance. Inside, our panel questions whether "playing the game on the field" is killing tech innovation and U.S. privacy for good. 
 <ul> 
<li>Google avoids harshest penalties in landmark search monopoly ruling</li> 
<li>Google fined $3.5 billion by EU over ad-tech business</li> 
<li>Probe finds Houston police using surveillance tool like a search engine</li> 
<li>iPhone 17 specifications leak, 'Air' model rumors, and what to expect at Apple's Awe Dropping' event</li> 
<li>Instagram coming to iPad after 15 years</li> 
<li>Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion to settle author copyright claims</li> 
<li>Apple accused of training AI models on pirated books</li> 
<li>Trump hosts tech CEOs at first event in newly renovated Rose Garden</li> 
<li>Postal traffic to the US down over 80% amid tariffs, UN says</li> 
<li>Satellite companies like SpaceX ignore astronomers' calls to save the night sky</li> 
<li>Microsoft says Azure service affected by damaged Red Sea cables</li> 
<li>Meta still hasn't given up on the Facebook poke after 21 years</li> 
<li>Fake celebrity chatbots send risqué messages to teens on top AI app</li> 
<li>First brain-wide map of decision-making charted in mice</li> 
<li>NVIDIA's sale-and-leaseback chip schemes raise questions about AI bubble</li> 
<li>Tesla changes meaning of 'full self-driving' and gives up on autonomy promise</li> 
<li>Atlassian agrees to acquire The Browser Co. for $610 million</li> 
<li>Warner Bros. Discovery sues AI company Midjourney for copyright infringement in major legal battle</li></ul> 
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