TNB Tech Minute: Apple Faces EU Deadline to Comply with App Store Concerns
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Here's your TNB Tech Minute for Thursday, June 26th. I'm Victoria Craig for The Wall Street Journal. A 60-day window expires today for Apple to comply with an EU decision requiring the tech giant to tell users about better deals outside of its app store. It's the first time the European Union's competition regulator will review what big tech has done to comply with its landmark Digital Markets Act after fining companies for flouting rules.
Earlier this year, the regulator fined Apple $583 million over its App Store terms. Apple declined to comment on today's deadline but said when the fine was handed down in April that it would appeal, finding it unfairly targeting the company and bad for user privacy.
Elsewhere, a top aide to Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who was promoted less than a year ago, has left the company, people familiar with the matter told the Journal. Omid Afshar, who was in charge of sales and manufacturing operations in North America and Europe, did not return WSJ's request for comment. Sources also said the company's director for human resources left the company. The moves come after Tesla's core vehicle manufacturing business has suffered its deepest sales decline in years.
Globally, new vehicle deliveries were down 13 percent in the first quarter, while profit dropped 71 percent.
And one final exclusive story to tell you about. Mark Zuckerberg has poached three researchers from OpenAI to join Meta's superintelligence efforts, people familiar with the matter told the journal. A spokesperson for OpenAI confirmed the departure of the three employees working in the company's Zurich office, which they set up late last year. Before that, the trio worked together at Google DeepMind, that company's AI unit. OpenAI's Sam Altman said Tuesday he's not worried about Zuckerberg's hiring blitz.
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