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BlockBeats reported on July 2nd that Google's long-running battle with the European Union over a €4.1 billion (approximately $4.7 billion) antitrust fine has finally ended in defeat. The European Court of Justice ruled on Thursday that the regulator's penalty against the US giant for abusing its market dominance in the Android operating system was correct. The European Court of Justice ruled that Google's appeal against the European Commission's penalty should be dismissed. This ruling is legally binding and represents a significant victory for the regulator. The EU has been litigating against Google in the European Court of Justice since the first fine was issued in 2018. In a statement regarding the ruling, the court said: "The appeal by Google and its parent company Alphabet against the decision of the General Court of the European Union has been dismissed, thus upholding the penalty against Google Search for abusing its market dominance in the Android operating system market."
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Claude login emails expose "invisible location" feature, raising user privacy concerns about IP address-based location deduction.
According to Mars Finance, on July 1st, Beating's monitoring revealed that Anthropic's AI assistant Claude has recently sparked user discussion due to location hints in its login verification emails. Some users noticed that Claude includes a general login location, such as country, region, or city, when sending login verification codes or security alerts. This detail has brought renewed attention to how AI service providers identify the source of user access. Such locations are usually not precisely GPS-based, but rather inferred from IP addresses, network connections, and device information. When using VPNs, proxy servers, corporate networks, or mobile carrier networks, the location shown in the email may differ from the user's actual location. Anthropic's privacy policy states that the company collects IP addresses, device information, connection information, and locations inferred from IP addresses for security, fraud prevention, and enforcement of the terms of service. Claude users are particularly sensitive to this, partly because the service is not yet available in all regions, and cross-border use, overseas accounts, and third-party intermediary services are more common in the Chinese community. Recently, there have also been reports in the Chinese user community of accounts being suspended or requiring re-verification, which some users have dubbed a "ban wave."