The growth of Ant's lending business likely fueled Chinese regulators' concerns about weaker financial institutions with poor risk management capabilities.
China is among the nations moving the most aggressively to develop a central bank-backed digital currency that adopts some aspects of decentralized cryptocurrencies like bitcoin.
European regulators look set to green light Google's acquisition of Fitbit after it made concessions about use of the wearable company’s sensitive health data.
Such a move would have been considered unheard of just a year ago, but shows how much the coronavirus pandemic is forcing companies to do things differently.
Timnit Gebru said that she was fired by the company for an email she sent that Google claimed was “inconsistent with the expectations of a Google manager.”