Julie Chang

Snapchat and TikTok were also originally defendants in the case but settled with the plaintiff before the trial began.

The Federal Communications Commission voted Wednesday to advance sweeping reforms to its nearly $3 billion Lifeline phone and internet subsidy program for low-income households.

Championed by FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, the changes aim to tighten eligibility and crack down on wasteful spending and improper payments.

A government review found that over a nearly five-year period, about 117,000 deceased individuals from California, Texas, and Oregon received Lifeline benefits totaling $5 million.

Another nearly 5.5 million was claimed for duplicate enrollments.

Democratic FCC Commissioner Ana Gomez opposed the proposed reforms as short-sighted and punitive, raising concerns about purging eligible recipients.

The FCC is expected to finalize the reforms within a few months.

And Moody's joined the financial information companies pushing back against worries their businesses could be undercut by AI models.

Its CEO said on an investor call today that the company's data can't be synthesized from public sources, so it's, quote, both AI-enabling and AI-resilient.

Earlier Wednesday, the company reported a quarterly profit of $610 million, higher than analyst consensus.

And that's it for your TMB Tech Minutes.

We'll have another quick tech update in the morning.

Here's your afternoon TNB Tech Minute for Tuesday, February 17th.

I'm Julie Chang for The Wall Street Journal.

Spain's government has requested prosecutors investigate X, Meta, and TikTok over alleged AI-generated child pornography.

A government minister said today that some 3 million AI-generated nude images, including depictions of minors, had proliferated online in just under two weeks.

But X previously said it restricted image generation by its Grok AI chatbot after sexualized deepfakes appeared.

TikTok's website says it doesn't allow content that shows, promotes, or facilitates the sexual abuse, exploitation, or harm of young people.

Eric Trump is pouring money into drones, a sector that is a growing focus for the Pentagon.

The president's son is investing in Israeli drone maker Xtend as part of a $1.5 billion deal to take the company public through a merger with a small Florida construction company called JFB Construction.