The US Federal Trade Commission is investigating Arm Holdings over how it licenses its semiconductor technology, according to Bloomberg. Regulators are assessing whether Arm is trying to illegally monopolize parts of the chip market, including whether it could reject or downgrade licensing agreements for “chip blueprints” used to design CPUs. The FTC notified Arm earlier this year and asked the company to preserve documents. Arm declined to comment. The probe also runs alongside a dispute with Qualcomm after Arm accused Qualcomm of breaching a deal.
The FTC reports that social media scams triggered $2.1 billion in consumer losses in 2025, with losses rising eightfold. It says social media scams also produced the highest losses of any contact method used by scammers, underscoring how rapidly fraud is migrating to platforms where people share and trust strangers.
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