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Senators tell ByteDance to ‘immediately shut down’ Seedance AI video app
Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto | Getty Images Sens. Marsha Blackburn and Peter Welch are calling for a halt to the new version of ByteDance’s artificial intelligence app, Seedance, which generates videos of real people and licensed characters, raising copyright and intellectual property concerns. Seedance 2.0 “is the most glaring example of copyright infringement from a […]
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How Paris Hilton turned a persona into a global business empire
Paris Hilton, often called the “original influencer,” takes Tania Bryer to a New York hotel steeped in history and shares how she turned personal pain into purpose — building a brand that has generated billions in sales. Paris Hilton became a household name in the early 2000s as a new kind of celebrity — one […]
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Meta planning sweeping layoffs as AI costs mount: Reuters
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg makes a keynote speech during the Meta Connect annual event, at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, on Sept. 25, 2024. Manuel Orbegozo | Reuters Meta is planning sweeping layoffs that could affect 20% or more of the company, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, as Meta seeks […]
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Elon Musk says xAI must be ‘rebuilt’ as co-founder exodus continues, SpaceX IPO awaits
Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., during the US-Saudi Investment Forum at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2025. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Less than six weeks after Elon Musk merged SpaceX and xAI in a deal he valued at $1.25 trillion, the world’s richest person […]
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Iran Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has verified account on X, Elon Musk’s platform
Mojtaba Khamenei; the son of the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei; is seen in Tehran; Iran; on December 14; 2016. Reza B | Afp | Getty Images Iran’s new supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, has a new “verified” account on X, the influential social media platform owned by Elon Musk. Khamenei, whose X handle […]
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Social media giants urged to tighten child safety after UK rejects blanket ban for teens
Photo: Jaromir Chalabala / Getty U.K. regulators are calling on social media giants to enforce stricter protection for children on their platforms after a blanket ban for under-16s was rejected by lawmakers. Online safety organizations Ofcom and the Information Commissioner’s Office said they had written to YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat on Thursday, urging […]
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Google sells partial stake in fiber business, becomes minority owner of new venture
A technician gets cabling out of his truck to install Google Fiber. George Frey | Reuters Google said its fiber internet unit called GFiber is combining with Astound Broadband and forming an independent provider, with Google remaining as a minority shareholder. The new company will be majority owned by investment firm Stonepeak and led by […]
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Atlassian slashes 10% of workforce to ‘self-fund’ investments in AI and enterprise sales
Mike Cannon-Brookes, co-founder of Atlassian Corp., in Sydney, Australia, on Dec. 6, 2023. Lisa Maree Williams | Bloomberg | Getty Images Atlassian said on Wednesday that it’s eliminating 10% of its workforce, or about 1,600 jobs, as the company restructures following a plunge in its stock price driven by developments in artificial intelligence. “We are […]
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Oracle’s TikTok stake sits at just over $2 billion, filing shows
Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Almost two months after TikTok’s U.S. operations officially landed in the hands of a group of investors, Oracle disclosed its stake in the joint venture at roughly $2 billion. In its quarterly financial filing on Wednesday, Oracle said it recorded “non-marketable debt investments and equity securities and related […]
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Meta rolls out in-house AI chips weeks after massive Nvidia, AMD deals
Meta’s 5-gigawatt Hyperion data center under construction in Richland Parish, Louisiana, Jan. 9, 2026. Courtesy of Meta Meta on Wednesday revealed four custom, in-house chips tailored for artificial intelligence-related tasks as part of the company’s massive data center expansion plans. The specialized silicon is part of the Meta Training and Inference Accelerator, or MTIA, family […]
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