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San Francisco (AFP) - Elon Musk on Friday came out against banning TikTok in the United States, even if it would mean less competition for his social media platform X, formerly Twitter, as the initiative sees fresh bipartisan momentum in Congress. The US House of Representatives is set to vote on Saturday on a bill that would force TikTok to divest from Chinese parent company ByteDance or face a nationwide ban. The measure, which has the vocal backing by many Democrats and Republicans, has also been written into a massive aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, which could ease its passage...
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San Francisco (AFP) - Meta on Thursday introduced an improved AI assistant built on new versions of its open source Llama large language model for powering the technology. Meta AI is smarter and faster due to advances in publicly available Llama 3, the tech titan said in a blog post. "The bottom line is we believe Meta AI is now the most intelligent AI assistant that you can freely use," Meta co-founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said in a video posted on Instagram. Being open source means that developers outside of Meta are free to customize Llama 3 as they wish and the company may t...
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San Francisco (AFP) - Netflix topped expectations Thursday as it reported 9.3 million new subscribers and profits of $2.3 billion in the first three months of the year. Silicon Valley-based Netflix had bet heavily on its content lineup to win fans, with subscribers now totaling 269.6 million. "With more than two people per household on average, we have an audience of over half a billion people," Netflix said in a letter to investors. "No entertainment company has ever programmed at this scale and with this ambition before." Netflix shares slipped more than 3 percent to $589.64 in after-market ...
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Washington (AFP) - The US House of Representatives will again vote Saturday on a bill that would force TikTok to divest from Chinese parent company ByteDance or face a nationwide ban. The measure has been written into a massive $61 billion aid bill for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, which could ease its passage in both chambers of the US Congress. Under the bill, ByteDance would have to sell the app within a few months or be excluded from Apple and Google's app stores in the United States. It would also give the US president the authority to designate other applications as a threat to national se...
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San Francisco (AFP) - Take-Two Interactive on Tuesday told US regulators it is trimming its workforce by five percent and eliminating some video games in production to cut costs. About 600 jobs are expected to be eliminated by Take-Two, parent company of studios including Rockstar Games, maker of the blockbuster "Grand Theft Auto" line-up. Take-Two is "rationalizing its pipeline and eliminating several projects in development and streamlining its organizational structure, which will eliminate headcount and reduce future hiring needs," it said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commis...
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San Francisco (AFP) - Donald Trump's media group said Tuesday it will launch a streaming television platform, but its shares continued to tumble on Wall Street. The announcement came as 77-year-old former US president Trump sat through a second day of jury selection in his historic criminal trial. No other ex-president in US history has been hauled before a criminal court and the trial in a Manhattan courthouse comes as scandal-plagued Trump is fighting to make a shock return to the White House in November. Trump is accused of falsifying business records in a scheme to cover up reports on the ...
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San Francisco (AFP) - Meta's oversight board said Tuesday it is scrutinizing the social media titan's deepfake porn policies, through the lens of two cases. The move by what is referred to as a Meta "supreme court" for content moderation disputes comes just months after the widespread sharing of lewd AI-generated images of megastar Taylor Swift on X, formerly Twitter. The Meta board picked its two cases, regarding images shared on Instagram and Facebook, to "assess whether Meta's policies and its enforcement practices are effective at addressing explicit AI-generated imagery," it said in the r...
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San Francisco (AFP) - Samsung regained its position as the top smartphone seller, wresting back the lead from Apple as Chinese rivals close the gap on both market leaders, industry tracker International Data Corporation (IDC) reported Monday. South Korea-based Samsung overtook Apple as worldwide smartphone shipments grew nearly 8 percent in the first quarter of this year to 289.4 million, IDC said, citing its preliminary data. It was the third consecutive quarter of growth in the global smartphone market, signalling that a recovery from a slump in the sector is underway, according to IDC. IDC ...
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Buenos Aires (AFP) - Argentine President Javier Milei, who is traveling in the United States, announced on X that he is breaking up with his girlfriend. He had dated the actress Fatima Florez since his 2023 election campaign last summer. The two had been seen together as recently as Wednesday, when they were photographed while leaving a synagogue in southern Florida. Milei, who is Catholic but has expressed deep interest in Judaism, recently revealed that he had a Jewish ancestor. In a post late Friday on X, Milei described the breakup as amicable, writing that "we decided to end our relations...
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San Francisco (AFP) - Google on Friday said it is testing removing links to California news sites for some users in the western US state as legislators mull making the online search giant pay for connecting people to news. The Silicon Valley tech firm is preparing for the possible passage of the California Journalism Preservation Act (CJPA) that would create a "link tax" for connecting users in the state to news articles, Google Global News Partnerships vice president Jaffer Zaidi said in a blog post. The CJPA was passed by the California Assembly in June of last year, and is currently being c...
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