U.K. Bans TikTok on Government Devices
The move reflects fears in Britain and elsewhere in the West that the popular app’s Chinese ownership could share user information with Beijing.Read More
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How ChatGPT and Generative AI Could Change the Way We Travel
Powerful new artificial-intelligence software is already shaking up the travel industry, but it has a long way to go until it can plan a...
The Biden administration has threatened to ban TikTok from the United States unless the app’s Chinese owners agree to spin off their share of...
Ryan Reynolds is about to have a nice payday.
Roughly a year-and-a-half after Facebook renamed itself “Meta” and said it would go all-in on building a future version of the internet dubbed the...
South Korea to build ‘world’s largest’ chip center with $230 billion investment from Samsung
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South Korea says it will build an enormous facility to make computer chips in the greater Seoul area, with about $230 billion in investment...
TikTok Pushed by U.S. to Resolve National Security Concerns
The demand hardens the White House’s stance toward the popular video app, which is owned by the Chinese internet company ByteDance.Read More
Stripe Raises New Funding That Values It at $50 Billion
The payments processing start-up was valued at $95 billion in 2021, but private company dealmaking has been hurt by souring global economic conditions.Read More
Russia’s Spring Offensive in Ukraine Could Include Cyberattacks, Microsoft Says
Moscow also appears to be stepping up influence operations to weaken European and U.S. support for sending more aid to the Ukrainian government.Read More
GPT-4 Is Exciting and Scary
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Today, the new language model from OpenAI may not seem all that dangerous. But the worst risks are the ones we cannot anticipate.Read More