By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Elon Musk has reclaimed the title of the richest person in the world, per Bloomberg’s tally. The Tesla CEO was unseated from the top spot by Bernard Arnault, CEO of French luxury brand LVMH, in December of last year, making Musk No. 2 on the list for more than two months.
Continue Reading By Brian Fung, CNN The Canadian government is banning TikTok from official electronic devices, making it the latest to announce restrictions on the short-form video app in light of cybersecurity concerns. The ban is set to take effect on Tuesday. Government-issued devices will be blocked from downloading TikTok, and existing installations of the app will
Continue Reading By Brian Fung, CNN The Canadian government is banning TikTok from official electronic devices, making it the latest to announce restrictions on the short-form video app in light of cybersecurity concerns. The ban is set to take effect on Tuesday. Government-issued devices will be blocked from downloading TikTok, and existing installations of the app will
Continue Reading By Jennifer Korn Nokia redesigned its logo for the first time in decades to distance itself from its public image as a phone company. The new logo, announced on Sunday, features five different shapes coming together to spell NOKIA. The font is sleeker and the classic shade of blue associated with the brand is replaced
Continue Reading By Clare Duffy, CNN Nearly a decade after Facebook angered some users by splitting off messaging features from its flagship social networking application and forcing people to download a separate app to chat with friends, the company is now testing out reversing the move. In an interview with CNN, Facebook head Tom Alison said the
Continue Reading By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Meta is taking steps to crack down on the spread of “revenge porn” images of teenagers on Facebook and Instagram. A new tool, called Take It Down, takes aim at a practice where someone posts an explicit picture of an individual without their consent to publicly embarrass them. Revenge
Continue Reading By Chris Isidore, CNN Twitter’s massive job cuts continued this weekend, as the company cut about 10% of its remaining staff, according to a report in the New York Times. The latest axing of about 200 jobs takes the company’s headcount down to under 2,000 staffers, according to the Times. That’s down from the 7,500
Continue Reading By Nectar Gan, CNN Want to send your faraway lover a kiss? A Chinese contraption with warm, moving silicon “lips” appears to have just the answer. The device, advertised as a way to let long-distance couples share “real” physical intimacy, is causing a buzz among Chinese social media users, who have reacted with both intrigue
Continue Reading By Nectar Gan, CNN Want to send your faraway lover a kiss? A Chinese contraption with warm, moving silicon “lips” appears to have just the answer. The device, advertised as a way to let long-distance couples share “real” physical intimacy, is causing a buzz among Chinese social media users, who have reacted with both intrigue
Continue Reading By Olesya Dmitracova, CNN Telecom company Ericsson is planning to cut 8,500 jobs around the world in a bid to slash costs. The company — one of the world’s biggest providers of 5G mobile networks — has announced a drive to cut costs by 9 billion crowns ($859 million) by the end of this year.
Continue Reading By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN When Susan Wojcicki was named CEO of YouTube in 2014, she was in relatively good company as a woman leader in Silicon Valley. Marissa Mayer, her former colleague at Google, was running Yahoo and posing for magazine covers. Sheryl Sandberg was the influential second-in-command at Facebook who had just published a
Continue Reading By Brian Fung, CNN Google should face court sanctions over “intentional and repeated destruction” of company chat logs that the US government expected to use in its antitrust case targeting Google’s search business, the Justice Department said Thursday. Despite Google’s promises to preserve internal communications relevant to the suit, for years the company maintained a
Continue Reading By Brian Fung, CNN Google should face court sanctions over “intentional and repeated destruction” of company chat logs that the US government expected to use in its antitrust case targeting Google’s search business, the Justice Department said Thursday. Despite Google’s promises to preserve internal communications relevant to the suit, for years the company maintained a
Continue Reading By Brian Fung and Hanna Ziady, CNN The European Commission has banned TikTok from official devices because of concerns about cybersecurity, a move sharply criticized by the company in its latest run-in with Western governments over how it handles user data. Commission staff have until March 15 to delete the short-form video app, owned by
Continue Reading By Jessie Yeung and Wayne Chang, CNN Several popular Chinese apps have removed access to ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence chatbot that has taken the world by storm even as major Chinese tech companies race to develop their own equivalent. ChatGPT, developed by the American research lab OpenAI, is not officially available in China, but several
Continue Reading By Brian Fung and Tierney Sneed, CNN After back-to-back oral arguments this week, the Supreme Court appears reluctant to hand down the kind of sweeping ruling about liability for terrorist content on social media that some feared would upend the internet. On Wednesday, the justices struggled with claims that Twitter contributed to a 2017 ISIS
Continue Reading By Jennifer Korn Vanderbilt University’s Peabody School has apologized to students for using artificial intelligence to write an email about a mass shooting at another university, saying the distribution of the note did not follow the school’s usual processes. Last Friday, the Tennessee-based school emailed its student body to address the tragedy at Michigan State
Continue Reading By Julia Horowitz, CNN JPMorgan Chase is temporarily clamping down on the use of ChatGPT among its employees, as the buzzy AI chatbot explodes in popularity. The biggest US bank has restricted its use among global staff, according to a person familiar with the matter. The decision was taken not because of a particular issue,
Continue Reading By Brian Fung, CNN Amazon closed its acquisition of health care provider One Medical and its parent in a $3.9 billion deal on Wednesday, hours after the Federal Trade Commission said it would not challenge the purchase but that regulators were still investigating potential competitive and consumer harms of the transaction. The landmark deal will
Continue Reading By Brian Fung and Tierney Sneed, CNN After back-to-back oral arguments this week, the Supreme Court appears reluctant to hand down the kind of sweeping ruling about liability for terrorist content on social media that some feared would upend the internet. On Wednesday, the justices struggled with claims that Twitter contributed to a 2017 ISIS
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