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‘GTA’ video game publisher Take-Two cuts workforce
San Francisco (AFP) - Take-Two Interactive on Tuesday told US regulators it is trimming its workforce by five percent and...
Tech venture capital titan Andreessen Horowitz raises $7.2 bn
San Francisco (AFP) - Silicon Valley venture capital star Andreessen Horowitz said Tuesday it had raised $7. 2 billion to...
Trump media group plans TV streaming platform
San Francisco (AFP) - Donald Trump's media group said Tuesday it will launch a streaming television platform, but its shares...
Meta ‘supreme court’ takes on cases of deepfake porn
San Francisco (AFP) - Meta's oversight board said Tuesday it is scrutinizing the social media titan's deepfake porn policies, through...
Hong Kong conditionally approves first bitcoin and ether ETFs
Hong Kong (AFP) - Hong Kong's securities regulator on Monday granted conditional approval to start the city's first spot-bitcoin and...
OpenAI comes to Asia with new office in Tokyo
Tokyo (AFP) - ChatGPT creator OpenAI opened a new office in Tokyo on Monday, the first Asian outpost for the...
Race for AI isn’t zero-sum, says Amazon cloud boss
San Francisco (AFP) - As Google races with Microsoft and OpenAI to create world-changing generative artificial intelligence, some critics see...
After long peace, Big Tech faces US antitrust reckoning
Washington (AFP) - After more than a decade of leaving Big Tech largely to itself, US antitrust enforcers have cranked...
Japan seeks to reclaim tech edge with overseas help
Tokyo (AFP) - Massive overseas and domestic investments offer Japan a chance to reclaim its tech crown, but to become...
Apple to fix ‘bug’ behind Palestinian flag emoji suggestions
San Francisco (AFP) - Apple on Thursday promised it would stop a Palestinian flag emoji from being suggested to some...
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