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by Glenn CHAPMAN Agence France-Presse SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — Shares in Facebook parent Meta surged Wednesday after the internet titan reported it made a profit of $5.7 billion in the first quarter of this year, beating forecasts after a massive wave of cost-cutting and layoffs. The profit came on revenue of $28.6 billion and as the number of people using Facebook every month grew to just shy of three billion, an earnings report […]
San Francisco, United States | AFP | Friday 4/21/2023 Twitter has dropped “state-affiliated” and “government-funded” labels from media accounts, according to a review by AFP on Friday of many high-profile pages on the platform. Many major media outlets from Western nations, Russia, China and other countries that previously had either of those tags no longer displayed them, according to AFP. They included the accounts of National Public Radio in the United States, China’s official Xinhua […]
Miami, United States | AFP | Tuesday 4/19/2023 Twitter head Elon Musk on Tuesday attempted to reassure wary advertisers by hyping up the site’s newly introduced content moderation policy against hateful material. Speaking at a meeting in Florida, the controversial billionaire outlined new rules, first announced Monday, to limit the reach of tweets that do not conform to the platform’s guidelines. “If somebody has something hateful to say, it doesn’t mean he should have a […]
Netflix on Tuesday said that its number of subscribers hit a record high 232.5 million in the first quarter of the year and that its nascent ad-supported tier was faring well. The streaming television giant reported a quarterly profit of $1.3 billion, in line with expectations, but said it had delayed a broad crackdown on sharing of account passwords “to improve the experience for members.” Netflix said it expects to begin rolling out its options […]
San Francisco, United States | AFP | Tuesday 4/18/2023 Elon Musk is out to counter Microsoft and Google artificial intelligence efforts with “truth-seeking AI” that shuns political correctness, he said during an interview aired late Monday. The billionaire boss of Twitter and Tesla voiced anew his concerns about the danger of AI, saying it has “the potential of civilizational destruction.” He said he was also worried that the ChatGPT bot created by startup OpenAI […]
Elon Musk has formed an X.AI artificial intelligence corporation based in the US state of Nevada, according to business documents that surfaced on Friday. Musk, who is already the boss of Twitter and Tesla, was listed as director of X.AI Corporation founded on March 9, a state business filing indicated. Musk recently merged Twitter with a newly created “X” shell company, keeping the brand name for the platform but not the business. Musk’s founding of […]
by Alex PIGMAN Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The US state of Montana on Thursday was on the verge of implementing a total ban on TikTok, after a proposal passed a key hurdle in the state’s legislature. Montana’s Republican-dominated lower house overwhelmingly voted for a complete ban on the popular Chinese owned app, with a final vote set for Friday before it goes to the state’s governor to become law. If signed, the […]
Seoul, South Korea | AFP | Thursday 4/13/2023 South Korea’s top court ruled Thursday that Google must disclose details of any personal information of South Korean nationals that it had shared with third parties, sending the case back to a lower court. The ruling comes in response to a 2014 lawsuit filed by a group of activists against the global tech giant and its local unit, Google Korea, demanding it disclose how their personal information […]
SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — Elon Musk is advancing an artificial intelligence project at Twitter despite recently calling for an overall pause in developing such technology, US media reports said Tuesday. Musk has bought thousands of powerful, costly computing processors and hired AI engineering talent, Insider reported, while another tech-focused outlet, the Information, said the entrepreneur has floated the idea of starting a rival to ChatGPT. Meanwhile, Musk has slashed staff at Twitter as […]
by Sofia Miselem Agence France-Presse OXKUTZKAB, Mexico (AFP) — Santos Tuz bids his followers farewell with a smile in Maya and Spanish on social media, where the young Mexican teacher shares his Indigenous language with thousands of people. The 21-year-old, from the southeastern state of Yucatan, discovered his vocation to keep the words of his ancestors alive during the Covid-19 lockdown. His TikTok account @tuzsantos322 has 343,000 followers and 3.1 million likes. “Green on the […]
New Delhi, India | AFP | Monday 4/10/2023 The Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama apologised on Monday after a video which showed him asking a boy to suck his tongue triggered a backlash on social media. The video, which has gone viral, shows the Dalai Lama, 87, planting a kiss on the boy’s lips as he leaned in to pay his respects. The Buddhist monk is then seen sticking his tongue out as […]
SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — A shareholder lawsuit filed late Monday accuses board members of Instagram and Facebook parent Meta of shirking their duties by ignoring human and sex trafficking on the tech giant’s social platforms. The suit filed in the Court of Chancery in the US state of Delaware calls for Mark Zuckerberg, along with other executives and board members, to be ordered to institute reforms and pay damages. Meta board members and […]
