WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A White House official told Reuters that President Donald Trump will review a final TikTok proposal on Wednesday, ahead of an April 5 deadline for the app to find a non-Chinese buyer or risk a US ban. Vice President JD Vance, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, national securityContinue Reading
BEIJING (Reuters) — Zhipu AI, a Chinese artificial intelligence firm, released a free AI agent on Monday, following a slew of similar releases in China’s increasingly competitive AI sector. At a lunch event in Beijing, CEO Zhang Peng said that the tool, named AutoGLM Rumination, can undertake deep research asContinue Reading
TikTok has released a new “Security Checkup” feature, which allows users to simply monitor and alter their account security settings from a single page, the business revealed this week. This function is identical to the security checks provided by TikTok’s competitor, Instagram, and technology behemoth Google. Users may use theContinue Reading
(Reuters) – Apple (AAPL.O) has requested to participate in Google’s impending US antitrust lawsuit over internet search, claiming that it cannot rely on Google to defend revenue-sharing arrangements that pay the iPhone manufacturer billions of dollars each year for making Google the default search engine on its Safari browser. AppleContinue Reading
DUBAI (Reuters) — Iranian officials revoked a ban on Meta’s (META.O) instant messaging network WhatsApp and Google Play (GOOGL.O) as a first step toward easing internet restrictions, Iranian state media said on Tuesday. The Islamic Republic has some of the most stringent Internet access regulations in the world, but itsContinue Reading
BEIJING (Reuters) — China’s box office revenues on Christmas Eve fell to their lowest level in at least 13 years, according to figures from ticket booking site Maoyan released on Wednesday. Zhang Yiwu, a literature professor at Peking University, ascribed the fall to a combination of causes, including an underwhelmingContinue Reading
SHENZHEN (Reuters) – It continues become more difficult for the aspirational Chinese IT entrepreneur to expand into the United States. Before 2019, there were a few significant barriers that prevented a Chinese corporation from doing business in the United States. But as trade tensions between the United States and ChinaContinue Reading
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Baidu Inc. (9988.HK), a leader in Chinese search, said on Wednesday that it would establish a $1 billion (145 million) venture capital fund to support start-ups specialising in content produced by artificial intelligence technologies. The business also announced that it will hold a contest for programmers toContinue Reading
The Emirates Group, a prominent multinational aviation holding firm with headquarters in Dubai, recently reported its best-ever yearly performance, with $3 billion in earnings. The announcement follows the publishing on Thursday of Emirates Group’s 2022–23 Annual Report, which showed that the business had recovered from its loss position from theContinue Reading
Sindh’s Education Minister Syed Sardar Ali Shah has spoken out strongly against the ‘forced’ closure of private schools in the state. In an effort to address the problem, the education department has issued a circular. According to the minister, private schools can’t afford any downtime in their operations. He stressedContinue Reading