Photo illustration: Megan Robinson/Axios. Photo: Britta Pedersen-Pool/Getty Images The Federal Trade Commission has asked Twitter for information about recent layoffs as well as details on…

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Elon Musk leaving a court in San Francisco in January 2023. Photo: Marlena Sloss/Bloomberg via Getty Images Elon Musk apologized on Monday after publicly ridiculing…

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Illustration: Maura Losch/Axios As users test-drive Microsoft Bing's new AI-powered chat mode, they're finding example after example of the bot seeming to lose its mind…

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(CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images) TikTok's access controls on U.S. user data are much weaker than the company says, a former ByteDance employee told the…

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SEATTLE — For years, working on a project that didn’t make a lot of sense to outsiders but was championed by the boss was a…

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ITVX, a new streaming service, is now the home for all ITV channels, and on-demand content for viewers to enjoy. In a bid to become…

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It has been dubbed “Vanilla Ice Cream”, another sweet nickname to carry on the tradition of dessert-themed codes. The secret was unleashed by freelance journalist…

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The Federal Trade Commission is intensifying an investigation into Twitter’s data and privacy practices and is seeking testimony from Elon Musk, who has laid off…

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Photo: Mairo Cinquetti/NurPhoto via Getty Images Sens. Mark Warner (D-Va) and John Thune (R-SD) introduced a bipartisan bill Tuesday giving President Biden greater power to…

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Illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios The rise of generative AI tools is creating parallel demand for a new class of systems that can help distinguish AI-generated text…

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The TikTok logo is displayed outside a TikTok office on December 20, 2022 in Culver City, California. Congress is pushing legislation to ban the popular…

Read More White House: Federal agencies have 30 days to remove TikTok from devices

A Kiwibot delivery robot trying to cross Michigan Ave. in Detroit. Photo courtesy of the city of Detroit Sidewalk delivery robots are cute and cool,…

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Illustration: Natalie Peeples/Axios Instagram is the latest platform to launch new tools aimed at enforcing its age policies, as kids' screen time rises and regulators…

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By MATT O’BRIEN (AP Technology Writer) Speed around a French village in the video game Gran Turismo and you might spot a Corvette behind you…

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A new challenger has entered the fray to give Samsung’s Galaxy Fold a run for its money. The foldable smartphone market is currently being dominated by…

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Screenshot: Activision Blizzard Microsoft says the U.K. regulator that might block its Activision Blizzard acquisition has significantly overcounted the…

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Illustration: Brendan Lynch/Axios The Environmental Protection Agency issued a memo to state governments today requiring local water systems to meet basic cybersecurity standards. Why it…

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In recent weeks, two members of Congress have sounded the alarm over the dangers of artificial intelligence. Representative Ted Lieu, Democrat of California, wrote in…

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Rickshaw driver in New Delhi wearing a TikTok sweatshirt. Photo: Nasir Kachroo/NurPhoto via Getty Images The Indian government announced Monday it would ban 59 apps…

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The Biden administration is considering pushing Congress to give it more legal power to deal with TikTok and other technology that could expose sensitive data…

Read More White House Said to Consider Pushing Congress on Dealing With TikTok

More than a decade ago, Qu’ana Underwood, then a middle school student in Philadelphia, joined Facebook. But as other social media platforms appeared, Facebook “became…

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Amazon is offering you the chance to take greater control of your energy usage through a new little-known Echo 5 feature. Amazon’s voice-controlled Echo Show…

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Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian. Image: Google Google Cloud may still trail Amazon Web Services and Microsoft's Azure, but unit CEO Thomas Kurian tells Axios…

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Illustration: Sarah Grillo / Axios Meta is unifying its generative AI work across the company into a new product team tasked with more quickly integrating…

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“Once you send that photo, you can’t take it back,” goes the warning to teenagers, often ignoring the reality that many teens send explicit images…

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When Mary Clare Lacke, a 20-year-old student at the University of Missouri, interned at Claire’s in the summer, one of her tasks was to help…

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Illustration: Shoshana Gordon/Axios A major new federal lawsuit playing out this winter argues that social media platforms are "defective" products that can be held legally…

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Ah, the “metaverse.” Will a fantasy where our office meetings and social gatherings take place mostly in virtual reality ever come true? As a tech…

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When Amazon said in 2018 that it planned to build a second headquarters in Virginia, along with a sister office complex in New York, it…

Read More Amazon Pauses Work on 2nd Headquarters in Virginia

Twitter laid off at least 200 of its employees on Saturday night, three people familiar with the matter said, or about 10 percent of the…

Read More In Latest Round of Job Cuts, Twitter Is Said to Lay Off at Least 200 Employees