TikTok plans to shut off its app for U.S. users on Sunday, the day a federal law will ban the app, unless the Supreme Court intervenes to block the ban, according to two people familiar with TikTok’s plans. Abruptly switching off the app, rather …

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Dealmakers, it’s been a history-making year.OpenAI raised $6.6 billion, the largest venture capital fundraise in history—only to have Databricks beat that record with its $10 billion haul in December. Then there were the acqui-hires, topped by …

Meta Platforms is drastically relaxing its stance on content moderation, moving in the direction of Elon Musk’s X, a move that responds to pressure from the incoming Trump administration that will shake up the social media sector. In a post written by Meta’s newly promoted Chief Global Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan, supplemented by an accompanying video posted on …

Instagram head Adam Mosseri said the app will prioritize original content in 2025. The comments follow a week of major changes at parent Meta Platforms over how the company will handle content moderation. They also come just days ahead of a possible ban of TikTok, set to take effect on Sunday, which could lead to an uptick in activity on Meta’s apps. In a video posted to Instagram Monday,

Microsoft recently suspended construction on part of its multi-billion-dollar artificial intelligence data center campus in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin—a site where it is building a massive supercomputer for OpenAI . Microsoft said in a statement to Wisconsin Public Radio that it paused the second phase of the build out so that it can evaluate “scope and recent changes in technology,” as well

Databricks and Snowflake, already embroiled in a fierce rivalry over software that manages companies’ data, are now jockeying for position in generative artificial intelligence—particularly AI that helps businesses search their own data. Those goals …

Robotaxis are quickly gaining ground, largely thanks to Alphabet-backed Waymo, which announced in October that it was completing more than 100,000 paid rides for passengers per week. Waymo plans to enter new regions next year. And everything in the market is sure to intensify further as Tesla ...

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OpenAI’s next-generation reasoning model—called o3 for a funny reason—seriously impressed researchers and developers last week.Specifically, o3 and o3-mini (a smaller version of the model) scored impressively on a number of extremely difficult math and coding benchmarks, beating out competitors ...