How Instagram’s ‘PG-13’ Branding for Teens Unraveled
The social media giant, under legal pressure from the Motion Picture Association, has retreated from its use of the movie rating in its marketing.
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Big Tech’s $635b AI spending faces energy shock test, S&P Global says
Euphoria over AI had carried global stock indexes beyond the highs of 2025, but has lost steam since A view of data center servers. PHOTO:PIXABAY Massive investments in artificial intelligence that underpinned record runs in equities face a major hurdle as the Middle East crisis clouds prospects for growth and energy costs, said Melissa Otto, … Read more
A Cat-and-Mouse Game of Russian Internet Restrictions and Evasion
As the Kremlin spends heavily on censorship technology, Russians are scrambling to find new ways to circumvent the limits.
Australia readies social media court action citing teen ban breaches
ESafety Commissioner probes Meta, Google, Snapchat, TikTok over suspected breaches of world-first ban The move comes as Meta, ByteDance’s TikTok and YouTube face hundreds of lawsuits filed on behalf of children and school districts about the addictive nature of social media. PHOTO: PEXELS Australia threatened on Tuesday to sue social media giants for allegedly flouting … Read more
What to Know About California’s Executive Order on A.I.
Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, issued an order requiring safety and privacy guardrails for artificial intelligence companies contracting with the state.
States Plow Ahead With A.I. Regulation, Defying Trump
States ranging from California to Utah are taking steps to place guardrails on the technology even after the president ordered them to stop.
China’s DeepSeek AI chatbot suffers longest outage since viral rise in early 2025
DeepSeek’s status website showed that the chatbot suffered a ‘major outage’ lasting 7 hours, 13 minutes BEIJING: China’s popular DeepSeek artificial intelligence chatbot suffered its longest outage on Monday since the rise of its flagship R1 and V3 models early last year. DeepSeek’s status website showed that the chatbot suffered a “major outage” lasting 7 … Read more
What Is YouTube’s Dominance Doing to Us? We Asked Its C.E.O.
Neal Mohan on A.I. slop, parental controls and his platform’s impact on our lives.
Sony to hike PlayStation 5 prices again as memory chip costs surge
AI boom drives memory makers to prioritise data-centre chips, squeezing supply for devices Prices of the PlayStation Portal remote player will also climb to $249.99 from $199.99.۔ PHOTO: PLAYSTATION WEBSITE Sony Group is raising global prices of its PlayStation 5 consoles, including a $100 increase in the United States, marking its second hike in less … Read more
China blasts ‘false’ news after report says chipmaker supplying Iran
China is a key partner of Iran but has not announced military assistance to Tehran in the war Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian attends a press conference in Beijing, China, on April 10, 2025. PHOTO: REUTERS China’s foreign ministry accused the media of publishing “false information” on Friday following a report that said the … Read more