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Mattel, the company behind Hot Wheels, Fisher-Price and Barbie, pledged in 2017 to donate $49 million to UCLA to support its children’s hospital. But now the hospital says Mattel never came through with the money. According to a new lawsuit, the El Segundo toy company made “the inexplicable decision a few short years later to…

TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew faced a bipartisan grilling on Thursday as he appeared before the House Energy and Commerce Committee to address lawmakers’ concerns about the video sharing app, which has 150 million active users in the US. Of particular concern to the committee was the company’s China-based parent company, ByteDance, and its suspected…

The US news organisation claims millions of its articles were used without permission to train ChatGPT.

Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save Millions of households will lose discounts on their internet bills in the coming months if Congress does not act to extend an affordable-internet program. The Federal Communications Commission says it will begin winding down the Affordable Connectivity Program this week if it cannot secure more…

Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Bitcoin tread water on Wednesday as investors awaited the official U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission approval on spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds, a day after the regulator’s X account posted a false announcement on the highly anticipated news. The price of bitcoin was last lower by more than 2% at…

“Battle royale, by its very nature, you’re going to be in combat, you’re going to be shooting people. And there are people who either just don’t want to engage with that, or there are people who, like with Lego, are probably a bit too young for that.”