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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…

After months of strikes by the writers’ and screen actors’ unions — and billions of dollars in losses to California’s economy — Hollywood is back to work. Sort of. We still need the SAG-AFTRA membership to ratify the hard-won deal for the TV and movie industry to continue its post-pandemic recovery. Like the Writers Guild…

No one has been able to shut up about artificial intelligence since OpenAI unleashed ChatGPT onto the world in November. But this week, there was so much AI chatter that even people who work in the field have been struggling to keep up.  First, Google announced that it was sprinkling AI dust on Gmail, Google…

The Game Awards’ conductor talks creating a Games of the Year medley and the return of Flute Guy.

“We use sophisticated technology, hire child safety experts, report content to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and share information and tools with other companies and law enforcement, including state attorneys general, to help root out predators.”

Yuichiro Chino | Moment | Getty Images Bitcoin rose on Thursday, recovering some of its losses from the previous day, when the cryptocurrency sold off on concerns about the potential of a bitcoin exchange-traded fund approval that many expect as soon as next week. The flagship cryptocurrency was last higher by about 3% at $43,870.01,…