Threads: Meta’s rival to Elon Musk’s X launches in EU

EconomyTechnology 23 November 2023, 1:46 pm 1 minute Reuters exclusively reported that Amazon (AMZN.O) is set to win unconditional EU antitrust approval for its $1.4 billion acquisition of robot vacuum maker iRobot (IRBT.O). Antitrust enforcers around the world have stepped up scrutiny of Big Tech acquiring smaller rivals, concerned about the accumulation of troves of data by a…

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Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save In late 2022, NASA kicked off its Artemis campaign by flying the Orion spacecraft, without anyone on board, in a test flight around the moon. Now, it is aiming for the surface. In the wee hours Monday morning, a spacecraft owned and operated by a…

Over the weekend, a photo of Pope Francis looking dapper in a white puffer jacket went mega-viral on social media. The 86-year-old sitting pontiff, it appeared, has some serious drip. But there was just one problem: The image is not real. It was made using the AI art tool Midjourney. As word spread across the…

When Sam Altman was abruptly fired last month as chief executive of artificial intelligence powerhouse OpenAI, the rupture left him with a lot of thinking to do. But looking back on the experience, Altman told comedian Trevor Noah in a video podcast released Thursday morning, there may have been some upside. “The empathy I gained…

Long-awaited approval from US financial authorities means cryptocurrency fans have a new way to trade.