The parent companies of The Post and the Wall Street Journal have filed suit against the Jeff Bezos-backed artificial intelligence firm Perplexity AI for allegedly engaging in a “massive amount of illegal copying” of the publications’ copyrighted work. NYP Holdings Inc. and Dow Jones, both of which are subsidiaries of News Corp, jointly filed the…
On substance, the EU had little to offer Kyiv. With Hungary objecting, the bloc failed to unblock frozen Russian assets as loans for Ukraine. Zelenskyy also met with Robert Fico, the prime minister of Slovakia, another increasingly pro-Russia country like Hungary. His Brussels tour began in the European Council. Despite a worsening situation on the…
GroupM, WPP’s media investment arm, has appointed Milton Liao as client president for South China and head of GroupM’s Greater Bay Area (GBA) and outbound business. Liao will report directly to Rupert McPetrie, CEO of GroupM China, and his new role takes effect immediately. In addition to this new appointment, Liao will continue overseeing Wavemaker…
Warren Buffett walks the floor and meets with Berkshire Hathaway shareholders ahead of their annual meeting in Omaha, Nebraska on May 3rd, 2024. David A. Grogan Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway continued to increase its stake in SiriusXM, now owning 32% of the New York-based satellite radio company. The Omaha, Nebraska-based conglomerate purchased roughly 3.6 million…
Navalny died in a high-security penal colony near the Arctic Circle in February, at the age of 47. Russian authorities attributed his death to natural causes, but media reports have claimed that Navalny showed signs of poisoning before his death. While Navalny had seemingly accepted his fate, he did not do so with “contemplative passivity,”…
“Russia, Russia, Russia” is suddenly in re-runs as Democrats and allied media blast out “new” stories of supposedly sinister ties between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. Is there any better evidence of their desperation as Election Day nears? The latest claims: As president, Trump cozied up to Putin, even sending the Russian leader COVID testing…
Typhoon Krathon tracked toward Taiwan with strong winds and heavy rain, with the storm set to make landfall early Thursday and potentially keep the island’s $2.5 trillion stock market closed for a second day. Krathon has maximum sustained winds of 173 kilometers (107 miles) per hour, according to Taiwan’s Central Weather Administration. The intensity of…
By Didi Tang and David Klepper | Associated Press WASHINGTON — When veteran U.S. diplomat Kurt Campbell traveled to the Solomon Islands to counter Beijing’s influence in the South Pacific country, he quickly saw just how far China would go to spread its message. The Biden administration’s Asia czar woke up one morning in 2022…
A Hong Kong judge has sentenced a former editor of a shuttered pro-democracy news publication to 21 months in prison in a landmark case amid a security crackdown in the China-ruled city. Former Stand News editor-in-chief Chung Pui-kuen, 55, was convicted on Thursday alongside his colleague, former acting editor-in-chief Patrick Lam, 36, but the latter…
Open this photo in gallery: Patrick Lam, left, and Chung Pui-kuen leave court during the hearing on charges of conspiring to publish seditious publications, in Hong Kong, in this June 27, 2023, file photo.Tyrone Siu/Reuters When Chung Pui-kuen founded the media outlet Stand News, he meant the name literally. It was 2014, and media in…