Meta may soon welcome another member into its family of apps, with sources telling CNBC the company plans to debut a stand-alone application for its Meta AI artificial-intelligence-powered assistant during the second quarter of this year. A paid subscription and more robust Meta AI service will also be tested, those sources told CNBC, similar to…
The results from Germany’s most consequential election in a generation are still coming in, but Friedrich Merz’s conservative CDU/CSU is projected to win the biggest share of the vote and the most seats in the new Bundestag. In a post on social media — written entirely in capital letters — Trump did not mention either…
“Audio erotica apps cannot have the word ‘desire’ in their names [if they want] to be visible on the store,” while developers of apps like those for controlling sex toys “have a hard time having the apps approved on the store, which puts their entire product in jeopardy,” said Ana Ornelas, erotic author, sex educator…
Building actual AI applications on top of an existing model is one area where Europe can still win, Meta’s outgoing top lobbyist Nick Clegg said on a panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos last week. Yet, companies should also be on guard. Many users tinkering with DeepSeek’s model noticed that the chatbot refrains…
“The main reason for the decision is that, according to the defense ministry’s assessment, the objective exchange of arguments is becoming increasingly difficult,” the ministry said in a statement announcing its exit from X. A number of other celebrities and institutions have already ditched X, but Scholz posted on the site on Tuesday and the…
The South Africa-born billionaire now seems poised to be onboard from the onset of Trump’s second term. In a surprising development, the tech tycoon joined a call between the United States president-elect and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy this week. Barrot is familiar with Musk, having been France’s junior minister for tech when the Tesla owner completed…
Musk, always eager to clap back at criticism, wasn’t having that. Jourová, actually, is “the epitome of banal, bureaucratic evil,” the tech chief said on his X account late Thursday. Musk has been on a collision course with European officials, fighting regulators and governments on multiple fronts. The tech tycoon bought Twitter in 2022 and…