HONG KONG (AP) — China on Tuesday announced a flurry of retaliatory measures against the U.S., including tariffs on imports of products such as coal, liquefied natural gas products and crude oil, as well as an antitrust probe into Google. It also placed two other U.S. firms on an unreliable entity list that could bar…
Omer Taha Cetin | Anadolu | Getty Images DeepSeek’s powerful new artificial intelligence model isn’t just a win for China — it’s a victory for open-source versions of the tech from the likes of Meta, Databricks, Mistral and Hugging Face, according to industry experts who spoke with CNBC. Last month, DeepSeek released R1, an open-source reasoning…
Apple Inc. lambasted the EU’s Digital Markets Act after the first known porn app for the iPhone arrived on the company’s devices in the region. The app, called Hot Tub, is available in the EU via AltStore PAL, a third-party software marketplace that became available in the region due to local requirements. The app allows…
David Giroux has beaten his Morningstar Moderate Allocation peer group average for 17 years. The fund manager’s record-breaking streak results from fundamental analysis and active management. Giroux is betting on Treasurys and unloved software, healthcare, and utilities stocks. Top fund manager David Giroux didn’t earn his reputation by following the hottest stocks in the market….
Trump administration officials are exploring additional curbs on the sale of Nvidia Corp. chips to China, according to people familiar with the matter, who emphasized that conversations are in very early stages as the new team works through policy priorities. Officials are focused on potentially expanding restrictions to cover Nvidia’s H20 chips, according to the…
Last month, when the once-popular app Foursquare finally shuttered, I knew I’d never delete it. I’d been using it on and off for well over a decade, first to share location check-ins with friends, and later as a Yelp-like city explorer. My usage had waned in recent years, but Foursquare had been a part of…
The TikTok app has captured the interest of billions of people worldwide since its release in 2016. It started out as a way for people to express themselves by creating, watching and sharing short videos. Over the years, however, TikTok has grown to be much more than that, becoming one of the most downloaded social…
WASHINGTON (AP) — As the fate of TikTok hangs in the balance, U.S. TikTok users are flocking to the Chinese social media app Xiaohongshu, also called RedNote – making it the top downloaded app in the U.S. Some of the “TikTok refugees,” as they call themselves, say the TikTok alternative, a Chinese app, is being…
With President-elect Donald Trump adding uncertainty around whether a TikTok ban will go into effect, the focus is now turning to companies like Google and Apple that are expected to take the popular video sharing app off their platforms in just two days. Though the Supreme Court on Friday unanimously upheld a federal law that…
Do you ever find yourself struggling to read text on your smartphone? Maybe you’ve forgotten your glasses, or you’re in a situation where fishing them out of your bag is impractical. While increasing the text size is an option, it can make the screen look cluttered and require excessive scrolling. But there’s a better way!…