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Liv McMahonTechnology reporterGetty ImagesTikTok's new US owner has apologised to users for "disruption" after thousands reported issues affecting the video-sharing app.Platform outage monitor Downdetector said it has seen more than 600,000 reports of glitches from US TikTok users over...

TikTok's new US joint venture has made changes to its privacy policy that include expanding the type of location data the company can collect from its 200 million American users.The new policy was published after investors closed a deal...

David SilverbergTechnology ReporterGetty ImagesThe impact of these technologies might be felt by the consumer, says Heather Darby, an agronomist and soil specialist at the University of Vermont.Bringing more food to market could translate to lower prices at the register,...

Zoe KleinmanTechnology editorGetty ImagesAdverts will soon appear at the top of the AI tool ChatGPT for some users, the company OpenAI has announced.The trial will initially take place in the US, and will affect some ChatGPT users on the...

Zoe KleinmanTechnology editorAFP via Getty ImagesBusinesses increasingly agree, and are opting for bespoke enterprise AI tools instead: more expensive but trained on their own data, which is not then used in the training of other products, and primed to...

Improvements to a number of Apple services - including a more personalised version of its virtual assistant, Siri - are to be powered with AI provided by Google.The tech giants have announced a "multi-year collaboration" which will see the...

Zoe KleinmanTechnology editorBBCHere's me, at the end of a pier in Dorset in the summer.Two of these images were generated using the artificial intelligence tool Grok, which is free to use and belongs to Elon Musk.It's pretty convincing. I've...

BBC"We want to be able to breathe intelligence into any sort of physical embodiment, whether that's a humanoid robot or even something that looks closer to an appliance," says co-founder Chelsea Finn.Their approach is being excitedly backed by investors...

Joe FayTechnology ReporterGetty ImagesIt's not just large organizations that can benefit from rethinking their reliance on Excel. Kate Corden operates a bike fitting business, Hackney Bike Fit, which means managing two data streams – personal information about a customer,...