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Twitter co-founder Biz Stone and Pinterest co-founder Evan Sharp have raised new funding for their social media startup West Co.The startup launched an invite-only version of its first app, Tangle, in November. Now the Financial Times has pieced together...

President Donald Trump has made it clear: His vision for Venezuela’s future involves the US profiting from its oil.“We’re going to have our very large United States oil companies—the biggest anywhere in the world—go in, spend billions of dollars,...

Over the past few days, France and Malaysia have joined India in condemning Grok for creating sexualized deepfakes of women and minors.The chatbot, built by Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI and featured on his social media platform X, posted...

When it comes to viewing nebulae, galaxies, and other deep-sky objects, amateur astronomers on a budget have had two options. They can view with the naked eye through a telescope and perceive these spectacular objects as faint smudges that...

Reddit "has overtaken TikTok as Britain's fourth most-visited social media service," reports the Guardian:The platform has undergone huge growth over the last two years, with an 88% increase in the proportion of UK internet users it reaches. Three...

Within minutes of Donald Trump announcing in the early hours of Saturday morning that US troops had captured Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, disinformation about the operation flooded social media.Some people shared old videos across...

Infection usually starts through malicious links and fake apps, but it is also taking place via “more subtle methods,” says Richard LaTulip, a field CISO at security company Recorded Future, which collaborated with Google’s threat intelligence team on the...

Elon Musk's Grok, the chatbot developed by his company xAI, acknowledged "lapses in safeguards" on the AI platform that allowed users to generate digitally altered, sexualized photos of minors.The admission comes after multiple users alleged...

India has ordered Elon Musk’s X to make immediate technical and procedural changes to its AI chatbot Grok after users and lawmakers flagged the generation of “obscene” content, including AI-altered images of women created using the tool.On Friday, India’s...

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