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China’s retaliation for President Donald Trump’s tariffs has thus far included a levy on imported American energy products, an extra fee on imported American agricultural equipment, and a menacing “antitrust” investigation of Google.

Google has recently updated its ethical guidelines for AI, removing previous commitments not to apply artificial intelligence technology to weapons or surveillance.

Nissan’s board is expected to reject Honda’s latest proposal for their planned merger, potentially jeopardizing the deal announced less than two months ago, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.

Netflix has dropped Karla Sofia Gascon, the star of “Emilia Perez,” from its high-profile Oscars campaign and distanced itself from the best actress nominee over her offensive social media posts, Hollywood trade outlets reported Tuesday.

Boston University assistant media technician Jared May took to the leftist echo chamber social media platform Bluesky to post a “Wanted Dead or Alive” image featuring the names and photos of Elon Musk’s DOGE employees. The University’s weak response was that “the views expressed do not reflect the values of Questrom School of Business.”

Disney’s traditional television business continues to decline with operating income at so-called linear networks dropping sharply by 11 percent to $1.1 billion in the last financial quarter.

Netflix has taken the extraordinary step of removing best actress Oscar nominee Karla Sofia Gascón from its Academy Awards campaign for “Emilia Perez,” cancelling appearances by the transgender performer and deleting any reference to Gascón from its Oscar-themed advertisements.

A U.S. District Court judge has denied Apple’s request to intervene in the ongoing Google Search monopoly trial, which could end the massive payments Google makes to Apple every year to ensure its search dominance remains unchallenged.

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, a notorious leftist, is cutting over 1,000 jobs as the company’s new fiscal year begins, even as it ramps up hiring for AI-focused sales positions.

Google has reported that dozens of cybercriminal organizations from countries including North Korea and China are misusing its Gemini AI platform to enhance their cyberattacks.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance is bound for Europe next week on his first foreign trip since the inauguration.

Hollywood star Ben Stiller has spread the false claim that Elon Musk performed a “double Nazi salute” during an inaugural event for President Donald Trump last month.

As Microsoft courts major victories in Washington including OpenAI’s Project Stargate support and a potential TikTok acquisition, a new report from the Foundation for Freedom Online reveals the tech giant has maintained controversial censorship partnerships and initiatives from the Biden era, including ties to  NewsGuard, the establishment pro-censorship group operating a news blacklist against conservative media.

China’s DeepSeek AI has recently taken the tech world by storm, surpassing OpenAI’s ChatGPT as the most downloaded free app last week. Despite its sudden success, cybersecurity experts are warning that the app is a privacy nightmare. Many companies and governments have already banned DeepSeek, with more joining daily.

Elon Musk’s X has amended its existing advertising lawsuit to include additional major brands, accusing them of participating in an illegal advertising boycott following Musk’s acquisition of the company in 2022.

Google is giving a portion of its workforce the opportunity to voluntarily leave the company with a severance package, targeting those who may not be “deeply committed” to their roles.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is offering TikTok creators up to $50,000 a month to post exclusive content on Instagram Reels. Zuckerberg views the uncertain future of China’s TikTok as the perfect opportunity to tighten his grip on the social media landscape.

President Donald Trump and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang reportedly met at the White House on Friday to discuss China’s DeepSeek AI technology and what to do with regards to tightening chip exports moving forward.

Elon Musk’s aides have locked career government bureaucrats out of computer systems that operate a federal government human resources agency.

OpenAI, the creator of the popular ChatGPT AI chatbot, claims to have found evidence suggesting that Chinese AI upstart DeepSeek used OpenAI’s data to train its own competing models.

Apple has agreed to pay up to $20 million to settle a class action lawsuit over defects in early Apple Watch models that caused displays to crack or detach from the casing. Here’s how to find out if you qualify to receive a payout.

In a major reversal, Amazon has reportedly raised its ad spending on Elon Musk’s X platform. The move comes after the tech giant pulled much of its advertising more than a year ago.

Artists can copyright works they made with the help of artificial intelligence, according to a new report by the U.S. Copyright Office that could further clear the way for the use of AI tools in Hollywood, the music industry, and other creative fields.

Podcaster and popular streamer DJ Akademiks has been banned from the livestreaming service Twitch after owning up to making sexual remarks to a 15-year-old.

PragerU CEO Marissa Streit and PragerU personality Xaviaer DuRousseau slammed the Daily Beast for publishing two “totally made up” hit pieces against the conservative organization in one day. “They do such junk journalism,” Streit said, to which DuRousseau added, “This is why the mainstream media is losing — because this is embarrassing.”

China’s state-run Global Times on Thursday marveled at the high-tech entertainments on display for this year’s Spring Festival, praising a troupe of dancing robots as evidence the Communist nation has become the world’s leading tech power.

The news for Disney’s upcoming live-action remake of “Snow White” just keeps getting worse as both trailers for the troubled film now have more than one million dislikes each on Youtube.

Apple faces ongoing headwinds in the crucial Chinese market, with slumping iPhone sales, fierce competition from domestic brands, and regulatory hurdles surrounding AI.

According to a leaked conversation, during a recent all-hands meeting at Meta, CEO Mark Zuckerberg expressed his frustration with internal leaks, stating that “everything I say leaks. And it sucks, right?” The social media titan may be facing a hostile workforce based on his “Zuck 2.0” makeover as a masculine leader extending an olive branch to President Donald Trump and the MAGA movement.

China’s DeepSeek rocked the world of AI this week, but beyond questions about how the company actually developed its model, fresh concerns about its data collection practices and potential national security implications are popping up.

NEW YORK (AP) — Karla Sofía Gascón, the Oscar-nominated trans actor and star of the movie “Emilia Pérez,” is apologizing for her old posts on social media that denigrated Islam and that called George Floyd “a drug addict and a hustler.”

The parents of disgraced former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried are reportedly scheming to get Sam pardoned by President Donald Trump.

Google released a report on Wednesday that found hackers are using the company’s Gemini artificial intelligence to devise more effective cyberattacks.

The Oscar race for best actress is getting nasty, with Karla Sofia Gascón — the first transgender performer ever nominated for an Academy Award — accusing the team behind a rival nominee of launching a smear campaign.

Microsoft founder Bill Gates expressed his surprise at the growing conservative presence in Silicon Valley and is personally committed to engaging with the Trump administration, according to a recent interview with the New York Times.

President Trump has signed settlement papers that will require Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta to pay roughly $25 million to resolve a 2021 lawsuit Trump filed after the company suspended his accounts on Facebook and Instagram.