[ad_1] Donald Trump has said heās open to extending the June 19 deadline for a TikTok ban in the US by 75 days, if the short video company is not sold to a US based by that time. In an interaction with NBC’s “Meet the Press” host Kristen Welker, Trump said, “Iād like to see…
[ad_1] DeepSeekās moment of global glory is a double-edged sword, and it couldnāt have come at a more geopolitically fraught time. The upstart grabbed global attention with its latest models, shocking Silicon Valley and investors with their capabilities and efficiency. But for a Chinese AI company with overseas ambitions, doing the technically impossible may be…
[ad_1] The K. P. Sharma Oli governmentās move to enact new laws in Nepal to regulate social media has met with fierce criticism, with free speech advocates warning of serious implications for freedom of expression in the country. Communications and Information Technology Minister Prithvi Subba Gurung registered the āBill Related to Operation, Use, and Regulation…
[ad_1] The logos for TikTok and RedNote, known in China as Xiaohongshu. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Even as the fate of social media platform TikTok hangs in the balance in the U.S. ā with a ban being postponed for a few weeks by President Donald Trump ā Xiaohongshu, a Chinese platform resembling TikTok, has…
[ad_1] The problem is that even though lawmakers come to this process with a clear sense of what they want to achieve, the outcomes of this approach are often not what they intended. Take the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act (PAFACA), a law designed to ban TikTok in the US. Once the…
[ad_1] Aravind Srinivas’ Perplexity AI has revised its merger proposal with TikTok owner ByteDance to create a new joint company, Reuters reports. Under the new terms, the US government would be offered up to 50% of the new company in a future IPO at a valuation of at least $300 billion. What is Perplexity offering…
[ad_1] Meta has begun testing adverts on Threads, its latest social network, marking a significant development for the platform. Launched in the summer of 2023, Threads was introduced as an alternative to Elon Musk’s X. Instagram and Threads chief Adam Mosseri announced the trial on Friday, stating that adverts are being tested with select brands…
[ad_1] Last week, the Supreme Court upheld a federal law requiring the popular social media app TikTok to be divested in favour of non-Chinese ownership by its China-based parent company, ByteDance, or be banned.Ā The court rejected the social media companyās argument that the law violated the First Amendment rights of TikTok and its content…
[ad_1] Soon after being sworn is as the 47th President of the United States, Donald Trump has granted TikTok a lifeline via an executive order. Trump signed an executive order giving TikTok 75 more days to comply with a federal law passed last year that asks the popular short videos app to either cut ties…
[ad_1] Instgaram has launched a video editing app called āEditsā similar to ByteDance’s Capcut which went offline in the US on Sunday. Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced the app via a post on Instagram and is claimed to offer a āfull suite of creative toolsā including the ability to capture photos and videos, edit clips…
