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How Pastor Chad Nedohin Helped Turn Trump Media Into a Meme Stock

Chad Nedohin, a part-time pastor, is among the fans of Donald J. Trump who helped turn Trump Media into a meme stock with volatile prices.

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Chad Nedohin, a podcaster and part-time pastor in Canada, has urged people to invest in Trump Media & Technology Group and hold on to the stock.

Meta Says It Plans to Spend Billions More on A.I.

24 April 2024 at 18:31
Along with the higher spending, the owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp projected lighter-than-expected revenue, causing its stock to plummet.

Β© Ian C. Bates for The New York Times

Quarterly results on Wednesday underscored Meta’s repositioning of itself as a company poised to capitalize on the industrywide fervor for artificial intelligence.

On TikTok, Potential Ban of App Leads to Resignation and Frustration

By: Yiwen Lu
24 April 2024 at 14:28
While Congress says the social app is a security threat, critics of the law targeting it say it shows how out of step lawmakers are with young people.

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Supporters of TikTok gathered near the Capitol last month as the House of Representatives voted to pass a bill to force TikTok to cut ties with its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, or risk being banned in U.S. app stores.

TikTok Faces E.U. Inquiry Over β€˜Addictive’ Features

22 April 2024 at 17:47
European officials threatened to fine TikTok and force it to remove some features, the latest regulatory challenge for the Chinese-owned social media app.

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The action announced on Monday is the second E.U. investigation against TikTok.

States Move to Ban Deepfake Nudes to Fight Sexually Explicit Images of Minors

22 April 2024 at 16:12
Legislators in two dozen states are working on bills, or have passed laws, to combat A.I.-generated sexually explicit images of minors.

Β© Ruth Fremson/The New York Times

Caroline Mullet, a ninth grader, prompted her father, Mark, a Washington State senator, to work on a bill to ban A.I.-generated sexually explicit images of minors. The ban is set to take effect in June.

Apple Says It Was Ordered to Pull WhatsApp From China App Store

19 April 2024 at 14:23
Apple said it removed WhatsApp and Threads from its China app offerings Friday on Beijing’s orders, amid technological tensions between the U.S. and China.

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A recently-opened Apple Store in Shanghai’s Jing’an district in March. Apple said it removed WhatsApp and Threads, which are owned by Meta, from its app store in China.

Meta, in Its Biggest A.I. Push, Places Smart Assistants Across Its Apps

18 April 2024 at 12:00
Users of Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp and Messenger will be able to turn to the new technology, powered by Meta’s latest artificial intelligence model, to obtain information and complete tasks.

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TikTok’s Origin Story: Court Files Show Role of GOP Megadonor Jeff Yass

Court records, mistakenly made public, tell a story about the birth of ByteDance, its bumpy road to success and the role of the Republican megadonor Jeff Yass’s firm.

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The former headquarters of ByteDance, the parent company of the video sharing app TikTok, in Beijing.

Truth Social Has an Edge as Rival Right-Wing Apps Falter

Donald Trump’s social media platform has outdistanced similar conservative sites such as Parler and Gettr, even as it lags far behind X and others.

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Truth Social enjoys one crucial advantage over other right-wing apps: Donald J. Trump.

Beeper Messaging App Is Acquired as a Bet on a Regulatory Shift

9 April 2024 at 11:00
Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, bought Beeper in an effort to build a system that works across Android and Apple devices.

Β© Helynn Ospina for The New York Times

A Beeper founder, Eric Migicovsky, said his company was trying to change β€œapathy about new experiences in chat.”

How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I.

OpenAI, Google and Meta ignored corporate policies, altered their own rules and discussed skirting copyright law as they sought online information to train their newest artificial intelligence systems.

Β© Jason Henry for The New York Times

Researchers at OpenAI’s office in San Francisco developed a tool to transcribe YouTube videos to amass conversational text for A.I. development.

TikTok Spends Millions on Ad Blitz as Congress Considers Banning the App

4 April 2024 at 11:14
The video app is spending millions on ads as Congress considers a bill that could lead to a U.S. ban.

Β© Daniel Dorsa for The New York Times

β€œTikTok definitely has a branding issue in the United States,” said Sister Monica Clare, a nun in Mendham, N.J., who appears in an ad for the video app.

TikTok Bill Would Complicate ByteDance Investments if Passed

26 March 2024 at 14:21
Major U.S. investment firms such as General Atlantic, Susquehanna and Sequoia Capital own stakes in ByteDance, the parent of TikTok. Their investments are increasingly under fire.

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A confluence of politics and economics means ByteDance is also unlikely to go public soon, which would enable its shares to trade.

E.U. Takes Aim at Alphabet, Apple and Meta in Wide-Ranging Investigations

The inquiries signal the bloc’s intention to tightly enforce sweeping new competition rules that took effect this month.

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An Apple store in Milan.

Inside Amira Yahyaoui’s Claims about Mos, a Student Aid Start-Up

25 March 2024 at 11:04
Amira Yahyaoui, a human rights activist, promoted the success of her student aid start-up, Mos. Some of her statements do not add up, according to internal data and people familiar with the company.

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Amira Yahyaoui at the 2013 World Bank and IMF annual meeting in Washington. She founded Mos, a student aid start-up, in 2018.

The Government’s Struggles With Outsourcing Software Development

23 March 2024 at 06:00
The bloated cost of the ArriveCAN app and new investigations into possible fraud have highlighted some problems with turning to outside companies.

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Jean-Yves Duclos, the procurement minister, blamed paper contracts for a potential multimillion-dollar fraud.

General Motors Quits Sharing Driving Behavior With Data Brokers

22 March 2024 at 14:42
G.M. had provided information about braking, acceleration and speed to LexisNexis Risk Solution and Verisk, firms that generated driver risk profiles for insurers.

Β© Carlos Osorio/Associated Press

For years, General Motors shared data about drivers’ mileage, braking, acceleration and speed with the insurance industry.

Apple Lawsuits: A Look at the Many Challenges Facing the Tech Giant

21 March 2024 at 18:20
The Justice Department’s lawsuit against Apple is the latest in a series of regulatory actions that are hitting the tech giant at the same time.

Β© Karsten Moran for The New York Times

Apple is facing a number of regulatory and legal challenges around the world.

U.S. Justice Dept. Sues Apple, Claiming iPhone Monopoly in Antitrust Case

The lawsuit caps years of regulatory scrutiny of Apple’s wildly popular suite of devices and services, which have fueled its growth into a nearly $3 trillion public company.

Β© Ian C. Bates for The New York Times

By tightly controlling the user experience on iPhones and other devices, Apple has created what critics call an uneven playing field where it grants its products and services access to core features that it denies rivals.

Why Tech Companies Are Not Your Friends: Lessons From Roku

20 March 2024 at 09:00
Roku recently changed its policy to make it even harder for customers to take legal action. It’s a reminder of how we need to protect ourselves.

Β© Derek Abella

TikTok Bill’s Progress Slows in the Senate

Legislation to force TikTok’s Chinese owner to sell the app or have it banned in the United States sailed through the House, but the Senate has no plans to move hastily.

Β© Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times

The bill would force ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese owner, to sell the app to a buyer that satisfies the government or else face a ban.

Russia Strengthens Its Internet Controls in Critical Year for Putin

Facing an election this weekend and the fallout from Aleksei Navalny’s death and the war in Ukraine, Russia has intensified online censorship using techniques pioneered by China.

Β© Anton Vaganov/Reuters

St. Petersburg this month. Russia is taking a systemic approach to change the way its domestic internet functions, according to civil society groups, researchers and companies that have been affected.

Florida Man Sues G.M. and LexisNexis Over Sale of His Cadillac Data

14 March 2024 at 18:51
Romeo Chicco’s auto insurance rate doubled because of information about his speeding, braking and acceleration, according to his complaint.

Β© Rebecca Cook/Reuters

A Cadillac XT6 at a car show. In a lawsuit, Romeo Chicco said data on his driving habits from his own XT6 was shared with insurers without his consent.

What to Know About the TikTok Bill That the House Passed

The bill, which would force TikTok’s Chinese parent to sell the popular social media app, faces a difficult path in the Senate.

Β© Kenny Holston/The New York Times

Representative Mike Gallagher, right, Republican of Wisconsin, is one of the primary champions of the TikTok bill in the House.

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17 September 2023 at 04:00
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