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Outflanked by AI, stars fade for South Korea's blind fortune-tellers
Aug 13, 2026 (AFP)
Clients have drifted away from Song Oh-soon's fortune-telling village on the edge of Seoul, preferring online AI-powered divination to the centuries-old prophes...
SpaceX drops special roaming rules for Polish Starlink users: Warsaw
Aug 13, 2026 (AFP)
Elon Musk's SpaceX has reversed plans to exclude Poland from Starlink's Europe roaming zone after protests from Warsaw, the country's digital affairs minister s...
Meta meets its own 'tobacco' moment in court
Aug 12, 2026 (AFP)
With billions of users around the world, Meta will defend itself against allegations of harming children in a new trial in the United States this week, which ex...
Meta meets its own 'tobacco' moment as jury selection kicks off trial
Aug 12, 2026 (AFP)
Jury selection kicked off on Wednesday in a California courtroom where Instagram and Facebook owner Meta will defend itself against allegations of harming child...
Meta meets its own 'tobacco' moment as jury selection kicks off trial
Aug 12, 2026 (AFP)
Jury selection kicked off on Wednesday in a California courtroom where Instagram and Facebook owner Meta will defend itself against allegations of harming child...
Poland slams Musk's Starlink over European roaming exclusion
Aug 12, 2026 (AFP)
The Polish government denounced Wednesday its exclusion from new European roaming rules for internet access via Elon Musk's Starlink service, the latest flare-u...
Poland slams Musk's Starlink over European roaming exclusion
Aug 12, 2026 (AFP)
The Polish government denounced Wednesday its exclusion from new European roaming rules for internet access via Elon Musk's Starlink service, the latest flare-u...
Google's Gemini AI assistant reaches one billion users
Aug 12, 2026 (AFP)
Google's artificial intelligence assistant Gemini has surpassed one billion monthly users, CEO Sundar Pichai announced Tuesday, a week after a major reorganizat...
Caught between great powers: the cautionary tale of Manus
Aug 11, 2026 (AFP)
Once the envy of China's tech scene, the startup behind the artificial intelligence agent tool Manus has become an example of how rivalry between global powers ...
Anthropic unveils AI watermarks to comply with EU law
Aug 11, 2026 (AFP)
The American AI company Anthropic announced it will add an invisible watermark to text produced by its Claude chatbot so as to comply with European Union regula...
Meta, TikTok agree to boost fact-checking after Ceuta migrant rush: EU
Aug 11, 2026 (AFP)
The EU said Tuesday Meta and TikTok had agreed to voluntary steps to boost fact-checking of harmful disinformation linked to the Ceuta migrant rush -- but did n...
Spotify to launch badge identifying AI music
Aug 11, 2026 (AFP)
Streaming giant Spotify said Tuesday it would launch a new "AI Persona" badge in mid-September clearly identifying content producers that are AI-generated and n...
French newspapers target Google over AI summaries
Aug 11, 2026 (AFP)
A federation of nearly 300 French newspapers said Tuesday that it filed a complaint with the country's competition authority over Google's new AI-generated summ...
French newspapers target Google over AI summaries
Aug 11, 2026 (AFP)
A federation of nearly 300 French dailies said Tuesday that it filed a complaint with the country's competition authority over Google's new AI-generated summari...
Meta releases new AI model as Zuckerberg lays out vision
Aug 10, 2026 (AFP)
Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg called Monday for lower barriers for open source AI, as his company introduced a new model that can run on a personal compu...
Meta will soon face another high-stakes trial in US
Aug 10, 2026 (AFP)
With two convictions and nearly $1 billion in damages already stacked up, Meta will face another trial starting this week about alleged harms to children in a c...
Meta releases new AI model as Zuckerberg lays out vision
Aug 10, 2026 (AFP)
Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg called Monday for lower barriers for open source AI, as his company introduced a new model that can run on a personal compu...
Angers mounts in US over vast network of car license plate cams
Aug 09, 2026 (AFP)
In only a few years, the surveillance start-up Flock has installed more than 100,000 license plate reader cameras across the United States.
Meta ordered to pay US state $567 mn to abate 'public nuisance' and child harm
Aug 07, 2026 (AFP)
A New Mexico judge on Thursday ordered Meta to pay more than half a billion dollars over the state's claims that the social media giant created a "public nuisan...
Meta ordered to pay US state $567 mn to abate 'public nuisance' and child harm
Aug 07, 2026 (AFP)
A New Mexico judge on Thursday ordered Meta to pay more than half a billion dollars over the state's claims that the social media giant created a "public nuisan...
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