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Social media
US government requests for social media user data are soaring
US government requests for user data from technology companies has skyrocketed by 770% in the past decade, a new research report has concluded.
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Technology
Analysis-Under global spotlight, Australia plays hardball on social media ban
SYDNEY, April 3 (Reuters) - Since Australia banned children from using social media in December, lawmakers from Spain to Malaysia have expressed interest in following suit, while U.S. courts have found tech firms negligent toward young users.
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Technology
Broadcom taps Alphabet executive Amie Thuener as next CFO
April 2 (Reuters) - U.S. chip designer Broadcom on Thursday named Alphabet executive Amie Thuener as its next finance chief, effective June 12, when incumbent Kirsten Spears retires.
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Technology
OpenAI acquires technology talk show TBPN in surprise move
April 2 (Reuters) - OpenAI, jostling with Anthropic for enterprise customers, has bought TBPN, an online tech talk show that has built a loyal Silicon Valley following through interviews with industry CEOs.
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Technology
Amazon must negotiate with Staten Island warehouse workers, NLRB says
SAN FRANCISCO, April 2 (Reuters) - Amazon must negotiate with a labor union representing some 5,000 workers at a company warehouse on Staten Island, the National Labor Relations Board ruled on Wednesday.
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Technology
Exclusive-SpaceX has held talks with Saudi fund for possible $5 billion investment in IPO, sources say
NEW YORK, April 2 (Reuters) - Billionaire Elon Musk's SpaceX has had discussions with Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund about PIF potentially taking an anchor stake of around $5 billion in the space company's IPO, according to two people familiar with the matter.
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Technology
Coinbase gets conditional US approval for trust charter
April 2 (Reuters) - Coinbase Global has received conditional approval from banking regulators for a national trust company charter, it said on Thursday, a move that could boost the top U.S. cryptocurrency exchange's appeal among large institutional investors.
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Technology
Group of WTO states agrees not to impose e-commerce duties
GENEVA, April 2 (Reuters) - A group of states has agreed not to impose e-commerce customs duties among themselves after World Trade Organization members failed to agree on an extension to a long-running moratorium, a document showed on Thursday.
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Technology
Netflix searches for franchises after losing out on Harry Potter
(Corrects paragraph 19 to show Sony Pictures Animation produced KPop Demon Hunters)
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Robotics
Humanoid robots offer Europe path to stay in tech race
Europe has been late to the AI boom and trails China on electric cars. But when it comes to humanoid robots, it's still in the race.
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Technology
Amazon eyes $9 billion Globalstar deal to rival SpaceX's Starlink, FT reports
April 2 (Reuters) - Amazon is in talks to buy satellite telecom group Globalstar as it ramps up efforts to build its own low-earth-orbit satellite business to rival SpaceX's Starlink, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter.
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Technology
Ahead of Greek social media ban, parents desperate to separate children from phones
ATHENS, April 2 (Reuters) - Greek mother Georgia Efstathiou has tried everything to loosen the grip that social media has on her 14-year-old son: heart-to-heart talks; internet-free time; confiscating his phone. Arguments flare as she fights the allure of his screen and its videos and messages.
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Internet
It’s International Fact-Checking Day. Refresh your AI identification skills
AI-generated content is everywhere these days, making it increasingly difficult to separate fact from fiction, particularly when it comes to breaking news.
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Social media
Meta, YouTube verdict escalates calls for teen social media limits
The push to protect children from social media's harms is gaining momentum globally and beginning to reach Big Tech's home turf in the US.
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AI
AI machine sorts clothes faster than humans to boost textile recycling in China
The Fastsort-Textile machine, named one of Time magazine's Best Inventions of 2025, was created by DataBeyond, a Chinese AI recycling company founded in 2018.
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Cybersecurity
Anthropic rushes to limit leak of Claude Code source code
Anthropic PBC is rushing to address the inadvertent release of internal source code behind Claude Code, an AI-powered assistant that has become a key moneymaker for the company.
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AI
Seeking a sounding board? Beware the eager-to-please chatbot.
A new study of popular AI models shows that their feedback on social situations is far from impartial.
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Technology
Crisis contractor for OpenAI, Anthropic eyes a move to combat extremism
SYDNEY, April 2 (Reuters) - People who show violent extremist tendencies on ChatGPT will be directed to human and chatbot‑based deradicalisation support through a new tool in development in New Zealand, the people behind it said.
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AI
Meet the new AI coworker who won’t stop snitching to your boss
Xiankun Wu, the company's founder, is creating the kind of workplace that feels both inevitable and unsettling. He's offering a new type of colleague who is entirely virtual and behaves uncannily like the most driven new hire you've ever worked with.
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Internet
EU, US to tackle digital frictions through talks
The EU on Wednesday said it was ready for talks with the United States to tackle tensions over its digital rules, which the US administration accuses of targeting American giants.
