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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
LOS ANGELES, April 2 (Reuters) - After losing its bid for Warner Bros Discovery's rich trove of characters and stories, Netflix is forging ahead with the challenging work of building culture-defining franchises on its own.
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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.
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AI
Perplexity AI machine accused of sharing data with Meta, Google
Perplexity AI Inc was accused in a lawsuit of surreptitiously sharing the personal information of its users with Meta Platforms Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google in violation of California privacy laws.
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AI
The AI video apps gaining ground after OpenAI declared Sora dead
A week after OpenAI said it would shutter its artificial intelligence video generator, Sora, rival tools like Kling AI and RunwayML are already gaining ground.
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Internet
Advocacy groups urge YouTube to protect kids from 'AI slop' videos
Advocacy groups and experts condemned YouTube for serving up low-quality artificial intelligence-generated videos to its most vulnerable audience: children.
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Technology
WhatsApp says Italian surveillance company tricked around 200 users into downloading spyware
WASHINGTON, April 1 (Reuters) - Messaging service WhatsApp said an Italian surveillance company tricked some 200 users into downloading a bogus version of its popular app that was rigged to spy on its victims.
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Technology
Exclusive-Intel looks to put millions more into SambaNova startup chaired by CEO Tan
SAN FRANCISCO, April 1 (Reuters) - Chipmaker Intel has planned to invest another $15 million in SambaNova, a chip startup chaired by Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan, a Reuters review of corporate records showed.
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Driverless vehicle
Singapore gets robotaxis as Grab, WeRide launch driverless cars
Singapore's Grab Holdings Ltd became Southeast Asia's first ride provider to start a driverless service, betting the technology can help cut costs and prove out robotaxis in dense urban traffic.
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Technology
Related Digital nears $16 billion financing for Oracle data center, source says
April 1 (Reuters) - Data center developer Related Digital is closing in on $16 billion of financing for an Oracle data center in Michigan, a source familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.
