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Meta’s third-quarter profit surges 35% reflecting strong ad revenue and its AI push

Meta Platforms Inc. posted stronger-than-expected third-quarter results on Wednesday fueled by its advertising revenue growth and its push to incorporate artificial intelligence. But the Instagram and Facebook parent company warned that it expects a “significant acceleration” in infrastructure spending next year as it continues to pour money into developing AI. Nearly all of Meta’s revenue

Google’s moneymaking machine still pumping out massive profits despite multiple threats

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is still thriving while the company navigates through a pivotal shift to artificial intelligence and battles regulators trying to topple its internet empire. The latest evidence of Google’s prosperity emerged Tuesday with the release of its corporate parent Alphabet Inc.’s results for the July-September period. Both Alphabet’s profit and revenue

Trump’s social media company is now worth more than Musk’s X after recent surge in stock price

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s Truth Social is now worth more than Elon Musk’s X, thanks to a recent run-up in the shares of the parent company of the former president’s social media platform. Trump Media & Technology Group is now valued at over $10 billion after its shares more than quadrupled since late

Fitness app Strava gives away location of Biden, Trump and other leaders, French newspaper says

PARIS (AP) — An investigation by French newspaper Le Monde found that the highly confidential movements of U.S. President Joe Biden, presidential rivals Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, and other world leaders can be easily tracked online through a fitness app that their bodyguards use. But the U.S. Secret Service told the newspaper that it

Apple launches the iPhone into the AI era with free software update

Apple is releasing a free software update that will inject its first dose of artificial intelligence into its iPhone 16 lineup as the trendsetting company tries to catch up with technology’s latest craze. The upgrade to the iOS 18 operating system on Monday arrives more than a month after four iPhone 16 models equipped with

Italian politicians express alarm at latest data breach allegedly affecting 800,000 citizens

MILAN (AP) — Italian politicians called Monday for better protection of citizens’ online data following a probe into a hacking scheme that allegedly breached law enforcement, tax authority and other sensitive public data. According to prosecutors in Milan, the data of at least 800,000 Italians was compromised in breaches dating from 2022 by a private

British man sentenced to 18 years for using AI to make child sexual abuse imagery

LONDON (AP) — A British man who used artificial intelligence to create images of child abuse was sent to prison for 18 years on Monday. The court sentenced Hugh Nelson, 27, after he pleaded guilty to a number of sexual offenses including making and distributing indecent images of children and distributing “indecent pseudo photographs of

Biden calls out Musk over a published report that the Tesla CEO once worked in the US illegally

NEW YORK (AP) — President Joe Biden slammed Elon Musk for hypocrisy on immigration after a published report that the Tesla CEO once worked illegally in the United States. The South Africa-born Musk denies the allegation. “That wealthiest man in the world turned out to be an illegal worker here. No, I’m serious. He was

Elon Musk says the real threat to democracy is the people who accuse Trump of endangering it

LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) — Tech mogul Elon Musk, speaking at a town hall Saturday night in Pennsylvania to support Republican Donald Trump, played down the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol and exhorted supporters to cast votes early in the presidential swing state while describing mail ballots as a “recipe for fraud.” The freewheeling

Delta sues cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike over tech outage that canceled flights

ATLANTA (AP) — Delta Air Lines sued CrowdStrike on Friday, claiming the cybersecurity company had cut corners and caused a worldwide technology outage that led to thousands of canceled flight in July. The airline is asking for compensation and punitive damages from the outage, which started with a faulty update sent to several million Microsoft

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Meta’s third-quarter profit surges 35% reflecting strong ad revenue and its AI push

Google’s moneymaking machine still pumping out massive profits despite multiple threats

Trump’s social media company is now worth more than Musk’s X after recent surge in stock price

Fitness app Strava gives away location of Biden, Trump and other leaders, French newspaper says

Apple launches the iPhone into the AI era with free software update

Italian politicians express alarm at latest data breach allegedly affecting 800,000 citizens

British man sentenced to 18 years for using AI to make child sexual abuse imagery

Biden calls out Musk over a published report that the Tesla CEO once worked in the US illegally

Elon Musk says the real threat to democracy is the people who accuse Trump of endangering it

Delta sues cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike over tech outage that canceled flights