Elon Musk’s social media platform X suffered a 58% revenue collapse in its U.K. operations during 2024, according to financial disclosures newly filed with Companies House, marking another brutal year for the company formerly known as Twitter as advertisers continue to flee amid concerns about the brand and its billionaire owner. Since Musk acquired X…
TikTok’s newly updated U.S. privacy policy has sparked a wave of anxiety and calls for a boycott among users after the document explicitly listed “citizenship or immigration status” among the types of sensitive information the platform may process. The panic was likely fanned in part by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) recently expanded enforcement…
France’s National Assembly has backed a bill that would ban social media access for under-15s, a proposal supported by President Emmanuel Macron. Lawmakers in the lower house on Monday agreed key elements of the bill, before voting 116-23 in its favour. Next, the bill will go to the upper house, the Senate, for approval. If…
London — A CBS News investigation has found that the Grok AI tool on Elon Musk’s X platform is still allowing users to digitally undress people without their consent. The tool still worked Monday on both the standalone Grok app, and for verified X users in the U.K, the U.S. and European Union, despite public pledges…
The European Commission on Monday said it opened an investigation into Elon Musk’s X over the spreading of sexually explicit material by the AI chatbot Grok. The probe is being conducted under the European Union’s sweeping Digital Services Act (DSA) regulation. “The new investigation will assess whether the company properly assessed and mitigated risks associated…
Double Harvard grad Adam Presser is taking the helm of TikTok’s new U.S. joint venture—and he’s looking to turn a regulatory reset for the Chinese company into a lasting success. Presser previously served as TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew’s chief of staff between April 2022 and July 2023 before working his way up to head…
President Donald Trump and TikTok said Thursday that the company had formed a joint venture to keep the video-sharing app operating in the U.S. under new American leadership. The company said Adam Presser, who has been serving as TikTok’s head of operations and trust and safety, will be the CEO of TikTok USDS Joint Venture….
Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta on Wednesday said it will begin to show advertising on its Threads microblogging service to all users globally starting next week. “With ads on Threads, businesses can authentically join this conversation while finding new ways to connect with the people most interested in…
NANJING, CHINA – NOVEMBER 25: Aerial view of Alibaba Jiangsu Headquarters at night on November 25, 2025 in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province of China. (Photo by Fang Dongxu/VCG via Getty Images) Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images China’s technology giants are entering a new phase of the artificial intelligence race called ‘agentic commerce,’ as…
A disturbing realization is dawning on internet users worldwide: we may no longer be able to distinguish between human-generated and AI-generated content. What was once a fringe conspiracy theory known as the “Dead Internet Theory” is becoming an increasingly plausible description of our digital reality, where bots interact with bots while humans struggle to identify…