(Reuters) -Cryptocurrency exchange Bullish on Friday disclosed a quarterly loss compared to a year-ago profit in its paperwork for a U.S. initial public offering, amid rising investor interest in the sector. Read full story

(Reuters) -Nvidia-backed Perplexity AI, the startup challenging Google with its AI-powered search engine, is in discussions with mobile device makers to pre-install its new Comet browser on smartphones, CEO Aravind Srinivas told Reuters on Friday. Read full story

(Reuters) -The crypto sector's market value hit $4 trillion on Friday, according to CoinGecko, marking a milestone that reflects its shift from a nascent asset class to a central part of the global investment landscape. Read full story

(Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday signed a law to create a regulatory regime for U.S.-dollar-pegged cryptocurrencies known as stablecoins, a milestone that could pave the way for the digital assets to become an everyday way to make payments and move money. Read full story

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -ChatGPT maker OpenAI is launching a $50 million fund to support nonprofit and community organizations, the artificial intelligence company said on Friday. Read full story

BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Microsoft will likely sign the European Union's code of practice to help companies comply with the bloc's landmark artificial intelligence rules, its president told Reuters on Friday, while Meta Platforms rebuffed the guidelines. Read full story

(Reuters) -JPMorgan Chase has begun publishing research notes on prominent private companies transforming industries, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday. Read full story

BRUSSELS (Reuters) -EU antitrust regulators on Friday accepted glass maker Corning's offer to waive exclusive deals with mobile phone makers and glass processing companies and scrap purchasing clauses to end an eight-month long investigation and stave off a possible fine. Read full story

(Reuters) -Netflix shares declined more than 4% on Friday as some investors were disappointed by a revenue forecast that was driven more by a weaker dollar than strong demand for the streamer's content. Read full story

BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Commission set out guidelines on Friday to help AI models it has determined have systemic risks and face tougher obligations to mitigate potential threats comply with European Union artificial intelligence regulation (AI Act). Read full story

The ousted leadership of video-game developer Unknown Worlds said parent company Krafton Inc fired them after the executives presented the company with upbeat revenue projections that would have triggered most, if not all, of a US$250mil (RM1.06bil) bonus payment, according to a copy of their lawsuit which was unsealed July 16. Read full story

Hertz and other agencies are increasingly relying on scanners that use high- res imaging and A.I. to flag even tiny blemishes, and customers aren't happy. Read full story

Roblox Corp is adding new safety features, including an age-estimation tool that relies on video selfies, in an effort to better protect its kid-heavy user base. Read full story

A popular and contentious game, Revenge On Gold Diggers, sheds light on misogyny, inequality and the feeling among many men that they are economic victims. Read full story

(Reuters) -India's Wipro rose as much as 4% in early trade on Friday after the country's fourth-largest IT firm reported better-than-expected quarterly earnings, driven by improved client spending in segments of its Americas business. Read full story

OpenAI is rolling out new options for chatbot ChatGPT to carry out a variety of increasingly complicated tasksona user's behalf, part of its push to bring so-called AI agents to the mainstream. Read full story

Russia's State Duma approved new fines for searching for content considered "extremist" and virtual private network providers that enable access to that material as authorities deepen a long-running crackdown on the Internet. Read full story

Microsoft Corp has spent billions of dollarsto get people like Tyson Jominy using its Copilot, an artificially intelligent personal assistant designed to make it easier for consumers to navigate the world. Read full story

Online privacy campaigners filed fresh complaints against social media giant TikTok and two other Chinese-owned companies on July 17, saying they had failed to comply with data access requests. Read full story

(Reuters) -Meta Platforms has hired Apple artificial intelligence researchers Mark Lee and Tom Gunter for its Superintelligence Labs team, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, as it intensifies its pursuit for top AI talent. Read full story

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Netflix said on Thursday that it used generative artificial intelligence to produce visual effects that appeared for the first time on screen in one of its original series, employing a technology that has been a source of anxiety throughout Hollywood. Read full story

(Reuters) -The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill on Thursday that would develop a regulatory framework for cryptocurrencies and expand the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's oversight of the industry. Read full story

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -The final season of global phenomenon "Squid Game" helped Netflix beat Wall Street earnings targets for the second quarter, and the streaming service raised its revenue guidance for the year. Read full story

(Reuters) -OpenAI launched an artificial intelligence agent for its popular chatbot ChatGPT on Thursday that can complete complex tasks as the Microsoft- backed startup looks to get ahead of competitors in the AI race. Read full story

NEW YORK (Reuters) -Bitcoin's surge to a record this week has reignited questions about the role institutional investors are playing in pushing it higher, with analysts suggesting their role is still in its infancy. Read full story

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -Amazon cut at least hundreds of jobs in its Amazon Web Services cloud computing unit on Thursday, two sources said, just a monthafterCEO Andy Jassy warned that adoption of generative AI tools would trigger a workforce reduction. Read full story

(Reuters) -Alphabet's Waymo is expanding its service in Austin, Texas, to 90 square miles from 37 square miles earlier, the software giant's self-driving unit said on Thursday, seeking to protect its top position in the city from rivals such as Tesla. Read full story

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia's largest lender Sberbank wants to offer custody services for Russian cryptocurrency assets, the state-owned bank said on Thursday, seeking a leading role in Russia's development of digital assets. Read full story

(Reuters) -A California federal judge ruled on Thursday that three authors suing artificial intelligence startup Anthropic for copyright infringement can represent writers nationwide whose books Anthropic allegedly pirated to train its AI system. Read full story

NEW YORK (Reuters) -The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Elon Musk have again agreed to give the billionaire more time to respond to the regulator's civil lawsuit accusing him of waiting too long in 2022 to reveal his large stake in Twitter. Read full story

Nearly three in four American teenagers have used AI companions, with more than half qualifying as regular users despite growing safety concerns about these virtual relationships, according to a new survey released Wednesday. Read full story

Smartphones, laptops, headphones and other electronic devices are essential for work and play in our daily lives. But all that time spent typing, scrolling or listening also means our devices gradually accumulate grime that needs to be cleaned off. Read full story

The big-screen success of 1990s video game speedster 'Sonic the Hedgehog' has brought new fans to Japan's Sega, which says it is poised for a comeback after two tough decades. Read full story

LONDON (Reuters) -Ocado, the British online supermarket and technology group, said its core priority was to turn cash flow positive in its next financial year, as it reported a 76.5% rise in underlying earnings in its first half on Thursday. Read full story

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Swedish streaming group Viaplay Group said on Thursday it had agreed to buy the remaining 50% stake in Allente Group from Norway's Telenor for 1.1 billion Swedish crowns ($113 million). Read full story

(Reuters) -French advertising firm Publicis on Thursday raised its full-year organic growth forecast following stronger-than-expected second-quarter results, as CEO Arthur Sadoun dismissed concerns over Meta's AI-powered ad creation system. Read full story

SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea's top court upheld on Thursday a not-guilty verdict for the chairman of Samsung Electronics Jay Y. Lee, backing two lower court rulings clearing him of accounting fraud and stock manipulation related to an $8 billion merger in 2015. Read full story

An US$8bil (RM33.9bil) class action investors' lawsuit against Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and company leaders current and former began Wednesday, with claims stemming from the 2018 privacy scandal involving the Cambridge Analytica political consulting firm. Read full story

Five EU countries including France will test an app aimed at preventing children from accessing harmful content online by checking users' ages, the European Commission said Monday. Read full story

After a Kentucky teenager died by suicide this year, his parents discovered he had received threatening texts demanding US$3,000 (RM12,741) to suppress an AI-generated nude image of him. Read full story