PUTRAJAYA: The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) will summon Meta to provide an official explanation following a Reuters report that the company profited from advertisements linked to fraud and online gambling. Read full story

A growing global army of trainers is helping it escape our computers and enter our living rooms, offices and factories by teaching it how we move. Read full story

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As the AI race heats up, companies are pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into data centres, talent, research and development. Read full story

(Reuters) -A federal judge on Friday declared a mistrial in the case of two Massachusetts Institute of Technology-educated brothers charged with carrying out a novel scheme to steal $25 million worth of cryptocurrency in 12 seconds that prosecutors said exploited the Ethereum blockchain's integrity. Read full story

The latest iOS update gives an option to adjust the transparency of the so- called Liquid Glass design, which had prompted annoyance among some users over poor legibility when it arrived on iPhones in September. Read full story

(Reuters) -OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Friday doubled down on the company's ask for the U.S. to expand eligibility for a Chips Act tax credit, as the country accelerates efforts to secure its position as a global leader in artificial intelligence. Read full story

(Reuters) -EV maker Rivian on Friday said it was giving its CEO a revised pay package worth as much as $4.6 billion over the next decade, a deal modeled on larger rival Tesla's plan for paying CEO Elon Musk, and linked to new profit targets and reduced share price milestones. Read full story

(Reuters) -Google's YouTube said it is open to negotiating a fair deal with Disney to restore the entertainment giant's networks to its YouTube TV payTV service, while it accused Disney of misrepresenting facts and seeking higher rates than rivals and its own smaller platforms. Read full story

NEW YORK (Reuters) -Federal Reserve Governor Stephen Miran on Friday said that if stablecoins end up enjoying widespread adoption it could mean the central bank needs to keep short-term interest rates lower than they would otherwise be. Read full story

PARIS (Reuters) -The French Finance Ministry on Friday halted the suspension proceedings of Chinese online retailer Shein initiated two days ago after the Chinese retailer withdrew all illicit products from its platforms. Read full story

(Reuters) -Internet domain registrar GoDaddy owes a patent owner $170 million for violating its rights in website-building technology, a Delaware federal jury said in a verdict made public on Friday. Read full story

(Reuters) -Meta Platforms on Friday said it will invest $600 billion in U.S. infrastructure and jobs over the next three years, including artificial intelligence data centers, as the social media giant races to build infrastructure to power its AI ambitions. Read full story

BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Apple, Meta Platforms and other tech giants may win a reprieve from the EU's landmark artificial intelligence rules as regulators consider easing sections of the legislation as part of a drive to simplify a slew of regulations adopted in the last two years. Read full story

(Reuters) -Warren Buffett has a message for people who generate or view AI- created impersonations of him. There's only one Oracle of Omaha. Read full story

LONDON (Reuters) -France's crackdown on Shein over childlike sex dolls and banned weapons is exposing a perennial problem of online marketplaces: failing to properly police third-party sellers and block sales of counterfeit, illegal, dangerous or simply offensive products. Read full story

MILAN (Reuters) -Italy's Nexi has received an offer from U.S. private equity fund TPG for several assets in its digital banking solutions business, the payments group said on Friday. Read full story

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -U.S. AI startup Anthropic said on Friday it was planning to expand its operations across Europe, and open offices in the French capital Paris and Munich in Germany. Read full story

Flashy AI, robotics and self-driving cars will be on show at the annual Web Summit in Lisbon from Monday, but global tensions over high-tech trade, competition and sovereignty will be weighing on the minds of entrepreneurs, investors and policymakers. Read full story

SEOUL (Reuters) -Samsung Electronics said on Friday it had named Park Hark-kyu as the new head of its business support office, a key decision-making body of the technology giant that serves chairman Jay Y. Lee. Read full story

Seven complaints, filed on Nov 6, claim the popular chatbot encouraged dangerous discussions and led to mental breakdowns. Read full story

(Reuters) -Singapore Telecommunications (Singtel) said on Friday it had sold a 0.8% stake worth S$1.5 billion ($1.16 billion) in India's Bharti Airtel, as part of the Southeast Asian telecom company's ongoing asset restructuring strategy. Read full story

(Reuters) -The European Commission is proposing to pause parts of its landmark artificial intelligence (AI) legislation amid intense pressure from big tech companies and the U.S. government, the Financial Times reported on Friday. Read full story

Huawei Technologies Co added a thin new handset to its lineup, offering Chinese consumers a direct competitor to Apple Inc's iPhone Air. Read full story

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's Financial Services Agency will support a project by the country's three-largest banks to jointly issue stablecoins, Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama said on Friday, adding to momentum supporting digital payments in a country where cash and credit cards remain popular. Read full story

Only four Chinese developers are included in the world's top 100 AI apps from private firms by annual recurring revenue. Read full story

(Reuters) -Apple's streaming service resumed for users in the United States after a brief outage late Thursday, Apple's status page showed. Read full story

(Reuters) -Elon Musk's Starlink, a subsidiary of SpaceX, secured its largest direct-to-cell deal yet with telecoms group Veon, granting access to over 150 million potential customers, both companies said on Thursday, as competition in satellite-to-smartphone connectivity intensifies. Read full story

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Washington Post said it is among victims of a sweeping cyber breach tied to Oracle software. Read full story

BRUSSELS (Reuters) -SAP, Europe's largest software maker, is set to make a formal offer of concessions shortly to settle an EU antitrust investigation and stave off a possible hefty fine, people with direct knowledge of the matter said. Read full story

(Reuters) -Crypto giant Ripple supports the idea of a "skinny" Federal Reserve payments account for non-banks, which could still be a game changer while addressing banks' concerns over financial stability and competition risks, a top company executive said. Read full story

(Reuters) -Spain's data protection agency on Thursday said it had fined a person for sharing AI-generated sexual images of minors using real faces, in what Spanish media said was the first case in Europe of a financial penalty for this type of content. Read full story

PARIS (Reuters) -Global hedge funds' exposure to crypto markets is increasi

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -Microsoft is forming a new team that wants to build artificial intelligence that is vastly more capable than humans in certain domains, starting with medical diagnostics, the executive leading the effort told Reuters. Read full story

LONDON (Reuters) -Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey said on Thursday there could be an artificial intelligence-induced bubble in markets, notwithstanding the large productivity boost the technology would likely deliver. Read full story

(Reuters) -Datadog forecast fourth-quarter earnings above Wall Street estimates on Thursday, betting on strong demand for its cloud-security products from businesses adopting artificial intelligence technology. Read full story

(Reuters) -EPAM Systems raised its annual earnings forecast for the third time this year as businesses spend more to modernize their systems for artificial intelligence, sending shares of the IT consultancy firm 4% higher in premarket trading on Thursday. Read full story

Google Maps is heading in a new direction with artificial intelligence sitting in the passenger's seat. Read full story

(Reuters) -Indian education technology platform PhysicsWallah set a price band of 103-109 rupees per share for its initial public offering, targeting a valuation of 280.73 billion rupees ($3.19 billion) at the upper end, according to Reuters calculations. Read full story

BERLIN (Reuters) -U.S. tech giant Google plans to present its largest-ever investment plan for Germany next week, business news outlet Handelsblatt reported on Thursday. Read full story