In Seoul, South Korea, on Tuesday, trainee doctors staged a collective walkout to intensify their protest against a government medical policy, resulting in the cancellation of surgeries and other medical procedures at hospitals.
Tech leaders, legislators, and civil society groups are increasingly alarmed by the potential for artificial intelligence to sow confusion and disrupt elections, with over half of the global population set to participate in voting this year. In response, a coalition of prominent tech companies has announced their collaboration to tackle this threat.
X, previously known as Twitter, has at last compensated the employees it terminated at its African headquarters over a year after their dismissal, according to the agency representing them.
Campaigners have revealed that X, formerly Twitter, extended subscription benefits to designated terrorist groups and other entities prohibited from operating in the US.
The South Korean president's office has confirmed to the BBC that North Korea infiltrated the personal emails of an aide ahead of President Yoon Suk Yeol's state visit to the UK last November.
On Wednesday, TikTok, the social media platform owned by ByteDance, announced its intensified efforts to combat fake news and covert influence campaigns leading up to the European Parliament elections in June. This initiative involves launching local language apps across all 27 countries. TikTok noted that these dedicated "election centers" in individual languages expand upon its initiatives initiated in 2021, which gained momentum during last year's elections in Greece, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, and Spain.
One year after its debut in Super Bowl advertising, Temu, an online shopping platform backed by Chinese investors, is intensifying its focus on its most crucial market. The Boston-headquartered company, owned by PDD (Pinduoduo), a prominent Chinese online shopping conglomerate, is doubling down with a second advertisement during America's premier event and offering $15 million in coupons and giveaways.
Sources have revealed that Founders Fund, the venture capital firm established by billionaire Peter Thiel, is once again allocating investments into bitcoin and ether, indicating a resurgence of interest in cryptocurrency markets within Silicon Valley. Between late summer and early fall of the previous year, the fund directed $200 million towards acquiring crypto tokens, with an even split between bitcoin and ether, as disclosed by two individuals familiar with the situation to Reuters.
Google has committed 25 million euros ($26.98 million) toward aiding Europeans in acquiring skills in artificial intelligence (AI).
UK journalist Clare Rewcastle Brown believes her defamation sentence in Malaysia is an act of "political revenge" linked to her investigation of the 1MDB corruption scandal.