Microsoft adds 'AI-generated stories' to its Bing search

According to the company, Bing will now craft AI-generated stories that provide you with multiple ways to consume "bite-sized information through text, images, video, and audio".

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Elon Musk puts $20 billion value on Twitter: report

The reported valuation is less than half of the $44 billion that Musk paid to acquire the social media platform, pointing to a drop in Twitter's value.

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ETtech in-depth: Cloud kitchens change flavours as pandemic-driven sheen fades away

Cloud kitchens, which boomed during the pandemic, are slowing down. They are busy redrawing their plans to adapt to the new reality

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Twitter offers new equity grants to staff: WSJ report

According to the report, the company plans to offer a liquidity event roughly a year from now, in which employees can cash out some of their equity.

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China denies pressuring companies like TikTok to spy for China

At a news conference, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson, Mao Ning, said China "has never and will not" ask companies or individuals to collect data stored in foreign countries in a way that violates those countries' laws.

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US Justice Department's Google advertising case gets fast-paced schedule

The faster pace of the litigation could put additional pressure on both sides, but particularly on Google in building its defense, based on what the company in a court filing called an "imbalance" in the proceedings.

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TikTok’s future hangs in balance amid possible US ban & other top tech stories this week

Earlier this week TikTok said it has more than 150 million monthly users (nearly half the population) in the US, up from 100 million just a year ago. However, the exponential growth of the short video platform comes at a time when it faces an existential crisis in the US as the Joe Biden administration seeks a ban or a potential sale of the platform to a local owner.

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