A viral app that helps people check if their friends are alive sparks discussions about loneliness in China

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A viral app in China that checks if users are alive is sparking frank conversations about loneliness and isolation.

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Meta shakes up its review system with 'stronger rewards for top performers'

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

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Meta is planning layoffs in its Reality Labs unit as it prepares for its 'most important' meeting of the year

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Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth, who heads the Reality Labs unit.

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Anthropic and OpenAI are crawling the web even more and not giving much back

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A venomous Phormictopus antillensis spider crawls on a keyboard

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Mark Zuckerberg says Meta will build 'hundreds of gigawatts' of AI capacity over time

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

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Meta's new president is a former Trump advisor — 3 things to know about Dina Powell McCormick

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Dina Powell McCormick is Meta's new president and vice chairman.

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Your Siri is about to be powered by Google's AI

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Apple and Alphabet have reached a big AI deal.

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Marc Andreessen says being controversial gives his VC firm an 'incredible competitive advantage'

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Marc Andreessen said that founders want to work with investors who are "brave."

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Malaysia joins Indonesia in suspending Elon Musk's Grok over nonconsensual sexualized AI images

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Indonesia has temporarily suspended access to Grok.

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McKinsey CEO Bob Sternfels says the firm now has 60,000 employees: 25,000 of them are AI agents

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McKinsey global managing partner, Bob Sternfels, makes a statement to the US Senate on the firm's work with Saudi Arabia, February 2024.

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