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Four years after teaming up to launch a credit card, Apple (AAPL.O) is pulling the plug on its partnership with Goldman Sachs Group (GS.N). The tech giant recently sent a proposal to the Wall Street bank to exit the contract in the next 12 to 15 months, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. The exit would cover their entire consumer partnership, including the Apple Card and a high-yield savings account that the companies rolled out this year. The move

On Sunday, the United States, Britain, and more than a dozen other countries unveiled what a senior U.S. official described as the first detailed international agreement on how to keep artificial intelligence safe from rogue actors. The 18 countries agreed that companies designing and using AI need to develop and deploy it in a way that keeps customers and the public protected from misuse. The nonbinding document consists of 20 pages that outline guidelines and general recommendations. It calls for

A year after Bitcoin’s historic rally, the crypto-verse is enjoying a new lease on life. Amid the upswing is a new breed of “layer two tokens” — cryptocurrencies native to projects built on top of “layer 1” blockchains like Bitcoin and Ethereum. These solutions take blockchain scalability to the next level, enabling faster processing times and lower gas fees. This allows developers to focus on improving user experience and expanding the applications of the Blockchain — from Decentralized Finance (DeFi)

To say Elon Musk is an exciting guy would be a vast understatement. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO goes from brilliant to bozo and back again in a blink. It’s like watching a fast ping-pong match. But the billionaire’s latest effort, an AI-based on X (formerly known as Twitter) content called Grok, is one of his best to date. It will shake up the stultifyingly boring world of conversational AI. Designed by xAI, the company Musk founded in July after

Ubisoft has apologized after some Assassin’s Creed Odyssey console players encountered in-game pop-up ads for this year’s Assassin’s Creed Mirage as part of the company’s Black Friday Sale. Several Xbox and PlayStation gamers spotted the full-screen interruptions and reported them on Reddit. Per a video posted by Reddit user u/triddell24, the player was greeted with an advertisement when toggling open the world map, filling the screen with a dismissible banner for Assassin’s Creed Mirage, currently available at a 20 percent

Meta Platforms’ (META.O) shiny new bid to circumvent European privacy rules by offering a paid no-ads subscription has faced one of its most extensive tests. The company’s ad-free service for Facebook and Instagram launched in Europe this month. Still, on Tuesday, a privacy rights group filed a complaint with an Austrian regulator, saying it amounted to paying a fee to ensure privacy. Meta’s paid ad-free service is priced at 6 euros a month on the web and 8 euros a

On Sunday, the United States, Britain, and more than a dozen other countries unveiled what a senior U.S. official described as the first detailed international agreement on how to keep artificial intelligence safe from rogue actors. The agreement stresses the need for companies to create A.I. systems that are “secure by design,” with security measures built into systems from the start rather than added after the fact, as is often the case today. The 20-page document outlines general, nonbinding recommendations,

Four people familiar with the matter said that TikTok maker ByteDance plans to wind down its Nuverse gaming brand and retreat from mainstream video games. The sources said the Chinese technology firm would fire several hundred people, unwind projects under development, and consider selling existing gaming titles at its Shanghai-based Nuverse studio. The move reshapes ByteDance’s gaming operations and hands a victory to rival Tencent Holding Ltd. The sources said the company will tell staff to stop working on unreleased

Elon Musk-owned social media company X could lose as much as $75 million in advertising revenue by the end of the year as dozens of significant brands pause their marketing campaigns, the New York Times reported on Friday. Musk backing an antisemitic post on the platform last week has led several companies, including Walt Disney (DIS.N) and Warner Bros Discovery (WBD.O), to pause their advertisements on the site formerly called Twitter. The advertising freezes could hit X during its fourth

Foldable smartphones promise a tablet-sized screen in a smartphone-sized package, making them an attractive option for fans of compact gadgets. They could be better, though, and you should consider a few things before picking up your first one. Most foldables feature a hinge that allows them to open and close like a book. This mechanism is crucial, as it must withstand much stress and movement. That’s why manufacturers must use sophisticated design and materials to make it work. The result