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Black Friday generated a record $9.8 billion in US online sales, up 7.5% from a year ago. According to Adobe Analytics, mobile shopping accounted for $5.3 billion in online sales.

Neuralink has raised an additional $43 million in venture capital, according to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Sam Altman’s firing at OpenAI was steeped in just the kind of opacity that’s troubling policymakers around the world about the ongoing rush to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and makes them worry if companies can be trusted to regulate themselves and their research.

WhatsApp is reportedly working on a new feature that will display profile information within users' conversations under the contact name on Android.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk-run X could lose as much as $75 million in advertising revenue by the end of the year as dozens of major brands pull out their marketing campaigns after the tech billionaire endorsed an antisemitic conspiracy theory this month, the media reported.

Spotify said it will phase out its service in Uruguay after the passing of a new music copyright bill requiring "fair and equitable remuneration" for authors, composers, performers, directors, and screenwriters.

Some super-spreaders of misinformation on X, who are verified premium users with blue badges, are sharing Elon Musk’s ads revenue even after making conspiratorial claims about the Israel-Hamas war, a new report has revealed.

Automotive technology company Valeo has sued graphics chip giant Nvidia after a video call screen-sharing between the two companies showed 'stolen' data from Valeo, accusing Nvidia of having saved hundreds of millions of dollars from those “stolen trade secrets”.

A secret AI project named 'Q' (pronounced Q-Star) at OpenAI that could threaten humanity may have been the reason behind Sam Altman's ouster as CEO of the ChatGPT-developing company.

Bankrupt crypto lending platform Genesis has sued cryptocurrency exchange Gemini to recover $689 million.

Facebook allegedly approved several ads calling for violence against Palestinians, some even calling for the murder of Palestinian civilians and activists, a report has claimed.

Bard, Google's large language model, has gained the ability to watch YouTube videos.

US-based hardware company Broadcom on Wednesday completed its $69 billion acquisition of desktop virtualization software provider VMware, after receiving regulatory approval in China.

Nearly 95 percent of all Internet users are now on various social media platforms, 4 percent more than last year, a report showed on Wednesday.

AMD on Wednesday extended PyTorch (a machine learning framework) and ROCm (open software platform) support to Radeon RX 7900 XT GPUs to bring even more options for artificial intelligence (AI) developers and researchers.

OpenAI president and co-founder Greg Brockman on Wednesday shared a picture with his team on X after he and Sam Altman returned to the ChatGPT developing company.

YouTube has said that viewers with ad-blockers installed might experience "suboptimal viewing", no matter what browser they are using.

Sam Altman will return as CEO of OpenAI, overcoming an attempted boardroom coup that sent the company into chaos over the past several days. Former president Greg Brockman, who quit in protest of Altman’s firing, will return as well.

Microsoft on Tuesday said it will match OpenAI’s compensation to employees who want to join Sam Altman’s new advanced AI research lab at Satya Nadella-run tech giant.