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South Korea says it will pursue all options to avoid Samsung strike
SEOUL, May 17 (Reuters) - South Korea will pursue all options, including emergency arbitration, to avoid a labour strike at the country's biggest employer Samsung Electronics and to minimise any damage if one does occur, its prime minister said on Sunday.
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Social media
Instagram users can turn off new feature if send photos by mistake
Instagram has introduced a new feature called Instants, which lets you share photos that disappear after being sent to selected contacts right after you take them.
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Social media
X pledges crackdown on illegal content in UK
Elon Musk's X has committed to cracking down on illegal content to protect UK users, Britain's media regulator said Friday, as it steps up pressure on social media platforms.
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AI
The clever Claude productivity hacks that these founders can’t live without
You can use Claude Cowork to create an AI chief of staff, or even a 'promise layer' to hold yourself accountable to commitments you've made.
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Social media
Snap, YouTube, TikTok settle school suit targeting social media
Snap Inc, Google's YouTube and ByteDance Ltd's TikTok reached agreements to settle the first lawsuit headed to trial over claims that addiction to top social media platforms has disrupted learning and pushed public schools to spend massive sums fighting a mental health crisis, according to court filings.
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Technology
BlackRock weighs multibillion-dollar investment in SpaceX IPO, the Information reports
May 16 (Reuters) - BlackRock has discussed investing $5 billion to $10 billion in SpaceX's initial public offering next month, the Information news outlet reported on Saturday, citing people familiar with the matter.
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Technology
OpenAI seals deal in Malta to give all Maltese access to ChatGPT Plus
May 16 (Reuters) - U.S. artificial intelligence company OpenAI said on Saturday it had signed a deal with the government of Malta to give all residents access to its ChatGPT Plus service for one year after they follow a course on how to use AI.
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Technology
Bill Ackman says Alphabet stake sale not a bet against the company
May 16 (Reuters) - Billionaire investor Bill Ackman said on Saturday that the sale of Google parent Alphabet's shares was not a bet against the company.
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Technology
Samsung Elec, South Korea union to resume pay talks on Monday, union says
SEOUL, May 16 (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics and its South Korean labour union will resume pay talks on Monday with a government mediator, the union said, in a move that could ease concerns over a potentially disruptive strike at the tech giant.
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AI
Trump says he discussed AI guardrails, Nvidia’s chips with Xi
US President Donald Trump said he discussed guardrails on artificial intelligence with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, while adding that Nvidia Corp's H200 chips also came up during a two-day summit in Beijing.
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AI
Notable researchers join US$4bil effort to build self-improving AI
Recursive Superintelligence, founded by former Google, Meta and OpenAI researchers, is part of a growing effort to automate the creation of artificial intelligence.
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Cybersecurity
AI-hacking threat pushes US$130bil crypto sector to the brink
The crypto hacks came a little over two weeks apart in April, netting the attackers almost US$600mil (RM2.3bil) in total while triggering an investor exodus from one major platform and causing another to fail.
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Technology
YouTube, Snap and TikTok settle school district's social media addiction claims
May 15 (Reuters) - Alphabet's YouTube, Snap and TikTok have reached settlements in the first case set for trial in litigation seeking to force social media platforms to cover the costs school districts incur to combat a youth mental health crisis they say the companies fueled.
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Technology
Ackman, Loeb take different routes on tech bets in early 2026
NEW YORK, May 15 (Reuters) - Two of Wall Street's most closely watched billionaire stock pickers, both once voluble activist investors, took opposite tacks this year when Bill Ackman bet on Microsoft and exited Google parent Alphabet and Daniel Loeb did the opposite.
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AI
After deaths, lawsuits against AI companies test a new strategy
The cases seek to use consumer product safety laws to rein in chatbot companies.
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Technology
Arm Holdings to face US antitrust probe over chip tech, Bloomberg News reports
May 15 (Reuters) - Arm Holdings faces an antitrust probe by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission over the British chip designer's licensing of its semiconductor technology, part of global scrutiny of the business, Bloomberg News reported on Friday.
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Technology
Exclusive-SpaceX accelerates IPO timeline, targets June 12 listing on Nasdaq, sources say
NEW YORK, May 15 (Reuters) - Elon Musk's rocket and satellite maker SpaceX is aiming to list its shares as early as June 12 and has picked the Nasdaq as the trading venue for its blockbuster market debut, people familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday.
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Technology
Institutional investors boosted holdings of AI infrastructure plays during first quarter
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, May 15 (Reuters) - Institutional investors were eager buyers of stocks in companies whose fate hinges on the rollout and adoption of artificial intelligence during the first quarter of 2026, according to a Reuters overview of filings by nearly 6,000 hedge funds, pension funds, college endowments and other asset managers with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Technology
UK firms should take steps to limit risks from frontier AI models, UK says
LONDON, May 15 (Reuters) - British companies should take steps to plan for and mitigate risks from new artificial intelligence models, the country's finance ministry, the Bank of England and the Financial Conduct Authority regulator said on Friday.
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Technology
Tech CEOs invited to US Capitol to testify about children's online safety
May 15 (Reuters) - The CEOs of Meta, Alphabet, TikTok and Snap have been invited back to Capitol Hill to answer questions from U.S. lawmakers about children's online safety, according to a Senate aide.
