Instagram and YouTube Prepare to Benefit if TikTok Is Banned

On Wednesday afternoon, executives at Meta held a Q&A session with some of its employees about the state of American politics. Alex Schultz, the chief marketing officer, addressed questions about Meta’s embrace of the incoming Trump administration and what he said was the company’s precarious standing overseas, according to two attendees. He also said that…

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Spain Overhauls Domestic Violence System After Criticism

The Spanish government this week announced a major overhaul to a program in which police rely on an algorithm to identify potential repeat victims of domestic violence, after officials faced questions about the system’s effectiveness. The program, VioGén, requires police officers to ask a victim a series of questions. Answers are entered into a software…

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Apple Plans to Disable A.I. Summaries of News Notifications

Less than six months after rolling out a series of artificial intelligence features, Apple is disabling one of its signature capabilities: aggregating and summarizing news notifications. The company revealed the change on Thursday in a software update for developers. It follows an outcry from British media outlets that Apple’s software was misrepresenting news reports. In…

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A First-Day Trump Order: A Federal Stockpile of Bitcoin?

A pair of 50-page policy proposals laying out the plan in detail. Discussions about the specifics with President-elect Donald J. Trump and his advisers. And talks with cabinet nominees about how to pay for it. On the eve of Mr. Trump’s inauguration, the cryptocurrency industry is pushing his incoming administration to execute an audacious plan…

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On TikTok, Users Mock Looming U.S. Ban

Over the last week, the videos started appearing on TikTok from users across the United States. They all made fun of the same thing: how the app’s ties to China made it a national security threat. Many implied that their TikTok accounts had each been assigned an agent of the Chinese government to spy on…

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