Meta Names Ex-Epic Executive to Run Reality Labs, Shifting Focus
Meta Platforms has picked a video-game veteran to run its money-losing virtual reality division, a leadership change that signals a quieter strategy for the unit once seen as the company’s…
Britain Rules Website Owners Can Block Google From Training AI on Their Content
LONDON — For years, the default assumption inside the AI industry was that anything posted publicly on the internet was fair game for training models. A British regulatory ruling this…
Singapore Court Clears Path to Extradite Tycoon in Indonesia’s E-ID Graft Case
SINGAPORE — The defendant is 71 years old, holds passports from several countries, and has spent the past two years fighting with every legal tool available. This week, Singapore’s High…
Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra Puts an NVIDIA Chip at Its Core
Microsoft’s Surface line has never been known for bold chip bets, and its one previous attempt to pair a Microsoft laptop with an NVIDIA processor ended in quiet retreat. That…
AI Agents Are Outgrowing the Permissions Their Employers Gave Them
The scenario plays out in enterprise security teams with growing frequency. A company deploys an AI agent to help employees draft emails, update customer records and summarize documents. The agent…
Microsoft Backs Down After Threatening a Security Researcher
The statement was short, and the reversal was total. On June 1, Microsoft said it has no intention of pursuing legal action against individuals who conduct or publish security research,…
GitHub’s New Copilot Billing Has Developers Doing the Math
The change went live at midnight UTC, and by morning the developer forums were full of arithmetic. GitHub switched Copilot from a flat-rate subscription model to token-based billing on June…
Meta Quietly Releases Forum, a Reddit-Style Home for Facebook Groups
The app appeared in app stores with no announcement, no press release and no fanfare. Its name is Forum, and it is Meta’s answer to a question the company has…
NetEase’s Games Business Keeps Delivering
The number that stood out in NetEase’s first-quarter report wasn’t the headline revenue. It was where the money came from. The Chinese internet company said Thursday that net revenue rose…
Bilibili Posts Quarterly Profit as Advertising Powers Growth
Bilibili closed its Hong Kong shares up more than 3.6% on Tuesday at HK$156, giving the company a market value of HK$66.35 billion, before the Chinese video platform published first-quarter…
