China’s first response to the tariffs from U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration will focus on bringing back the “Phase 1” trade deal that was signed in 2020. This information comes from the Wall Street Journal, which cited sources. China’s plan includes promises not to lower the value of the yuan, to spend more in the U.S., and to cut down on exports of fentanyl ingredients, as reported by the WSJ. On Saturday, Trump placed a 25% tax on imports from Mexico and most Canadian products, and a 10% tax on goods from China. This was in response to issues related…
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Even though the show started four years ago, Your Honour keeps winning. The first season of the exciting crime thriller on Showtime, which starred Bryan Cranston of Breaking Bad, was a big hit. The show was originally planned as a limited series, but it was brought back for a successful second season that started in 2023. This was done after the idea inspired other artists in different parts of the world, leading to the creation of several remakes. The show was just added to Netflix, and every time it has been on, it has won. The most watched show was…
Karla SofĂa GascĂłn, known for her role in “Emilia PĂ©rez” and as an Oscar nominee, has apologized after old social media posts with controversial opinions about Muslims, George Floyd, and diversity at the Oscars came to light this week. “I want to recognize the discussion about my previous social media posts that have caused pain,” she said in a statement to Variety. “As a person from a marginalized community, I understand this pain very well, and I sincerely apologize to anyone I have hurt.” I have spent my whole life working for a better world. I believe that light will…
Nvidia stock is struggling as it falls below an important point for the first time since January 2023. Shares of the graphics card company dropped 16% this week after investors became worried about a new AI model from the Chinese startup DeepSeek. The drop caused Nvidia to lose almost $600 billion in value in just one day, bringing the stock down to its 200-day average price. That threshold is a closely watched technical sign that helps identify the long-term direction of a trend. When stock prices drop below their 200-day moving average, it signals to buyers that the upward trend…
Apple’s AI tool, Apple Intelligence, will soon be offered in French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, and simplified Chinese. It will also have special English versions for India and Singapore. In the company’s Q4 2024 results call on Thursday, CEO Tim Cook announced that support for more languages will begin in April. Last year, Apple Intelligence’s first version only supported U.S. English. Later, in December, when the company released the iOS 18.2 update, it included support for English in Australian, Canadian, New Zealand, South African, and U.K. localizations. The company has not announced plans to launch its AI products…
Tigress Financial has changed its rating for Nvidia (NVDA) to Strong Buy and increased its price target for the next year to $220. They believe Nvidia’s strong position in artificial intelligence will drive its revenue growth. Alert! GuruFocus has found 3 warning signs with NVDA. In a study for investors, analyst Ivan Feinseth said that Nvidia is a top company benefiting from the rising investments in artificial intelligence. Nvidia’s stock price has more than tripled in the past year because many industries, including cloud computing, cars, and healthcare, are quickly adopting AI solutions. The company based in Santa Clara, California…
Investors are getting ready for Meta’s fourth-quarter earnings report, which will come out after the market closes on Wednesday. This news comes during a tough week for tech stocks. The main company of Facebook may face more attention this quarter after a big drop in the tech industry on Monday, caused by a new AI model that disrupted the positive trends in the US stock market. On Monday, Meta’s stock fell by as much as 3% because of a larger market decline caused by DeepSeek, an AI app from a Chinese company that has surprised US investors about technology. The…
The Chinese AI lab DeepSeek’s Android app has reached the number one position on the Google Play Store, just a few days after its robot app became the top app on the Apple App Store. Since its launch in mid-January, the DeepSeek app has been downloaded more than 1.2 million times on the Play Store and over 1.9 million times on the App Store globally, according to AppFigures, a company that tracks app data. The number of installs might actually be higher because DeepSeek shows that it has over 5 million downloads on the Play Store. DeepSeek’s quick climb in…
Ben & Jerry’s is suing its parent company, Unilever, and has named President Donald Trump along with billionaires Elon Musk and Nelson Peltz in the case. Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Inc. filed a lawsuit against Unilever and its company, Conopco, in the US Southern District of New York in November. In its first complaint, Ben & Jerry’s claimed that Unilever stopped it from expressing support for Palestinians. The company stated this violated a settlement deal and hindered its ability to achieve its social goals. The complaint stated that Unilever has repeatedly ignored the Independent Board’s main role in overseeing Ben…
On Sunday, Donald Trump announced that he had won a foreign policy battle by using tariffs and strong measures, after Colombia agreed to change its position regarding planes for returning migrants. The president had previously announced strong and severe punishments, including heavy tariffs, against a US partner. This was his most obvious effort to teach a lesson to a nation that went against him and to show his power in the Western Hemisphere. The situation began when Colombian President Gustavo Petro stopped US military flights that were bringing undocumented migrants from landing. This created a problem for a large deportation…
A Chinese AI company, competing with ChatGPT, is becoming popular in Silicon Valley as it quickly grows and almost beats top American AI firms like OpenAI and Meta. DeepSeek is a Chinese AI business that makes open-source large language models (LLMs), according to its website. The company introduced R1, a specific model for handling difficult problems, on January 20. It quickly ranked in the global top 10 for performance and was built much faster and cheaper than other U.S. models, using fewer and less powerful AI chips, according to the Wall Street Journal. The latest version of the app was…
Fifteen years after playing Mark Zuckerberg in “The Social Network,” actor Jesse Eisenberg is sharing his honest views on what the Meta CEO is doing now. Eisenberg talked on NPR’s “Fresh Air” show on Tuesday. He expressed his sadness about Zuckerberg’s choice to get rid of the fact-checking system on Meta’s platforms, like Facebook and Instagram. As an actor, your role is to really get to know your character, even if they are a bad guy in the movie. “Your role is to protect your character, correct?” he said. “I thought a lot about this guy and how he felt…
A large number of government papers that have been kept secret and relate to important and controversial killings in American history, including the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy, might soon be opened to the public. This is just the beginning of the latest story about the killings, which have captured people’s attention, led to conspiracy theories, and sparked important discussions for many years. President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday aimed at declassifying government records related to the murders of former President John F. Kennedy, his brother and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, and civil rights icon…
U.S. officials have charged five people for their suspected roles in a plan where North Korean IT workers got remote jobs with many American companies over several years. On Thursday, the Department of Justice revealed that they have charged North Korean citizens Jin Sung-Il and Pak Jin-Song, Mexican citizen Pedro Ernesto Alonso De Los Reyes, and U.S. citizens Erick Ntekereze Prince and Emanuel Ashtor. The Department of Justice announced that the FBI arrested Ntekereze and Ashtor. A check of Ashtor’s home in North Carolina uncovered a “laptop farm” that contained company laptops. This was used to trick organizations into believing…
The U.K.âs Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has a new temporary chairman: Doug Gurr, who used to work at Amazon. The news comes as the U.K. aims to be a country that supports growth and technology by reducing rules and regulations, with a focus on artificial intelligence (AI). The country is also nearing the end of a long investigation into the domestic cloud services market that had Amazon fully in the CMAâs crosshairs. In its release on Tuesday, the government highlighted Gurr’s experience at Amazon to help âboost growth and support the economy,â saying that he will bring valuable knowledge…
Indonesia’s antitrust agency, KPPU, fined Google 202.5 billion Rupiahs, which is about $12.6 million, on Wednesday. This fine was for breaking antitrust laws regarding its payment method for the Google Play Store. The KPPU told Google to stop requiring users to use Google Play Billing in the Google Play Store. It also requested that Google allow all developers to join the User Choice Billing (UCB) program and provide them with a 5% discount on service fees for a year after the choice is made, according to its statement. In 2022, the antitrust agency began looking into Google because of its…
OpenAI plans to work with Japanese company SoftBank and Oracle, among others, to create several AI data centers in the U.S. The Stargate Project, a joint effort, will start with a big data center in Texas and will later grow to include other states. The companies plan to invest $100 billion in Stargate at first and up to $500 billion in the next four years. They claim it will create hundreds of thousands of jobs and maintain America’s advantage in AI. “The Stargate Project is a new company that plans to create new AI systems for OpenAI in the United…
With help from Mert Ozkan and Huseyin Hayatsever KARTALKAYA, Turkey (Reuters) – On Tuesday, a fire at a hotel at a ski area in Turkey’s Bolu mountains killed 66 people. In the middle of the night, guests were so scared they had to jump out of windows. Ali Yerlikaya, the Interior Minister, said at the Kartalkaya ski area in northwest Turkey that 51 people were also hurt. Authorities say the fire started on the kitchen floor of the 12-story Grand Kartal Hotel around 3:30 a.m. (00:30 GMT). A group of fire trucks and ambulances circled the burned-out building with a…
Black Eyed Peas have canceled their stop in Las Vegas, which was set to begin on February 15 at PH Live at Planet Hollywood. For months, rumors have been going around online that the residency was sold for less than it was worth. However, the group, which includes Will.i.am, Apl.de.ap, and Taboo, said on social media that the cancellation was because of “current circumstances.” The group wrote on Instagram Stories, “To our dearest Peabodies: It is with a heavy heart that we must inform you that our Las Vegas shows will not be proceeding as planned due to current events.”…
Elon Muskâs hand gesture during a celebration for President Donald Trumpâs inauguration sparked online comparisons to a Nazi salute. However, a leading antisemitism watchdog dismissed the speculation, calling it a display of enthusiasm rather than a deliberate signal. The billionaire dismissed the backlash as a “tired” smear campaign. Musk’s Stage Appearance and Gesture Addressing a crowd at Washington’s Capital One Arena, Musk received thunderous applause, enthusiastically pumping his arms and shouting âYesssss.â In his speech, Musk called the event a pivotal moment: âThis was no ordinary victory. This was a fork in the road of human civilization. This one really…
The cryptocurrency world buzzed with excitement over the weekend as Donald Trumpâs memecoin, $TRUMP, exploded in value, only to take a hit after his wife, Melania Trump, launched her own competing token. The $TRUMP coin got off to a roaring start on Friday, climbing from $6 to an impressive $75 and pushing its market cap past $14 billion, according to Coinbase. Backed by Trumpâs family business, the coinâs meteoric rise was met with criticism, with skeptics accusing the former president of capitalizing on his supporters for financial gain. Melania Joins the Fray with $MELANIA The crypto drama escalated on Sunday…
On Monday, Jan. 20, Donald Trump will take the oath of office again in front of the Capitol building in Washington, D.C. The event starts at noon ET and both fans and opponents are likely to pay a lot of attention to it. What To Look Forward To On January 20, 2025 There will likely be a lot of people at the next event, since Akamai’s previous hosting of Donald Trump’s inauguration in 2017 was the biggest live news event they had ever done. Even though the guest list isn’t official yet, Joe Biden, members of Congress, the Supreme Court,…
Since TikTok’s future in the U.S. is unclear, it seems like the big social networks are working extra hard to add features that will make millions of people want to switch: Bluesky said on Sunday that its app will soon have a custom feed for vertical movies. You can now find popular videos in Bluesky’s mobile app’s Explore tab. You can swipe up to see more videos, just like in any other short video app. You can pin the feed to your home screen or add it to your list of feeds. “We had to join the video fun tooâBluesky…
By adding a vertical video feed, social network X is hoping to make money off of the fact that ByteDance apps like TikTok and Lemon8 are no longer available in U.S. app stores. For people in the U.S., the company is adding a video tab to the app’s bottom bar so they can quickly find videos on the site. In a post on Sunday, the company said, “An immersive new home for videos is rolling out to users in the US today.” X users can already scroll up and down through short movies by tapping on a video in the…
In Washington, D.C., In his farewell message to the country on Wednesday, President Joe Biden said that the United States was becoming a “oligarchy” of tech billionaires. But what does an autocracy really mean? What does an oligarchy mean? To put it simply, an oligarchy is a small group of people who control what the government does. It was very mean of Biden to use the word “oligarchy” to compare the current situationâwhen the richest men in the world are supporting President-elect Donald Trumpâwith some of the worst governments in history. Next week, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, will co-host…
Thursday was SpaceX’s seventh test flight of its huge Super Heavy-Starship giant rocket. The company was able to “catch” the first stage booster back at its firing stand, but it lost its new-generation Starship upper stage spacecraft, which apparently broke apart on its way to space. Federal officials say that falling pieces of the destroyed Starship temporarily slowed down flights leaving Miami, Florida. After the launch, eight minutes and 27 seconds, the Starship’s telemetry stopped working because the engines stopped working or shut down without warning. Later, SpaceX stated that the ship had been destroyed in a post on X…
Chinese apps like Xiaohongshu (RedNote) have become more popular in the U.S. because TikTok users don’t want the government to ban the popular app because of national security worries. Today, just days before the US ban on the popular app TikTok goes into effect, more American users have downloaded apps from China that are similar to TikTok. But it’s still not clear if any of these Mandarin apps will really take the place of TikTok, which has 170 million users in the US. It was the most downloaded free app in the U.S. Apple Store this week, and it was…
China-Over 500,000 TikTok users have recently joined the Chinese social media app RedNote to protest what they see as an impending ban on the short video app in the US. This has brought RedNote a lot of attention. In China, the platform is called “Xiaohongshu” and is a famous lifestyle app where people share their stories and give advice. A few things about the app are shown below: WHAT DOES THIS APP DO? RedNote is often thought of as Instagram that has been tweaked to work better in China. “Little Red Book” is what its Chinese name, Xiaohongshu, means in…
It looks like it doesn’t end with them. The legal battle between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni is still having an effect on other people in the entertainment business. The latest big names to get involved are Marvel president Kevin Feige, Disney CEO Bob Iger, and director Tim Miller. The lawyer for Baldoni, Bryan Freedman, sent Feige and Iger a letter putting a hold on the case on January 7 because of his client’s “anticipated claims” against Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, and other unknown parties. Variety has seen a copy of the letter, which tells the company to keep all…
Mark Zuckerberg told Meta employees on Tuesday that the company would be letting go of “extensive” low-performing workers. This would affect about 5% of the company’s staff. For some employees, the layoffs made them wonder how their work would be judged and raised morale worries. Business Insider saw that employees wrote about their feelings on a private message board. A lot of people asked what the changes would mean in real life. Some workers wanted Meta to raise its standards, but others wanted more information about the process, especially since Meta is getting rid of third-party fact-checkers and rolling back…
The Competition and Markets Authority, which is the U.K.’s antitrust watchdog, is starting its first official review of 2025 right away. This is because its new rules went into effect this month. Google is the market leader in Search, and it’s looking into what it could do to make the competition stronger. This includes Google’s new work in AI search and its huge search advertising business. People who want to speak on the investigation have until February 3 to do so. Because of its new rules, the CMA plans to look into Big Tech twice this month. Keep an eye…
TikTok has said that the app will be shut down in six days because the Supreme Court is currently considering a law that would ban it. So we thought it was time to check out some other apps that might be able to fill the TikTok-shaped hole in our lives. TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, has until January 19 to get rid of its operations in the U.S., or it will be banned in the country. TikTok is hoping that the rule will be put on hold, but if it doesn’t, the app will be banned in the country. While there…
The Department of Transportation announced on Friday that 49 applicants will receive another $636 million in funding for charging infrastructure for electric vehicles. Unfortunately, Tesla’s application for nearly $100 million to fund a charging route for big trucks was once again turned down. While the list of winners was made public, Tesla’s name was not on it. The company’s partner on the project, California’s South Coast Air Quality Management District, told Parhlo World that Tesla had applied for this round. Tesla has had a hard time getting its electric big rig program up and running, which is why they turned…
Mastodon, a decentralised social network, announced on Monday that it is going to set up a new non-profit organisation in Europe and give ownership of key Mastodon ecosystem and platform components to that organisation. This means that the project won’t be run by just one person. The group is trying to set itself apart from social networks run by CEOs like Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk. Eugen Rochko, who is currently CEO and creator of Mastodon, will hand over some management duties to the new organisation and focus on the product strategy. The exact terms of this deal have not…
President-elect Donald Trump is getting a lot of bad press after one of his top advisors seemed to back out of a big campaign promise. A lot of times, Trump has said that he would end the war between Russia and Ukraine within 24 hours or even sooner. But Trump chose retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg to be his special envoy to the two countries. Last week, he told Fox News that it would take longer, repeating what Trump had said earlier. He said, “Let’s set it at 100 days, go back, and figure out a way we can do…
Meta There has been a fight between CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Apple for a long time. In a new talk with Joe Rogan, he made fun of Apple again. The CEO said that Apple hasn’t come up with any new ideas in a while and didn’t like the ecosystem that the iPhone maker created. Mark Zuckerberg is aiming his gun at Apple again. In an interview on the “Joe Rogan Experience” show that came out on Friday, the CEO of Meta talked about some problems he has with Apple. This is the latest in a ten-year battle between the two…
Tesla has shown off a brand-new Model Y for China and other Asian-Pacific markets. This is the first big change to the SUV since it came out in 2020. The redesign comes at a time when Tesla delivered fewer cars in 2024 than it did in 2023. It was the first drop from one year to the next since the company began selling mass-market cars in 2012. In China and some nearby countries, the new Model Y could start shipping as early as March. It’s not yet clear when Tesla will bring this version to the U.S. and Europe. It…
At CES 2025, Nvidia showed off a prototype AI avatar that lives on your PC’s screen. R2X is an AI assistant that looks like a figure from a video game. It can help you find your way around in computer apps. The Nvidia AI models are used to render and animate the R2X image. Users can run the avatar on any popular LLM, like OpenAI’s GPT-4o or xAI’s Grok. People can text or talk to R2X, send it files to be processed, or even let the AI assistant see what’s going on your screen or camera in real time. Recently,…
X said today that it will now label profiles that are parodies or comedy to make them stand out from other accounts. People, including newsreaders, have in the past thought that posts from fake accounts were real comments made by real people or organisations. X said that the label would show up on posts and users alike. “We’re adding profile labels to parody accounts so that it’s easy to tell them apart from other accounts and their content on our platform.” It said in a post, “We made these labels to make things clearer and to make sure that users…
Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, is trying an iOS app that can be used by anyone for its chatbot Grok. Until now, only X users could use Grok. The app is now available in several countries, such as the U.S., Australia, and India. It can receive real-time data from the web and X and has generative AI features that let it rewrite text, summarize long paragraphs, do some Q&A, and even make images from text prompts. “Grok is an AI-powered assistant that is meant to be as honest, helpful, and interested as possible.” The listing says, “Get answers to any…