Court blocks key part of California law on children’s online safety

A U.S. appeals court on Friday left intact a key part of an injunction blocking a California law meant to shield children from online content that could harm them mentally or physically.

A U.S. judge on Friday temporarily blocked the launch of a new sports streaming service backed by three media giants, Walt Disney , Fox and Warner Bros Discovery , which aims to capture younger sports fans who do not watch games on TV.

Bitcoin, the world’s biggest and best-known cryptocurrency, rose 5.17% to $59,609 at 2013 GMT on Friday.

OpenAI said on Friday it had taken down accounts of an Iranian group for using its ChatGPT chatbot to generate content meant for influencing the U.S. presidential election and other issues.

Investment firms TA Associates and Silversmith Capital Partners are exploring options including the sale of a stake in Appfire, in a deal that could value the collaboration software maker they own at more than $2 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.

Britain’s Prince Harry urged caution over artificial intelligence and talked of social media as divisive during a panel in Colombia’s capital Bogota alongside his wife Meghan and the Andean country’s Vice President Francia Marquez.

S&P lowered its outlook on Warner Bros Discovery to “negative” from “stable”, citing declines in the media company’s cable TV business that could worsen with the potential loss of broadcast rights for the National Basketball Association games.

TikTok told a federal appeals court on Thursday that the U.S. Department of Justice has misstated the social media app’s ties to China, urging the court to overturn a law requiring China-based ByteDance to sell TikTok’s U.S. assets or face a ban.

Rivian has temporarily suspended production of its commercial delivery vans used by retail giant Amazon.com due to a shortage of parts, a spokesperson for the electric vehicle manufacturer said on Friday.

China will impose export controls on some antimony products from Sept. 15, it said on Thursday, citing national security, adding to measures imposed by Beijing since last year to curb shipments of strategic minerals.

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