YouTube slowdown in Russia darkens freedom of speech outlook

As Moscow has suppressed independent, Russian-language media, YouTube has remained a bastion of online freedom of expression, giving opposition figures a platform to air their views. Now, YouTube in Russia is living on borrowed time.

Google is facing a bigger threat from Sam Altman’s OpenAI even as it awaits a decision on how antitrust regulators in Washington plan to level the playing field in the internet search business.

China’s electric vehicle (EV) giant BYD on Thursday launched a new version of its Seal EV, the company’s first model equipped with lidar sensors.

Cloud monitoring firm Datadog raised its annual revenue and profit forecasts on Thursday, after beating second-quarter estimates on rising demand for artificial intelligence-powered cybersecurity services.

Turkey has blocked access to the popular video game platform Roblox over concerns about content that could lead to child abuse, the country’s justice minister said.

Turkey has blocked access to the popular video game platform Roblox over concerns about content that could lead to child abuse, the country’s justice minister said.

Britain’s competition watchdog said on Thursday it had started an investigation into whether Amazon’s partnership with AI startup Anthropic raised competition, days after it began a similar probe on Alphabet’s collaboration with the startup.

Palantir Technologies said on Thursday it will offer its products, including the Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP) on Microsoft’s cloud platforms, which cater to the U.S. government and federal agencies such as the Department of Defense.

EPAM Systems beat quarterly profit and revenue estimates on Thursday, helped by strong demand for its IT services as businesses are increasingly digitizing their operations.

Shares of Warner Bros Discovery plunged more than 11% on Thursday after a $9.1 billion write-down of the media giant’s TV assets sparked doubts about its broadcasting business.

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