By Doyinsola Oladipo NEW YORK (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc is partnering with travel booking site Priceline to offer discounts during Tuesday’s Prime Day, the first time an online travel agency has participated in the shopping event. Retail spending has slowed, but U.S. consumers have kept spending on experiences like travel. Amazon is broadening its offerings…
By Jack Queen (Reuters) – Comedian Sarah Silverman and two authors have filed copyright infringement lawsuits against Meta Platforms and OpenAI for allegedly using their content without permission to train artificial intelligence language models. The proposed class action lawsuits filed by Silverman, Richard Kadrey and Christopher Golden in San Francisco federal court Friday allege Facebook…
(This July 5 story has been corrected to fix the director’s name in paragraph 3) By Rachel Nostrant NEW YORK (Reuters) – Four shark attacks were reported off the coast of New York’s Long Island over the holiday weekend, extending a recent spike in such encounters in state waters, but authorities said the victims suffered…
By Katie Paul NEW YORK (Reuters) -Mark Zuckerberg has pitched Meta’s Twitter copycat app, Threads, as a “friendly” refuge for public discourse online, framing it in sharp distinction to the more adversarial Twitter which is owned by billionaire Elon Musk. “We are definitely focusing on kindness and making this a friendly place,” Meta CEO Zuckerberg…
By Clare Jim HONG KONG (Reuters) -For most young adults, moving out of home is a rite of passage but in Hong Kong – notorious for its chronic lack of housing – it’s usually an unaffordable dream. Silver Ho, a 26-year-old hair stylist assistant who was tired of arguing with his parents, counts himself as…
By Rachel Nostrant (Reuters) – Hundreds of soccer players from around the world will step on to the pitch on Saturday to compete in the Homeless World Cup, an international competition held this year in California for people living without permanent shelter or in rehab centers. The 40-team tournament, which runs from July 8-15 at…
By Krystal Hu SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Venture capital firm Headline used to be in one of San Francisco’s most eye-catching skyscrapers: the pyramidal Transamerica building that has defined the skyline for decades. Employees enjoyed the views from the 43rd floor and the convenience of being downtown. Then came the pandemic. As the tech industry…
By Tim Kelly and Irene Wang TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan on Saturday marked one year since former prime minister Shinzo Abe was gunned down during an election speech by a man angry at his links to the Unification Church. The death of Japan’s longest serving prime minister, which was caught on video, rattled a nation…
By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) -Robots presented at an AI forum said on Friday they expected to increase in number and help solve global problems, and would not steal humans’ jobs or rebel against us. But, in the world’s first human-robot press conference, they gave mixed responses on whether they should submit to stricter regulation….
By David Alire Garcia MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – The police showed up two days after a Catholic clergyman at a church near the Nicaraguan capital Managua delivered a Sunday sermon in May that included a prayer “for our priests.” The officers played an audio clip of the prayer and warned: These kinds of things are…
