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Billionaire Elon Musk commented Friday that he intends to remove social media platform X's "block" function in the future, saying it does not "make sense."

Intel Corp. scrapped a $5.4 billion deal to acquire contract chipmaker Tower Semiconductor after the merger agreement expired without China giving regulatory approval.

Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of X, said his upcoming cage match fight with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg will take place in an "epic location" in Italy.

Music streaming giant Spotify said Tuesday it is expanding availability of its AI DJ feature to more listeners around the world – though only in English.

X Corp. filed a federal lawsuit accusing the Center for Countering Digital Hate of generating phony "research" reports to smear Twitter post Elon Musk takeover.

Global chipmakers are seeing an end to supply surplus for semiconductors, while demand expectations from customers outside the artificial intelligence industry remains low.

Intel reported second-quarter earnings on Thursday, and showed a return to profitability after two straight quarters of losses.

The entertainment industry is the midst of a strike by actors and writers who, among other concerns, worry the emergence of AI may enable studios to produce content without them.

Microsoft is under fire from European Union antitrust investigators over the software company’s bundling of its chat and video app Teams with its Office product.

Samsung Electronics released its latest foldable smartphone on Wednesday, at roughly the same price for the third year in a row as the company takes another swipe at Apple.

Music streaming service Spotify announced Monday that it is raising the prices on its Premium plans by one to two dollars “so that we can keep innovating."

Amazon agreed to pay $25 million in civil penalties after the government alleged Alexa stored children's voice recordings and location data -- and flouted parents' deletion requests.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos donated $12 million to the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute this month, funding the GEO-TREES database project at their Panama facility.

European Union antitrust authorities will reportedly investigate Microsoft to determine if it unfairly bundled its Teams video conferencing app with its Office service.

Generative AI solutions are flooding the market because of Microsoft, Google and OpenAI building up an emerging supply line of artificial intelligence companies on the way to IPO.

The FTC will appeal a California judge’s decision to allow Microsoft’s $69 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard, according to a court filing late Wednesday.

Three prominent tax groups shared "extraordinarily sensitive" information from tens of millions of taxpayers with Facebook, according to a report Wednesday.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission cannot stop Microsoft’s proposed $69 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard, California judge Jacqueline Scott Corley ruled on Tuesday.

The creator of the Elon Musk jet tracking account that was banned on Twitter has resurfaced on Twitter-rival Threads following the Meta-owned platform's launch last week.

Mark Zuckerberg-led Meta launched Threads, a new "conversation" app and direct challenger to Elon Musk’s Twitter, dialing up the tit-for-tat between the billionaires.