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Canva announced the addition of a new artificial intelligence (AI) text-to-video tool to its platform on Wednesday. The new feature, dubbed Create a Video Clip, is part of the company’s Canva AI suite. The video generation capability is powered by Google’s Veo 3 AI model. Since the feature is backed by the Mountain View-based tech […]

Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: NYC announces new minimum-pay rules for rideshare drivers, settling on a 5% increase after Uber and Lyft strongly opposed a proposed 6.1% pay hike  —  New York City on Friday announced new minimum-pay rules for rideshare drivers, settling on a smaller-than-proposed 5% increase following pushback … Source link

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) announced the name of its 5G service via its social media handle on Wednesday. It is dubbed Q-5G, short for Quantum 5G. This move comes nearly a week after the state-owned telecommunications provider invited public input for naming its 5G services before it commences trial. Further, BSNL has also launched

Reed Albergotti / Semafor: Sources: Reddit is exploring Tools for Humanity’s World ID identity system to allow users to verify that they are unique individuals while remaining anonymous  —  THE SCOOP  —  Reddit is considering using World ID, the verification system based on iris-scanning Orbs whose parent company was co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.

Google’s fight against a record EUR 4.1 billion ($4.7 billion) European Union antitrust fine suffered a blow after an adviser to the bloc’s top court said regulators were right to punish the US giant for abusing Android’s market power.   Advocate General Juliane Kokott of the EU’s Court of Justice said in a non-binding opinion

Reuters: South Korea’s SK Group and AWS will invest ~$5.1B including $4B from AWS to build a 100 MW AI data center in Ulsan by 2029, and plan to expand capacity to 1 GW  —  South Korea’s SK Group will invest around 7 trillion won ($5.11 billion) including $4 billion from Amazon Web Services …

US President Donald Trump on Thursday extended to September 17 a deadline for China-based ByteDance to divest the US assets of short-video app TikTok despite a law that mandated a sale or shutdown without significant progress. Trump signed an executive order pushing back Thursday’s deadline for 90 days, a step he had previously signaled. The

Angus Whitley / Bloomberg: A government-backed tech trial in Australia finds user age checks are technologically possible, clearing the way for a social media ban for under-16s this year  —  Australia’s world-first social media ban for under-16s moved closer to implementation after a key trial found that checking … Source link

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a “mysterious database” comprising a staggering record of 16 billion login credentials, in what is being called one of the biggest data breaches in history. According to a report, it impacted some of the world’s biggest technology companies including Apple, Facebook, and Google, along with government portals from multiple countries. The

Christine Wang / Axios: Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince said Google’s ratio of pages crawled per visitor sent to a publisher fell from 2:1 10 years ago to 6:1 six months ago to 18:1 now  —  Publishers face an existential threat in the AI era and need to take action to make sure they are fairly