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By Katie Paul and Sheila Dang NEW YORK (Reuters) – Social media giant Meta Platforms Inc joined the generative AI product race on Thursday, saying it would begin testing artificial intelligence-powered ad tools that can create content like image backgrounds and variations of written text. A select group of advertisers will be invited to experiment with the tools in a “testing playground” that the company is calling the AI Sandbox, […]

By Katie Paul and Sheila Dang NEW YORK (Reuters) – Social media giant Meta Platforms Inc joined the generative AI product race on Thursday, saying it would begin testing artificial intelligence-powered ad tools that can create content like image backgrounds and variations of written text. A select group of advertisers will be invited to experiment with the tools in a “testing playground” that the company is calling the AI Sandbox, […]

(Reuters) – Twitter CEO Elon Musk said on Thursday that he has found a new chief executive for the social media platform without naming his replacement. “Excited to announce that I’ve a new CEO for X/Twitter. She will be starting in ~6 weeks!,” Musk said in a tweet. Musk said he will transition to being “exec chair & CTO, overseeing product, software & sysops”. The move is likely to allay […]

(Reuters) -Russia’s defence ministry on Thursday denied reports that Ukrainian forces had broken through in various places along the front lines and said the military situation was under control. Moscow reacted after Russian military bloggers, writing on Telegram, reported what they said were Ukrainian advances north and south of the city of Bakhmut, with some suggesting a long-awaited counter offensive by pro-Kyiv forces had started. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy had […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday filed a notice of appeal after a federal jury in Manhattan on Tuesday found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming writer E. Jean Carroll, and awarded her $5 million in damages. Carroll, 79, sued Trump, 76, in 2022 with her allegation that he raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the mid-1990s, and then defamed her by […]

By Nate Raymond and Andrew Chung (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday preserved a California law banning the sale of pork in America’s most-populous state from pigs kept in tightly confined spaces, rejecting an industry challenge claiming that the voter-backed animal welfare measure impermissibly regulates out-of-state farmers. The justices voted 5-4 to uphold a lower court’s dismissal of a lawsuit by the National Pork Producers Council and the American […]

(Reuters) -Twitter CEO Elon Musk said on Thursday that he has found a new chief executive for the social media platform and that she will be starting in about 6 weeks. “My role will transition to being exec chair & CTO, overseeing product, software & sysops,” Musk said in a tweet. Musk, however, did not name the candidate. The move is likely to allay Tesla investors’ concerns, who have been […]

ROME (Reuters) -World number two Aryna Sabalenka suffered an early shock at the Italian Open on Thursday as the in-form Belarusian crashed to a 7-6(4) 6-2 defeat by American Sofia Kenin in a high-octane second-round match. Sabalenka wobbled on serve early in her first match since claiming the Madrid title last week and squandered three chances to break Kenin before finding her groove to level a pulsating opening set at […]

By Caroline Valetkevitch NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Dow and the S&P 500 ended lower on Thursday, dragged down by Walt Disney Co, which reported weaker subscriber growth, and declines in regional bank and energy stocks. Lifting the Nasdaq, shares of Alphabet Inc rose, a day after Google rolled out more artificial intelligence products to take on competition from Microsoft Corp. Microsoft shares fell and were among the biggest negative […]