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AFP/APP New York: Over the next two weeks, the quarterly results of Big Tech giants will offer a glimpse into the profitability of artificial intelligence and whether the major investments AI requires are sustainable for the long haul.…

AFP/APP Rio de Janeiro:The Brazilian Amazon recorded 13,489 wildfires in the first half of the year, the worst figure in 20 years, satellite data revealed Monday. The total was up 61 percent compared to the 8,344 fires detected in the…

AFP/APP Brussels: The EU accused Facebook owner Meta on Monday of breaching the bloc's digital rules, paving the way for potential fines worth billions of euros.   The charges against the US tech titan follow a finding last week…

AFP/APP Brussels: The EU on Friday told Microsoft to hand over internal documents or face fine as it examines generative AI risks on the company's search engine Bing ahead of elections. The EU has identified generative artificial…

AFP/APP San Francisco: Google's use of artificial intelligence to sum up answers to search queries has publishers wondering if traffic to their websites will wither. The internet titan announced Tuesday it is introducing AI-generated…

AFP/APP Singapore: Amazon said Tuesday it would invest $9 billion in Singapore over the next four years to expand its cloud computing capabilities in the city. The tech giant said the figure doubles its investment in the city-state…

AFP/APP Tokyo: Tokyo stocks opened lower Thursday after US shares dropped, with a jump in the yen sparking speculation that the Japanese government had intervened in the market for the second time this week. The benchmark Nikkei 225…

AFP/APP Copenhagen: Danish shipping giant Maersk posted a huge drop in net profit for the first quarter on Thursday as Yemeni rebel attacks force it to avoid the vital Red Sea route. Maersk reported a net profit of $177 million in the…

AFP/APP San Francisco: E-commerce titan Amazon on Tuesday said profit in the first three months of 2024 tripled as its cloud, ads, and retail businesses thrived. Amazon shares were up more than 3 percent in after-market trades that…

AFP/APP Vienna: A Vienna-based privacy campaign group said Monday it would file a complaint against ChatGPT in Austria, claiming the "hallucinating" flagship AI tool has invented wrong answers that creator OpenAI cannot correct. NOYB…