Activision Blizzard’s $69 billion acquisition by Microsoft has been completed, the company announced in a regulatory filing on Friday. It’s the biggest deal Microsoft has ever made in its 48-year history, and it comes after the company allayed regulators’ concerns about competition in the U.K. and Europe and won a favorable decision from a U.S….
The African Union has become the second regional group to be admitted to full membership of the Group of 20 leading industrialized and developing countries, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on Saturday at the start of the two-day G20 leaders’ summit in Delhi. The widely expected move underscores India’s broad agenda to shift the…
Elon Musk announced the start of a new artificial intelligence firm, xAI, to understand the true nature of the universe. As per the firm’s website, more details will be added soon. Team members behind xAI were previously part of DeepMind, Google Research, OpenAI, Microsoft Research, Tesla, and Twitter. They have worked on projects like DeepMind’s AlphaCode…
User traffic on Twitter has declined since the release of Meta’s text-based app Threads, which has already crossed 100 million sign-ups since its launch last week. Threads app is being touted by executives of Meta as a more positive public square for groups of people who have never really embraced Twitter in its entirety. Meta CEO Mark…
