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The Microsoft Teams app on a laptop arranged in New York, US, on Tuesday, June 25, 2024. Gabby Jones | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesMicrosoft on Friday made fresh commitments to unbundle its Office 365 and Microsoft 365 software suites from its Teams workplace communication app in an effort to address competition concerns from European regulators and avoid a possible antitrust fine.The European Commission, which is the executive arm of the European Union, said in a statement Friday that Microsoft made a series of commitments to address concerns over the tying of Teams to its widely-used productivity tools, such as Word…

Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesFortnite is now unavailable on iOS globally, Epic Games said Friday, after Apple blocked a bid to reinstate the popular game on the App Store in the U.S.”Apple has blocked our Fortnite submission so we cannot release to the US App Store or to the Epic Games Store for iOS in the European Union,” the official account of Fortnite wrote in a post on social media platform X. “Now, sadly, Fortnite on iOS will be offline worldwide until Apple unblocks it.”CNBC has reached out to Apple for comment.Epic Games submitted Fortnite to Apple’s U.S.…

U.S. President Donald Trump signs a guest book next to United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, at Qasr Al Watan, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, May 15, 2025. Brian Snyder | ReutersABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — The U.S. and United Arab Emirates are working on a path to allow Abu Dhabi to purchase some of the most advanced American-made semiconductors for its AI development, U.S. President Donald Trump said from the Emirati capital Friday.”Yesterday the two countries also agreed to create a path for the UAE to buy some of the word’s most advanced…

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are preparing to push their hard-fought package of tax breaks and spending cuts through its next hurdle Friday in the Budget Committee, but conservatives are warning they could vote to halt it unless there are further changes.Tallying a whopping 1,116 pages, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, named with a nod to President Donald Trump, is teetering at a critical moment. Conservatives are holding out for steeper cuts to Medicaid and other programs to help offset the costs of the tax breaks. But at the same time, lawmakers from high-tax states including New York are…

Jaap Arriens | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesPlagued with allegations and lawsuits of harming users’ mental health, especially that of children, social media sensation TikTok has decided to turn to meditation — or, rather, guide its users to the calming effects of deep breathing.TikTok said Thursday that it was launching in-app guided meditation exercises and other well-being features aimed at young users.The company, owned by Chinese tech giant ByteDance, said it began testing the new meditation exercises with select teens earlier this year and will now make them available to users of all ages.TikTok said that the meditation feature, aimed at…

Muhammed Selim Korkutata | Anadolu | Getty ImagesElon Musk’s xAI on Thursday evening made its first public comment about the latest controversy surrounding Grok, writing in a post on X that an “unauthorized modification” caused the chatbot to generate variations of a “specific response on a political topic.”That controversial topic was “white genocide” in South Africa, and Grok was providing unprompted responses on the issue with such frequency that it led to an uproar among its user base.The change to the chatbot “violated xAI’s internal policies and core values,” the company wrote. “We have conducted a thorough investigation and are…

U.S. President Donald Trump’s interest in striking Mexican cartels, dismissed during his first term as idle speculation, is now a genuine policy option debated within the White House. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said in early May that he had proposed sending U.S. troops into Mexico to help fight drug trafficking. (Sheinbaum rejected the offer.) And amid growing pressure on Mexico to allow the United States a bigger role in combating drug cartels in the country, the Trump administration is considering unilateral drone strikes, as NBC reported, while the CIA reviews its authorities to use lethal force against cartels, per CNN.…

U.S. President Donald Trump’s remarks in Riyadh will have terrifying consequences for the people of Saudi Arabia. In recent years, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has learned that his regime can execute human rights protesters and child defendants without international censure. But on Tuesday, Trump said the quiet part out loud. To Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, the president’s promise of no more “lectures on how to live or how to govern your own affairs” translates as “kill as many people as you want, for whatever reason.” U.S. President Donald Trump’s remarks in Riyadh will have terrifying consequences for the…

Toronto , Canada – 20 June 2024; Andrew Feldman, co-founder and CEO of Cerebras Systems, speaks at the Collision conference in Toronto on June 20, 2024.Ramsey Cardy | Sportsfile | Collision | Getty ImagesCerebras CEO Andrew Feldman said his hope is to take his company public in 2025 now that the chipmaker has obtained clearance from the U.S. government to sell shares to an entity in the United Arab Emirates.”That’s our aspiration,” Feldman told reporters on Thursday at the company’s Supernova conference in San Francisco, after being asked if an IPO was likely this year.Cerebras, which makes processors for artificial…

(The Center Square) – Prolec-GE Waukesha, Inc., which makes power transformers, plans a $140 million expansion in Goldsboro, and has been approved for a $4,696,000 state grant for the project which is projected to create 330 new jobs.The Wisconsin-based company plans to to add a second plant in Goldsboro with the new jobs paying average salaries of $71,912, compared to the average wage in Wayne County of $46,211, according to a release.”The new jobs and the investment into our county will bring economic growth and stability to Eastern North Carolina,” said state Sen. Buck Newton, R-Wilson, who represents the area.…