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Will AI mean better adverts or 'creepy slop'?
MaryLou CostaTechnology Reporter Imagine one night, you're scrolling through social media on your phone, and the ads start to look…
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First Resources Q3 profit surges 43.5% to US$87.5 million
Palm oil producer First Resources posted a 43.5 per cent increase in net profit for the third quarter, the company said on Friday (Nov…
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StarHub’s Q3 profit falls 35.3% to S$26.2 million
StarHub posted a net profit of S$26.2 million for its third quarter ended Sep 30, down 35.3 per cent from S$40.4 million in the previous…
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Autodesk’s CMO breaks down the branding lessons from Sydney’s Sweeney’s jeans commercial and Cracker Barrel’s rebrand
Marketers are setting the cultural conversation — with their successes as much as their missteps. But which campaigns are creating healthy…
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Big Loud Records’ Three Chiefs on the Label’s 10th Anniversary, and the Benefits of Artists Like Morgan Wallen, Hardy and Ernest Being Songwriters First
They weren’t always big, or loud, in anything other than aspirational name. There was a certain amount of chutzpah when Seth England,…
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ATP Finals: Carlos Alcaraz secures year-end world number one ranking
Alcaraz will end the year top of the rankings for the second time, having become the first teenager to achieve that feat in 2022. In…
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Apple and OpenAI must face X Corp’s lawsuit for now, US judge rules
APPLE Inc and ChatGPT maker OpenAI on Thursday failed to convince a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit by Elon Musk’s X Corp accusing them…
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Amid Sales Review, Warner Bros. Discovery Clarifies That CEO David Zaslav’s Employment Agreement Will Let Him Retain Stock Options in the Event of a ‘Change in Control’
Warner Bros. Discovery is reassuring president and CEO David Zaslav and other top execs that they will still be able to keep their stock…
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Anthony Joshua vs Jake Paul: Would AJ's reputation be harmed by exhibition?
Influencer boxing matches began to garner high viewership with KSI's first boxing fight against Joe Weller in 2018 and have become more…
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Birkenstock Wins Copyright Case Against Shoe Retailer Scapino
Birkenstock said it won a Dutch court ruling in a copyright case against shoe retailer Scapino involving three sandal models. The District…
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US: Wall Street tumbles as Nvidia slides, investors fret that Fed may slow rate cuts
WALL Street ended sharply lower on Thursday, with steep losses in Nvidia and other AI heavyweights, as investors scaled back expectations…
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Sally Beauty Surpasses Q4 Estimates
Sally Beauty Holdings beat sales on both the top and bottom lines in its fourth quarter. The Denton, Texas-based retailer’s net sales came…
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Europe: Shares close lower with upcoming US data in focus; Siemens slides
EUROPEAN shares closed lower on Thursday, as investors shifted their focus to crucial US economic data following the end of the nation’s…
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AWS on Future-proofing the Holiday Season with Agentic AI
The holiday season is make or break time, as the last two months of the year account for around 19 percent of annual sales for retailers…
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Our dogs' diversity can be traced back to the Stone Age
Victoria GillScience correspondent, BBC News If you, like me, have a spoiled, lazy dog that enjoys cheese flavoured treats, the fact that…
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Verizon to cut about 15,000 jobs as it restructures under new CEO
Verizon is planning to cut about 15,000 jobs in the telecommunications company’s largest-ever layoffs as part of a restructuring under its…
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From Barbie to Coach: Adobe is reinventing design with AI
For decades, Adobe’s software tools, including Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign, have been the universal language of visual…
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Jim Avila, Former ABC News and ’20/20′ Correspondent, Dies at 69
Jim Avila, an award-winning journalist who was a senior correspondent for ABC News and worked at the news outlet for 17 years, has died.…
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Professor Scott Galloway perfectly explains the danger of treating AI like your friend
AI can do a lot of things. It can write your emails. It can make your grocery list. It can even interview you for a job. But now, more and…
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OpenAI’s new LLM exposes the secrets of how AI really works
“Neural networks are big and complicated and tangled up and very difficult to understand,” says Dan Mossing, who leads the mechanistic…
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Disney stock tumbles as TV business slides further toward collapse
Disney reported $22.46 billion in revenue for the quarter, which just missed analyst expectations and resulted in a 5% drop in premarket…
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Online Design Platforms Are Charting New Revenue Streams
MILAN — Design websites have been on an upward swing since the COVID-19 pandemic ignited an appetite for all things home. And while the…
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LinkedIn’s new AI people search unlocks the power of its network
Last June, LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky took on a second job. Microsoft, the social network for business professionals’ owner since 2016,…
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Gambling online? Watch out for these risks, say public health experts
Online betting is more accessible than ever, with 14% of U.S. adults saying they bet on professional or college sports online either…