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Instagram has installed a new privacy setting which will default all new and existing underage accounts to an automatic private mode.Brandon Bell | Getty ImagesMeta will now limit the content that teenage users can see on Instagram to what they would typically encounter in a movie rated PG-13, the social media company said Tuesday.With the new content guidelines, Meta said it will hide certain accounts from teenagers, including those that share sexualized content or media related to drugs and alcohol. Additionally, teenagers on Instagram will not be recommended posts that contain swear words, though teen users can still search for…

A Chevrolet Silverado EV and a Chevrolet Brightdrop, which is assembled in Canada, are seen on display at the Canadian International AutoShow in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, February 13, 2025. Carlos Osorio | ReutersDETROIT — General Motors’ third-quarter results next week will include a $1.6 billion impact from its all-electric vehicle plans not playing out as anticipated. The Detroit automaker Tuesday morning in a public filing said $1.2 billion of the impact will be non-cash, special charges as a result of adjustments to its EV capacity. The other $400 million in cash is primarily related to contract cancellation fees and commercial settlements associated…

Governor Gavin Newsom speaks at Google San Francisco office about ‘Creating an AI-Ready Workforce’ that new joint effort with some of the world’s leading tech companies to help better prepare California’s students and workers for the next generation of technology, in San Francisco, California, United States on August 7, 2025. Tayfun Coskun | Anadolu | Getty ImagesCalifornia Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a series of bills Monday targeting child online safety as concerns over the risks associated with artificial intelligence and social media use keep mounting.”We can continue to lead in AI and technology, but we must do it responsibly —…

ISLAMABAD: Some members of a Supreme Court constitutional bench (CB)–hearing petitions against the 26th Constitutional Amendment–have observed that even the incumbent chief justice of Pakistan (CJP), Yahya Afridi, was appointed after the amendment that is under challenge. They have also noted that the existing CB of the apex court is also created in view of the amendment, while the CJP does not have the authority now to add a new member of the bench entitled to hear constitutional matters. An eight-member CB on Monday resumed hearing the petitions filed against the 26th Constitutional Amendment and discussed the scope of the…

AMD Chair and CEO Lisa Su looks on, on the day of a meeting of the White House Task Force on Artificial Intelligence (AI) Education in the East Room at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., September 4, 2025. Brian Snyder | ReutersOracle Cloud Infrastructure on Tuesday announced that it will deploy 50,000 Advanced Micro Devices graphics processors starting in the second half of 2026.The move is the latest sign that cloud companies are increasingly offering AMD’s GPUs as an alternative to Nvidia’s market-leading GPUs for artificial intelligence.”We feel like customers are going to take up AMD very, very…

Greg Fleming, Rockefeller Capital Management president and CEO, speaks during CNBC’s ‘Squawk Box’ on July 10, 2025.CNBCRockefeller Capital Management, the wealth manager born from John D. Rockefeller’s family office, has raised new funds from investment firms of other ultra-rich families, CNBC has learned.On Tuesday, Rockefeller plans to announce the recapitalization and its new valuation of $6.6 billion, up from $3 billion in 2023. The terms of the recapitalization, which traditionally use equity or debt to fund growth, strengthen the balance sheet, or provide liquidity to investors, were not disclosed.The recapitalization was led by Mousse Partners, the family office of Chanel’s…

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff participates in an interview during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 22, 2025.Chris Ratcliffe | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesSalesforce is ramping up partnerships with leaders in generative artificial intelligence as investors continue to fear that the software company faces business risks due to the rapid growth of AI.Just ahead of its annual Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, Salesforce said Tuesday it will enable the use of AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic inside its Agentforce 360 software. A day earlier, Salesforce expanded Agentforce beyond text chats to also handle voice calls.”The way people…

PESHAWAR: The election of Sohail Afridi as the new Chief Minister of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) has plunged the province into a full-blown legal and political controversy, with opposition parties, legal experts, and the governor’s office openly questioning the legitimacy of the process. What began as a routine change of leadership has swiftly escalated into a test case for constitutional procedure – specifically, the interpretation of Article 130(8) of the Constitution, which governs the resignation of chief ministers – and the limits of gubernatorial authority. On Monday, Afridi, a Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) loyalist and close political follower of party founder Imran Khan,…

U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as he poses next to a sign before a family photo at a world leaders’ summit on ending the Gaza war, amid a U.S.-brokered prisoner-hostage swap and ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, Oct. 13, 2025. Suzanne Plunkett | ReutersU.S. President Donald Trump was in a bullish mood as he and other global leaders in Egypt signed on Monday the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire agreement, seen as a precursor to a possible peace deal between Hamas and Israel.”This took 3,000 years to get to this point, can you believe…

Chinese President Xi Jinping meets with Sri Lankan Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya, who is in Beijing for the Global Leaders’ Meeting on Women, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, Oct. 14, 2025. (Xinhua/Li Xiang)BEIJING, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) — Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday met with Sri Lankan Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya, who is in Beijing for the Global Leaders’ Meeting on Women.Noting that China and Sri Lanka boast a long traditional friendship, Xi said that China stands ready to work with Sri Lanka to carry forward this friendship, expand mutually beneficial cooperation, jointly…