President Donald Trump, who recently accused Xi Jinping of working to “conspire” against the United States, hopes to finalise the fate of video-sharing app TikTok and make progress on trade talks in a phone call with the Chinese leader on Friday (Sep 19). MORE..

Meta Platforms on Wednesday launched its first consumer-ready smart glasses with a built-in display, seeking to extend the momentum of its Ray-Ban line, one of the early consumer hits of the artificial intelligence era. MORE..

Crypto firms in Britain could be exempted from rules that ensure financial services companies act with integrity and in the interests of customers, under new proposals outlined by the Financial Conduct Authority on Wednesday. MORE..

YouTube is introducing a slew of AI-powered tools aimed at lightening creators’ workloads. MORE..

President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that the U.S. and China have a deal that would keep TikTok operating in the United States, transferring its U.S. assets to U.S. owners from China’s ByteDance, potentially resolving a saga that has lingered for nearly a year. MORE..

Social media companies will be required to detect and deactivate accounts held by underage children when Australia’s world-first under-16 ban comes into effect in December, the government revealed on Tuesday. MORE..

Apple has released new software for the iPhone and all of its other products. MORE..

The United States is “very close” to a deal with China to settle their dispute over TikTok, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Monday (Sep 15) as the two sides resumed trade talks in Madrid. MORE..

Elon Musk’s satellite internet service Starlink was back online for most users after a brief outage on Monday, according to tracking website Downdetector.com. MORE..

Tesla, the electric vehicle company led by billionaire Elon Musk, was accused in a lawsuit on Friday of favoring visa holders over Americans when making employment decisions so it can pay less. MORE..

The U.S. government on Thursday sued Uber Technologies, accusing the ride-sharing company of violating federal law by discriminating against passengers with disabilities. MORE..

Children under 15 in France should be banned entirely from using social media, and those aged between 15 and 18 should face a nighttime “digital curfew”, a French parliamentary committee urged on Thursday (Sep 11). MORE..

India’s massive IT sector faces a lengthy period of uncertainty with customers delaying or re-negotiating contracts while the U.S. debates a proposed 25 per cent tax on American firms using foreign outsourcing services, analysts and lawyers said. MORE..

Toyota Motor will start making two battery-powered sport utility vehicles at its U.S. Kentucky plant, as part of a move to improve manufacturing efficiency and better serve market demand, the Japanese automaker said. MORE..

Apple unveiled a new generation of the iPhone, including a sleek model dubbed iPhone 17 Air, and several other devices on Tuesday, as it looks to drive upgrades and spur sales ahead of the holiday shopping season. MORE..

Sweden’s music rights organisation has introduced a licence that allows artificial intelligence companies to legally use copyrighted songs for training their models, while ensuring that songwriters and composers are paid. MORE..

Tesla’s U.S. market share dropped to a near eight-year low in August as buyers chose electric vehicles from a growing stable of rivals over the aging lineup offered by CEO Elon Musk’s company, according to data from research firm Cox Automotive shared exclusively with Reuters. MORE..

Arguably the biggest tech launch of 2025 — Apple’s iPhone 17 — is a day away, and one of the devices expected to take spotlight is the iPhone 17 Pro Max. MORE..