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Perplexity AI has presented a new proposal to TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, that would allow the U.S. government to own up to half of a new structure. (Damian Dovarganes / AP Photo) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Perplexity AI has presented a new proposal to TikTok’s parent company that would allow the U.S. government to own up to 50% of a new entity that merges Perplexity with TikTok’s U.S. business, according to a person familiar with the matter. The proposal, submitted last week, is a revision of a plan the artificial intelligence startup presented to TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, on Jan. 18,…

Elon Musk is pictured at the U.S. Capitol on Dec. 5. Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images Elon Musk’s X broadened an existing lawsuit on Saturday to include several major brands — accusing more companies of illegally boycotting the social media platform in 2022 following Musk’s acquisition. The suit, which was filed last year in a federal court in Texas, initially targeted the boycott organizer, the World Federation of Advertisers, along with companies including CVS and video-streaming platform Twitch. But early on Saturday, Musk’s lawyers filed an amended complaint, adding several new…

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The National Transportation Safety Board said there were five people in the air traffic control tower at Reagan Washington National Airport during the Jan. 29 collision of a passenger jet and an Army Black Hawk helicopter that left 67 people dead.The agency also gave other updates on its investigation, including plans to have a complete transcription of the communications among the aircraft and traffic controllers available Sunday, NTSB member Todd Inman said Saturday during a press briefing.Breaking down the audio communications currently available, lead investigator Brice Banning said that after after the air traffic control tower directed the Black Hawk…

Hamas gunmen released three more hostages and Israel freed more than 180 Palestinian prisoners on Saturday, quickly conducting the latest exchange in a tense cease-fire deal and avoiding the chaos that marked a drawn-out transfer earlier this week.Hamas released two of the hostages, Yarden Bibas, 35, and Ofer Kalderon, 54, in a highly theatrical ceremony in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip. The group then released the third hostage, Keith Siegel, a 65-year-old American Israeli, in a separate ceremony in Gaza City. The three, escorted by Red Cross workers, then headed to hospitals in Israel, where they reunited with…

Eric Bieniemy is headed to the Windy City.  The Bears hired Bieneimy as their running backs coach, bringing the former NFL offensive coordinator back to the league, according to multiple reports.  Bieniemy jumped to the college level in 2024, serving as UCLA’s associate head coach and offensive coordinator.  He was dismissed from the job in December after the Bruins’ offense struggled during a 5-7 season.  Eric Bieniemy approaches the field at the start of NFL football practice at the Commders’ training facility on July 28, 2023, in Ashburn, Va. AP Before his stint in Southern California, Bieniemy served under Andy…

Moderate-intensity exercise helps regulate appetite and boosts key weight loss hormones, offering benefits similar to weight loss drugs while also improving overall health. A recent study by researchers at Murdoch University’s Health Futures Institute found that moderate-intensity exercise has a This article was originally published by a scitechdaily.com . Read the Original article here. .

It must be draining: Government’s main job is to debate and pass legislation including that of protecting folk from ‘prescribed’ organisations or cults, yet, the vast majority do as they are told as they put their parties first and their constituents and everyone else a distant second, as they jockey for position in the forlorn hope their leader will recognise their blind devotion and gift them a job in the department of rural affairs or some other such post for which their skillsets are gobsmackingly inadequate. The decisions they take are then ‘spun’ as being in the public interest despite…

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – A downstate Champaign elected official’s use of an antisemitic symbol on his personal Facebook page has drawn condemnation from his colleagues. Davion Williams, a member of the Champaign City Council, posted a swastika on his page, according to a statement from Champaign Mayor Deborah Frank Feinen and the other council members. The other members included Alicia Beck, Jamar Brown, Michael Foellmer, Matthew Gladney, Will Kyles, Vanna Pianfetti and Kathy Shannon. The University of Illinois’ flagship campus is based in Champaign and neighboring Urbana. Davion Williams | City of Champaign ‘Unacceptable,’ ‘reckless’ post What we know: Williams posted…

TikTok’s potential U.S. ban has sparked a flurry of development within the open social web community. Several new applications are being built that could one day serve as a TikTok replacement for those who favor the open source, decentralized social network Bluesky and the technology that powers it, the AT Protocol. Though the TikTok ban is currently on pause after President Trump gave parent company ByteDance a 75-day extension to negotiate a deal, the fact that the government was able to take down TikTok in the first place has users worried about its future. Meanwhile, creators and small businesses are…