Technology

By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business The buzzy new social media app of the moment looks so much like Twitter it’s almost hard to distinguish the two. The profiles, timelines and colors are nearly identical. Even the creator is the same. But under the hood, Bluesky, developed by Twitter co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey,

By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Less than a few hours after Snapchat rolled out its My AI chatbot to all users last week, Lyndsi Lee, a mother from East Prairie, Missouri, told her 13-year-old daughter to stay away from the feature. “It’s a temporary solution until I know more about it and can set

By Clare Duffy, CNN When Elon Musk first agreed to buy Twitter, he promised to make the company “better than ever,” with greater transparency, fewer bots, a stronger business and more of what he called “free speech.” But six months after Musk took control of Twitter, the future of the company and the platform have

By Clare Duffy, CNN Facebook-parent Meta on Wednesday reported that it grew sales by 3% during the first three months of the year, reversing a trend of three consecutive quarters of revenue declines and far exceeding Wall Street analysts’ expectations. Meta shares jumped as much as 12% in after-hours trading following the report, continuing the

By Jennifer Korn and Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Elizabeth Holmes won’t be starting her 11-year prison sentence just yet. The disgraced Theranos founder was previously expected to report to prison on Thursday, but she will remain free a little longer while the court considers a last-minute appeal, according to a filing Tuesday night. Holmes was sentenced

By Brian Fung, CNN For years, Microsoft flew under the radar as policymakers around the world went after Amazon, Facebook and Google as some of the biggest alleged threats to fair competition. But now, more than two decades after its landmark court battle with the US government over browsers, Microsoft is firmly back in the

By Jennifer Korn TikTok is testing a new option to let users create AI-generated avatars for their profile pictures, the company confirmed to CNN on Wednesday, in a move with the potential to put recent advances in artificial intelligence technology front and center for millions of users. The new feature appears to create a stylized,

By Brian Fung, CNN A new federal bill unveiled Wednesday would establish a national minimum age for social media use and require tech companies to get parents’ consent before creating accounts for teens, reflecting a growing trend at all levels of government to restrict how Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and other platforms engage with young users.

By Hanna Ziady, CNN The UK antitrust regulator has blocked Microsoft’s purchase of Activision Blizzard, threatening to thwart one of the tech industry’s biggest deals over concerns it will stifle competition in cloud gaming. The Competition and Markets Authority said in a statement Wednesday that it was worried the deal would lead to “reduced innovation

By Brian Fung, CNN A group of Republican senators on Tuesday urged the Biden administration to “use all available tools” to sanction cloud computing firms with links to China. The letter led by Sen. Bill Hagerty calls on the Departments of Commerce, State and Treasury to impose “sanctions, export restrictions, and investment bans” on companies

By Veronica Miracle, Cheri Mossburg and Phil Gast, CNN Nima Momeni, the man accused of killing Cash App founder Bob Lee in San Francisco, intends to plead not guilty next week, his attorney said. Momeni was to be arraigned on a murder charge Tuesday but that was put off until May 2 after defense attorney