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Klarna has agreed a major new distribution partnership with fellow fintech unicorn Stripe, in a bid to expand reach and add more merchants in the lead-up to its upcoming listing in the U.S.

US Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a bid by Meta Platforms to avoid a multi-billion dollar class action by advertisers that accused the Facebook and Instagram parent company of overcharging them by inflating the number of people their ads might reach. The justices turned away Meta's appeal of a lower court's decision that let advertisers seek damages as a group over Meta's claims about the «potential reach» of their ads.

US Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a bid by Meta Platforms to avoid a multi-billion dollar class action by advertisers that accused the Facebook and Instagram parent company of overcharging them by inflating the number of people their ads might reach. The justices turned away Meta's appeal of a lower court's decision that let advertisers seek damages as a group over Meta's claims about the «potential reach» of their ads.

Fashion Faguette dropped a video of a jaw-droppingly handsome NRI student flaunting his tattoos and a new Internet sensation was born.

Out-of-control wildfires are ravaging parts of Los Angeles this week, ripping through neighbourhoods and enclaves many Hollywood stars call home, including the Pacific Palisades, Malibu and Altadena.

fintech startup AtoB plans to open a research and development centre in Bengaluru to power its growing global operations, cofounder and CEO Vignan Velivela told ET.

chemical fog" that is sweeping the US; this phenomenon leads to conspiracy theories about bioweapons after drones are sighted. Locals are worried about the mysterious fog that has engulfed parts of the United States, claiming it has a chemical odour and that exposure can cause flu-like symptoms.

Suchir Balaji, 26-year-old OpenAI whistleblower and researcher, was found dead in his San Francisco apartment in California on November 26. A day after his mother demanded FBI probe into his son's death, the family of Suchir has disclosed that he was planning to take legal action against the company before his untimely death.

Suchir Balaji, a 26-year-old Indian American researcher and former OpenAI employee, was tragically found dead in his San Francisco apartment on November 26, 2024. The San Francisco Chief Medical Examiner's Office ruled his death a suicide. Despite this, Suchir's family has raised questions about the circumstances, urging a thorough investigation.

California storm cause havoc in coastal communities and turn deadly. When a pier collapsed in Santa Cruz, California, a strong storm that was pounding the West Coast whipped up waves as high as sixty feet, killing one man, carrying another out to sea, and requiring numerous rescues, according to authorities.

Jessica Simpson's divorce could devolve into a complete skip fire as they quarrel over her $200 million. If the singer and entrepreneur divorces her husband of ten years, she could lose millions of dollars.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The world may still be grappling with a latent fear of artificial intelligence (AI) but well-known author and new-age guru Deepak Chopra sees huge potential in tapping its powers for holistic well-being. In An Optimistic Conversation with AI, an article published on his website, www.deepakchopra.com, he writes “...AI in its present flawed state is quite capable of acting in the role of research assistant, therapist, confidant, and guru.

Christmas tree, why not create a biblically accurate angel? The result was a pink, blue and gold-feathered creature with six wings and dozens of eyes that went a little bit viral. There are a number of different kinds of angels that show up in the Bible, said Austin-Young, associate rector of the Episcopal Church of St. Mary the Virgin in San Francisco. For the most part, we don't get a lot of description of them, but both Revelations at the end of the Bible and some of the books of the prophets in the Old Testament describe strange creatures around the throne of God.

Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI engineer and whistleblower who helped train the artificial intelligence systems behind ChatGPT and later said he believed those practices violated copyright law, has died, according to his parents and San Francisco officials. He was 26.

inflation as their comments echo Fed chief Jerome Powell's call for caution. The US Fed policymakers, fresh from an interest rate cut this week, fleshed out on Friday the case for reducing borrowing costs more slowly next year as they assess progress in lowering inflation and the impact of tariffs and other policies promised by President-elect Donald Trump, Reuters reported. San Francisco Fed President Mary Daly, who supported the U.S. central bank's decision on Wednesday to cut its benchmark overnight rate by a quarter of a percentage point to the 4.25 per cent-4.50 per cent range, and Cleveland Fed President Beth Hammack, who dissented against it, both said the meeting's outcome was a «close call.» Daly and two other Fed policymakers who spoke on Friday said they felt the central bank would likely resume its rate-cutting next year, but signaled they would take their time doing so now that, as Daly put it, the «recalibration phase» is over, as per Reuters report. «We're in the next phase, and that next phase is really looking at the incoming information,» Daly said in an interview with Bloomberg Television.

former Google employee, Jerry Lee, based in San Francisco, recently shared his inspiring journey on Threads. Joining the tech giant in 2018 as a strategist, Lee faced an uphill battle initially, as his teammates viewed him as a liability. «My first two months at Google? Honestly, they were weird,» he admitted. Lee described how colleagues urged him to «take it easy,» enjoy the perks, and explore the campus. «I felt like they saw me as just a kid who wouldn’t contribute much since I was the youngest on a team with members 6+ years out of school. To them, I was a potential 'negative' at first,» he revealed.

Netflix has announced the renewal of Man on the Inside for a second season. The show debuted in November 2023, and the new season is expected to arrive in 2025.

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