Gianna Christine began her career as a social media influencer four years ago, after the professor in her college digital media class assigned students to post every day on the video streaming service <-bsp-bb-link state="{"bbHref":"bbg://securities/1401611D%20US%20Equity/BICO","_id":"0000018f-2e4e-d4b6-a98f-ff7f32040002","_type":"0000016b-944a-dc2b-ab6b-d57ba1cc0000"}">TikTok. Since then, she’s built an audience of 2.7 million fans on the app and earned a six-figure annual income, talking into her iPhone about everything from awkward encounters with neighbors in her New York City apartment building to the best post-clubbing late-night snacks.

Microsoft Corp. will invest $1.7 billion to build out cloud computing and artificial intelligence infrastructure in Indonesia, betting on Southeast Asia’s biggest economy to spur growth.

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A California bill levying a 5% tax on digital advertising to fund youth mental health services stalled in the Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee Monday.

California won’t be preliminarily enjoined from applying a surcharge on telephone access lines in the state to fund its universal service program after the Ninth Circuit affirmed the denial of an injunction.

Regulators who want to get a grip on an emerging generation of artificially intelligent killing machines may not have much time left to do so, governments were warned on Monday.