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The meeting was the first to bring together providers such as hospitals and payers such as health insurers, said a spokesperson from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), adding that daily individual meetings have been held with all involved parties since the hack.

US Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines told a House of Representatives intelligence committee hearing on Tuesday that US cannot rule out that Chinas ruling Communist Party would use TikTok to influence this years elections.

Cryptocurrency exchange OKXs Singapore subsidiary, OKX President Hong Fang, has received in-principle approval for a payments licence in Singapore from the Monetary Authority of Singapore. This allows OKX to provide digital payment token and cross-border money transfer services in Singapore and expand its presence in the crypto market.

A small cohort of for-profit digital media companies that sprang up during the pandemic have found success - at least for the moment - by taking the opposite approach of many predecessors, such as BuzzFeed and Vice, which fatefully relied on huge amounts of investor money to prioritise growth.

Warburg Pincus-backed Perfios is considering an initial public offering (IPO) that could raise about $500 million in India at a potential valuation of $2 billion. It is also chalking out plans to enter the US and European markets in 2024.

The House is expected to pass a bill banning TikTok in the US due to national security concerns. ByteDance must divest TikTok within six months or face prohibition. The Senates approval is needed. The bill has bipartisan support and will undergo thorough review before President Biden signs it into law.

OpenAI, which owns the chatbot ChatGPT and has become the face of generative AI, is embroiled in myriad legal fights, including copyright infringement claims from authors and others. It has denied any intellectual property violations.

Zomato, Swiggy, Flipkart and Oyo have opposed the new regulations on digital competition proposed by a government-appointed committee. Indian companies that supported the proposal of ex-ante regulations include Paytm and MakeMyTrip, albeit with caveats.

The funds will be used to expand its technology and product offerings, boost brand presence, and accelerate research and development in diabetes management.

Both current and former employees can participate in the buyback programme, its largest to date. Meesho said it had conducted similar buybacks of $1 million, $5 million and $5.5 million in February 2020, November 2020, and October 2021, respectively.