Elon Musk’s xAI startup targets valuation as high as $20B: sources
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI — which powers the snarky Grok chatbot — is aiming to raise billions of dollars in the coming weeks in a private funding round...
New York AG Letitia James opens probe into AT&T wireless outage
New York Attorney General Letitia James said Thursday her office is investigating the cause of last week’s AT&T wireless outage for up to 12 hours as well as the telecom...
Facebook parent Meta targeted in privacy complaints by EU groups
Meta Platforms was hit with privacy complaints on Thursday as eight EU consumer groups asked watchdogs to act against the Facebook owner for alleged breaches of the bloc’s privacy rules when it collects user data. The complaints by consumer groups in the Czech Republic, Denmark, France,...
SEC reportedly probing whether OpenAI CEO Sam Altman misled investors
The Securities and Exchange Commission is reportedly investigating internal communications sent by OpenAI chief Sam Altman as part of a probe into whether the tech whiz misled investors. The federal...
Think your spouse is cheating? There’s a way to check on Wi-Fi
Messing with their home Wi-Fi settings could be causing couples to lose their connection. A TikTok snoop has shared a tech trick that can shed light on a partner’s internet...
Mom detects son’s retinoblastoma using just her phone camera
Her life changed in a flash. A UK mom of four says she was able to detect her infant son’s rare cancer using the flash on her phone’s camera. Sarah...
Google Gemini invented fake reviews smearing my book about Big Tech’s ‘war on conservatives’
Google Gemini, the tech giant’s new AI chatbot meant to rival ChatGPT, invented several fake reviews – which it attributed to real people – meant to discredit my 2020 book...
Bumble laying off 350 workers, 30% of dating app’s workforce
Bumble announced plans to lay off 350 employers on Tuesday, reducing its headcount by 30% as part of a larger restructuring plan. Job cuts across dating app — whose defining...
Bitcoin soars above $60K as spot ETFs drive trending frenzy, lead to Coinbase crash
Bitcoin blew past $60,000 for the first time in more than two years on Wednesday as the popularity of spot ETFs drove a renewed trading frenzy for volatile cryptocurrencies —...
