Ex-Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer’s new app has just 1,000 downloads: report
A new photo sharing app from former Silicon Valley darling Marissa Mayer has been slow to take off — and panned for its bare-bones design — since it was unveiled...
Meta adding ‘Made with AI’ labels ahead of election
Facebook owner Meta announced major changes to its policies on digitally created and altered media on Friday, ahead of elections poised to test its ability to police deceptive content generated by new...
Chuck Schumer signals Senate will take up bill on TikTok ban
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer on Friday outlined a busy agenda for lawmakers returning to Washington, saying they can make progress “on a path forward on TikTok legislation.” The Senate is returning...
Tesla California workers allege they were cheated out of pay, seek $5M: lawsuit
Tesla is facing a new proposed class action lawsuit accusing the electric carmaker of a slew of wage law violations against factory and warehouse workers in California, as the company is...
Tesla scraps Elon Musk’s goal of low-cost car amid fierce Chinese EV competition
Tesla has canceled the long-promised inexpensive car that investors have been counting on to drive its growth into a mass-market automaker, according to three sources familiar with the matter and company...
Samsung plans $44B in Texas spending for vital computer chip
Samsung will reportedly double its investment in Texas to a whopping $44 billion to create advanced computer chips needed for smartphones, artificial intelligence and national defense — as the company...
Meta’s AI generator won’t create image of Asian dating white person
Meta’s artificial intelligence-powered text-to-image generator refuses to render photos of an Asian person dating a white man or woman — even though the company’s billionaire founder Mark Zuckerberg is married...
Apple lays off 614 workers after ditching self-driving car project
Apple is reportedly laying off 614 workers after cancelling its decade-long effort to build a self-driving electric car in its first round of job cuts since the pandemic. The Cupertino,...
This AI Startup Wants You to Talk to Houses, Cars, and Factories
“The physical world is where we have most of our problems, because it is so complex and fast moving that things are beyond our perception to fully understand,” says Brandon...
‘Craziest talent war I’ve ever seen’
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the electric vehicle giant is giving its artificial intelligence engineers a raise as the automaker tries to fend off poaching efforts by ChatGPT creator OpenAI....
NFTs aren’t totally dead as crypto ‘Goblins’ swarm to NYC this week
A handful of investors claim the notoriously battered NFT sector is showing fresh signs of life after a spectacular fall – and hordes of so-called crypto “goblins” are swarming to...
Royal Caribbean cruise horror as man, 20, jumps overboard
A cruise turned into a nightmare for people aboard Royal Caribbean’s Liberty of the Seas when a young man jumped overboard shortly after 4 a.m. Thursday. The 18-story ship was...
Elon Musk’s X adds blue checks to some accounts
Elon Musk’s X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, has begun restoring complimentary blue checks for some of its users, the latest unexpected shift to cause a lot of confusion on...
Google may charge subscription fees for AI-powered searches: report
Google is reportedly weighing the possibility of charging subscription fees for its controversial AI-powered online search features. A subscription plan would mark the first time in Google’s history that it...
To Build a Better AI Supercomputer, Let There Be Light
GlobalFoundries, a company that makes chips for others, including AMD and General Motors, previously announced a partnership with Lightmatter. Harris says his company is “working with the largest semiconductor companies...
