Chinese shopping app Temu spent $2B on Facebook, Instagram ads
Temu, the Chinese fast fashion brand that has taken e-commerce retail in the United States by storm in recent months, was the biggest ad spender for Meta Platforms’ social media...
Google fires engineer who claimed company ‘powering genocide’
A Google engineer who disrupted a New York City tech conference earlier this week by standing up and proclaiming that he refuses “to build technology that powers genocide” has reportedly...
Trump raises concerns about TikTok ban as Facebook will ‘double their business’
Presidential candidate Donald Trump raised concerns about banning TikTok ahead of a vote next week by the House that would give TikTok owner ByteDance about six months to divest the popular short...
OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati complained about Sam Altman
OpenAI’s chief technology officer wrote a memo critical of boss Sam Altman’s management style to the company’s board of directors — setting in motion a chain of events that led...
Florida Middle Schoolers Arrested for Allegedly Creating Deepfake Nudes of Classmates
Two teenage boys from Miami, Florida, were arrested in December for allegedly creating and sharing AI-generated nude images of male and female classmates without consent, according to police reports obtained...
Bitcoin briefly tops $70K as crypto mania sparks another record high
Bitcoin briefly rallied to a record high on Friday in volatile trading, as crypto mania continued to sweep through the investment community. The leading cryptocurrency topped the $70,000 mark for the first...
Apple may make a ‘foldable’ MacBook laptop, analyst says
Apple is rumored to start manufacturing a new, foldable version of the MacBook laptop within in three years, an analyst revealed. Tech analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said the foldable laptop is...
Researchers enhance peripheral vision in AI models
Peripheral vision enables humans to see shapes that aren’t directly in our line of sight, albeit with less detail. This ability expands our field of vision and can be helpful...
Hidden camera warning for travelers in hotels, rentals: What to know
One in four travelers found an illegal concealed camera in their vacation rental in 2023, according to a recent survey by property investment firm IPX1031, which said, “While rental properties offer...
Apple faces grilling by EU antitrust cops for blocking ‘Fortnite’ maker’s app store plans in Europe
Apple is facing heat from European Union antitrust cops after it blocked “Fortnite” maker Epic Games from launching its own app store for iPhone customers — a brazen move that...
Google’s newest office for AI designers has poor Wi-Fi
Google has been touting the myriad innovations in the first building wholly designed and built by the web giant, even moving workers in to focus on its highest-profile project: generative...
Nvidia board members sell stock worth nearly $300M
Nvidia’s board members collectively cashed in on nearly $300 million worth of holdings in the $2 trillion artificial intelligence giant so far this year, reaping the benefits of the company’s...
Google’s GenAI Bots Are Struggling. But so Are Its Humans
The last few months have been rough for Google. Company executives have been in the hot seat because of some embarrassing missteps, the most awkward of which was the bungled...
Elon Musk deletes X post blasting Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife MacKenzie Scott
Elon Musk blasted Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife MacKenzie Scott for her charitable donations in an X post that he deleted a short time after it went online Wednesday evening. “‘Super rich...
The Fear That Inspired Elon Musk and Sam Altman to Create OpenAI
Elon Musk last week sued two of his OpenAI cofounders, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, accusing them of “flagrant breaches” of the trio’s original agreement that the company would develop...
