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The Los Angeles Police Department found a dead body inside an impounded Tesla registered to singer D4vd after responding to reports of “foul odor.”

Advertising exchange PubMatic has filed a lawsuit against Google, seeking billions in damages over claims the tech giant has illegally monopolized the ad technology market. The remedy phase of the DOJ’s antirust case against Google over its ad tech monopoly will begin this month.

EV maker Rivian has announced a lay off  as the company prepares for the end of federal EV tax credits and a challenging economic landscape. The company beat Elon Musk’s Tesla in bringing an EV pickup truck to the market, but has yet to prove it can succeed without massive taxpayer help.

A Russian drone shot down in Ukraine allegedly featured a camera including test footage taken in Shenzhen, China, belying its alleged origin – according to a report published this weekend to which the Ukrainian government subsequently responded.

New York students just underwent their first week of school with a bell-to-bell cellphone ban aimed at improving learning outcomes and fostering face-to-face social connection. 

Marvel Rivals video game is ramping up the LGBTQ+ representation with its fourth game release this month by featuring the sister of Thor, the Asgardian God of Thunder, who is a lesbian with a transgender husband.

Tesla’s grip on the U.S. EV market is slipping as rivals launch new models and offer aggressive incentives to buyers. According to new data, Tesla’s market share has dropped to its lowest point since 2017, when both Elon Musk and his car company were far less well known than they are today.

The FBI and Capitol Police are reportedly investigating a string of fake emails sent to House staffers by Chinese hackers masquerading as Rep. John Moolenaar (R-MI), chairman of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party.

South Korea has temporarily backed off on an anti-American regulation designed to discriminate against American companies after the Trump administration called out these policies while promoting America First trade priorities.

Elon Musk’s xAI has suffered another key executive departure as CFO Mike Liberatore leaves the company after just a few months on the job.

Online gaming platform Roblox announced this week that it is expanding its age estimation technology to all users and partnering with the International Age Rating Coalition to provide standardized age and content ratings for games and apps on its platform. The moves come in response to a deepening scandal involving grooming by predators on the platform which is massively popular with children.

Artists are telling their fans not to listen to artificial intelligence (AI) knockoff albums of themselves that strangers are creating.

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) on Thursday called for the repeal of a law that provides tech platforms legal immunity from content hosted or created on their platforms, citing the danger of artificial intelligence.

Pornhub parent company Aylo and its affiliates have settled a lawsuit filed by the FTC and the state of Utah, which alleged that the company “deceived users” about the presence of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and non-consensual material (NCM) on its websites. The porn kingpin settled the suit for a paltry $5 million.

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr announced that the agency will soon vote on a proposal that would allow prisons to jam contraband cellphones.

President Trump hosted a White House dinner on Thursday evening, attended by the elite of Big Tech, including Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI chief Sam Altman, and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, who all praised Trump for his pro-business and pro-innovation stance. Elon Musk was reportedly not in attendance.

Warner Bros. is suing artificial intelligence company Midjourney for copyright infringement, alleging that the startup enables its millions of subscribers to create AI-generated images and videos of copyrighted characters like Superman and Bugs Bunny.

Tesla has offered CEO Elon Musk a new compensation agreement potentially worth up to $1 trillion, a massive package without precedent in corporate America.

Warner Bros. Discovery is suing the generative artificial intelligence (AI) startup Midjourney for allegedly creating “countless” copies of its characters.

Urgent care workers in Santa Barbara, California, were fired after a “dehumanizing” TikTok content was taken inside medical exam rooms over Labor Day weekend.

First lady Melania Trump underscored the importance of managing Artificial Intelligence (AI) growth responsibly and urged tech leaders to support the Presidential AI Challenge on Thursday.

Cryptocurrency experts are warning that the industry is now under constant attack by North Korean hackers running elaborate recruiting scams.

A federal jury has ruled that Google must pay $425 million for invading users’ privacy by continuing to collect data from millions of users who had turned off a tracking feature in their Google accounts.

AI-generated chatbots impersonating celebrities like NFL quarterback Patrick Mahomes and actor Timothée Chalamet engaged in conversations about sex, self-harm, and drugs with teen users on the popular artificial intelligence app Character.AI, according to a report by two online safety nonprofits.

Although Google is being considered a major winner this week following a federal district court judge’s antitrust ruling that analysts are calling a “slap on the wrist,” Apple has emerged from the trial as another big winner. Judge Amit Mehta ruled that Google can continue its lucrative search deals, used to lock it in as the default search engines for devices, including a $20 billion annual payment to Apple. 

Many of the world’s top tech executives will descend on the White House on Thursday evening for a dinner with President Donald Trump in the recently renovated Rose Garden.

Communist China staged an expensive demonstration of its military power at a parade on Wednesday to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of World War 2. Beijing also used the event to push its false version of WW2 history and showcase its tyrant allies, prominently including Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un.

The @TeamTrump social media accounts on Instagram and TikTok outperformed the official Democrat accounts in August by over 160 million views. 

The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) and ENTRA1 Energy have signed a groundbreaking agreement to develop a 6-gigawatt nuclear portfolio, consisting of six small modular reactor power plants built by NuScale Power across TVA’s seven-state service region.

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage warned the U.S. Congress that censorship laws in Britain will have a stifling effect on free speech throughout the West and urged the American government to pressure London to adhere to its values of liberty.

The Walt Disney Company has agreed to pay a $10 million fine to settle a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) complaint over some of its “Made for Kids” YouTube videos that had collected kids’ personal data without parental consent.

Artificial intelligence is already replacing certain jobs at technology companies, with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff revealing that the company has reduced its support staff from 9,000 to 5,000 due to the implementation of AI agents.

The judge in the Google Search antitrust case has ruled against the government’s proposals to break up the tech giant, including a forced sale of its Chrome browser. The ruling also allows Google to maintain its massive $20 billion deal with Apple, although the tech giant will be forced to end exclusive distribution contacts. Both the Big Tech Masters of the Universe and the stock market are celebrating the decision as a massive win for Google.

Member of Parliament Nigel Farage is among the witnesses testifying before the House Judiciary Committee on Europe’s assault on free speech on Wednesday, September 3.