Sam Altman’s OpenAI, the AI juggernaut behind ChatGPT, has been accused by at least seven nonprofit organizations of using aggressive legal tactics and its massive financial resources to intimidate and silence its critics.
Goldman Sachs has informed its staff to brace for another round of job cuts this year as the bank aims to achieve additional cost savings while leveraging the potential of AI.
The DOJ has seized about $15 billion worth of bitcoin from a massive “pig butchering” fraud operation based in Cambodia. The scammers allegedly ran forced-labor camps in Cambodia where slaves were forced to lure individuals into the scam.
Google will invest a staggering $15 billion to build data center capacity for a new AI hub in southern India, marking the company’s largest AI investment outside of the United States.
A recent survey from Monster reveals a disturbing trend in the American workforce: an increasing number of employees say they are facing toxic work environments, with detrimental effects on their mental health.
SpaceX has taken another significant step towards its ambitious goals of human space exploration with the successful completion of the eleventh test flight of its Starship rocket.
Elon Musk’s Boring Company is planning to build an underground transit system in Dubai, with the “Dubai Loop” expected to open as early as next year, according to a UAE official.
A recent software update to Jeep Wrangler 4xE models has reportedly caused major malfunctions, leaving many owners stranded and some in potentially dangerous situations after their vehicles were “bricked” by the botched upgrade.
Andrea Bartz, a best-selling thriller writer, played a key role in the largest copyright settlement in history against AI company Anthropic for illegally using authors’ works to train chatbots.
Tesla has suffered a massive drop in Cybertruck sales, with Elon Musk’s EV giant struggling to find a market for its pickup truck. Musk once boasted that the company could produce 250,000 Cybertrucks a year, but it sold only 5,400 trucks last quarter.
A recent study by Anthropic AI, in collaboration with several academic institutions, has uncovered a startling vulnerability in AI language models, showing that it takes a mere 250 malicious documents to completely disrupt their output. Purposefully feeding malicious data into AI models is ominously referred to as a “poisoning attack.”
The new social media trend of sending friends and family members AI-generated images of strangers in their homes is causing panic and prompting law enforcement agencies across the United States to issue urgent warnings about potential criminal consequences.
A popular Korean TikTok influencer has been murdered, and the alleged killer is one of her most dedicated supporters, a man in his 50’s who had donated more than $70,000 to the social media starlet.
New York City has filed a lawsuit against major social media companies, accusing them of contributing to a youth mental health crisis through the design and operation of their platforms.
Nevada state regulators have accused Elon Musk’s Boring Company of violating environmental regulations nearly 800 times in the last two years as it digs a sprawling tunnel network beneath Las Vegas for its Tesla-powered “people mover.”
Google has become the first company to be designated with “strategic market status” by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority, exposing its online search and advertising business to closer scrutiny.
Microsoft is making a major push into healthcare AI, aiming to establish itself as a leader in the field and reduce its reliance on partner OpenAI.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is investigating Elon Musk’s Tesla over incidents in which its vehicles drove through red lights and other instances of dangerous driving while using the company’s partial-automation software known as Full Self-Driving (FSD).
Elon Musk and X Corp. have settled a lawsuit brought by four former top Twitter executives who claimed they were denied $128 million in promised severance pay after Musk’s acquisition of the social media platform.
The Trump administration wants to bolster America’s GPS security to prevent foreign actors from threatening our national infrastructure. It should be no surprise that these moves have drawn the ire of China, and its interests are trying to subvert the administration’s efforts.
In the UK’s largest ever police operation targeting phone thefts, 18 suspects have been arrested and over 2,000 stolen mobile devices recovered, with police believing the gang could be responsible for exporting up to half of all phones stolen in London. The massive bust was made possible by one iPhone owner stubbornly tracking their device with the “Find My iPhone” app.
After a hearing that lasted two weeks, the DOJ and Google have concluded their arguments over how to address the company’s illegal monopoly in advertising software.
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup, xAI, has raised $20 billion in its latest funding round, with AI hardware powerhouse Nvidia leading the investment.
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, unveiled two sexually explicit chatbot companions this summer named Ani and Valentine. While the tech tycoon is constantly throwing out ideas for the future of AI, from video game development to a Wikipedia replacement, his big bet seems to be on AI girlfriends and boyfriends for lonely people whose mental health will suffer from further isolation.
The Supreme Court has declined to protect Google from a year-old order requiring significant changes to its Android app store, paving the way for increased competition against a system that a court declared an illegal monopoly in Fortnite maker Epic Games’ antitrust case against the internet giant.
Accounting and consulting giant Deloitte has announced it will offer a partial refund to the Australian government for a report that contained AI-hallucinated quotes and references to nonexistent research. This is just the latest example of a professional firm suffering massive embarrassment for the sloppy use of AI tools.
As AI tools like ChatGPT become increasingly popular for travel planning, some vacationers are finding themselves led astray by the technology’s hallucinations and misinformation — sometimes putting themselves in danger by searching for nonexistent destinations in dangerous locales.
Elon Musk’s Tesla suffered a 9.4 percent year-on-year decline in German sales for September, even as the overall sales of EVs rose by 31.9 percent in the country, according to data from the German road traffic agency KBA.
OpenAI and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) have reached a groundbreaking deal that could see Sam Altman’s company take a 10 percent stake in the chipmaker. The deal comes shortly after OpenAI signed a massive deal with Nvidia, the dominant player in the AI chip arena.
Jon Ganz led a life struggle and attempts at redemption — until his fascination with Google’s Gemini AI chatbot led him to vanish without a trace.
The parents of a 19-year-old woman who died along with two other teens in a fiery Cybertruck crash last year have filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk’s Tesla, claiming the vehicle’s door handle design prevented their daughter from escaping the burning wreckage.
Apple has taken down several apps that alert users to the presence of nearby ICE agents after facing legal threats from the Trump administration.
A Tesla Cybertruck owner visiting Chicago for a conference captured video of a woman wiping dog feces on his vehicle, which features a distinctive American flag wrap with President Donald Trump’s signature in gold on the tailgate. Internet sleuths quickly identified the alleged perpetrator
Security firms Mandiant and Google are investigating a new extortion campaign targeting top executives at multiple companies, with emails claiming sensitive data was stolen from their Oracle E-Business Suite systems.
Tech tycoon Elon Musk has made history by becoming the first person to amass a net worth exceeding $500 billion. The incredible surge in Musk’s wealth is driven by his interests in Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has announced that it will soon utilize user interactions with its AI digital assistant to inform ad targeting and content recommendations across its platforms, including Facebook and Instagram.
OpenAI has recently rolled out parental controls for ChatGPT and its video generator, Sora 2, in response to growing concerns about the AI’s safety for vulnerable users, particularly teenagers. The lawyer for a family that has accused ChatGPT of being their son’s “suicide coach” before his tragic death says the change comes “far too late.”
Gigi Sohn, the failed Democratic FCC nominee who was considered too radical even by Democrats, is criticizing Trump administration reforms to the $42.5 billion BEAD broadband program while reportedly working with some Republican state officials to undermine changes that remove DEI mandates and opened the program to satellite internet providers.
Sam Altman’s OpenAI is set to release a standalone app for its Sora 2 video generation AI model that will allow users to create and share AI-generated short videos in a format resembling TikTok.
A task force of over 80 leaders from the public, private, and nonprofit sectors is pushing for a coordinated, government-wide approach to fight the growing scourge of scams, which cost Americans over $158 billion last year. The recommendations include applying pressure to foreign countries that look the other way while their citizens steal Americans’ hard-earned savings.
