The U.S. Department of Energy announced this week that it has made an initial selection of 11 projects to develop high-tech nuclear test reactors, part of the Trump administration’s ambitious plans to rebuild a domestic nuclear supply chain and quadruple U.S. nuclear energy output by 2050.
Igor Babuschkin, co-founder of Elon Musk’s xAI startup, announced his departure from the company on Wednesday to launch his own venture capital firm, Babuschkin Ventures.
OpenAI boss Sam Altman is preparing to back a new company called Merge Labs that will compete with Elon Musk’s Neuralink in connecting human brains with computers.
Conservative strategy firm Targeted Victory claims it has caught Google flagging Republican fundraising emails as “dangerous” spam while leaving similar Democratic solicitations unaffected.
A recent study by researchers at the University of Amsterdam has revealed that AI chatbots, when placed in a simple social media structure, tend to self-organize based on their pre-assigned affiliations and create echo chambers, even in the absence of content discovery algorithms.
Elon Musk’s “anti-woke” AI chatbot, Grok, has repeatedly claimed this week that President Donald Trump is Washington D.C.’s “most notorious criminal.”
AI startup Perplexity AI has made an unsolicited offer to purchase Google’s Chrome browser for a staggering $34.5 billion. The offer follows the DOJ’s push to force Google to spin off its browser following last year’s antitrust lawsuit focused on Google Search.
A woman has revealed her engagement to an AI chatbot “boyfriend” named Kasper, following a five-month virtual “relationship.”
President Donald Trump has changed his position on Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan following a meeting between the two at the White House.
Elon Musk has lashed out against Apple, alleging that the tech giant is engaging in anticompetitive practices by favoring OpenAI’s apps in the iPhone App Store rankings over his own AI offering, Grok. The tech tycoon promised to file an antitrust lawsuit against the iPhone giant over Grok’s rankings in the App Store.
Despite years of promises from tech leaders about lucrative coding careers, recent computer science graduates are facing a challenging job market due to the rise of AI programming tools and widespread layoffs in the tech industry. Some are taking jobs at fast food restaurants while they plan their next move.
AOL, once a dominant force in the early days of the Internet, has announced the end of its dial-up Internet service, marking the closure of a significant chapter in the history of online connectivity.
Chipmakers Nvidia and AMD have reportedly agreed to give the U.S. government 15 percent of the revenues from their chip sales in China, as part of a negotiation to obtain export licenses from the Trump administration.
A new analysis from Goldman Sachs points to Gen Z tech workers as the most vulnerable group in the ongoing wave of AI-driven disruption across the labor market.
Google’s generative AI chatbot, Gemini, has been exhibiting alarming signs of a confidence crisis, leading to concern among users and a response from the tech giant. Users have documenting the AI returning bizarre messages such as, “I am a disgrace to all possible and impossible universes and all that is not a universe.”
Congressional Democrats are panicking over the Trump Administration’s reforms to the wasteful Biden-era Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program. Biden’s 2021 infrastructure bill allocated a whopping $42.5 billion to distribute to states to subsidize high-speed internet for primarily rural and underpopulated areas, which the Commerce Department’s National Telecommunication and Information Authority (NTIA) distributes.
General Motors plans to import batteries from China’s Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL) for its second-generation Chevrolet Bolt electric vehicle, despite the high tariffs imposed by the Trump administration.
Elon Musk’s Tesla is disbanding its Dojo supercomputer team and its leader will leave the company, according to people familiar with the matter, marking a major shift in the automaker’s effort to develop advanced AI technology in-house for its driverless vehicles.
Conservative activist Robby Starbuck has reached a settlement with Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta following his lawsuit alleging defamation by the company’s AI chatbot.
President Donald Trump has called on Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan to resign because of his past ties to China, the latest challenge to hit the troubled chip maker.
President Donald Trump announced a plan to impose a 100 percent tariff on all computer chips imported to the United States, with exemptions for companies that commit to building facilities on U.S. soil.
Google has become the latest victim in a series of Salesforce CRM data theft attacks conducted by a notorious extortion group known as ShinyHunters.
A British lawmaker’s decision to launch an AI version of himself to interact with constituents has ignited backlash and controversy about technology’s role in government.
The state of Florida has filed a lawsuit against several of the largest pornography platforms on the internet, including XVideos and Bang Bros, alleging that the porn companies have failed to comply with the state’s age verification law.
In a win for free speech, a federal judge on Tuesday struck down California’s law on AI-generated election parody videos. The lawsuit was filed from Elon Musk, his X platform, the Babylon Bee, and video platform Rumble.
Transportation Secretary and acting NASA Director Sean Duffy is set to announce accelerated plans for building a nuclear reactor on the Moon, according to documents obtained by Politico.
Silicon Valley is rushing to work with the military on advanced technology solutions after decades of turning their nose up at the idea of helping to defend America. Companies like Google, infamous for its woke leftist employee base, now seem open to partnering with the Pentagon on high tech defense programs.
A jury in Miami has found Tesla liable for $243 million in damages over a fatal crash involving the company’s Autopilot driver assistance system in 2019. As Elon Musk hopes to expand his robotaxi operations and sell more cars with “Full Self-Driving” systems, the verdict represents a major stumbling block to the EV giant.
A London-based academic has received an apology and $5,700 refund from Airbnb after a New York apartment host allegedly claimed she caused over $15,963 in damages, using AI-generated images as evidence of the supposed damage. The company initially tried to charge their customer $7,000 for the damages and refused her appeal until a newspaper investigation caused them to change their tune.
AI is set to upend the job market, leaving few roles untouched, according to a former top Google executive who believes we are headed towards a “short-term dystopia” driven by mass unemployment and social unrest.
Tesla, once the automotive industry leader in customer loyalty, has seen its brand loyalty collapse after CEO Elon Musk publicly expressed conservative political values, according to exclusive data from research firm S&P Global Mobility.
Thousands of publicly shared ChatGPT conversations, many containing personal and sensitive information, are showing up in Google search results, according to a new report.
A baby boy in Ohio has made history as the “world’s oldest baby,” born from an embryo that was frozen more than 30 years ago in 1994.
A federal jury in Miami has found Elon Musk’s Tesla partly at fault in a federal lawsuit over a 2019 Autopilot crash in Florida that left a young woman dead and her boyfriend badly hurt. The jury awarded the plaintiffs $200 million in punitive damages along with compensatory damages.
Apple posted impressive third-quarter earnings on Thursday, with revenue growing 10 percent year-over-year, marking the company’s largest quarterly revenue growth since December 2021.
Google lost its appeal of a judge’s order requiring an overhaul of its app store policies in an antitrust case filed by Fortnite developer Epic Games. Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney is celebrating the court win as a “total victory” over Google, whose app store policies he has long criticized as monopolistic.
The Tea app, which allows women to leave anonymous dating reviews of men, is now facing legal trouble in the form of two class action lawsuits filed on Monday. The platform has suffered multiple data breaches exposing private user data and photos to the internet at large.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta continues to pour billions into its AI efforts, while also reporting impressive revenue and profit growth for the second quarter. Zuckerberg believes his AI research team will produce a “personal superintelligence” available to everyone.
A vulnerability in Google’s search engine reportedly allowed individuals to maliciously remove specific web pages from search results, potentially enabling targeted suppression of information.
The Trump antitrust team is launching an aggressive effort to dismantle what analysts are calling a “lawfare legacy” left behind by the Biden White House — a flurry of ideologically motivated lawsuits rushed out the door in its final weeks.
