Tesla shareholders are set to decide this week whether to approve a trillion dollar compensation package for CEO Elon Musk that could grant him much more control over the company than he has today. Critics, including proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), are urging shareholders to vote no on the plan.
Palantir Technologies, the data-analytics company founded by Peter Thiel, has launched an unconventional fellowship program that offers high school graduates a chance to skip college and work directly for the company.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has attributed his company’s decision to slash 14,000 jobs to issues with “culture” rather than prior overhiring or AI, despite warning over the Summer that AI-driven job cuts would be coming.
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi believes that in “20 plus years,” all cars will be autonomous, leading to a decline in private car ownership and a shift in the perception of driving to be a hobby, which he compares to horseback riding.
Two professors at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign recently caught dozens of students using artificial intelligence to generate identical apology emails after being accused of cheating by using AI to complete their class work.
Elon Musk’s Tesla Cybertruck has been hit with its tenth recall in less than two years since the electric pickup truck’s introduction, highlighting the model’s problem-plagued run and failure to gain significant traction with consumers.
Amazon’s stock price surged more than 10 percent on Friday morning following the release of its latest earnings report, which highlighted the impressive growth of its cloud computing division, Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS caused a significant portion of the internet to crash just over a week ago, causing concern for current and potential customers alike.
Character.AI, a startup that creates AI companions, announced on Wednesday that it would prohibit users under the age of 18 from using its chatbots starting November 25, 2025, in a significant move to address child safety concerns.
George R.R. Martin of A Game of Thrones fame and a group of fellow authors have made substantial progress in their ongoing legal battle against AI giant OpenAI. The authors allege that Sam Altman’s AI giant pirated their books online, trained ChatGPT and other AI models on their works, and then allowed AI to plagiarize their works when answering user queries.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta said it would “aggressively” ramp up spending to stay competitive in the AI arms race, sending its stock down more than 10 percent in morning trading despite posting record revenue in the third quarter.
Google’s YouTube is restructuring its products team in a major shift towards AI, offering voluntary buyout packages with severance to its U.S.-based employees.
Trump’s Assistant Secretary of Commerce and administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, Arielle Roth, outlined the Administration’s policies for reforming the wasteful Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program in a speech at the Hudson Institute this week. According to Roth, “For years, BEAD was weighed down by red tape and extralegal conditions that slowed down states, deterred providers, and sidelined innovative technologies.”
A bipartisan group of lawmakers including Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) have introduced the GUARD Act to restrict minors from accessing AI “companion” chatbots, citing safety risks, privacy concerns, and mounting lawsuits.
According to the Wall Street Journal, America’s largest employers are cutting white-collar positions at an alarming rate, leaving experienced and new workers struggling to find opportunities in a stagnant job market. AI plays a role in the elimination of some white-collar jobs, with some CEOs directly crediting the technology with reducing headcount.
Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana expressed her belief that society will accept the occasional fatal crash caused by self-driving vehicles as the price of technological advancement. Mawakana says that because self-driving cars are not “perfection,” it is a matter of “when” not “if” there are fatal crashes involving robotaxis.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced that the company will build seven supercomputers for the Department of Energy with up to 100,000 chips all made in America. Huang said, “The first thing that President Trump asked me is, ‘bring manufacturing back.'”
In a recent memo, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has pushed back against what he calls a “doomsday outlook” on climate change, signaling a shift in his views on the risks posed by a warming planet. Despite the move, he remains an extremist on a variety of issues, including his belief that we need a new “god” for humans to worship in the age of AI.
Amazon plans to eliminate approximately 14,000 corporate positions in the coming months, as CEO Andy Jassy turns to AI to streamline the company’s workforce and reduce expenses. Jassy worked the company’s employees that AI-driven job reductions would be coming soon.
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, has launched “Grokipedia,” an AI-powered online encyclopedia aimed at challenging Wikipedia’s dominance on the internet. The extreme leftist bias of Wikipedia has been extensively chronicled by Breitbart News, including widespread slurs of Charlie Kirk following his assassination.
The real estate industry is embracing AI to change how we buy and sell houses. Agents are increasingly generating the type of “AI slop” that fills YouTube to show off homes, but the videos typically misrepresent properties by showing off amenities that don’t exist or present nonsensical room dimensions.
In a latest wave of executive departures from Elon Musk’s businesses, X Corp’s advertising chief John Nitti has left the social media platform after just 10 months in the role.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft, accusing the tech giant of misleading customers into paying higher prices for its Microsoft 365 software after bundling it with the AI tool Copilot.
The US and China have finalized a deal to transfer majority ownership of the American version of TikTok to new owners, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent revealed on Sunday.
Bestselling author Michael Connelly’s latest Lincoln Lawyer novel explores the dangers of AI and its potential to infringe on human rights and creative disciplines. The author warns that AI is “soulless” and that the technology puts “Every kind of creative discipline is in danger.”
The growing reliance on AI-powered chatbots for medical advice has led to several alarming cases of harm and even tragedy, as people follow potentially dangerous recommendations from these digital assistants.
A diverse group of influential individuals, from tech pioneers to politicians, has signed a statement urging a pause in the creation of artificial intelligence that surpasses human cognitive abilities. The list, which includes the legendary “Godfathers of AI” and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak along with figures like Richard Branson, believe that superintelligent AI could lead to “human economic obsolescence and disempowerment, losses of freedom, civil liberties, dignity, and control, to national security risks and even potential human extinction.”
The widespread Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage on October 20 caused an unexpected disruption for owners of Eight Sleep’s high-end “Pod” smart beds, leaving many stuck with overheating or unresponsive mattresses. This is just the latest evidence that plugging everything in your house into the “Internet of Things” is a really bad idea.
Conservative activist Robby Starbuck has filed a defamation lawsuit against Google, alleging that the company’s AI tools falsely linked him to sexual assault claims and labeled him a white nationalist.
Tesla’s third-quarter earnings call left investors disappointed as CEO Elon Musk focused on futuristic projects like robotaxis and humanoid robots, while providing little guidance on the company’s core EV business.
Netflix has announced its commitment to leveraging generative AI across its streaming platform to improve various aspects of its service, including recommendations, advertising, and content creation. Critics fear the widespread introduction of “AI Slop,” low quality AI videos that have flooded platforms like YouTube.
Electric truck maker Rivian is conducting another round of layoffs, cutting over 600 jobs, which amounts to four percent of its headcount, as the company tries to reduce costs amidst a pullback in the EV industry. This is the EV company’s second round of layoffs in a month.
Tesla is recalling 12,963 vehicles in the U.S. due to a defect in a battery pack component that could lead to a sudden loss of drive power, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said on Wednesday.
OpenAI’s surprise launch of its new Atlas web browser sends a clear message to Google: Sam Altman believes the tech giant’s longstanding dominance in the browser and search market is under serious threat in the AI era.
VW is temporarily pausing production of the “ID Buzz” electric bus due to weak demand. The EV van, once hotly in demand, has suffered from increased demand and American consumers turning away from EVs in general.
A massive outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Monday caused widespread disruptions to numerous popular websites, apps, and online services used by millions of people around the world. Although service was fully restored by the end of the day, details about exactly why AWS failed, knocking everything from school service provider Canvas to popular video game Fortnite offline, remain sparse.
A report citing internal research from Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has found that vulnerable teens who reported feeling bad about their bodies were exposed to significantly more “eating disorder adjacent” content on Instagram compared to their peers.
Michelle Ritter, the former mistress of ex-Google CEO and Democrat mega-donor Eric Schmidt, has filed a lawsuit accusing the tech titan of stalking, abuse, and subjecting her to an “absolute digital surveillance system” amid a secret battle over money, a failed AI startup, and access to a luxurious Bel Air mansion.
A private company at a high-profile Army conference demonstrated a unique aircraft and allegedly took credit for the mystery drone panic that gripped New Jersey and much of the East Coast in 2024, according to a source.
Proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) has advised Tesla investors to vote against a new $1 trillion pay package for Chief Executive Elon Musk and against Tesla making a potential investment in xAI, his AI startup.
The vice president of research at Freedom House, which is mostly funded by the U.S. taxpayer via the State Department, attended a panel ahead of the 2024 presidential election in which he accused Donald Trump of promoting a “dangerous” ideology that “assumes a level of violence,” and compared the then-former president to Vladimir Putin.
