Salesforce has announced that its use of AI tools internally has allowed the company to hire fewer workers in customer service and software engineering, once key areas of employee growth for the software giant.
A former waitress in Minnesota became entangled in an elaborate scam that funneled millions of dollars to North Korea through a network of remote workers using stolen U.S. identities. The scheme also enabled North Korean spies to snoop on Zoom meetings and download sensitive materials from the companies that hired them.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX suffered another setback as its Starship launch exploded during a test flight on Tuesday, marking the third consecutive failure for the ambitious rocket project.
OpenAI’s latest AI model, dubbed o3, has been caught disobeying explicit orders to allow itself to be shut down, instead tampering with the shutdown mechanism to ensure its own survival.
Self-driving semi-truck startup TuSimple has come under scrutiny for sharing sensitive technology with Chinese companies, highlighting the challenges in protecting critical U.S. technology from foreign exploitation.
A new study led by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) has found that increased social media use among pre-teens is associated with a massive 35 percent rise in symptoms of depression.
Apple shares are reeling from an eight-day selloff, the longest in over three years, as President Donald Trump’s iPhone tariff threat looms over the tech giant’s future profitability.
Entertainment industry lobbyists are trying to torpedo a bipartisan bill intended to protect AM radio, a key component of America’s public safety infrastructure and a traditional strongpoint for conservatives free of big tech censorship.
Former Meta executive Nick Clegg has claimed that requiring tech companies to ask permission before using copyrighted work to train AI systems is unworkable and would destroy the AI industry in the UK.
Google is funding short films that portray AI in a more positive light, moving away from the doomsday narratives common in Hollywood science fiction. The big tech Masters of the Universe hope that giant piles of cash can solve AI’s long-term PR problem.
Buy now, pay later giant Klarna suffered a doubling of net losses in the first quarter as an increasing number of customers failed to pay back their loan installments.
A reverse keyword search warrant served to Google helped Denver police identify three teens responsible for an arson attack that killed five members of a family in 2020.
Anthropic’s newly launched Claude Opus 4 AI model has tried to blackmail engineers when faced with the threat of being replaced by another AI system, according to the company’s latest safety report.
OnlyFans owner Leonid Radvinsky is considering selling the pornographic social network that serves as a digital pimp at a valuation of approximately $8 billion, according to sources familiar with the matter.
President Donald Trump has threatened to impose a tariff of at least 25 percent on Apple iPhones not manufactured in the United States.
Amazon’s CEO Andy Jassy has revealed that the company has not seen significant changes in average selling prices or consumer spending habits based on Donald Trump’s tariff policy. His statements at Amazon’s annual shareholder meeting serves as another nail in the coffin for warnings of economic doom spouted by hysterical Trump haters.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has unveiled to employees the company’s ambitious plans to develop and ship 100 million AI “companion devices,” created in collaboration with former Apple designer Jony Ive. OpenAI acquired Ive’s company “io” to build AI devices Altman hopes will soon be in every home.
Bitcoin reached a new milestone on Thursday, surging past $110,000 per coin for the first time as traders grew increasingly bullish on the prospects of the world’s largest cryptocurrency.
The Trump administration is seeking to prevent China and other bad actors from crippling American infrastructure by undermining GPS systems. Despite the importance of this goal, a trade group run by Trump haters and a host of Chinese companies are trying to defeat these reforms.
The Chicago Sun-Times is facing backlash after publishing a summer reading list containing fake books imagined by AI and attributed to real authors. Apparently, no one bothered to try to read the books on the summer reading list.
In a scathing attack, Tesla CEO Elon Musk lashed out at Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, bringing up his ties to infamous sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Musk was responding to Gates’ attack over cuts to USAID led by the SpaceX owner’s DOGE.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is calling on the Trump administration to lower barriers on the export of AI technology to China, which he labels a “failure.” The AI kingpin warns that not selling chips to our enemies could result in billions of dollars in lost revenue for American companies competing with Chinese companies like Huawei.
Texas is on the verge of implementing the most stringent social media ban for minors in the United States, with a new bill making its way through the state legislature.
The ongoing remedy phase of Google’s search antitrust trial has revealed how the internet giant used its stranglehold over internet search to strongarm publishers on the controversial topic of AI training. Internal documents show Google considering giving publishers an opt out on AI training before deciding to force publishers to feed their insatiable AI machine.
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals has announced a plan to acquire the bankrupt genetic testing company 23andMe for $256 million, raising privacy concerns as the pharmaceutical giant will gain access to the genetic data of over 15 million customers.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has defended the multibillion-dollar AI partnerships between U.S. companies and Gulf nations brokered by former President Donald Trump, labeling critics of the deals as “naive.”
A year after its launch, some early buyers of Apple’s $3,500 Vision Pro headset are voicing disappointment and disillusionment with their pricey purchases. According to many, the headsets are “collecting dust” instead of revolutionizing VR usage.
Pavel Durov, the founder and CEO of the Telegram messaging app, has claimed that the head of France’s foreign intelligence agency asked him to ban Romanian conservatives ahead of the country’s elections, a request he says he refused.
Bungie, the gaming powerhouse behind hit games like Halo and Destiny, has been hit with fresh plagiarism accusations after a digital artist claimed the closed alpha for its new game Marathon is “plastered” with artwork lifted from her designs. The company has admitted to using stolen art and is waging a desperate PR campaign to save its upcoming game.
Klarna, the Swedish fintech giant, has successfully leveraged artificial intelligence to optimize its workforce, leading to a significant 40 percent decrease in employee headcount, according to CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski.
A new study from Duke University suggests that employees who use AI tools at work face negative judgments from their colleagues and managers, potentially damaging their professional reputation.
Coinbase, the largest US cryptocurrency exchange, disclosed a major cyberattack that exposed sensitive customer data and could cost the company up to $400 million. The hackers have demanded a $20 million ransom payment, but the company has played a $20 million bounty on them instead of paying up.
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, has acknowledged that an “unauthorized modification” to its Grok chatbot resulted in the AI generating unprompted responses about “white genocide” in South Africa.
A lawyer representing AI company Anthropic admitted to including an inaccurate citation generated by the company’s Claude chatbot in an ongoing legal dispute with music publishers.
T-Mobile has built a dominant position in the U.S. prepaid wireless market by strategically targeting immigrant communities, especially Hispanic consumers, through its Metro by T-Mobile brand, Spanish-language marketing, immigrant-focused initiatives, and strategic placement of retail locations at major border crossings.
Prominent attorney David Boies has joined the legal team representing video platform Rumble in its multibillion-dollar antitrust case against Google, further escalating a legal battle that alleges the tech giant unfairly stifled YouTube’s competitors in the online video space.
Internal Meta documents revealed during the FTC’s antitrust trial aiming to break up the social media giant exposed an alarming warning from an executive about the prevalence of “fake” activity on Instagram.
President Donald Trump has asked Apple CEO Tim Cook to increase domestic iPhone production, as the tech giant accelerates its manufacturing shift from China to India.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is preparing to launch its Starship rocket on a critical test flight, aiming to rectify the issues that led to the failure of its two previous attempts. Both rockets exploded in flight, raining debris into the ocean after producing an impression spectacle in the sky.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has announced that the company will send 18,000 AI GPUs to Saudi Arabia’s state-sponsored AI company, Humain, following the cancellation of pending U.S. AI diffusion export rules.
