A former Twitter employee accused of spying on political dissidents for the Saudi Arabian government while working for the social media platform is set to stand trial this week in a San Francisco federal court.
Last year, Tesla invested $1.5 billion in Bitcoin, stating that the digital currency had “long-term potential.” Since then, the company has sold three-quarters of its holdings despite this rosy outlook on Bitcoin’s future.
Google has announced a two-week hiring freeze at the company following a recent memo to employees revealing that there would be a slowing of their hiring process for the remainder of the year. The company-wide memo encouraged workers to “be more entrepreneurial” and work with “more hunger.”
A Florida jury has awarded the families of two teens killed in a fiery Tesla crash $10.5 million. The lawsuit claimed that the teens survived the car crash but were killed when the Tesla’s batteries caught on fire. The father of one teen also claimed Elon Musk’s company removed a speed limiter from the car without his permission.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook is reportedly reallocating resources from its News tab and newsletter platform Bulletin in an attempt to focus more heavily on the “creator economy,” according to a recent internal memo.
Facebook (now known as Meta) alleges that its social networking platforms have dozens of outside rivals, but a recently released internal memo reveals that top executives were more worried about threats posed by their own products rather than by competitors.
Delaware Court of Chancery Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick ruled in Twitter’s favor on Tuesday granting the company’s request for an expedited trial in the $44 billion legal battle between the social media network and Elon Musk. The trial is set to being in October, while Musk wanted to delay it until 2023.
Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok has reportedly begun laying off its American, UK, and E.U. employees as part of a global restructuring of the business.
Amazon is finally taking action against fake reviews on its platform, suing the administrators of more than 10,000 Facebook groups used to coordinate fake reviews on the site.
According to a source close to the ongoing legal battle between Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Twitter, the tech billionaire plans to file a countersuit against Twitter in the coming days.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has reportedly filed a motion opposing Twitter’s request to fast-track the trial over his decision to pull out of his $44 billion deal to purchase the social media giant.
The Wall Street Journal reports that before Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s battle over Twitter, the billionaire faced another fight over how his charitable donations should be managed. His inner circle has been rocked by infighting focused on Musk’s choice of a Russian-born former professional gambler as the ideal person to direct his charitable donations.
The Wall Street Journal has revealed in an exclusive report that e-commerce giant Amazon has been reducing the number of items it sells under its own brands due to poor sales in recent months. The company is also facing intense regulatory pressure over its private label business, which is accused of using sales data from other brands on the Amazon platform to hijack their customer base with an inferior copy of their products.
Elon Musk’s 76-year-old father, Errol Musk, has revealed a secret child with his own stepdaughter, Jana Bezuidenhout, his second child with her. Elon Musk is quite familiar with secret children, his twins with a top executive at his Neuralink company were recently revealed as having been born just weeks apart from the surrogate birth of his second child with singer Grimes.
Elon Musk’s Tesla recently warned customers in Texas to avoid charging their electric cars during peak times in an attempt to prevent overtaxing the state’s power grid amidst an ongoing heatwave. An alert sent to Tesla cars in the state warns owners not to charge their vehicles during the afternoon and well into the evening.
Elon Musk’s Tesla has lost its top artificial intelligence expert. Director of AI and leader of the Autopilot vision team Andrej Karpathy is leaving the embattled company after five years at the same time the NHTSA is ramping up its investigation of more than 200 accidents involving Tesla Autopilot.
Ridesharing giant Uber has been sued by more than 500 women who claim to have been sexually assaulted by drivers who provide services for the company.
As its ongoing legal battle with Tesla CEO Elon Musk heats up, social media giant Twitter faced a major outage this morning that brought the platform down for users around the world.
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has spent the past few months battling with Twitter in a botched attempt to acquire the company, all while his other businesses including Tesla and SpaceX are suffering setbacks.
The CEO of software company ReadyTech, John Woodward, has been arrested in connection with the 1992 murder of computer engineer Laurie Houts in Mountain View, California, the heart of Silicon Valley. Woodward has faced trial twice in the murder, with both trials ending in hung juries. Authorities believe that new DNA techniques have finally provided the evidence needed to prove their case.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai recently told staff in a memo that the company will be slowing hiring and to “be more entrepreneurial” and work with “more hunger.”
Following former President Donald Trump’s criticism of Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who he labeled as a “bullshit artist,” Musk tweeted that he doesn’t “hate the man,” but that it was time for “Trump to hang up his hat & sail into the sunset.”
Tech giant Amazon is reportedly partnering with the Seattle-based Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center to develop a cancer vaccine and has already begun recruiting for clinical trials.
Twitter said in a letter sent Monday that Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s decision to terminate his $44 billion buyout of the company is “invalid and wrongful.”
Former President Donald Trump labeled Tesla CEO Elon Musk as a “bullshit artist” at his Alaska rally on Saturday, referring to Musk pulling out of his deal to buy Twitter as well as his claims about voting Republican. Here are some of the times that ultimate hypemaster Musk proved Trump’s characterization correct.
124,000 confidential internal documents from ridesharing giant Uber were recently leaked to The Guardian, revealing that the company attempted to lobby Joe Biden and other world leaders while also hiding information from law enforcement and purposefully putting drivers at risk.
Twitter has reportedly hired merger law experts Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz LLP as it plans to sue Tesla CEO Elon Musk over his decision to drop his $44 billion takeover of the company.
Former President Donald Trump referred to Tesla CEO Elon Musk as a “bullshit artist” at his Alaska rally on Saturday. Referring to Musk pulling out of his deal to buy Twitter and also recent claims of voting for a Republican for the first time, Trump said, “He’s got himself a mess, you know, he said the other day, ‘I’ve never voted for a Republican.’ I said I didn’t know that. He told me he voted for me. So he’s another bullshit artist but he’s not going to be buying it, although he might later. Who the hell knows what’s going to happen? He’s got a pretty rotten contract. I looked at his contract, not a good contract. Sign up for Truth. We love Truth.”
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has abandoned his deal to acquire Twitter for $44 billion in a letter to Twitter filed with the SEC on Friday. According to the letter, “Twitter has not complied with its contractual obligations. For nearly two months, Mr. Musk has sought the data and information necessary to ‘make an independent assessment of the prevalence of fake or spam accounts on Twitter’s platform’.”
Researchers at Google’s DeepMind AI division reportedly ran a number of experiments where a deep neural network was ordered to distribute resources in a more equitable way that humans preferred. The researchers claim their data shows that AI would do a better job governing America than humans.
Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, the ex-boyfriend of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes who served as President and COO of her company, has been found guilty of conspiring with Holmes to defraud investors and patients who used the company’s bogus blood testing services.
Elon Musk’s deal to purchase Twitter is reportedly in danger of falling apart after Musk’s team concluded that Twitter’s figures on spam accounts are not verifiable, according to sources close to the negotiation.
A Former Facebook employee and Air Force veteran is suing Facebook (now known as Meta) claiming that he was fired in retaliation for raising concerns about fellow employees accessing deleted user data and sharing it with law enforcement.
Disneyland’s Facebook and Instagram accounts were recently hacked by a self-proclaimed “super hacker” who made racist posts and threatened to release another coronavirus. The posts were deleted by Disney within an hour.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk secretly had twins last November with a top executive at one of his companies, creepy brain chip manufacturer Neuralink.
A recent study conducted by researchers from The Ohio State University found that neighborhoods with more dogs have lower rates of homicide, robbery, and aggravated assaults when compared to areas with low dog ownership.
Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Mark Warner (D-VA) have called on the FTC to investigate Chinese-owned social media app TikTok and its China-based employees’ access to U.S. user data. The Senators believe the Chinese company’s “repeated misrepresentations” deserve deep scrutiny by the federal government.
Google’s hapless content moderation process for YouTube has begun flagging horror videos as “for kids,” cutting off creators from setting the rating of the videos as ages 18 and above. One horror video marked as appropriate for children is a fake government broadcast urging viewers to kill their families after a successful invasion of America.
In a recent article, leftist tech outlet Wired describes how the Facebook’s Instagram algorithm repeatedly showed one young mother videos and images of ill, dying, or dead children. The constant drumbeat of negative content on social media platforms is particularly harmful to young women and teen girls, with China’s TikTok only expanding the negativity.
The European Union has successfully E-commerce giant Amazon has reportedly agreed to simplify the process of canceling its Prime membership in Europe following pressure from the European Union. The EU accused Amazon of displaying “multiple pages” containing “distraction information” and “unclear button labels” when users attempt to cancel their Prime subscription.
