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.
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.”
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.
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.
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 widespread outage affecting Amazon Web Services (AWS) caused significant disruptions to numerous popular websites and services on Monday, showcasing the global reliance on cloud infrastructure. Although the outage seems to be fixed as the day begins on the East Coast, lingering outages continue to be reported.
Meta has announced a set of upcoming parental control features aimed at safeguarding teens’ conversations with AI characters on its platforms, including Facebook and Instagram.
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.
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.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has suspended a large Facebook group for targeting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents on its platform.
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.
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.
Following the assassination of Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk one month ago today, Wikipedia editors responded by smearing Kirk across multiple articles even as tens of millions viewed the pages and high-level site leaders monitored them. Such smears included editors labeling Kirk far-right both openly and surreptitiously, in one case prompting Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) to call Wikipedia “wicked” on social media. Editors also advocated labeling Trumpism as fascism in response.
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.
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.
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.
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.
AI-generated security footage generated by OpenAI’s “Sora 2” platform shows CEO Sam Altman getting caught stealing a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) from a Target store.
Apple has taken down several apps that alert users to the presence of nearby ICE agents after facing legal threats from the Trump administration.
Larry Sanger, co-founder of Wikipedia, has come out with his heaviest criticism of the online encyclopedia yet, accompanied by a call to reform. In nine theses published to his blog and Wikipedia itself, Sanger outlines proposals for reform with essays describing and analyzing the myriad problems with the site since his departure in 2002, including the purging of conservative media through a sourcing blacklist.
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.
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.
Elon Musk’s business empire has been rocked by a wave of high-level executive departures over the past year, as the billionaire’s intense management style and interests outside of business shake the ranks of his formerly loyal acolytes.
Microsoft hosts ready-to-use political censorship software on its Azure Marketplace in China, further evidence of how the company has aided the development and implementation of the country’s repressive system of political control.
Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger told Tucker Carlson during Monday’s episode of The Tucker Carlson Show that anyone can easily look up a list of Wikipedia’s blacklisted sources. Breitbart News features prominently on the list of media outlets that users are forbidden from citing when editing articles on the leftist “encyclopedia.”
Daniel Ek will step down as CEO of Spotify, the streaming music giant known for censoring conservatives and squabbling with artists over royalties. Ek will become executive chairman as his top executives Alex Norström and Gustav Söderström take over as co-CEOs on January 1, 2026.
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, has accused rival Sam Altman’s OpenAI of stealing trade secrets with the help of former Musk employees, according to new court filings.
Meta is set to launch paid, ad-free versions of Facebook and Instagram for users in the United Kingdom. The UK government welcomes the option of a paid social media subscription, saying that it “moves Meta away from targeting users with ads as part of the standard terms and conditions for using its Facebook and Instagram services, which we’ve been clear is not in line with UK law.”
Elon Musk’s Tesla is calling on the EPA to uphold the legal basis for regulating greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles, warning that repealing these standards threatens the electric automaker’s investments and its alleged fight against “climate change.” EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has labeled the rules as the “holy grail of the climate change religion.”
Amazon has agreed to pay $2.5 billion to settle FTC allegations that the company “tricked and trapped” consumers into signing up for Prime memberships and hindered their attempts to cancel the subscription. FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson said, “The Trump-Vance FTC is committed to fighting back when companies try to cheat ordinary Americans out of their hard-earned pay.”
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has announced the launch of a new super PAC aimed at electing state candidates from both parties who support the company’s stance on AI development and regulation. According to the company, the American Technology Excellence Project super PAC is launching “amid a growing patchwork of inconsistent regulations that threaten homegrown innovation and investments in AI.”
Nvidia has announced a massive $100 billion investment in OpenAI, sending ripples through the tech industry and boosting shares of semiconductor companies globally.
The FTC and Amazon are headed to trial over the government’s accusations that the tech giant deceives consumers into signing up for its Prime subscription service and makes it difficult for them to cancel their memberships.
Google on Tuesday promised to restore YouTube accounts that have been banned for political speech, and said that the Biden administration pressured Google to censor Americans that did not violate the video, in a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH).
