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OpenAI’s leadership team is taking steps to retain top research talent as Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta recruits the company’s staff with lucrative offers. 

Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Monday struck a deal that seeks to resolve a dispute over a Big Beautiful Bill provision that would set a ten-year moratorium on state-based artificial intelligence (AI) regulation.

Canada has rescinded its digital services tax in response to President Donald Trump suspending trade talks with the aim of continuing negotiations. 

A New Jersey man has filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk’s Tesla, alleging that the EV giant’s design defects led to a fatal crash on the Garden State Parkway that claimed the lives of his parents and teenage sister.

An article on Wikipedia about the growing scandal over Pakistani-heritage grooming gangs targeting young white women in the United Kingdom and politically-correct government cover-ups of their crimes was nominated for deletion last week by Simon McNeil, a Marxist socialist and science fiction author from Canada who edits as “Simonm223” on the online encyclopedia. He claimed the article was a biased split of the article on child sexual abuse in the UK pushing a “fringe” view. McNeil was criticized on social media for the move, many noting a blog post he wrote that supported exposing children to sexual kinks and fetishes at Pride marches.

USC freshman basketball phenom Alijah Arenas recently opened up about his terrifying experience surviving a fiery Tesla Cybertruck crash earlier this year. The crash in Elon Musk’s EV left Arenas in a medically-induced coma due to smoke inhalation.o

Microsoft Research Asia, an influential research institute based in Beijing and Shanghai, has continued to conduct AI research at high risk of abuse, including facial recognition, with sanctioned Chinese universities linked to the communist country’s military. Despite these ties Microsoft insists there are guardrails against such sensitive research at the institute.  

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Friday to uphold a Texas law requiring pornography websites to verify the age of its users.

Elon Musk has fired one of his closest minions, Omead Afshar, from his position as Tesla head of operations for North America and Europe, as the EV giant faces flagging sales and business problems around the world.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has hired three prominent OpenAI researchers to bolster the company’s efforts in developing superintelligent AI.

Google is testing a feature called “Preferred Sources” that allows users to select trusted news outlets like Breitbart News to see more content from in the “Top Stories” section of search results. This feature can be enabled with a few simple steps — but is only available in America and India as of this writing.

Jeff Bezos and his space company Blue Origin are attempting to capitalize on the recent rift between President Donald Trump and SpaceX founder Elon Musk to secure more government contracts.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has prevailed in a copyright infringement lawsuit brought by authors who claimed the company violated their rights by using millions of copyrighted books to train its AI language model, Llama. Although the decision is a win for Meta and other AI giants, the judge stated the decision was more about the plaintiffs’ poor case than about Meta’s approach to AI training.

Billionaire X owner Elon Musk has announced that hashtags will no longer be allowed in advertisements on his social media platform. Calling hashtags an “esthetic nightmare,” Musk has taken another step towards his peculiar vision of what a perfect social network should look like.

Astronauts from India, Poland, and Hungary were on board when Axiom Mission 4 launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, bound for the International Space Station (ISS).

On the front page of Wikipedia last week, the prominent “Did you know” section promoted an article about the “fuck tree” in North London. Reputedly a popular spot gay people use when “cruising” for casual sex, the article on the tree at the time it appeared on the front page included evocative sexual descriptions and explicit mentions of sexual conduct.

Elon Musk’s ongoing legal cage match with Sam Altman’s OpenAI has taken an interesting turn after the tech titan’s legal team stated that Musk “does not use a computer” in a recent court filing. 

Intel has announced plans to wind down its automotive business, leading to layoffs for most employees in that segment. The embattled tech giant recently announced a massive layoff of factory employees — and isn’t out of the woods yet.

Tesla’s new car sales in Europe have declined for the fifth month in a row, as customers increasingly opt for more affordable Chinese electric vehicles, according to data from the European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA). Elon Musk’s EV giant suffered a 27.9 percent drop in May on a year-over-year basis.

A discussion last week on deleting the Wikipedia article “Destruction of Israel in Iranian policy” after Israel began its air campaign against Iran was closed by an admin Sunday with a decision to “merge” the page into one on Iran-Israel relations. The decision came despite a majority of editors being opposed to the page’s removal.

You will no longer read messages from Simone Biles on X. She deleted that account after being factually refuted and loudly shouted down by Riley Gaines and throngs of X users for her terrible takes on transgender athletes. However, that doesn’t mean she’s gone completely silent on social media.

No one said that defending your teammate and the most popular female athlete alive wouldn’t pay off.

The FTC has approved Omnicom Group’s acquisition of IPG after the advertising giants agreed not to collude on politically motivated ad boycotts to censor conservative viewpoints.

Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Tuesday walked through what the U.S. has done to become “energy dominant” under the leadership of President Donald Trump, explaining that the price of oil is a “great testament” to this agenda.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has contacted Tesla following the circulation of videos on social media depicting the company’s robotaxis driving erratically on public roads in Austin, Texas.

AI company Anthropic has found that top artificial intelligence models from industry leaders like OpenAI, Elon Musk’s xAI, and Google are prone to employing unethical means, including blackmail, when their goals are under threat.

New York is moving to construct the first major U.S. nuclear facility in more than 15 years.

Ford has issued a recall for 197,432 Mustang Mach-E EVs from the 2021 through 2025 model years to address a potential door lock malfunction that could trap rear-seat passengers in the vehicle — a particularly dangerous situation for children.

Elon Musk has rolled out his Tesla robotaxi service in Austin, Texas, marking the EV giant’s entry into the growing autonomous ride-hailing market. Tesla’s driverless cabs are currently charging a flat fee of $4.20, Musk’s latest in a long line of drug references.

Mark Zuckerberg’s comments on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast and his multiple olive branches to Donald Trump and the MAGA movement have reportedly left Meta employees horrified and disgruntled.

U.S. Olympic gymnastics legend Simone Biles found herself in an unfamiliar position recently: being on the losing side.

The mission to destroy the Iranian nuclear facility at Fordow could only be accomplished with a special type of bomb, the 15-ton Massive Ordnance Penetrator, which can only be carried by one plane — the B-2 Spirit bomber. The bombers made an incredible 37-hour roundtrip flight from Missouri to successfully attack their targets.