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 Polish Wikipedia editor earlier this year complained about religious discrimination to a committee that enforces the “code of conduct” imposed by the Wikimedia Foundation that owns Wikipedia. The editor expressed opposition to LGBT ideology, citing Bible verses condemning it in his profile on a Discord Wikipedia chat group, prompting mockery and insults from others. Members of the committee rejected his claims and suggested instead the Bible verses were a violation.
Actor Bryan Cranston has led the effort to get OpenAI to agree to work closer with Hollywood union SAG-AFTRA after the company released its artificial intelligence video making software Sora 2, that raised alarm bells over theft of copyrighted material.
Socialist dictator of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro on Monday ordered the development of an application so that citizens can report “everything you see, everything you hear,” presumably including opinions unacceptable to the regime, to the National Bolivarian Armed Forces (FANB) at any time of day.
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.
Oklahoma State University refuses to comment on whether action will be taken in response to an administrator who reprimanded a student leader who gave a Charlie Kirk tribute. The administrator can be heard in an audio recording telling the student this year “is going to be difficult for you” after he gave a speech honoring the assassinated Turning Point USA founder.
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.
San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie has rejected President Donald Trump’s suggestion of bringing the National Guard to the city to fight crime, amid a recovery that is driven by the artificial intelligence (AI) boom.
Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) is taking action to address the increasing threat of Chinese-controlled companies to our national security.
A woman caught on video mocking the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk at a “No Kings” protest over the weekend has been accused by social media users of being an elementary school teacher in Chicago, Illinois.
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.
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.
Turning Point USA is calling for the NBA to fire an employee who posted offensive comments about the assassination of Charlie Kirk on social media.
Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce and a long-time Democrat megadonor and activist, has caved to leftist outrage, apologizing for his comments supporting President Donald Trump’s potential deployment of the National Guard to San Francisco.
Illinois State University teaching assistant Derek Lopez was arrested after he was caught on camera destroying a Turning Point USA informational table on campus, police said.
Thousands of civil liberties advocates gathered in London on Saturday to protest against the left-wing Labour Party government’s plan to impose digital ID cards on the nation.
Israel reminds us of what we want to be, and what many of us feel we are not allowed to be in a society shackled by “woke” ideology.
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.
As TikTok’s U.S. business faces a potential sale to Oracle and a group of investors, concerns are growing about the future of the app’s powerful content-recommendation algorithm.
Hollywood stars are softening on their distaste for Washington D.C.’s K-Street lobbyists as they become increasingly worried that artificial intelligence is coming for their jobs.
The Pentagon is calling out streaming giant Netflix over its new military series “Boots,” which follows the story of a gay man enlisting in the U.S. Marine Corps in the 1990s.
Far-left MTV is shutting down five of its music channels in the United Kingdom. Australia, Poland, France, and Brazil will soon follow. And the future does not look bright for the 44-year-old brand here in the U.S.
Following reports of former New York Times editor and the Free Press founder Bari Weiss being appointed editor-in-chief of CBS News, editors on Wikipedia began negatively slanting her page and those of CBS and the Free Press. This includes attempting to label Weiss as right-wing and slanted edits about a CBS settlement with President Donald Trump. Some suggested blacklisting CBS as a source in the future.
U.S. Army Major General William “Hank” Taylor has alarmingly revealed his close collaboration with AI chatbots to sharpen his decision-making process. The General recently told an audience that he has become “really close lately” with AI chatbots.
OpenAI has paused depictions of Martin Luther King Jr. in its AI video generation tool Sora after users created “disrespectful” deepfake videos of the civil rights leader.
Criminal organizations operating out of China have made more than $1 billion over the last three years by bombarding Americans with scam text messages, according to the Department of Homeland Security. Typical scam messages warn unsuspecting Americans of toll violations or postal fees, eventually asking for a credit card number.
Snoop Dogg will be partnering with the Gay, Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) to promote LGBTQ content in his children’s show not long after facing backlash for his comments calling out Disney over its LGBTQ content in “Lightyear.”
Despite opposition from big tech companies, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) asserts that federal regulation of AI is on the horizon. Blackburn explains, “We have to have the states standing in the gap until such time that Congress will say no to the big tech platforms.”
In an interview with Jan Jekielek of the Epoch Times that aired this week, Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger announced plans to circulate a letter of protest among prominent individuals and groups harmed by Wikipedia before sending to the Wikimedia Foundation that owns the site. He further suggested such a letter could be sent to U.S. government officials and other governments to press for reform at the online encyclopedia.
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.
Goldman Sachs has informed its staff to brace for another round of job cuts this year as the bank aims to achieve additional cost savings while leveraging the potential of AI.
China intercepted “vast amounts” of the most classified documents for several years by buying the data centre, Dominic Cummings has claimed.
Display screens and PA systems at four Canadian airports were hacked with pro-Hamas, anti-Israel messages on Wednesday.
Flights were briefly delayed by hacks of the public address systems at two North American airports where travelers heard pro-Palestinian messages praising Hamas and denouncing President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The DOJ has seized about $15 billion worth of bitcoin from a massive “pig butchering” fraud operation based in Cambodia. The scammers allegedly ran forced-labor camps in Cambodia where slaves were forced to lure individuals into the scam.
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.
