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Ex-Facebook policy chief sues Meta to overturn order barring her from speaking about explosive memoir
Sarah Wynn-Williams alleged Meta has used an invalid arbitration agreement to seek severe financial penalties, according to a new lawsuit.
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Apple hikes prices by as much as $500 due to memory chip shortage – here are the products getting hit
Apple on Thursday slapped a slew of its MacBook and iPad products with higher prices – blaming the price hikes on an AI-driven surge in demand for memory chips.
Anthropic’s ‘weirdo’ CEO replaced by co-founder in high-stakes White House meetings: report
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has been replaced at high-stakes White House meetings – which is helping progress talks with Trump officials, since Amodei was being a “weirdo,” according to a report.
AI chatbots show left-wing bias, bombshell report finds — with ChatGPT giving lefty answers 80% of time
Artificial-intelligence chatbots show a strongly left-leaning political bias — contrary to what leading AI companies claim, according to a bombshell report.
YouTube settles Florida teen’s social media addiction lawsuit ahead of trial — another major Big Tech setback
The confidential settlement, reached just weeks before trial, marks another setback for Big Tech companies facing mounting legal pressure.
Disney agrees to $50M settlement for YouTube TV and DirecTV users — find out if you’re eligible for a payout
The Walt Disney Co. has agreed to resolve a class action lawsuit with a staggering $50 million settlement.
Meta is building a prediction markets app to rival Polymarket, Kalshi: report
Zuckerberg recently tasked a team inside Meta with building the experimental app, which is internally known as “Arena,” the New York Times reported.
European Union escalating probe into Meta’s addictive features for kids: report
The European Commission, the EU’s competition watchdog, is close to issuing its preliminary findings – including that Facebook and Instagram are built with addictive features, Bloomberg reported, cited people familiar with the matter.
AI could fuel severe cyberattacks against governments, businesses within months, spy agencies warn
Five Eyes alliance said frontier AI systems are advancing so rapidly that long-standing assumptions about digital threats could soon become obsolete.
Why Gen Alpha is still interested in ‘hands on’ jobs in the age of AI
Along with tactile work, many kids said they’re interested in having a job where they can help people and be creative.
What ‘IPO’ really stands for — and whether you should be buying SpaceX and the AI giants
These three letters – I, P and O – excite emotions like few others in finance.
Left-leaning Wikipedia blocked founder from editing site — after he campaigned to make it more balanced
Left-leaning website Wikipedia took the drastic action of blocking one of its founders from editing pages on Monday — after he had campaigned to make it more balanced and fair.
SpaceX shares drop 16% after rocket company discloses it may take on billions in debt
After a blockbuster initial public offering earlier this month, SpaceX on Monday revealed in a regulatory filing that it plans to sell investment-grade bonds. The bond offering would aim to raise about $20 billion, according to reports, and could…
Google loses $270B in market cap over concerns its ‘falling behind’ rivals in race for AI talent
Google lost senior research scientist and Nobel Prize winner John Jumper, who announced late Friday he was exiting DeepMind AI lab for a role at Anthropic. That news came just days after another key executive Noam Shazeer, who served as co-lead of…
Disturbing video shows Tesla crash into home, killing grandma, 76, in latest Autopilot controversy
Authorities are investigating whether Tesla’s Autopilot system played a role after a Model 3 left the roadway.
Cheap Chinese AI models are quickly gaining customers across the US market: ‘This changes things’
The Trump administration has been increasingly wary about China’s breakneck pace in AI development – with officials warning as recently as recently as April that China was engaged in “industrial-scale” efforts to rip off AI technology.
Do you trust AI? Almost every American says no and believes humans are more helpful: survey
The poll of 1,200 U.S. adults revealed 86% are distrustful of AI results, and for 42%, this comes specifically when AI-generated answers don’t clearly show where the answer originates from.
18 kids’ undiagnosable diseases solved by AI: ‘Total game changer’
With the help of these tools, children with rare illnesses and symptoms may now find answers in a much shorter time frame than before.
GM lays off more than 1,000 workers, adds 50 robots at flagship Detroit plant: ‘We’re disgusted’
“If AI continues to be used as an accessory to that crime, it has to be stopped.”
Cybersecurity firm IDs unfixable security flaw that affects seven iPhone models — is yours on the list?
There’s no cure for this digital virus.
