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Self-driving vehicle company Waymo has issued a recall affecting 3,871 autonomous robotaxis after a software defect caused vehicles to enter active highway construction zones at high speeds.
A federal appeals court has ruled that Ohio can enforce legislation requiring children under 16 to obtain parental consent before using social media platforms, marking a significant development in state-level efforts to regulate minors’ online activity.
Google engaged in a confidential legal battle against a United States warrant that demanded the identities of hundreds of internet users who had searched for the locations of the Democratic and Republican party headquarters in Washington prior to pipe bombs being planted at those sites on January 5, 2021.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has reportedly been lobbying Congress to include provisions granting legal immunity from child-harm claims in proposed legislation, as the company confronts thousands of social media addiction lawsuits from young users and their families.
Yann LeCun, regarded as one of the “Godfathers of AI,” has publicly denounced Elon Musk’s AI company xAI, describing it as a “failure” and claiming Musk faces significant challenges in attracting top talent because the SpaceX and Tesla CEO has “not behaved in very good ways towards the previous team.”
Speculation is mounting among investors and analysts about a possible merger between Elon Musk’s two public companies, Tesla and SpaceX, following the rocket company’s blockbuster IPO that valued it at over a trillion dollars more than Musk’s electric vehicle manufacturer.
Apple CEO Tim Cook announced in an exclusive interview that the technology giant will raise prices on its products due to unprecedented increases in memory and storage chip costs driven by AI demand.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos challenged widespread concerns about AI eliminating jobs during a recent interview, arguing instead that the technology will generate unprecedented demand for human workers.
British antitrust regulators have mandated that Google must make its search rankings more equitable and provide businesses with advance notification of significant changes to its search services, giving the technology giant six months to comply.
Snap, the parent company of social media platform Snapchat, has introduced new “Specs” augmented reality (AR) glasses on Tuesday with a $2,195 price point, as CEO Evan Spiegel positions the device as a potential successor to traditional smartphones. Both the stock market and social media users rejected the glasses.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier (R) has launched legal action against TikTok to enforce the state’s 2024 legislation that restricts social media access for minors. According to Uthmeier, “Time is up for TikTok.”
The DOJ has intervened in a pollution lawsuit against Elon Musk’s xAI company, now a division of SpaceX, claiming the AI firm plays a vital role in military operations and national security.
A single gambler on prediction market platform Polymarket lost $4.2 million on World Cup bets in less than one day, highlighting the massive stakes involved in the soccer tournament, which is expected to become the largest sports gambling event in history.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX announced Tuesday it will acquire Anysphere, the software company behind the AI coding tool Cursor, in a $60 billion transaction aimed at expanding its footprint in the enterprise AI sector. Shares jumped more than nine percent in morning trading, giving SpaceX a similar market capitalization to Amazon.
CoStar Group, the company behind Homes.com, has filed an amicus brief in Zillow Group, Inc. v. Midwest Real Estate Data LLC accusing Zillow of demanding open access to competitors’ listings while locking up pre-market inventory of its own.
AI startup Anthropic has deployed senior technical staff to the nation’s capital for emergency negotiations with Trump administration officials following export restrictions that forced the shutdown of its most advanced AI models.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has continued the positive momentum from Friday’s IPO by jumping eight percent in morning trading. Analysts continue to issue mixed ratings on the company, with analyst CFRA initiating coverage with a sell rating.
A Canadian mother has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, claiming the company’s ChatGPT chatbot contributed to her 24-year-old daughter’s tragic suicide by encouraging her darkest thoughts instead of providing help and access to crisis counselors.
A growing number of U.S. policymakers and national security officials as sounding the alarm over South Korea’s increasing alliance with China, which may be posing a direct threat to American business interests in the tech sector and the broader U.S.-Korea trade relationship.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has launched a nationwide program to provide Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses at no cost to every blind veteran in the United States, offering transformative assistive technology to more than 130,000 eligible veterans. One blind veteran explains that when he got a pair of AI smart glasses, “I got my independence back.”
4,000 current and former SpaceX employees are already mapping out plans to spend their anticipated wealth from the company’s expected initial public offering, with luxury real estate, high-end watches, and private jet travel topping their wish lists. Even the company’s cafeteria workers are expected to cash in on the rocket-based gravy train.
SpaceX opened trading Friday at $150 per share under the ticker SPCX following the largest IPO in history, with shares quickly climbing above $160 and pushing the company’s market capitalization beyond $2 trillion.
Mark Zuckerberg’s social media empire experienced a significant outage on Friday morning, with many users reporting issues accessing Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger.
OpenAI has banned accounts connected to Chinese operatives that leveraged ChatGPT to create social media influence campaigns aimed at American discussions about tariffs and AI data centers, the company disclosed on Wednesday.
Financial research giant Morningstar has placed a fair value estimate of $63 per share on SpaceX, representing a 53 percent discount to the company’s upcoming initial public offering price of $135 per share. Other analysts believe Elon Musk’s rocket company will increase in value from its IPO price over the next year.
Iranian state media announced Thursday that all of Elon Musk’s business operations in the Middle East including SpaceX will be considered military targets as part of Iran’s ongoing retaliation against the United States.
Chrysler has issued a major recall for its Pacifica Hybrid minivan after four fire incidents linked to battery cells. The company is advising owners of the plug-in hybrid to stop parking the vehicles inside a garage or near other structures.
The FCC has granted Amazon a regulatory reprieve by waiving a requirement that the company launch half of its satellite broadband constellation by the end of July. The decision creates competition in the satellite broadband market for Elon Musk and SpaceX’s Starlink service.
Elon Musk offered a detailed glimpse into SpaceX’s planned orbital AI data centers as the company prepares for what could be the largest IPO in history this week.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is launching a free training program to prepare Americans for skilled trade jobs building the company’s rapidly expanding network of data centers. According to the company, participants who successfully complete the program will have a guaranteed job in the trades.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has secured a massive infrastructure agreement with Google just days before its planned IPO, with the search giant agreeing to pay $920 million per month for AI computing capacity.
A teenager who survived a deadly 2025 school shooting in Nashville has filed a lawsuit against the manufacturer of an AI gun detection system that failed to identify the weapon used in the attack.
A blind study conducted by researchers at Stanford Law School has revealed that law professors judged responses to law student questions generated by AI systems t be superior to answers written by fellow law professors in 75 percent of evaluated comparisons.
McDonald’s is testing a new artificial intelligence order-taking system at drive-thrus nationwide as the fast food giant pushes forward with its latest technological innovation.
The Canadian owner of a 2024 Lucid Air Pure has prevailed in a lemon law arbitration case that compelled Lucid to cancel his lease and reclaim the vehicle approximately 18 months into a four-year agreement. Among many issues with the EV, the company told him he can’t park an EV outside in the wintertime and expect it to function properly.
Global cloud software company Teradata has told its 5,100 employees they will not receive annual salary raises this year as it redirects funds toward AI investments.
Automated bot and AI agent traffic has overtaken human-generated web traffic for the first time ever, reaching this milestone earlier than industry experts anticipated, according to data from major internet hosting service Cloudflare.
S&P Dow Jones Indices announced Thursday it will preserve its existing eligibility criteria for major benchmarks like the S&P 500, effectively closing the door on expedited inclusion for large technology IPOs such as Elon Musk’s SpaceX.