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Elon Musk’s X to auto-lock first-time crypto posts to curb phishing

However, the social media giant has also taken steps to become more user-friendly by planning Starterpacks. The feature lets ...

Elon Musk’s coterie of companies are getting more and more pushback from Democrats

Between lawsuits and demand letters, Elon Musk’s various companies are being scrutinized—even in cities where they were once ...

Elon Musk’s Tesla posts one of its weakest sales quarters in years as slump continues

Elon Musk’s Tesla posted one of its weakest sales quarters in years to start 2026, as the onetime Wall Street darling ...

Forbes Daily: Elon Musk Is A Step Closer To Becoming A Trillionaire

Today’s Forbes Daily newsletter covers how health care is buoying the job market, Supreme Court hears birthright citizenship ...

Elon Musk's SpaceX set to be worth $1 trillion with planned public listing

The company’s public stock debut is set to be one of the most valuable in history, and could make Musk the world's first trillionaire.

Arcee's new, open source Trinity-Large-Thinking is the rare, powerful U.S.-made AI model that enterprises can download and customize

The baton of open source AI models has been passed on between several companies over the years since ChatGPT debuted in late 2022, from Meta with its Llama family to Chinese labs like Qwen and z.ai. But lately, Chinese companies have started pivoting back towards proprietary models even as some U.S. labs like Cursor and Nvidia release their own variants of the Chinese models, leaving a question mark about who will originate this branch of technology going forward. One answer: Arcee, a San Franci

Amazon hits sellers with ‘fuel surcharge’ as Iran war roils global energy markets

The e-commerce giant called the surcharge "temporary" but couldn't give a date for when the policy would be retired.

Telehealth giant Hims & Hers says its customer support system was hacked

The U.S. telehealth giant says hackers stole customer support ticket data over the course of several days in February.

Artemis II is NASA’s last moon mission without Silicon Valley 

Next time around, the pressure will be on SpaceX and Blue Origin.

Gateway Capital announces first close of $25M Fund II

Gateway Capital, the Milwaukee-based venture firm founded by Dana Guthrie, can now begin investment operations for its $25M Fund II.

OpenAI acquires TBPN, the buzzy founder-led business talk show

TBPN, Silicon Valley's cult-favorite tech podcast, will operate independently, even as it's overseen by chief political operative Chris Lehane.

Flipboard’s new ‘social websites’ help publishers and creators tap into the open social web

Flipboard's social websites consolidate profiles and posts from Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads, YouTube, podcasts, blogs, and RSS feeds into a single, shared destination.

ElevenLabs releases a new AI-powered music-generation app

ElevenMusic lets users create and remix songs using text prompts. The new app suggests ElevenLabs wants to be more than just a voice model company.

NASA astronauts prove that sending an email really is rocket science

NASA Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman faced the most earthly possible conflict while in outer space: his Outlook wasn't working.

Google launches Gemma 4: four open-weight models from smartphones to workstations

Built from the same research as Gemini 3, the new family spans a 2B edge model that runs on a Raspberry Pi to a 31B dense model currently ranked third on the Arena AI open-model leaderboard. The Apache 2.0 licence is a significant shift from previous Gemma releases. Google has released Gemma 4, the latest […]This story continues at The Next Web

Google releases Gemma 4 under Apache 2.0 — and that license change may matter more than benchmarks

For the past two years, enterprises evaluating open-weight models have faced an awkward trade-off. Google's Gemma line consistently delivered strong performance, but its custom license — with usage restrictions and terms Google could update at will — pushed many teams toward Mistral or Alibaba's Qwen instead. Legal review added friction. Compliance teams flagged edge cases. And capable as Gemma 3 was, "open" with asterisks isn't the same as open.Gemma 4 eliminates that f

Microsoft takes on AI rivals with three new foundational models

MAI released models that can transcribe voice into text as well as generate audio and images after the group's formation six months ago.

Money transfer app Duc exposed thousands of driver’s licenses and passports to the open web

An exposed Amazon-hosted server allowed anyone to access reams of customer data without needing a password.

Google now lets you direct avatars through prompts in its Vids app

Google is adding a way to customize and instruct avatars for video creation in the Vids app.

Microsoft launches 3 new AI models in direct shot at OpenAI and Google

Microsoft on Thursday launched three new foundational AI models it built entirely in-house — a state-of-the-art speech transcription system, a voice generation engine, and an upgraded image creator — marking the most concrete evidence yet that the $3 trillion software giant intends to compete directly with OpenAI, Google, and other frontier labs on model development, not just distribution.The trio of models — MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1, and MAI-Image-2 — are available immediately through Micr