‘This is fine’ creator says AI startup stole his art
The ad comes from Artisan, the AI startup behind billboards urging businesses to "stop hiring humans."
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Tesla is selling Chinese-made cars in Canada to escape the tariffs that both China and America imposed on it
Tesla is now selling Chinese-made Model 3 sedans in Canada at the lowest price the car has ever been offered in the country. The Model 3 Premium RWD, manufactured at Giga Shanghai, starts at C$39,490, roughly US$29,000. Two months ago, the cheapest Model 3 available in Canada was the Long Range AWD built at Tesla’s […]This story continues at The Next Web
The $599 Mac Mini is dead. AI data centres killed it.
Apple has discontinued the 256 gigabyte Mac Mini worldwide. The company’s cheapest desktop computer, the M4 Mac Mini with 16 gigabytes of RAM and 256 gigabytes of storage, was available for $599 until last week. It is gone. The Mac Mini now starts at $799 with 512 gigabytes of storage. The 256 gigabyte configuration has […]This story continues at The Next Web
The Academy has not banned AI from the Oscars. It has defined what it means to be the author of a film.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced new eligibility rules on 2 May for the 99th Academy Awards, and the two that matter most are about seven words each. Acting nominations will be limited to roles “demonstrably performed by humans with their consent.” Screenplays must be “human-authored.” Producers will be required to sign […]This story continues at The Next Web
Every AI company now wants to ride shotgun. The car dashboard is becoming the last screen that matters.
The Grok iOS app now contains a placeholder that reads “Grok Voice mode coming soon to CarPlay.” It is a single line of interface text, and it means that Elon Musk’s AI chatbot is about to follow ChatGPT and Perplexity onto the car dashboards of every iPhone user in the world. The car, it turns […]This story continues at The Next Web
Planet Labs is not selling satellite images. It is selling a subscription to watch the entire planet change in real time.
At 2:59 a.m. Eastern Time on 3 May, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base carrying 45 satellites, three of which belonged to Planet Labs. Pelicans 7, 8, and 9 are the latest additions to Planet’s next-generation constellation of high-resolution Earth observation satellites, bringing the Pelican fleet to nine spacecraft. Each […]This story continues at The Next Web
In Harvard study, AI offered more accurate emergency room diagnoses than two human doctors
A new study examines how large language models perform in a variety of medical contexts, including real emergency room cases — where at least one model seemed to be more accurate than human doctors.
DJI invented the consumer drone. Now it cannot sell one in Washington or Beijing.
On the morning of 1 May, staff at DJI’s flagship retail store in Beijing’s Guomao business district began clearing drones from the shelves. The Neo, the Mavic, the Mini, every model that had made DJI the most dominant consumer electronics brand in its category, all of it pulled from display. The store was not closing. […]This story continues at The Next Web
Skio never hired a sales team, never ran an ad, and just sold for $105 million cash to the company it was built to replace
Kennan Frost dropped out of college, worked as an engineer at Pinterest, had a panic attack, quit, applied to Y Combinator in 2020, and by his own account failed his way through the programme until a pivot to subscription payments changed everything. Five years later, on 30 April 2026, the company he built, Skio, was […]This story continues at The Next Web
Texas residents sue Elon Musk’s SpaceX saying massive sonic booms have damaged their homes
Dozens of homeowners are suing Elon Musk’s SpaceX, alleging that sonic booms from rocket testing damaged their Texas homes.
Elon Musk went to court. The judge wasn't amused.
Elon Musk's outsize reputation, provocative remarks and his friction with a federal judge have dominated the trial in his ...
Elon Musk Just Announced Fantastic News to Nvidia Stock Investors
Recent comments from CEO Elon Musk were arguably a bullish signal for Nvidia. Let's look into them and discuss what all that ...
He beat Elon Musk in court once. Sam Altman hired him to do it again.
A former cab driver and rock band singer, William Savitt is now at the top of an elite law firm with experience defeating ...
The first week in Elon Musk and Sam Altman's federal civil trial has wrapped. BI's Katherine Li shares what week one was like.
In this Sunday edition of Business Insider Today, a reporter takes us inside the courtroom where Elon Musk and Sam Altman's ...
How Elon Musk used SpaceX to benefit himself and his businesses
SpaceX has been a useful financial tool for Elon Musk, providing the billionaire with loans and aiding his struggling ...
Amazon’s best quarter in years was half-built on a $16.8 billion paper gain from Anthropic
Amazon reported first-quarter 2026 net sales of $181.5 billion, a 17 per cent increase year on year that exceeded analyst estimates by more than $4 billion. Net income reached $30.3 billion, nearly doubling from $17.1 billion in the same period last year. Earnings per share came in at $2.78, crushing the $1.64 consensus. AWS revenue […]This story continues at The Next Web
Tim Cook returned $1 trillion to shareholders. John Ternus is being given permission to keep it.
For nearly 15 years, Apple’s financial strategy has been defined by a single number: more than $1 trillion returned to shareholders through stock buybacks and dividends. Tim Cook inherited a company sitting on a cash mountain that Steve Jobs had accumulated out of institutional memory of near-bankruptcy in the 1990s. Cook reversed Jobs’ stance […]This story continues at The Next Web
The factory that built your iPhone is now building the robot that will assemble the next one
In April, a humanoid robot called the Honor D1 completed the Beijing half-marathon in 48 minutes and 19 seconds under remote control and 50 minutes and 26 seconds in fully autonomous mode, beating every other robot in the 112-team field. The machine that won the race was built using liquid-cooling technology originally developed for Honor’s […]This story continues at The Next Web
TechCrunch Mobility: How do you issue a ticket to a robotaxi?
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.
This tiny, magnetic e-reader could stop you from doomscrolling
The Xteink X3 is a delightfully tiny, MagSafe-compatible e-ink reader that attaches to the back of your phone like a Pop Socket.