Remember Twitter? Elon Musk testifies over flip-flop in $44 billion buyout
Musk is on trial for a case filed by Twitter investors in 2022, the year he purchased the social media company for $44 billion.
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Analysis argues Tesla's tax havens help power Elon Musk's wealth
Oxfam analysis says Tesla's pay, tax and governance practices have fueled Musk's wealth and widened inequality as he nears ...
Elon Musk dodged cameras ahead of courthouse testimony. Snubbed photogs blamed a 'decoy' Tesla.
Elon Musk rushed into the courthouse while photographers were distracted by a Tesla being surrounded by security, the photogs ...
Elon Musk’s proposed Tesla tunnel loop met with opposition by Nashville metro council
Nashville metro councilmembers have passed a resolution opposing a planned tunnel by one of Elon Musk’s companies to offer people express rides in Teslas.
‘This Will Be Big’—Elon Musk Reveals ‘Once-In-A-Generation Opportunity’ Amid Bitcoin Price Surge
Musk has said X Money “will be big,” sharing details that include “crypto integration,” and calling it a financial ...
Pre-trial fight in OpenAI case focuses on Elon Musk’s dual role as Microsoft partner and plaintiff
Pre-trial motions in Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft focus in part on his company's business dealings with ...
Musk tells jury 'people read too much' into his posts
Billionaire Elon Musk told a jury in California on Wednesday that stock market investors read too much into his social media ...
Jensen Huang says Nvidia is pulling back from OpenAI and Anthropic, but his explanation raises more questions than it answers
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Wednesday that his company's investments in OpenAI and Anthropic will likely be its last — but his explanation may not tell the whole story.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military deal ‘straight up lies,’ report says
Anthropic gave up its contract with the Pentagon over AI safety disagreements -- then, OpenAI swooped in.
Apple Music to add Transparency Tags to distinguish AI music, says report
The label or distributor has to opt in to tagging their music as AI, so it's unclear how effective this intervention will be.
Black Forest Labs' new Self-Flow technique makes training multimodal AI models 2.8x more efficient
To create coherent images or videos, generative AI diffusion models like Stable Diffusion or FLUX have typically relied on external "teachers"—frozen encoders like CLIP or DINOv2—to provide the semantic understanding they couldn't learn on their own. But this reliance has come at a cost: a "bottleneck" where scaling up the model no longer yields better results because the external teacher has hit its limit.Today, German AI startup Black Forest Labs (maker of the FLUX ser
Google settles with Epic Games, drops its Play Store commissions to 20%
Google has dropped its commission, charging a 20% service fee and an optional 5% to use its billing services. It will also offer a new process for third-party app stores.
Microsoft built Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B to know when to think — and when thinking is a waste of time
Microsoft on Tuesday released Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B, a compact open-weight multimodal AI model that the company says matches or exceeds the performance of systems many times its size — while consuming a fraction of the compute and training data. The release marks the latest and most technically ambitious chapter in the software giant's year-long campaign to prove that carefully engineered small models can compete with, and in key areas outperform, the industry's largest AI systems
His house burned down. He used the insurance money to build PopSockets.
Does a consumer hardware company need to get on the VC treadmill to succeed? Eleven years and 290 million products sold across 115 countries later, PopSockets has proven that the bootstrapped, low-dilution path more viable than the industry gives it credit for. The global consumer hardware brand was built on less than $500k, no institutional capital, and a philosophy professor’s determination.  Watch as founder and former CEO
US and EU police shut down LeakBase, a site accused of sharing stolen passwords and hacking tools
Authorities say LeakBase was "one of the world’s largest online forums for cybercriminals," and maintained an archive of hacked databases containing hundreds of millions of passwords.
MacBook Neo, iPhone 17e, and everything else Apple announced this week
From a new iPhone to a budget-friendly MacBook, Apple announced a series of new products this week.
Google Search rolls out Gemini’s Canvas in AI Mode to all US users
Canvas in AI Mode is available to U.S. users in English for creating plans, projects, apps, and more.
Google’s Gemini rolls out Canvas in AI Mode to all US users
Canvas in AI Mode is available to U.S. users in English for creating plans, projects, apps, and more.
Decagon completes first tender offer at $4.5B valuation
The AI-powered customer support startup is the latest example of a fast-growing, young company that's providing employee liquidity.
The US military is still using Claude — but defense-tech clients are fleeing
As the U.S. continues its aerial attack on Iran, Anthropic models are being used for many targeting decisions.