A US judge rejects Tesla's bid to overturn a $243M jury verdict over a fatal 2019 Autopilot crash, a blow for Tesla as it faces a growing wave of lawsuits
A US judge rejects Tesla's bid to overturn a $243M jury verdict over a fatal 2019 Autopilot crash, a blow for Tesla as it faces a growing wave of lawsuits
A federal judge has rejected Tesla's bid to overturn a $243 million jury verdict over a fatal 2019 Autopilot crash in Florida …
An interview with OpenAI President Greg Brockman on donating $50M to AI and pro-Trump super PACs, how such donations serve a larger AI mission, and more
In an interview with WIRED, Greg Brockman says supporting politicians who back AI is “bigger than the people that I happen to be employed with.”
Investigation: Google removed AI Overviews for two liver health queries after experts warned of “alarming” results, but slight tweaks still trigger AI responses
Exclusive: Guardian investigation finds AI Overviews provided inaccurate and false information when queried over blood tests
Internal docs reveal Meta's tactics to fend off pressure to crack down on scammers, including efforts to make scam ads “not findable” for regulators and others
As regulators press Meta to crack down on rogue advertisers on Facebook and Instagram, the social media giant has drafted a “playbook” to stall them.
Filing: Gloo, a developer of AI tools for Christian churches with ex-Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger as its head of technology, seeks an $873.4M valuation in its US IPO
Gloo Holdings, a religious-oriented technology firm, is seeking a valuation of up to $873.4 million in its U.S. initial public offering …
Grokipedia, a Grok-based encyclopedia, launches with 885K+ articles, drawing from Wikipedia content; Elon Musk called it “a massive improvement” over Wikipedia
The right-leaning tech magnate is touting his own online encyclopedia as an unbiased alternative, but it went down after about an hour.
Sources: Anthropic refused US federal law enforcement requests to use its AI models for some tasks, like the surveillance of US citizens, irking the White House
THE SCOOP — Anthropic is in the midst of a splashy media tour in Washington, but its refusal to allow its models to be used …
Court records: from 2017 to 2022, 400,181 US Uber trips had sexual assault and sexual misconduct reports; Uber only disclosed 12,522 reports during the period
Uber received a report of sexual assault or sexual misconduct in the United States almost every eight minutes on average between 2017 and 2022 …
The US Court of International Trade blocks Trump from imposing sweeping import tariffs under an emergency-powers law, finding Trump exceeded his authority
A federal trade court on Wednesday blocked President Donald Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs on imports under an emergency-powers law.
Eight workers, from a nurse dealing with hospital discharge planning algorithms to a salon owner explaining AI hairstyle photos, share how AI changed their work
“It's alarming from a nurse's standpoint, because we don't want to look at our patients as numbers and bodies in a bed.” — www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... [images] Bruno J. Na...
Coinbase says hackers accessed data of a “small subset” of users, but not credentials, expects to incur $180M-$400M in costs, and refuses to pay a $20M ransom
and the investigators who saw it coming Sead Fadilpašić / TechRadar : Personal information leaked in Coinbase cyberattack, cost could be $400 million Bloomberg : Coinbase Hack Coul...
President Trump says he told Tim Cook that “I don't want you building in India”, “India can take care of themselves”, and Apple will be “upping” US production
what Apple can to do to appease Trump Adrija Chatterjee / Moneycontrol : India's value for money makes it a natural pick for the likes of Apple, says govt official Shouvik Das / Li...
Source: Coinbase's hackers had bribed enough customer service representatives to achieve effectively on-demand access to customer info in the past five months
On the long list of crypto companies that have been hacked, there are plenty of examples of financial losses that are much more painful …
President Trump says he told Tim Cook that “I don't want you building in India”, “India can take care of themselves”, and Apple will be “upping” US production
President Donald Trump said India has made an offer to drop tariffs on US goods …
In a case related to its Activision acquisition, Microsoft dropped a law firm that settled with President Trump in favor of a firm that is fighting a Trump EO
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/b... Mike Masnick / @mmasnick : Capitulating law firms suggested they had to capitulate to retain clients. The opposite may be true. [embedded post] Am...
Nintendo delays Switch 2 preorders, which were set to start on April 9, “to assess the potential impact” of Trump's tariffs; the June 5 launch date is unchanged
June 5 launch date still on schedule Charles Harte / Game Informer : Trump Tariff Plans Delay Nintendo Switch 2 Pre-Order Date Arol Wright / How-To Geek : Tariffs Just Killed Ninte...
Nintendo delays preorders for the Switch 2 from April 9, 2025 due to concerns about Trump's tariffs but the June 5 launch date remains unchanged
Nintendo says preorders will no longer start on April 9th, but the console's June 5th release date is unchanged.
Apple removes Advanced Data Protection for iCloud in the UK after the government ordered it to build a backdoor, something the company says it will never do
Better no security than a false sense of one. Ari Cohn / @aricohn.com : Apple's UK user data is now more vulnerable. It's not Apple's fault; they're PROTECTING users by not giving...
Donald Trump signs an executive action to direct officials to create a US sovereign wealth fund and says that it could be used to facilitate a sale of TikTok US
- Fund could be used as US facilitates TikTok sale, Lutnick says — Bessent says fund will be created in the next 12 months