Pavel Durov, founder and CEO of messaging app Telegram, was arrested on Saturday evening while leaving his private jet at France’s Bourget airport, according to French television network TF1. Reports…
Apple will be unveiling new products on September 10, with the announced phones going on sale on September 20, according to a report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. That lineup will…
Boeing’s Starliner mission is coming back to Earth — empty. After months of data analysis and internal deliberation, NASA leadership announced today that Starliner will be coming back to Earth…
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X shareholders as of June 2023 included funds tied to Bill Ackman, Binance, and Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs
A court order recently forced Elon Musk’s X to reveal its full list of shareholders, as of June 2023, to the public. Many of the recognizable tech industry names had…
The Epic Games Store was already available on PC and Mac, but now it’s launching for Android owners worldwide, and for iOS users in Europe.…
This post contains spoilers for the movie “Alien: Romulus” In the long-running “Alien” movie franchise, the Weyland-Yutani Corporation can’t seem to let go of a terrible idea: It keeps trying…
Some parents have reservations about the South Korean government’s plans to bring tablets with AI-powered textbooks into classrooms, according to a report in Financial Times. The tablets are scheduled to…
Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi issued a statement late yesterday laying out her opposition to SB 1047, a California bill that seeks to regulate AI. “The view of many of us in…
Data analytics company Palantir has faced criticism and even protests over its work with the military, police, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, but co-founder and CEO Alex Karp isn’t…
X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, said today that it’s ending operations in Brazil, although the service will remain available to users in the country. The announcement…
Brands can use Keychain to look up different products and see who actually manufactures them.
Lockheed Martin is acquiring satellite manufacturer Terran Orbital, taking the smaller company private and potentially rescuing it from running out of cash while facing serious…
OpenAI’s newest GPT-4o model can behave pretty strangely, for example by copying your voice, or by shouting or moaning erotically during a conversation. The reason…
Google’s big hardware event Made by Google is happening today, with the company revealing new Pixel phones, as well as a bigger role for its…
If you’re looking to buy or sell a used Peloton bike, a startup called Trade My Spin could be the solution. In theory, you don’t…
CrowdStrike’s president said he’ll take the trophy back to headquarters as a reminder that “our goal is to protect people, and we got this wrong.”
Susan Wojcicki, a longtime Googler who spent nearly a decade as the CEO of YouTube, died Friday after a two-year battle with non-small cell lung cancer. Wojcicki, who was 56,…
He really said that: When asked about the company’s “Plan B” if mortgage rates don’t fall, Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman responded, “Plan B is to drink our own urine or…
Turkey appears to have restored access to Meta-owned Instagram, after blocking the app on August 2. Abdulkadir Uraloglu, the country’s minister of transport and infrastructure, posted today that the ban…
Lyft is working on a new feature that could help eliminate the pain of surge pricing. With Price Lock, Lyft says you’ll be able to…
Is AI going to make us all more productive at work? Executives are feeling optimistic, but workers aren’t quite as convinced. That’s according to a…
Live sports are finally moving onto streaming in a serious way, with a new service called Venu Sports set to launch this fall. This is…
For once, the iPad was the highlight of Apple’s latest sales numbers. The company said in its third-quarter earnings report that iPad sales increased year-over-year,…
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OpenAI says it’s taking a ‘deliberate approach’ to releasing tools that can detect writing from ChatGPT
OpenAI has built a tool that could potentially catch students who cheat by asking ChatGPT to write their assignments — but according to The Wall Street Journal, the company is…
Chief Product Officer Craig Saldanha says AI is already transforming the Yelp experience.
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway cut its Apple holding by around half, to $84.2 billion, according to an SEC filing. While Apple remains the firm’s largest stock holding by far, Buffett…
As widely reported, Wiz recently said no to a $23 billion acquisition offer from Google. At that price, it would have been Google’s biggest acquisition…
Startups are attracting serious funding to provide fun, alcohol-free drink options at the bar and in other social contexts. Earlier this year, canned water company…
Although AI models have made big breakthroughs in the last few years, there’s now a risk that they could get dumber and even collapse, according…
It turns out that maybe, just maybe, spending a lot of time staring at your phone and reading bad news isn’t great for your outlook…
