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Elon Musk becomes first person worth $500 billion: Forbes
Musk reached the milestone as Tesla stocks have been climbing in recent months.
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Meta hits back at Joseph Gordon-Levitt op-ed blasting AI —noting star’s wife was behind OpenAI coup
“It’s hard to describe how angry this makes me,” the “3rd Rock from the Sun” star said in a New York Times video op-ed, noting he’s a father to an 8-year-old.
Tesla hikes lease prices on all electric cars as US tax credit expires
Sales could drop after the credits dry up, auto executives and analysts have warned.
Sen. Blackburn demands Ticketmaster explain whether it misled Congress about resale bots after FTC lawsuit: ‘Astounding’
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) demanded Ticketmaster explain whether it misled Congress in 2023 about its handling of bot scalpers – days after the FTC sued the online broker for allegedly knowingly turning a blind eye to the problem.
Americans will be turning to AI to help them shop for the holidays
Can AI make you a better gift-giver?
The ingenious way students are getting around school cell phone bans: ‘Can’t silence us’
Students banding together against the ban — in the most millennial way possible.
A stick of gum could soon detect the flu — here’s how it works
The flu causes millions of illnesses, hundreds of thousands of hospitalizations and tens of thousands of deaths each year in the US.
Google willing to share digital ad data with publishers to address monopoly, executive testifies
Google is willing to cough up more advertising data to publishers to fix its illegal monopoly over digital advertising technology, a top executive admitted Tuesday.
Amazon unveils new AI-powered Ring, Echo, Kindle devices for Alexa+
Amazon is trying to drive interest in the new Alexa, which it spent years updating with AI for better personalization and a more conversational tone.
Windowless ‘plane of the future’ airs sky view on video screens — and flyers aren’t impressed: ‘A big tin can’
The idea of flying sans a regular view to the outside of the aircraft — which measures 22-feet long and 7.5-feet wide — might seem akin to traveling in a giant coffin.
Passenger lands in hospital after humiliating TSA spat over stubborn jewelry
“Anything that has a battery that also goes on your body should be made super easy to take off, in case of battery expansion.”
YouTube to pay $24.5M to settle Trump’s lawsuit over 2021 account suspension
YouTube on Monday agreed to pay $24.5 million to settle a lawsuit brought by President Trump, and the bulk of the money will go toward the construction of the new White House ballroom.
OpenAI launches new parental controls to target graphic content
OpenAI launched a new set of parental controls for ChatGPT on Monday.
Scammer sobs in court as she’s sentenced to 7 years in prison for swindling JPMorgan out of $175 million
“I let down those who trusted me. These errors, this complete collapse of character, is its own sentence,” Javice told a Manhattan federal judge.
How car owners spend ‘me time’ with vehicles — and why Gen Z, Millennials differ: survey
Your car may be your sanctuary where you get to spend some of your most treasured “me time,” but how you choose to spend it differs significantly by generation, according to a recent study.
China installing nearly 10 times as many robots in factories as the US
Last year, more than half a million industrial robots were put to work in global factories — with 54% of them in China alone.
Meta rewrites chatbot rules after bots were initially allowed to have ‘romantic’ chats with kids: report
Contractors have been instructed to adhere to guidelines designed to train the bots to respond appropriately to “egregiously unacceptable” prompts.
Prominent computer science professor sounds alarm, says graduates can’t find work: ‘Something is brewing’
Hany Farid told Nova’s “Particles of Thought” podcast that computer science is no longer the future-proof career that it once was.
AI giant faces possible clash with WH — as backers include left-wing foundation: sources
The left-wing activist group Ford Foundation owns a chunk of Anthropic – a little-noticed connection that could prove problematic for the AI giant given signs of a widening rift with the Trump administration, The Post has learned.
ChatGPT is being ‘too nice’ to users — people want AI companions to ‘argue back occasionally’
New data proved that many people would prefer the hard truth.
Trump’s TikTok deal still worries GOP China hawks — but here’s why they’ll go along
“From a national security standpoint this isn’t so great,” said a person with direct knowledge of the briefing. “The algo will be leased by the Chinese to the US TikTok for 10 years and Oracle won’t have complete say in terms of how to change it.”