AT&T sues California in attempt to shut off old phone network
AT&T sued California yesterday over the state’s refusal to let the carrier stop providing phone service to all potential customers in its wireline network territory.
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JWST maps the weather on a hot gas giant 700 light-years away
WASP-94A b is a hot, tidally locked gas giant orbiting close to one of the stars in a binary system roughly 690 light-years away from
‘Peanuts’ Music Owner Sues Interior Department and 3 Companies for Copyright Infringement
The owner of the “Peanuts” catalog would really like it if companies and the U.S. government stopped using its music without permission.
Meta Settles a School District’s Social Media Addiction Lawsuit
Snap, TikTok and YouTube had already settled with the Kentucky district, allowing the companies to avert the first in a series of federal trials.
Firefox is getting its biggest redesign in six years, and compact mode is coming back
Mozilla has officially unveiled Project Nova, the largest visual overhaul of Firefox since 2020. The redesign touches tabs, icons, spacing, colour palette, and settings, with
SpaceX used a $20 billion bridge loan to slash Musk’s debt costs in half, IPO filing reveals
Elon Musk’s strategy of folding his companies into one conglomerate is already paying off. Regulatory documents filed ahead of SpaceX’s historic IPO reveal that the company secured
Trump Plans to Sign Executive Order Granting Oversight of A.I. Models
The president said he postponed the executive order, which would give the government power to evaluate A.I. models before their release, over concerns about “aspects
Gov. Gavin Newsom to Sign Executive Order Aimed at A.I. Job Loss
Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order to explore an overhaul of labor policies to deal with potential mass job displacement from artificial intelligence.
Brett Adcock’s AI hardware startup Hark raises $700m at $6bn valuation
Two months out of stealth, the founder of Figure and Archer has a chip-and-model stack and a chip-and-model-stack-sized cheque to match. Hark, the AI hardware
Spotify and Universal sign licensing deal for AI covers and remixes
Premium subscribers will be able to generate AI versions of songs by participating UMG artists. The financial terms were not disclosed. Spotify and Universal Music
EU moves forward on $5.8B scale-up fund to keep startups from leaving
The European Union has stepped up efforts to grow its homegrown tech sector and reduce dependence on US firms, advancing plans this week for a
Do Apple’s accessibility efforts point at its AI plans?
You can usually measure a society by the way it treats its most vulnerable populations, and technology often can help people live better, more autonomous
Trump administration moves to underwrite US AI exports with billions in EXIM financing
EXIM has more than $100bn of unused statutory lending capacity that the White House wants channelled into US-built, full-stack AI export packages, with the Commerce
ICEYE secures a €300M revolving credit facility from a seven-bank syndicate
The Helsinki-headquartered SAR-satellite operator has originated a 3-year committed RCF led by Citi and Danske Bank, calibrated to back customer-contract guarantees and underwrite continued global