Trump SEC lets Musk settle $150 million Twitter lawsuit for $1.5 million
The Trump administration is letting Elon Musk pay a $1.5 million fine to settle a lawsuit that originally sought at least $150 million. If approved
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Half of young Europeans turn to AI to talk about intimate matters
Before we talk about the technology, we need to talk about what it is taking from us, or teaching us to give away. As journalists
Five major publishers are suing Meta over Llama. They have evidence that the previous plaintiffs did not.
Elsevier, Cengage, Hachette, Macmillan, and McGraw Hill, joined by author Scott Turow, filed a proposed class action in Manhattan on Tuesday alleging Meta pirated millions
Ford Says an Affordable Electric Pickup Truck is Still Coming Next Year
Ford Motor has written off $20 billion in electric vehicle investments but says it is forging ahead with an electric pickup that will sell for
Coinbase is cutting 14 per cent of its workforce. The reason it gave was not the crypto downturn. It was AI.
Coinbase is cutting 14 per cent of its workforce, roughly 660 employees from a company of 4,700, two days before it reports the worst quarterly
In 2018, 4,000 Google employees killed a Pentagon contract. In 2026, Google signed a bigger one. Now the AI researchers are unionising
In 2018, four thousand Google employees signed a petition against Project Maven, a Pentagon contract that used the company’s AI to analyse drone surveillance footage.
AI-led job cuts don’t always mean stronger ROI — Gartner
Businesses tend to eye AI spending as a way to reduce headcount, but firms that cut staffers as a result of AI are doing no
Stealthy malware abuses Microsoft Phone Link to siphon SMS OTPs from enterprise PCs
A newly identified malware campaign is abusing Microsoft’s Phone Link feature to intercept SMS-based one-time passwords and other sensitive mobile data directly from Windows systems.
Musk settles SEC Twitter-disclosure case for $1.5m, the maximum penalty for the violation
After four years of litigation, Elon Musk has agreed to pay a $1.5m civil penalty over his late 2022 Twitter stake disclosure. The harm to
Apple explores Intel and Samsung for chipmaking, ending TSMC’s solo run on M-series
Bloomberg reports Apple is in early-stage discussions with Intel and Samsung about producing some of its M-series chips. The talks are exploratory; the signal is
Influential study touting ChatGPT in education retracted over red flags
A study that claimed OpenAI’s ChatGPT can positively impact student learning has been retracted nearly one year after publication. The journal publisher, Springer Nature, cited
AMD is adding HDMI 2.1 support for Linux. That’s good news for the Steam Machine.
Last year, we noted how the long-standing vagaries of HDMI licensing and open source AMD driver development combined to prevent the upcoming Steam Machine from
STMicroelectronics targets more than $3bn from space, riding the satellite constellation boom
The Geneva-based chipmaker has shipped over 5 billion RF antenna chips to Starlink and now expects its low-Earth-orbit business alone to deliver more than $3bn
Musk tried to settle the OpenAI case two days before trial. Then he promised to make Brockman the most hated man in America.
Elon Musk texted Greg Brockman two days before trial to ask about settling. Brockman suggested Musk drop all claims against the individuals. Musk replied: