Fire Breaks Out at a Data Center Leased by Elon Musk’s X
A fire broke out Thursday morning at a data center in Hillsboro, Oregon leased by Elon Musk’s X, forcing an extended response from emergency...
Apple Is Pushing AI Into More of Its Products—but Still Lacks a State-of-the-Art Model
Apple continued its slow-and-steady approach to integrating artificial intelligence into devices like the iPhone, Mac, and Apple Watch on Monday, announcing a raft of...
DOGE Put Him in the Treasury Department. His Company Has Federal Contracts Worth Millions
There is some precedent for corporate executives to simultaneously work in the US government. When the US was at war in the early 1900s,...
Anthropic Settles High-Profile AI Copyright Lawsuit Brought by Book Authors
Anthropic has reached a preliminary settlement in a class action lawsuit brought by a group of prominent authors, marking a major turn in of...
RedNote Scrambles to Hire English-Speaking Content Moderators
The Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu—better known internationally as RedNote—is scrambling to boost its ability to moderate English-language content after hundreds of thousands of...
Donald Trump’s Media Conglomerate Is Becoming a Bitcoin Reserve
Trump Media and Technology Group, a publicly traded company in which US president Donald Trump and his family own a majority stake, has raised...
Latin American Fact-Checkers Brace for Meta’s Next Moves
This 180-degree change is a response to Donald Trump's imminent second presidential term and to the methods of the competition, such as X's Community...
A Hiker Was Missing for Nearly a Year—Until an AI System Recognized His Helmet
How long does it take to identify the helmet of a hiker lost in a 183-hectare mountain area, analyzing 2,600 frames taken by a...
The SEC Is Suing Elon Musk. It’s All in the Timing
With the clock running out on the Biden administration, the US Securities and Exchange Commission has sued Elon Musk in federal court. The statute...
Tesla Readies a Taxi Service in San Francisco—but Not With Robotaxis
Tesla has publicly staked its future on its robotaxis. Now the company is planning to launch a public car service in the San Francisco...
