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Threads edges out X in daily mobile users, new data shows
Threads’ daily mobile usage has quietly surpassed X as Meta leans on cross-promotion, creator tools and fast feature rollouts — even as X faces fresh controversies
How YC-backed Bucket Robotics survived its first CES
Now, the startup is turning its attention to building the business, fundraising and striking commercial deals.
Moxie Marlinspike has a privacy-conscious alternative to ChatGPT
Confer is designed to look and feel like ChatGPT or Claude, but your conversations can't be used for training or advertising.
TNW Weekly Briefing
Legislation and digital policy European Commission opens call for evidence on Open Digital Ecosystems Signal: The EU is preparing a structural shift toward open, interoperable digital infrastructure. This marks a move from regulating dominant platforms to actively shaping alternatives and reducing strategic dependency. DMA and DSA enter an enforcement-heavy phase in 2026 Signal: Europe’s digital laws have moved from principle to execution. Compliance, fines, litigation, and operational constrain
Mother of Elon Musk’s son sues his xAI over AI-deepfake images
Ashley St. Clair, the mother of one of Elon Musk’s children, sued Musk’s xAI on Wednesday, alleging that the company’s AI ...
3 Tesla owners react to Elon Musk's FSD change
Tesla owners' reactions to Elon Musk's announcement that FSD would only be available for $99 a month ranged from frustration ...
Why Silicon Valley is really talking about fleeing California (it’s not the 5%)
As highlighted Friday in the New York Post, the proposed wealth tax would hit founders on their voting shares rather than the actual equity they own.
Who gets to inherit the stars? A space ethicist on what we’re not talking about
While it's easy to romanticize space as an escape to a pristine frontier where people will float weightlessly among the stars, it’s worth remembering there are no oceans or mountains or chirpy birds in space. It's “not nice up there,” said Rubenstein. “It is not nice at all."
Elon Musk Gets Into X Fight With Budget Airline
"Should I buy Ryan Air and put someone whose actual name is Ryan in charge," Musk asked on the social media platform.
Elon Musk Calls Ryanair CEO 'An Utter Idiot,' Floats Buying the Company
Elon Musk is musing about acquiring Ryanair Holdings plc (NASDAQ:RYAAY) following a heated online disagreement with Ryanair ...
Elon Musk, the World's Richest Person, Believes Retirement Savings 'Won't Matter' in an AI-Driven Future
Billionaire Elon Musk believes saving money for retirement won't matter in a decade or two thanks to artificial intelligence.
Musk seeks up to $134 billion from OpenAI and Microsoft
OpenAI gained between $65.5 billion and $109.4 billion from the billionaire entrepreneur's contributions when he was ...
Mother of Elon Musk’s Child Sues xAI Over Grok Abuse
Ashley St. Clair, an influencer who had a child with Musk, is now suing xAI, accusing it of allowing users to generate lewd ...
Mother of Elon Musk's child sues his AI company over sexual deepfake images created by Grok
The mother of one of Elon Musk's children is suing his AI company, saying its Grok chatbot allowed users to generate sexually ...
Why reinforcement learning plateaus without representation depth (and other key takeaways from NeurIPS 2025)
Every year, NeurIPS produces hundreds of impressive papers, and a handful that subtly reset how practitioners think about scaling, evaluation and system design. In 2025, the most consequential works weren't about a single breakthrough model. Instead, they challenged fundamental assumptions that academicians and corporations have quietly relied on: Bigger models mean better reasoning, RL creates new capabilities, attention is “solved” and generative models inevitably memorize.This year’s top
Trump administration’s legal setbacks are good news for offshore wind — and the grid
Three offshore wind projects under construction on the U.S. East Coast are back to building after judges rebuked the Department of the Interior's actions.
Oshen built the first ocean robot to collect data in a Category 5 hurricane
Oshen has signed contracts with multiple government agencies for its C-Star robots to collect ocean data autonomously.
ChatGPT’s Ads era is here
OpenAI’s decision to introduce advertisements inside ChatGPT for free users and its new $8 “Go” tier is already shaping up to be one of the most consequential pivots in generative AI’s short history. It’s not a simple business tweak. It’s a reframing of where digital intent, attention, and commercial influence intersect in an age where conversations increasingly replace search bars. OpenAI has not yet started showing ads in ChatGPT, but it plans to begin testing ads in the coming weeks. The firs
Musk wants up to $134B in OpenAI lawsuit, despite $700B fortune
Musk's legal team argues he should be compensated as an early startup investor who sees returns "many orders of magnitude greater" than his initial investment.