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Here are Elon Musk's "most epic" goals for his vast Terafab chip plant

Elon Musk unveiled plans for a massive chip manufacturing facility in Austin, Texas, that he said will power his "galactic" ...

Baltimore sues Elon Musk's xAI over Grok sexual 'deepfakes'

By Jonathan Stempel March 24 (Reuters) - The city of Baltimore sued Elon Musk’s xAI on Tuesday, claiming its Grok chatbot ...

The Entire Internet Is Tripping Over Viral Rumor About Elon Musk and OnlyFans

Social media got completely fooled into thinking Elon Musk was going to purchase OnlyFans, just to shut it down.

A former Thiel fellow’s startup just launched a drone it says can replace police helicopters

Brinc launched its newest 911 response drone this week, as the company seeks to expand its prominence in the public safety industry.

Amazon just bought a startup making kid-size humanoid robots

The acquisition of Fauna Robotics is the second robotics startup Amazon has purchased this month.

With $3.5B in fresh capital, Kleiner Perkins is going all in on AI

The fundraise includes $1 billion for investing in early-stage startups, and $2.5 billion for late-stage growth businesses.

New Mexico just handed Meta its first courtroom defeat over child safety, and the rest of the country is watching

The dollar amount isn’t as important as the fact that this is the first jury verdict of its kind against Meta over harm to young people.

Lululemon bets Epoch Biodesign can eat its shorts, literally

Startup Epoch Biodesign uses enzymes to break plastic waste down into monomers, the chemical building blocks that can be used to make new plastic.

OpenAI’s Sora was the creepiest app on your phone — now it’s shutting down

Though the underlying Sora 2 video- and audio-generation model is scarily impressive, there was not sustained interest in an AI-only social feed.

Accel, Prosus pick six ‘off-the-map’ startups for inaugural India cohort

The six startups were selected from over 2,000 applications and will receive $500,000 to $2 million each.

Kentucky woman rejects $26M offer to turn her farm into a data center

A "major artificial intelligence company" reportedly offered a Kentucky family $26 million to build a data center on their farm.

OpenAI is shutting down Sora, its powerful AI video model, app and API

OpenAI is shuttering Sora, its stand-alone AI video generation app and social network, and the availability for developers to access the Sora 2 video model family through its application programming interface (API) to rely on it for their own products or video generation pipelines.The announcement came abruptly this afternoon with OpenAI posting a message on X and not giving an exact shutdown date for the services, instead promising "timelines for the app and API and details on preserving y

Anthropic hands Claude Code more control, but keeps it on a leash

Anthropic’s new auto mode for Claude Code lets AI execute tasks with fewer approvals, reflecting a broader shift toward more autonomous tools that balance speed with safety through built-in safeguards.

Spotify tests new tool to stop AI slop from being attributed to real artists

The idea behind the new tool is to give artists more control over which tracks are associated with their name on Spotify.

Anthropic’s Claude can now control your Mac, escalating the fight to build AI agents that actually do work

Anthropic on Monday launched the most ambitious consumer AI agent to date, giving its Claude chatbot the ability to directly control a user's Mac — clicking buttons, opening applications, typing into fields, and navigating software on the user's behalf while they step away from their desk.The update, available immediately as a research preview for paying subscribers, transforms Claude from a conversational assistant into something closer to a remote digital operator. It arrives inside

OpenAI open-sources teen safety policies for developers amid mounting lawsuits over ChatGPT deaths

OpenAI has spent the past year fielding lawsuits from the families of young people who died after extended interactions with ChatGPT. Now it is trying to give the developers who build on top of its models the tools to avoid creating the same problem. The company announced on Tuesday that it is releasing a set […]This story continues at The Next Web

Arm is releasing the first in-house chip in its 35-year history

Arm is producing its own CPU for the first time. It developed the CPU with Meta, which is also the chip's first customer.

BlueConic joins Databricks Marketplace to bring real-time marketing decisions to the lakehouse

Enterprises have spent years and considerable fortunes building data lakehouses, training models, and unifying customer records inside platforms like Databricks. The harder problem, it turns out, is not building the intelligence but deploying it, getting a prediction out of a data warehouse and into a marketing decision before the moment passes. BlueConic, the Boston-based customer […]This story continues at The Next Web

OpenAI’s plans to make ChatGPT more like Amazon aren’t going so well

OpenAI says it's moving away from Instant Checkout, which allowed users to buy items directly through the ChatGPT interface.

Google TV’s new Gemini features keep fans updated on sports teams and more

Three Gemini-powered features are coming to your Google TV. This includes visual responses, deep dives, and sports briefs.