Elon Musk won’t face election bribery charges in Wisconsin, state prosecutor says
A Wisconsin prosecutor says he will not file election bribery charges against billionaire Elon Musk even though the state’s ...
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Elon Musk's space company to build new rocket launching site in Louisiana
Elon Musk's space company plans to spend $100 billion to build a massive new spaceport in Louisiana to launch rockets, state ...
Quote of the day by Elon Musk: "Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if….."
Elon Musk’s quote on embracing change explains why adapting to new technology and challenges can be better than refusing ...
Elon Musk Weighs In As Atreides CIO Gavin Baker Warns of 'Compute Inequality,' Sees His Firm's AI Spending Double Monthly
Over the weekend, Space Exploration Technologies Corp CEO Elon Musk reacted to Atreides Management CIO Gavin Baker’s ...
Here’s what Elon Musk said about Louisiana, plans for new SpaceX site in Vermilion Parish
On Tuesday, tech trillionaire Elon Musk and top SpaceX leaders announced the planned construction of Starbase Louisiana in a ...
Wisconsin will not charge Elon Musk with election bribery, DA says
Wisconsin will not press charges against Elon Musk over alleged election bribery during the 2025 state Supreme Court election ...
Elon Musk’s former X product chief Nikita Bier is charging venture-backed founders $15,000 for a 30-minute consulting call
Bier stepped down as head of product earlier this month.
Australia’s charts now require a human to sing the lead vocal
Australia will bar wholly AI-generated tracks from its official music charts from Monday. The song that prompted the rule was still sitting at number four on Tuesday. The Australian Recording Industry Association set the test in a statement. A track...
Brazil fines TikTok’s owner $29.9m over children’s data, including guest sessions
Brazil has fined TikTok’s owner over the way it handled children’s data, and the ruling covers people who never had an account. The National Data Protection Agency imposed a penalty of 153.7 million reais on ByteDance on Tuesday, worth about $29.9m....
Intuit is separating Mailchimp out and guiding it to zero growth
Intuit is moving Mailchimp out of its main business and into a segment of its own. The first standalone forecast it has ever published for the marketing tool is for no growth at all. Mailchimp will bring in $1,256mn to $1,266mn in fiscal 2027, Intuit...
X sends cease-and-desist to open source project Nitter over alleged scraping
X has sent cease-and-desist letters to Nitter, the open source project behind privacy-friendly X front ends, demanding its instances and code repository be taken down over alleged scraping.
OpenAI confirms its data centre chief left as it pivots to leasing
OpenAI has confirmed that the executive running its data centre buildout has left, and it has already broken up the job he was doing. Chris Malone, its head of data centers, is no longer with the company, an OpenAI spokesperson told Dina Bass at Bloo...
Meta refused to switch a teen safety tool on by default, jury told
Someone inside Instagram proposed switching its break reminder on by default. The proposal was rejected because the cost to the app’s core metrics was not desirable. George Volichenko, a former Meta data scientist, told that to a jury in Oakland this...
Anthropic merges Claude chat and Cowork memory, on by default
Anything you tell Claude in a chat window is now available to Claude Cowork. Anything Cowork learns comes back the other way. Anthropic merged the two memory systems on Tuesday. Wherever you work with Claude, it starts from what it already knows abou...
WhatsApp is replacing its six-digit security PIN with a real password
WhatsApp is replacing the six-digit PIN used for two-step verification with a full alphanumeric password, and says more than a billion users have already created a passkey. Android users will also see extra context about calls from people not in thei...
Instagram’s ‘First Draft’ feature aims to make editing Reels less tedious
Instagram says the process can produce a first pass in under 10 seconds, potentially saving creators significant editing time while making video creation more approachable for people who don't have much experience with editing software.
Apple gave Tim Cook a farewell party a week before Ternus takes over
Apple gave Tim Cook a leaving party on Sunday, a week before he stops being its chief executive. About 200 people attended, almost all of them Apple employees, at the Caffè Macs cafeteria on the company’s Cupertino campus. OneRepublic played. Aaron T...
Stability AI, maker of image generator Stable Diffusion, raises $76 million in fresh funding
The company's new fundraising total now stands at $232 million.
Alice raises $140mn to stress-test the models Anthropic and Google ship
One company spent eight years cataloguing the worst material on the internet. It has now raised $140mn to point that archive at AI models. Alice, formerly ActiveFence, announced the round on Tuesday. Apax Digital Funds led it, and will take a board s...
Anthropic is expected to pitch investors a $30tn market opportunity
Anthropic is likely to tell IPO investors that its potential revenue opportunity runs above $30tn. That figure would top the $28.5tn SpaceX put in front of investors before its own record listing. Corrie Driebusch reported the number for The Wall Str...