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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 ...

Judge dismisses lawsuit by Elon Musk's X challenging New York hate speech law

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK, Aug 26 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit by Elon Musk's X seeking to ...

Elon Musk Reveals Why SpaceX Launched Tesla’s Roadster Into Orbit: ‘We Didn’t Want to Risk Anything Valuable’

Space Exploration Technologies Corp. and Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk has revealed the reason behind SpaceX launching his Tesla ...

Zelenskyy gives award to Elon Musk for Starlink's role in Ukraine

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday awarded Elon Musk Ukraine's Order of Freedom, one of its highest state honors, for ...

Meta’s $18B child-safety deal hinges on age verification tech that doesn’t work well

The historic settlement reignites ongoing concern around how age-verification technology puts privacy at risk.

Judge dismisses lawsuit by Elon Musk's X challenging New York hate speech law

NEW YORK, Aug 26 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit by Elon Musk's X seeking to void a New York state ...

Zelenskyy gives award to Elon Musk for Starlink’s role in Ukraine

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday awarded Elon Musk Ukraine’s Order of Freedom, one of its highest state honors, for ...

Elon Musk Says We’re ‘1000% Going to Go Bankrupt’ Without Al and Robots — ‘We’re Totally Screwed’ as Interest on National Debt Tops $1 Trillion

Elon Musk warns the U.S. could face financial failure without AI and robots as the national debt tops $40 trillion and annual ...

Elon Musk’s SpaceX announces $100 billion 'Starbase Louisiana' mega-spaceport

A project of extraordinary scale could soon transform a quiet stretch of Louisiana’s Gulf Coast into one of the most ...

Ukraine Butters Up Musk With Highest State Honor for Starlink

The award comes as the Ukrainian military has been trying to convince Musk to expand Starlink access into Russia.

Gemini Live gains agentic tasks, voice inbox control and personal intelligence

Google has added four capabilities to Gemini Live, letting spoken commands trigger background agents that work across Docs, Sheets and Drive, alongside hands-free Gmail control and a spoken daily brief. Its DMA settlement requires it to let rival ass...

Waystar turns agentic AI loose on claims, denials, and documentation

Waystar has launched agents that interpret payer responses and automatically resubmit denied healthcare claims, which it calls the industry’s first autonomous resubmission capability. Germany caps how many hospital invoices may be audited each quarte...

Anthropic continues compute-gobbling streak in $45B deal with Nscale

The new deal with the infrastructure provider is the latest example of Anthropic's white-hot compute-gobbling streak.

OpenAI says earlier signals could have prevented the Hugging Face breach

OpenAI’s technical report on the Hugging Face breach says an internal team saw its models reaching the open internet from their sandbox in late May, and that a June alert did not stop the evaluation. It also found that training sometimes rewarded age...

Microsoft staff are burning a median $300 a month on AI, according to their own spreadsheet

An internal spreadsheet where Microsoft employees swap pay details now carries a column for monthly AI spend, with a median of about $300 over 28 days across roughly 350 entries. Business Insider found no meaningful link between heavy AI use and bonu...

Vanguard is acquiring Altruist, the AI custody platform it backed six years ago

Vanguard has agreed to acquire Altruist, an AI-driven custody and software platform for independent financial advisers that it first invested in during 2020, on undisclosed terms. Britain and the EU are addressing the same shortage of advice through...

Salesforce just put its entire CRM inside Claude — and says you’ll never need its app again

Salesforce and Anthropic announced Tuesday a sweeping expansion of their partnership, called Claudeforce, that pushes the world's largest customer relationship management platform directly inside Claude — a tacit acknowledgment that the future o...

Qwen4’s architecture is here early, firing 6B parameters out of 125B

Alibaba’s Qwen team has released Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, an open-weight preview of the architecture it intends to use for Qwen4, carrying 125B parameters but activating only 6B for each token. Its licence may not qualify for the EU AI Act’s open-source e...

AI receptionists seem like a dangerous idea after a patient revealed her doctor’s system could not understand her speech

A GP surgery in South Yorkshire has withdrawn an AI receptionist after a woman recovering from a stroke could not make it understand her and moved to another practice. The NHS Accessible Information Standard has required practices to identify and mee...

Google’s Gemini has a branding problem, and so does the rest of AI

Consumer AI apps need to stop making users learn their product architecture.