Elon Musk is seeking between 79 billion and 134 billion dollars in damages from OpenAI and Microsoft. He claims the artificial intelligence company defrauded him by abandoning its original nonprofit mission. This figure was first reported by Bloomberg. The staggering…
Earlier this week, the California attorney general’s office announced it was investigating xAI over reports that the startup’s chatbot, Grok, was being used to create nonconsensual sexual imagery of women and minors. On Friday, the government followed up by sending…
Runpod, an AI app hosting platform launched four years ago, has reached a $120 million annual revenue run rate. Founders Zhen Lu and Pardeep Singh shared their startup journey, a story that shows how building a solid product at the…
ClickHouse, a provider of database software, has secured $400 million in new funding at a valuation of $15 billion. This represents a significant increase, roughly two and a half times its $6.35 billion valuation from May of last year. The…
A hacker posted the personal data of several victims on his Instagram account, @ihackthegovernment, according to court documents. Last week, 24-year-old Nicholas Moore of Springfield, Tennessee, pleaded guilty to repeatedly hacking into the U.S. Supreme Court’s electronic document filing system.…
Drug discovery, the art of identifying new molecules to develop pharmaceuticals, is a notoriously time-consuming and difficult process. Traditional techniques, like high-throughput screening, offer an expensive scattershot approach that is not often successful. However, a new breed of biotech companies…
The Environmental Protection Agency ruled on Thursday that Elon Musk’s xAI has been illegally operating dozens of natural gas turbines to power its Colossus data centers in Tennessee. The AI company had argued the turbines were exempt from regulations because…
TikTok has quietly released a new stand-alone short drama app called PineDrama in the United States and Brazil. The app offers access to microdramas, which are essentially bite-sized TV shows that can be watched in a series of one-minute episodes.…
The Trump administration is pushing for the largest electricity grid in the country to add $15 billion worth of new power generation. It wants technology companies to pay for this new capacity, even if they do not ultimately need the…
A significant conversation within and beyond the tech world has centered on how and when OpenAI will become profitable. The company, currently valued at $500 billion, appears to have found one clear path forward: advertising. This week, OpenAI announced it…
