Palmer Luckey’s eyes light up and he talks a mile a minute when discussing his company’s new recruiting event: the AI Grand Prix. This is a drone flying contest with a twist. Rather than humans operating drones, the drones must…
Days after Meta was sued over alleged false privacy claims surrounding its chat app WhatsApp, the company has rolled out a new setting to protect users against cyberattacks. The feature, called Strict Account Settings, adds restrictions like automatically blocking media…
TikTok reports it is making progress on recovering its U.S. infrastructure after a data center outage. This disruption occurred shortly after the TikTok U.S. deal was finalized. Last week, TikTok announced the creation of a separate U.S. entity with American…
Amazon has reached a settlement valued at more than one billion dollars to resolve claims that it failed to properly refund customers for their returns. According to court documents, the settlement includes more than six hundred million dollars already distributed…
China’s Moonshot AI, backed by Alibaba and HongShan, has released a new open source model called Kimi K2.5. This model understands text, images, and video. The company states it was trained on 15 trillion mixed visual and text tokens, making…
Luminar received an even higher bid for its lidar business as a court-run auction concluded on Monday, according to a new filing in the company’s bankruptcy case. MicroVision, a Redmond, Washington-based company that has been developing its own lidar sensors,…
TikTok settled a high-profile lawsuit on Monday evening. The lawsuit alleges that social media companies intentionally make their products addictive, causing harm to users. Snap settled the same case last week. The other defendants, Meta and YouTube, are now heading…
Google announced on Tuesday that its more affordable Google AI Plus plan is now available in all markets where its AI plans are offered. This includes the United States, where the plan will cost $7.99 per month. The expansion introduces…
On a Monday night NBC News segment, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei expressed concern over some of the things seen in the last few days, referring to violence involving Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis. Amodei focused on the importance of preserving…
Pinterest announced on Tuesday that it will lay off less than fifteen percent of its workforce. This decision is part of a plan to reduce office space and reallocate resources toward the company’s artificial intelligence initiatives. According to a regulatory…
