An Oakland, Calif., jury rejected Elon Musk’s claims against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, after just two hours of deliberation on Monday and three weeks of testimony. The nine-person jury did not rule on the merits of Musk’s complaint that OpenAI violated…
For decades, the U.S. enjoyed a peculiar privilege: It owed the world a fortune but somehow still collected more than it had to pay out. The country was effectively able to consistently run up a tab and still walk out…
Whenever someone visits Japan, they mention the sights, the food, the impeccable transportation. Oftentimes, they mention futuristic toilets: the ubiquity of bidets, their sound effects, and the turbo-powered jets that keep you clean. Now Japan’s largest bidet maker, Toto, is…
Earlier this year, Harvard’s endowment fund shook up its crypto approach by reducing its Bitcoin ETF exposure, and adding Ethereum ETF shares. Only months later, however, the Ivy League school has refined that approach further as its latest disclosures show…
That looks to be the case for at least one technology services and outsourcing firm. TTEC recently paused 401(k) matches for its US-based employees, Business Insider reported on May 8. The company, which is headquartered in Austin, has about 16,000 staff in…
A federal jury ruled this morning that Elon Musk waited too long to sue Sam Altman over OpenAI’s broken nonprofit promise. The case was thrown out on statute of limitations grounds. The judge said she would have dismissed it herself.…
It’s all-knowing, omnipresent, and somewhere between one to two billion people in the world subscribe to it. It’s not Catholicism—it’s AI—and its usage among the world’s population is increasingly becoming a concern for some, especially as reports of how sycophantic…
NextEra Energy’s massive $67 billion deal to acquire Virginia-based Dominion, announced on May 18, will effectively build the world’s largest utility in a bid to dominate the AI data center boom. It’s a goal big enough that NextEra was willing…
The internet was certain: the painting lacked “coherent composition,” the colors were an “incoherent muddle of inconsistently saturated greens.” Commenters piled on with extraordinary confidence, picking apart what they believed was an obvious AI-generated knockoff of Claude Monet. One person…
On the morning of Monday, March 23, President Trump pulled his first “TACO” of the Iran war. After four weeks of fighting, with oil prices already up 55%, Trump had given Iran an ultimatum on Friday: make a deal within…