The Federal Trade Commission continued its crackdown on businesses that deceptively market and sell subscription services, adopting a rule Wednesday requiring companies to let consumers cancel a gym membership, streaming video service or other subscription as easily as they started it. The rule expands the FTC’s restrictions on “negative option” offers, which automatically start, renew…
Getty Images Elon Musk has stepped up his ongoing feud with ChatGPT-maker OpenAI with a revived lawsuit against the firm, adding Microsoft as a defendant. Mr Musk, a co-founder of the artificial intelligence (AI) company, accused it and the tech giant of operating a monopoly in an amended legal complaint on Thursday. It follows previous…
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Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk expanded his lawsuit against ChatGPT maker OpenAI, adding federal antitrust and other claims and adding OpenAI’s largest financial backer Microsoft as a defendant. Musk’s amended lawsuit, filed on Thursday night in federal court in Oakland, Calif., said Microsoft and OpenAI illegally sought to monopolize the market for generative artificial intelligence and sideline competitors. Like Musk’s original August…
Getty You may have seen the word “Bluesky” popping up on your social media pages recently and wondered what people are talking about. It is an alternative platform to Elon Musk’s X and it terms of its colour and logo, it looks quite similar. Bluesky is growing rapidly and is currently picking up around one…
Turmoil at 23andMe, a company offering popular at-home DNA testing, has upset the industry. Following the resignation of every independent member of the company’s board of directors, its chief executive, Anne Wojcicki, expressed openness to selling the company and its database of around 15 million customers, raising concerns about the misuse of genetic data. Although…
A Los Angeles-based production company has sued Tesla, its Chief Executive Elon Musk, and Warner Bros. Discovery, alleging that the electric vehicle maker ripped off scenes from the 2017 film “Blade Runner 2049” to promote its new robotaxi. Alcon Entertainment, which produced the film for Warner Bros., filed the copyright infringement lawsuit Monday in California….
Who would have guessed that Devin Nunes, who left Congress to run former President Trump’s media company, would be accused of mismanagement and cronyism? Well, me, for one. It’s not that I am any kind of oracle. It’s just that I’ve followed Nunes’ career as an ultra-litigious Trump defender who is afflicted by a world-class…
The 2024 U.S. presidential campaign has featured some notable deepfakes — AI-powered impersonations of candidates that sought to mislead voters or demean the candidates being targeted. Thanks to Elon Musk’s retweet, one of those deepfakes has been viewed more than 143 million times. The prospect of unscrupulous campaigns or foreign adversaries using artificial intelligence to…
Charles Liang, chief executive officer of Super Micro Computer Inc., during the Computex conference in Taipei, Taiwan, on Wednesday, June 5, 2024. The trade show runs through June 7. Annabelle Chih | Bloomberg | Getty Images Super Micro Computer could be headed down a path to getting kicked off the Nasdaq as soon as Monday….
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