They’re trying to expand people’s digital (Big)foot print. The Unicode Consortium is ringing in the New Year with a proposed treasure trove of new emojis for 2025, including a facsimile of Bigfoot amid a slew of supposed Sasquatch sightings. There will reportedly be a total of 164 new digital hieroglyphics, released as part of the…
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court refused Monday to hear appeals from ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft, which were asking to block California state labor lawsuits that seek back pay for tens of thousands of drivers. Without comment, the justices turned down appeals from both companies. At issue, they said, was the scope of the arbitration agreements…
Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk presented a lofty vision for the future Thursday night, unveiling prototypes of a self-driving taxi and van that he said would revolutionize travel and claiming the electric car company would put fully autonomous vehicles on the road by next year. At an event on the Warner Bros. Studios lot in…
Fisker Inc. will wind down operations under a bankruptcy plan approved Friday that should allow car owners to drive their cars for years — while not paying anything to shareholders who were wiped out investing in the defunct Southern California electric-vehicle maker. The plan approved by U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Thomas Horan in Delaware comes…
While he was building rockets and electric cars and becoming the world’s richest man, Elon Musk mostly stayed out of politics, donating relatively modest amounts to candidates from both parties and voting for Democrats for president, including Barack Obama and Joe Biden. But Musk’s political restraint has vanished over the last two years as the…
Amazon on Wednesday announced plans to invest in nuclear power production to fuel its data centers with clean energy, a key part of the e-commerce giant’s push to expand AI-powered services. “Nuclear energy is safe, reliable, and can help meet the energy needs of our customers for decades to come,” said Kevin Miller, Amazon Web…
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…
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