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DOGE has built an AI tool to slash federal regulations
The Department of Government Efficiency hopes to use a new AI tool to eliminate half of the federal government’s regulatory mandates, according to The Washington Post.
Citing a PowerPoint presentation dated July 1, The Post reports…
Inside Tesla’s new retro-futuristic Supercharger diner
Tesla has opened the doors to its first diner Supercharger station in Los Angeles.CEO Elon Musk first teased the concept of building a drive-in themed charging station in 2018. On Monday, that vision was finally realized. Tesla describes…
Palantir jumps to all-time high, becomes 20th most valuable U.S. firm
Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir Technologies, speaks on a panel titled Power, Purpose, and the New American Century at the Hill and Valley Forum at the U.S. Capitol on April 30, 2025 in Washington, DC. Kevin Dietsch | Getty ImagesPalantir has…
U.K. starts enforcing online age check rules
A U.K. law requiring that pornography websites verify the age of their users took effect Friday.
The BBC reports that around 6,000 porn sites have said they will start verifying users’ ages to comply with the Online Safety Act,…
Tesla investors grow wary of Elon Musk robotaxi promises
Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks alongside U.S. President Donald Trump to reporters in the Oval Office of the White House on May 30, 2025 in Washington, DC. Kevin Dietsch | Getty ImagesAt Tesla, vehicle sales are slumping, profits are thinning…
Tesla vet says that ‘reviewing real products’ — not mockups — is the key to staying…
GM’s EVs have been on a roll lately. After selling just the Chevy Bolt for years, a wave of new models — now up to 17 fully electrified vehicles — has pushed the automaker into second place in the U.S. behind Tesla.
How did it get…
Shengjia Zhao to lead Meta’s AI Superintelligence Lab
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg makes a keynote speech during the Meta Connect annual event, at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, California, on Sept. 25, 2024.Manuel Orbegozo | ReutersMeta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Friday said Shengjia…
Tesla wants to bring robotaxis to San Francisco. Here’s what’s standing in the way.
Tesla is launching an even-more-limited version of its early robotaxi service in San Francisco this weekend, according to Business Insider, after an initial rollout began last month in Austin, Texas.
The company plans to send invites…
Tesla plans ‘friends and family’ service in California, regulator says
A vehicle Tesla is using for robotaxi testing purposes on Oltorf Street in Austin, Texas, US, on Sunday, June 22, 2025. Tim Goessman | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesIn an earnings call this week, Tesla CEO Elon Musk teased an expansion of his…
Intel drops 9% as chipmaker’s foundry business axes projects
Lip-Bu Tan, Chief Executive Officer of Intel, appears at an event organized by the company. Andrej Sokolow | Picture Alliance | Getty ImagesIntel's stock dropped 9% after the chipmaker said it would slash foundry costs in its latest…
Google is testing a vibe-coding app called Opal
AI-powered coding tools have become so popular over the past few months that almost every major tech company is either using one or making its own. Makers of these so-called “vibe-coding” tools are a hot commodity at the moment, with…
Intel (INTC) earnings report Q2 2025
The Intel logo is displayed on a sign in front of Intel headquarters on July 16, 2025 in Santa Clara, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty ImagesIntel reported second-quarter results on Thursday that beat Wall Street expectations on…
How a Y Combinator food-delivery app used TikTok to soar in the App Store
The internet trend is simple: A friend or family member looks into the camera and tells viewers, in a slightly aggressive tone, that they are about to witness a presentation and that they better be nice.
That’s what Kendall, the…
Musk’s Starlink outage day after rollout of T-Mobile satellite service
Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesElon Musk's satellite internet service Starlink said it had a "network outage" on Thursday. The company said it was working on a solution.There were more than 60,000 reports of an outage on…
No ‘woke AI’ in Washington, says Trump, as he launches AI action plan
U.S. President Donald Trump holds an executive order related to AI after signing it during the "Winning the AI Race" Summit in Washington D.C., U.S., July 23, 2025. Kent Nishimura | ReutersU.S. President Donald Trump has vowed to keep…
A new AI coding challenge just published its first results — and they aren’t pretty
A new AI coding challenge has revealed its first winner — and set a new bar for AI-powered software engineers.
On Wednesday at 5 p.m. PT, the nonprofit Laude Institute announced the first winner of the K Prize, a multi-round AI coding…
SK Hynix second-quarter revenue and profit hit record highs
A visitor takes a picture of a model of SK hynix's high-bandwidth memory (HBM) technology during the 2025 World IT Show in Seoul on April 24, 2025.Jung Yeon-je | Afp | Getty ImagesSouth Korea's SK Hynix on Thursday posted record…
Google’s AI Overviews have 2B monthly users, AI Mode 100M in the US and India
Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai shared an update on the adoption of consumer-facing AI apps and features, including Google Search’s AI Overviews, Gemini, and AI Mode. On the company’s Q2 2025 call with investors, Pichai shared…