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US AI Safety Institute could face big cuts
The National Institute of Standards and Technology could fire as many as 500 staffers, according to multiple reports — cuts that further threaten a fledgling AI safety organization.
Axios reported this week that the US AI Safety…
Hims & Hers shares fall after FDA says semaglutide no longer in shortage
Shares of Hims & Hers Health closed down around 26% on Friday after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that the shortage of semaglutide injection products has been resolved.Semaglutide is the active ingredient in Novo…
Did xAI lie about Grok 3’s benchmarks?
Debates over AI benchmarks — and how they’re reported by AI labs — are spilling out into public view.
This week, an OpenAI employee accused Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, of publishing misleading benchmark results for its latest AI…
Hackers steal $1.5 billion from exchange Bybit, biggest crypto heist
Ben Zhou, chief executive officer of ByBit, during the Token2049 conference in Singapore, on Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023. Joseph Nair | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesBybit, a major cryptocurrency exchange, has been hacked to the tune of $1.5…
Block, Affirm, PayPal battling to be your all-in-one online bank
Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter Inc., speaks during the Bitcoin 2021 conference in Miami, Florida, U.S., on Friday, June 4, 2021.Eva Marie Uzcategui | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesJack Dorsey's Block got started as Square, offering small…
Meta, X approved ads containing violent anti-Muslim, antisemitic hate speech ahead of German…
Social media giants Meta and X approved ads targeting users in Germany with violent anti-Muslim and anti-Jew hate speech in the run-up to the country’s federal elections, according to new research from Eko, a corporate responsibility…
Anne Wojcicki new offer to take 23andMe private for $74.7 million
Anne Wojcicki attends the WSJ Magazine Style & Tech Dinner in Atherton, California, on March 15, 2023.Kelly Sullivan | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki and New Mountain Capital have submitted a…
Brian Armstrong says Coinbase spent $50M fighting SEC lawsuit – and beat it
Coinbase on Friday said the SEC has agreed to drop the lawsuit against the company with prejudice, meaning it cannot be filed again.
The move, which is still subject to the approval of the SEC’s Commissioners, is yet another signal…
Block shares head for worst day in 5 years after earnings miss
Marco Bello | AFP | Getty ImagesBlock shares plunged 18% on Friday, their steepest drop since 2020, after the company reported fourth-quarter earnings that missed estimates and issued guidance for 2025 that failed to reassure…
Apple’s Vision Pro has a problem a year into existence: Too few apps
Apple CEO Tim Cook (L) takes a selfie with a greets customers on arrival for the release of the Vision Pro headset at the Apple Store in New York City on February 2, 2024. Angela Weiss | AFP | Getty ImagesWhen Apple revealed the Vision…
OpenAI rolls out its AI agent, Operator, in several countries
OpenAI said on Friday that it is rolling out Operator, its so-called AI agent that can perform tasks on behalf of users, for ChatGPT Pro subscribers in Australia, Brazil, Canada, India, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, the U.K., and more…
Meta approves plan for bigger executive bonuses following 5% layoffs
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg appears at the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, on Sept. 25, 2024.David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesExecutives at Meta stand to get bigger bonuses this year. The company said in a corporate…
Your Android phone could have stalkerware. Here’s how to remove it
Consumer-grade spyware apps that covertly and continually monitor your private messages, photos, phone calls and real-time location are an ongoing problem for Android users.
This guide can help you identify and remove common…
Amazon wins creative control of James Bond franchise from Broccoli family
Daniel Craig stars as James Bond in "No Time To Die."Source: MGMAmazon is set to take creative control over the lucrative James Bond movie franchise from the Broccoli family, the company announced Thursday.The James Bond films have long…
Europe risks becoming ‘museum’ without innovating in AI: Swedish PM
Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson during a press conference on Jan. 17, 2025.Florian Gaertner | Photothek | Getty ImagesSTOCKHOLM — Europe is at risk of becoming a "museum" if it doesn't soften strict curbs on artificial…
Tether backs stablecoin liquidity provider Mansa in $10M seed round
As payment companies increasingly explore stablecoins for cross-border payments and real-time settlement, some startups are tapping into the zeitgeist by providing liquidity via a revolving line of credit in stablecoins.
One of them is…
Microsoft unveils first quantum chip, claims to create novel matter
Microsoft on Wednesday announced Majorana 1, its first quantum computing chip. The achievement comes after the company spent nearly two decades of research in the field, but Microsoft claims that building Majorana 1 required that it…
Karman+ digs up $20M to build an asteroid-mining autonomous spacecraft
Investors on the lookout for startups working at the frontiers of technology are casting their nets ever further into unchartered territory, sometimes literally as well as figuratively. In one of the latest examples, a startup called…