Podcast Episodes

Tesla is being investigated over its electronic door handles, another lawsuit blames an AI company of complicity in a teenager's suicide, and LimeWire acquired Fyre Festival

The NHTSA said it opened an investigation into the automaker's electrically powered doors. The problem: They stop working if the vehicle's low-voltag…

9 months, 1 week ago

A TikTok deal may finally be happening

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said unnamed parties reached a framework agreement.

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9 months, 1 week ago

China says NVIDIA's Mellanox acquisition violated antitrust law, New York details its plans for online age verification rules, and Early Access is the latest place where Steam is restricting games with mature themes

A regulator has accused NVIDIA of violating China's antitrust laws over its acquisition of chipmaker Mellanox. In its preliminary findings of an inve…

9 months, 1 week ago

xAI reportedly laid off at least 500 AI tutors working on Grok

It's now hiring specialist AI tutors after downsizing its generalist AI tutor team.

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9 months, 1 week ago

Google facing its first AI Overviews lawsuit from a major US publisher, California's age verification bill took another step forward, and Tesla's most affordable Cybertruck scrapped after five months

Even though Google's AI Overviews were introduced with a comically rocky start, it's about to face a far more serious challenge. Penske Media, the pu…

9 months, 1 week ago

The FTC is investigating companies that make AI companion chatbots

Seven companies are being asked to share how they're mitigating harm to younger users.

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9 months, 1 week ago

The 'next phase' of Microsoft's and OpenAI's partnership, Grok claimed the Charlie Kirk assassination video was a 'meme edit', and Perplexity's definition of copyright gets it sued by the dictionary

Microsoft and OpenAI have issued a joint statement to say that they have signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding for the "next phase" of the…

9 months, 1 week ago

Reddit, Yahoo, Medium and more are adopting a new licensing standard to get compensated for AI scraping

The group is looking to music royalty nonprofits for inspiration.

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9 months, 1 week ago

Amazon is reportedly developing separate AR glasses for customers and its drivers, HBO Max is going to get a lot more expensive, and Lyft launched an autonomous fleet with May Mobility in Atlanta

Amazon may be muscling into the field of augmented reality glasses. According to a report by The Information, sources claimed that the company is wor…

9 months, 1 week ago

Everything announced at the iPhone 17 launch event

With the start of September comes the promise of crisp, fall-like weather and, like clockwork, new iPhones. Apple's "awe dropping" iPhone event this …

9 months, 2 weeks ago