A Judge Says Meta’s AI Copyright Case Is About ‘the Next Taylor Swift’
Meta’s copyright battle with a group of authors, including Sarah Silverman and Ta-Nehisi Coates, will turn on the question of whether the company’s AI tools produce...
2025 Is the Year of the Humanoid Robot Factory Worker
Later this year, Boston Dynamics plans to put its all-electric humanoid Atlas robot to work in a Hyundai factory. The new version of the bot, evolved...
Sam Altman’s Eye-Scanning Orb Is Now Coming to the US
Sam Altman’s iris-scanning, identify-verification technology startup says it will begin expanding to the US starting May 1 and will launch a phone-like hardware device by next...
Apple May Face Criminal Charges for Allegedly Lying to a Federal Judge
Apple “willfully chose not to comply” with a court order to loosen its app store restrictions—and one of its executives lied under oath about the company’s...
These Startups Are Building Advanced AI Models Without Data Centers
Researchers have trained a new kind of large language model (LLM) using GPUs dotted across the world and fed private as well as public data—a move...
AI Is Using Your Likes to Get Inside Your Head
What is the future of the like button in the age of artificial intelligence? Max Levchin—the PayPal cofounder and Affirm CEO—sees a new and hugely valuable...
The Agonizing Task of Turning Europe’s Power Back On
“You should be anticipating every failure that can happen, and you should survive any one of them,” Cuffe says. From the control room, engineers should be...
Donald Trump Is Already Ruining Christmas
While children are told stories about elves and reindeer, the truth is that hundreds of thousands of people work year-round to make sure Christmas feels magical....
The Meta Trial Shows the Dangers of Selling Out
Meta has a lot at stake in the current FTC lawsuit against it. In theory a negative verdict could result in a company breakup. But CEO...
The Real Winners of the Trump Memecoin Feeding Frenzy
On Wednesday, the team behind the official Donald Trump memecoin sparked a trading frenzy after announcing that the investors who held the largest amount of the...