For billionaires about to tussle, we salute you! Rome’s famous Colosseum — the site of of gladiator battles and Christians being tossed to lions — may serve as the arena for the much-hyped “cage match” between moguls Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. Italy’s minister of culture Gennaro Sangiuliano contacted Zuckerberg about the possibility of holding the bout at the iconic …
Read More »AI teddy bears are here
In the not-so-distant future, you could walk in on a teddy bear reading a bedtime story to your child. And it wouldn’t be just any story — it’d be a saga tailored to everything the toy knows about your child, including likes, dislikes and even their deepest secrets. In the 1980s and ’90s, Teddy Ruxpin and Furbys were creepy, but …
Read More »Apple hits $3 trillion in market value as new gadget releases loom
Apple’s market value crossed the $3 trillion mark in early Friday trading as investors look ahead to the highly-scrutinized releases like the iPhone 15 and the Vision Pro mixed-reality headset. The California-based tech giant’s stock hovered at $191.52 per share after the opening bell Friday after closing at a record high in each of its previous two trading sessions. Apple’s …
Read More »Amazon poaching FTC officials ahead of antitrust lawsuit
Amazon is poaching a slew of staffers from the Federal Trade Commission as it gears up for an epic antitrust battle with the US agency, sources told On The Money. The Seattle-based web giant – which most is facing accusations it’s been strong-arming third-party sellers into using its logistics network – has already hired around a dozen former FTC officials, …
Read More »Joonko seemingly lied about working with American Express, PayPal
Joonko, the DEI-focused tech startup whose founder is accused of duping investors, appears to have lied about working with several US corporate icons — even as it raised tens of millions of dollars to fuel its expansion. As of Thursday, The Post has learned of at least four major companies — American Express, PayPal, Accenture and Atlassian — that were …
Read More »Advertisers demand billions in refunds from YouTube over skippable ads
YouTube advertisers demanded refunds from the Google-owned video sharing service after a study found viewers were allowed to entirely avoid commercials that play imperceptibly on third-party sites, violating the company’s own terms of service. Adalytics, a company that analyzes digital ads, issued a report accusing Google of “misleading” Fortune 500 companies, small businesses and the US government about TrueView, the …
Read More »Elon Musk’s dad shares photo amid ‘dwarf adult human’ AI image
The father of tech titan Elon Musk offered up a rare image of his son when he was a kid after an AI-generated photo of the future Tesla mogul made him look like a “dwarf adult human.” Earlier this month, the Twitter parody account “Not Jerome Powell” posted a photo showing a brown-eyed boy with Musk’s recognizable stern face dressed …
Read More »Bill Gates’ office asked female job candidates about sex histories: report
Bill Gates’s private office reportedly asked some female job candidates about their sexual histories — including what kind of pornography they liked, whether they ever had extramarital affairs and even if they had nude pictures of themselves on their phones. During Gates’s extensive screening process, a security firm also asked some women if they ever “danced for dollars,” sources told …
Read More »First AI-generated drug enters human clinical trials, targeting chronic lung disease patients
The first-ever drug generated by artificial intelligence has entered Phase 2 clinical trials, with the first dose successfully administered to a human, Insilico Medicine announced yesterday. The drug, currently referred to as INS018_055, is being tested to treat idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), a rare, progressive type of chronic lung disease. The 12-week trial will include participants diagnosed with IPF. “This drug, which …
Read More »How to use TikTok without handing over personal data to China
I’ve been saying it for months: Get TikTok off your phone. It’s not the only China-based app you need to worry about. Temu, the app that lets you “shop like a billionaire,” isn’t worth the deals. That’s not all. If you still want to use TikTok, you can without handing over all your information to communist China. Why not just …
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