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WhatsApp just made getting away with cheating easier and finding out your partner is cheating harder. The messaging app owned by Meta is launching a “Chat Lock” feature that will allow users to keep their private conversations exactly that — private. The locked chats will be in a protected folder that can only be accessed by passcode or biometrics, such …
Read More »ChatGPT’s Sam Altman testifies as concerns grow about AI risks
The head of the artificial intelligence company that makes ChatGPT told Congress on Tuesday that government intervention “will be critical to mitigate the risks of increasingly powerful” AI systems. “As this technology advances, we understand that people are anxious about how it could change the way we live. We are too,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman testified at a Senate hearing …
Read More »Elon Musk compares George Soros to X-Men villain Magneto
Elon Musk scornfully compared George Soros to the X-Men supervillain Magneto after the billionaire Democratic donor disclosed he had dumped a massive trove of Tesla stock. Musk went on to claim that Soros “hates humanity.” The 92-year-old, Hungarian-born billionaire heads the Open Society Foundations and has frequently drawn the ire of conservatives for his support of progressive causes. “Soros reminds …
Read More »Elon Musk tells Tesla staff he must approve all hiring: report
Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk has said that the company can make no new hires unless he personally approves them, including contractors, the Information reported on Monday, citing an email to staff. According to the report, Musk told executives to send him a list of hiring requests on a weekly basis, while also cautioning them to “think carefully” before submitting such …
Read More »Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino shared ‘chemistry’ with Elon Musk
Linda Yaccarino’s onstage appearance with Elon Musk at a recent marketing conference in Miami Beach amounted to a job interview that eventually netted her the role of Twitter’s new chief executive, according to one observer who noted the “chemistry” between the two. Yaccarino, the head of advertising sales for NBCUniversal who has agreed to step in as Twitter CEO, peppered …
Read More »TikTok parent allowed Chinese Communist Party ‘supreme access’ to US data: suit
The Chinese Communist Party “maintained supreme access” to all data held by TikTok parent ByteDance, including information stored in the US, a former top executive at the company alleged in a bombshell lawsuit in California state court. Yintao “Roger” Yu, the former head of engineering for ByteDance’s US operations, alleged he was fired from his gig after raising alarms about …
Read More »EU approves Microsoft’s $69B acquisition of Activision Blizzard
European Union regulators on Monday approved Microsoft’s $69 billion bid to acquire video gaming firm Activision Blizzard — giving the mega-deal a boost after it hit roadblocks in the US and the UK. The EU made the decision two weeks after UK regulators quashed the deal over fears that it would hurt competition. The Federal Trade Commission voiced similar antitrust …
Read More »Elon Musk loses bid to end SEC ‘muzzle’ over Tesla tweets
A federal appeals court on Monday rejected Elon Musk’s bid to modify or end his 2018 securities fraud settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission that required a Tesla lawyer to approve some of his tweets in advance. The 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan rejected Musk’s claim that the SEC exploited his consent decree to conduct bad-faith, harassing investigations that …
Read More »OpenAI CEO Sam Altman raises nearly $100M, Sam Bankman-Fried among investors
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has nearly reached his goal of raising $100 million to fund his latest cryptocurrency project — and it’s all thanks to embattled crypto poster child Sam Bankman-Fried and Jeffrey Epstein’s former comrade Reid Hoffman. The funds will be used to advance Worldcoin — Altman’s plan for a secure, global cryptocurrency that offers free crypto in exchange …
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