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SUN VALLEY, Idaho – The festivities are underway at Allen & Co.’s annual “summer camp for billionaires” at swank Sun Valley resort in Idaho, where business moguls kicked off their first full day of sessions on Wednesday. Security is tight on the resort’s luxurious grounds, where media members were kept at arm’s length from the media, tech and business tycoons …

Elon Musk launched his long-teased artificial intelligence startup xAI on Wednesday, unveiling a team made up of engineers from the same big US technology firms that he hopes to challenge in his bid to build an alternative to ChatGPT. The startup will be led by Musk, the CEO of Tesla and owner of Twitter, who has said on several occasions that the development of …

Three large tax preparation firms sent “extraordinarily sensitive” information on tens of millions of taxpayers to Facebook parent company Meta over the course of at least two years, a group of congressional Democrats reported Wednesday. Their report urges federal agencies to investigate and potentially go to court over the wealth of information that H&R Block, TaxAct and TaxSlayer shared with the social …

Mark Zuckerberg showed off his ripped physique in his latest Instagram post alongside two of today’s most successful MMA fighters. The 39-year-old Meta boss flexed his six pack while standing between Israel Adesanya and Alex Volkanovski in the photo shared with his 12.1 million followers on Tuesday, which already has nearly 2 million likes. Adesanya and Volkanovski have 50 UFC …

After an astounding first year of science, the James Webb Space Telescope is just getting started as scientists are fully beginning to grasp how they can utilize the most powerful space telescope ever built. It’s now been one year since JWST became fully operational in July 2022. NASA, the European Space Agency and Canadian Space Agency marked the milestone by releasing some of the …

SUN VALLEY, Idaho – OpenAI kingpin Sam Altman and WarnerBros. Discovery boss David Zaslav joined dozens of the nation’s power players who jetted into this resort town Tuesday ahead of Allen & Co.’s annual “summer camp for billionaires.” Altman, dressed casually in a T-shirt and blue slacks on a hot and sunny Idaho summer day, stopped briefly to chat with …

A US judge ruled on Tuesday that Microsoft may go forward with its planned acquisition of videogame maker Activision Blizzard, turning aside antitrust enforcers’ request for a preliminary injunction to temporarily stop the $69 billion deal. The court separately extended its temporary restraining order to Friday at 11:59 pm to allow the Federal Trade Commission to appeal. The FTC had originally asked …

Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino tweeted on Monday that the social media site last week “had our largest usage day since February” despite reports that traffic has been cratering as users mover over to Meta’s new Threads app. “There’s only ONE Twitter. You know it. I know it,” Yaccarino wrote in her tweet. Yaccarino’s post appeared to take a jab at …

Fourth of July has come and gone — and that means the swanky Sun Valley ski resort in Idaho is set to host A-list moguls from across tech, media and business at Allen & Co.’s annual “summer camp for billionaires.” The runway of nearby Friedman Memorial Airport in Hailey, Idaho will be clogged with private jets this week, with bigwigs …

Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes’s prison sentence has been slashed by two years, according to updated Bureau of Prisons records According to Holmes’ inmate information on the Bureau of Prisons’ website, the 39-year-old mother of two will be released on Dec. 29, 2032 — nine years, six months and 29 days after she checked into Federal Prison Camp Bryan on …