Category: Exclusives

Why Wall Street wasn’t attracted to NVIDIA’s big conference

After Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang took the stage at the annual GTC keynote on Monday, the $4 trillion company’s stock price began to fall. Wall Street investors seemed unfazed by the leather-jacketed founder’s two-and-a-half-hour bullish speech. Instead, they focused more on AI’s uncertain future and bubble concerns. The tension on Wall Street is not unlike […]

The mechanism of nuclear fusion power generation and startups pursuing it

For decades, humans have sought to harness the power of the stars to generate electricity on Earth. And for just as long, achieving that goal seemed just a decade away. Now, a slew of startups are closer than ever, rushing to build fusion reactors that can power the grid. Fusion startups have attracted more than […]

A week after President Trump announced the end of the relationship, the Pentagon told Anthropic that the two sides were largely in agreement, a new court filing reveals.

Late Friday afternoon, Anthropic filed two affidavits in California federal court pushing back against the Pentagon’s claims that AI companies pose an “unacceptable risk to national security,” arguing that the government’s lawsuit is based on technical misunderstandings and claims that were not actually raised during the months of negotiations that preceded the dispute. These declarations […]

Elon Musk misled Twitter investors to avoid acquisition, jury says

A California civil jury on Friday ruled that Elon Musk intentionally misled Twitter investors when he tried to back out of his $44 billion acquisition of the platform in 2022. At the time, Musk tweeted that there were too many bots on Twitter, which was why he later tried to fight back against the acquisition. […]

Microsoft rolls back some of its Copilot AI bloat on Windows

Microsoft on Friday announced a series of changes focused on improving the quality of its Windows 11 operating system, including dialing back the number of entry points to its AI assistant Copilot, among other things. The company announced that it will reduce Copilot AI integration in some apps, including Photos, Widgets, Notepad, and Snipping Tool. […]

Karsi temporarily banned in Nevada amid legal turmoil

Kalsi hasn’t had a very good week. Arizona’s attorney general filed 20 criminal charges against the online prediction market on Tuesday, accusing it of operating an illegal gambling operation. Now, another southwestern state is making a big move against the company. A Nevada judge has temporarily barred the service from operating in the state as […]

Pinterest CEO urges government to ban social media for users under 16

Pinterest CEO Bill Reddy has called on governments to ban social media for users under 16 in a new Time magazine op-ed. As countries around the world begin introducing or considering ways to restrict children’s online time and accurate methods of verifying their age, he is now one of the few top CEOs to call […]

WordPress.com now lets AI agents write and publish posts and more

Web hosting platform WordPress.com employs AI agents. This is a decision that could change the look and feel of the web. The company announced Friday that its AI agents will be able to draft, edit and publish content on customers’ websites, as well as moderate comments, update and correct metadata, and organize content by tags […]

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin enters the space data center game

Blue Origin, the space conglomerate founded by Amazon Chairman Jeff Bezos, has asked the U.S. government for permission to launch a network of more than 50,000 satellites that will serve as data centers in orbit. In a March 19 filing with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Blue Origin’s lawyers described Project Sunrise as a network […]