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Congressmen sound alarm over data privacy following 23andMe bankruptcy
Three congressmen from the House Committee on Energy and Commerce are raising concerns over data privacy weeks after the genetic testing company 23andMe filed for bankruptcy, putting millions of...
Amazon’s robotaxi effort will begin testing in Los Angeles
Zoox, the autonomous driving technology company owned by Amazon, is preparing to begin testing its vehicles in Los Angeles this summer. The city will be the sixth testing location...
Confusion grips Big Tech over exemptions from Trump tariffs
WASHINGTON — American technology companies hoping for relief from President Trump’s trade war with China grappled with further uncertainty Monday, left to decipher whether a government policy exempting businesses that are...
Amid buzzing drones and the rise of AI, Masters tries to balance tradition and tech
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Cellphones are banned at the Masters. Food and drink prices are happily stuck in the 1970s — $1.50 for a pimento cheese sandwich — a charming holdover from...
Coalition urges California attorney general to halt OpenAI’s for-profit transition
SAN FRANCISCO — A coalition of California nonprofits, foundations and labor groups are raising concerns about ChatGPT maker OpenAI, urging the state attorney general to halt the artificial intelligence startup’s...
Tesla shares drop amid auto tariffs and ‘brand crisis’
Tesla shares took a hit Monday after a leading analyst slashed his price target by more than 40%, citing a “perfect storm” created by President Trump’s auto tariffs and...
Trump says he will extend TikTok’s sell-or-be-banned deadline
With a deadline to sell itself or be banned in the U.S. just hours away, TikTok got another last-minute reprieve from President Trump on Friday.“My Administration has been working...
An AI ‘gold rush.’ What to know about OpenAI’s record $40-billion funding round
SAN FRANCISCO — ChatGPT maker OpenAI this week announced it had raised a whopping $40 billion as it races to dominate a competitive AI landscape against tech giants such as Google...
Musk’s XAI deal offers unexpected win for X investors
Elon Musk just acquired the social network formerly known as Twitter for the second time in three years.Musk, the world’s richest person, on March 28 used his artificial intelligence...
Contributor: It’s no metaphor — undersea cables hold together our precarious modern life
In the early days of the pandemic, I began pondering the idea of healing. I stumbled upon a story about a cable repair vessel, the Leon Thevenin, which had...
