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Jan Sramek, the CEO behind the controversial California Forever project, appeared at Bloomberg’s annual tech conference in San Francisco on...
This summer much of the American midwest will be subject to the hatching of 13-year cycle Brood XIX and 17-year cycle Brood XII cicadas as an...
Almost all of nature experiences a renewed sense of life once the short days and long nights of wintertime gradually become distant memories. Trees...
Nearly all of FTX’s former customers will get back almost 100% of the money they lost at the time of the cryptocurrency exchange’s collapse — if...
Those who own at least 1,000 Bitcoin, whether they are individuals or corporations, are referred to as Bitcoin Whales. Most do not disclose how...
A tokamak in France set a new record in fusion plasma by encasing its reaction in tungsten, a heat-resistant metal that allows physicists to...
The Swiss Army Knife has become such a shorthand for multifunctionality that companies producing does-a-lot-of-stuff wares will often say that...
When Elizabeth Holmes, founder of the now-disgraced blood testing company Theranos, received the sentence for her fraud conviction in 2022, she was...
Since its inception, Bitcoin has captured the attention of countless individuals, which has led to the creation of a bustling cryptocurrency...
After years of surging car thefts in the United States, 2023 was no different. The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) said in April that...
If there’s one thing American car buyers love, it’s crossovers and SUVs. Sedans and wagons may still get the job done, but there’s just...
Hello, fellow humans! Here’s our monthly AI-focused special edition of the Daily Brief. Enjoy, and we’ll see you again on Monday with your...
When Elizabeth Holmes, founder of the now-disgraced blood testing company Theranos, received the sentence for her fraud conviction in 2022, she was...
Fat Brands is the parent company of Fatburger, Johnny Rockets, and a few other restaurant chains. Last year, former CEO Andy Wiederhorn stepped...
Climate activists protesting Tesla’s expansion tried to storm its gigafactory in Germany on Friday.Read more...
The hits just keep on coming with the Tesla Cybertruck. Yet another owner has reported having problems mere miles after picking up their brand new,...
Apple is expected to release an improved version of its virtual assistant Siri that is powered by generative artificial intelligence — part of...
McDonald’s wants to introduce a $5 meal deal in an effort to win over cash-strapped consumers. Read more...
The Dow Jones Industrial Average stayed strong Friday and was close to finishing the week in the green for the eighth straight day. The rally...
Red Lobster’s owner, Thai Union Group, is planning to sell its remaining stake in the seafood chain by the end of the year, it said in a...
After a last minute delay of the debut mission of the Boeing Starliner earlier this week, a NASA contractor is warning the space agency that...
Have you ever wondered, “Where Do Grandmas Go When They Get Lost?” Or what would the planet would look like if we cut down all the trees?Read...
Dario and Daniela Amodei, siblings and founders of Anthropic, fired indirect jabs at OpenAI while not stating the company’s name on Thursday. The...
Honda Motor Co. on Friday said it would ramp up its spending on research and development ofelectrified vehicles in 2024 and issue its largest-ever...
That airline credit card in your wallet may not be as financially savvy as you think. Read more...
Cocoa’s price rally may have peaked, according to financial firm Rabobank, which pointed to falling prices for the commodity in New York and...
Inclement weather on the Sun’s surface could affect infrastructure on Earth and in space, scientists are predicting, as our host star approaches...
Stocks are set to close the week higher on Friday, with the Dow potentially extending its winning streak to eight consecutive days. The S&P 500 and...
Shares of Zeekr, the premium electric vehicle arm of China’s Geely Auto, are set to begin trading on Friday after the company expanded its...
OpenAI is reportedly planning to announce its artificial intelligence-powered search competitor to Google as early as Monday — a product that...
Nearly 90% of tracked stablecoin transactions are not human-involved. According to recent data published by Visa and blockchain data provider...
The alphabet soup of U.S. government entities looking into Boeing just got a few more letters. Bloomberg reports that the Securities and Exchange...
Baidu’s head of public relations no longer appears to be employed at the tech giant after sparking widespread backlash for posting several videos...
Target doesn’t want another Pride Month backlash. The retailer appears to be making good on its promise that it would change this year’s...
Vaccine-maker Novavax announced a $1.2 billion licensing partnership with French pharmaceutical company Sanofi on Friday, giving its stock a much-...
For weeks, Tesla has been cutting staff left, right and center. First it was teams at its California and Texas hubs, then the brains behind the...
When the calendar flipped over to May, Nissan instituted a new sales policy for its dealers: Cars can be advertised at discounts up to 10 percent...
On Wednesday, OpenAI released a draft of its Model Spec sheet that details how it intends its AI models to behave. There is a section focusing on...
At least 224 people have been injured after an iPhone app called t:connect drained the battery on its accompanying insulin pump, called t:slim X2,...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center forecasted a “severe solar storm” that’s expected to hit...
Bumble Founder and Executive Chair Whitney Wolfe Herd defended her dating app’s new AI feature on stage in San Francisco on Thursday. She went on...
More than a week after Tesla laid off the majority of its Supercharger division, CEO Elon Musk now says the company will spend upwards of half a...
The United States is reportedly set to hit China with a series of new tariffs targeting strategic areas, including electric vehicles and...
A growing number of Americans have taken GLP-1 drugs, like Ozempic and Wegovy. But while the drugs have become widely known for their weight-loss...
It’s been another whirlwind of a week at Tesla. The electric vehicle company has continued its sweeping layoffs — both in the U.S. and China —...
The artificial intelligence race wouldn’t be full speed ahead without chips. And that in itself is becoming a race between companies — and even...
In retail news, Applebee’s and IHOP say customers are ditching their higher priced menu items for tenders and burgers. Aldi wants to compete with...
Boeing received yet another piece of disappointing news in a year when it’s already received a lot of it. Spirit Airlines CEO Ted Christie said...
This week, reports surfaced that Apple is developing its own AI chips to sit in data centers and power AI applications. While there are few details...
Roblox stock dropped over 21% Thursday morning after the video game platform released a disappointing outlook for the coming months.Read more...
Persistent inflation has forced shoppers to look for cheaper goods. In some cases, that has meant paying off items in small increments. And for the...
The Dow and other indexes opened higher on Thursday as the latest jobs report suggests the Federal Reserve may lower interest rates this year. Read...
Air India Express has a big mess on its hands. More than 100 of its flight crews called out sick at the same time, throwing its operations into...
French artificial intelligence startup, Mistral AI, is reportedly expected to nearly triple its valuation to $6 billion in six months in a new...
If Sony Pictures Entertainment and Apollo Global Management acquire Paramount Global, they have their sights set on big changes at the...
A bad thing happened to another Boeing plane on Thursday. A 737-300 operated by the Senegalese carrier Transair skidded off the runway while ablaze...
Warner Bros. Discovery on Thursday announced a strong first-quarter showing for its streaming unit, even as its studios’ division underperformed...
If there’s one thing everyone in politics can agree on it’s this — everything has a price. And ex-president Donald Trump has reportedly slapped...
Tesla’s sweeping layoffs are reportedly escalating at the electric vehicle maker’s plant in Shanghai.Read more...
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence rival to OpenAI is reportedly expected to reach an $18 billion valuation after it closes its current funding...
Consumers didn’t just have love on the brain on Valentine’s Day. They also appeared to be pop-eyed for Krispy Kreme’s heart-shaped doughnuts,...
Robinhood’s shares surged by approximately 6% on Thursday morning following the announcement of its record quarterly revenue and profits that...
Just over 100 days ago, Elon Musk’s neurotech startup Neuralink placed an implant inthe brain of its first human patient: 29-year-old...
Oracle’s promise to be at the forefront of the “next generation of health care” is falling short as the company hemorrhages workers and loses...
Where OpenAI’s mission has focused on bringing AI to scale, its rival Anthropic has focused on safety and security. And its co-founders, siblings...
An executive at Chinese tech giant Baidu wants employees that are seriously devoted to the company — even if it hurts their personal lives.Read...
A Swiss company just set up a giant ‘vacuum cleaner’ that will suck as much as 36,000 metic tons of carbon out of the atmosphere every year. Read...
Nissan Motor Co. had a pretty good fiscal 2023. Read more...
Fei-Fei Li, is a computer scientist who created a massive database, ImageNet, that laid the foundation for modern AI, earning her the nickname “...
Meta executive Chris Cox wasn’t braggy about Threads’ recent dominance over Elon Musk’s X during the Bloomberg Technology Conference on...
Plant-based company Beyond Meat is struggling to reach even the healthiest of consumers — and it needs to raise cash quickly. Read more...
Discount grocer Aldi wants to give consumers a break from sticky inflation – at least for a little while. The company is cutting prices on more...
Amazon’s stock rose 1.5% to $191.70 on Thursday afternoon, hitting a new 52-week high. The stock is up 25% so far in 2024 and 73% over the past...
The Dow extended its rally to seven consecutive days, with Amazon reaching a new 52-week high. Read more...
A new partnership between the Treasury Department and Wall Street banks looks to curb the threat of cyber attacks on the U.S. financial system.Read...
Spirit AeroSystems, the supplier that crafted the Boeing 737 Max 9 fuselage that dropped a door plug mid-flight in January, has received far less...
The Bloomberg Technology Summit on Thursday hosted one non-human guest: the humanoid robot Ameca. Ameca is “the world’s most advanced human...
Let’s face it: while some of the best headphones we’ve tested sound incredible, they don’t come cheap. Believe it or not, there are plenty of...
In March, a software bug threatened to derail large swaths of the web. XZ utils, an open-source compression tool embedded in myriad software...
It’s been almost 10 years since the most recent Chevrolet Malibu was revealed, and while there was never really anything wrong with the car itself,...
The period of 2008 to 2009 was rough for Detroit’s Big 3 automakers. While Ford technically never filed for bankruptcy — though it did receive...
The future of weight loss is looking more varied by the second. This week, scientists have reported the preliminary findings of a small trial...
Scientists have spotted a rocky exoplanet with a possible atmosphere, which they believe may be burbling out from a magma ocean on the distant...
A longtime Hertz customer with President’s Circle status was slapped with an unexpected $277.39 charge after returning the Tesla Model 3 that he...
The enormous Dali container ship has been stuck in Baltimore since it hit and destroyed the Francis Scott Key bridge way back in March. The ship...
Apple issued a rare apology on Thursday for its iPad Pro “Crush” commercial after it faced widespread backlash from users who said it did not...
The company behind blockbuster drugs Ozempic and Wegovy wants to keep the gravy train running. Expanding an earlier deal, it announced Thursday...
The Sun is a hot mess right now. Solar maximum is fast approaching, and a giant dark spot on the surface of the Sun keeps growing while spewing...
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Reddit is not a profitable company. For its first earnings report since its initial public offering March 21, the company reported a $575 million...
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced last week that it is, for the second time, disputing hundreds of “junk” patents listed in the...
Big banks are adding artificial intelligence-focused jobs at increasing speeds, despite industry-wide cuts.Read more...
The future of space travel depends on our ability to reach celestial pit stops faster and more efficiently. As such, NASA is working with a...
Nearly all of FTX’s former customers will get back almost 100% of the money they lost at the time of the cryptocurrency exchange’s collapse — if...
The Biden administration has increased its restrictions on sales of U.S. technology to Huawei Technologies as China’s leading technology firm...
This story is part of our new Chief Innovation Officer Forecast series with Gizmodo, a business report from the front lines of the future.Read more...
Every pharmaceutical company is constantly searching for its next blockbuster — the billion-dollar drug that dominates a market, brings in hordes...
The Earth is careening toward a dangerous level of global warming. At this rate, the planet will eventually lose its ability to provide us with the...
Elon Musk’s comments about Tesla’s self-driving technology has landed him in hot water with the feds — again. Read more...
Cybersecurity startup Wiz said this week that it had raised $1 billion in a funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Venture Partners,...