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Meta is planning to pump billions more into AI investments this year, despite noting that millions of users have seemingly started to abandon its platforms. In an earning call on Wednesday, Meta reported that figures for “Family daily active people” — the term Meta has coined for all collective users …

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About five hours into Elon Musk’s testimony, I typed the following sentence into my notes: “I have never been more sympathetic to Sam Altman in my life.” Musk’s direct testimony was an improvement over yesterday — even if his lawyer kept asking leading questions to cue him in how to …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Booking a train ticket is usually something most people don’t think twice about. Now it could come with real privacy risks after a reported data exposure tied to Amtrak. A newly surfaced dataset linked to the company has appeared on Have I …

The Musk v. Altman trial is underway, and that means exhibits, or the evidence to be presented in court, are being revealed piece by piece. So far, email exchanges, photos, and corporate documents are circulating from the earliest days of OpenAI — and from before the AI lab even had …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! You know that moment. You are driving along, and everything feels smooth. Then all of a sudden, your car hits a pothole you never saw coming. It is frustrating. It can also be expensive and dangerous. Repairs add up fast, and unexpected …

A developer has created a method to get Linux running on some versions of Sony’s PlayStation 5 console. Andy Nguyen previously showed off a ported version of Ubuntu running PC games on a PS5 last month, and he’s now published the installation steps on GitHub this week. This is a …

Today the first witness was sworn in in Musk v. Altman: Elon Musk. I was surprised by how flat he seemed. This is not the first time I’ve seen Musk in court. During his defamation suit, he turned on the charm and the jury responded by finding him not guilty. …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! For years, getting anything into space has been slow and expensive. You prepare for months, sometimes years, and you often get one shot to run your experiment. If something does not work, you wait again. That model is starting to change. A …

In the days since this year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner was cut short when shots were fired at the event, there has been a boom of conspiracy theory videos created by people who insist that the entire situation was a false flag operation. These kinds of theories are nothing new, …