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Trump administration might not fight state AI regulations after all; plus Waymo expanding across Bay Area and SoCal; and Meta wants to get into the electricity trading business

Trump administration might not fight state AI regulations after all; plus Waymo expanding across Bay Area and SoCal; and Meta wants to get into the electricity trading business

CrowdStrike fires ‘suspicious insider,’ X rolling out the ‘About this account’ feature, and Trump’s FCC votes to scrap cybersecurity rules

Grok says Elon Musk is better than basically everyone, except Shohei Ohtani

Google releases Nano Banana Pro, its latest image generation model; and another fire broke out at aluminum plant that supplies Ford

How the classic anime ‘Ghost in the Shell’ predicted the future of cybersecurity 30 years ago

The Epstein files have claimed their first OpenAI victim; plus Target joins OpenAI’s growing list of retail apps

DOE gives Microsoft partner $1B loan to restart Three Mile Island reactor; plus, Hugging Face CEO says we’re in an ‘LLM bubble,’ not an AI bubble

Zap Energy ramps up the pressure in its latest fusion device; plus, Stack Overflow is remaking itself into an AI data provider

Ford turns to Amazon to give used cars sales a boost; plus, Meta releases a new tool to protect reels creators from having their work stolen

‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ is expanding fast, and that should worry everyone

Amazon satellite network gets a rebrand and drops its affordability pitch; plus, a jury says Apple owes Masimo $634M

ChatGPT launched pilot group chats across Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, and Taiwan; plus, newsletter platform beehiiv adds AI website building, creator tools in major expansion

‘Chad: The Brainrot IDE’ is a new Y Combinator-backed product so wild, people thought it was fake ; plus, after 5 months, the $1,200 bottles of Besties All-In tequila are finally starting to ship

Jack Dorsey funds diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine’s video archive

Why a researcher is building robots that look and act like bats; plus Productivity app Hero announces an SDK that will complete your AI prompts for you

The global race for the AI app layer is still on; plus Australian spy chief warns Chinese hackers are ‘probing’ critical networks for espionage and sabotage

Robyn is an empathetic AI companion chatbot; plus Meta’s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun reportedly plans to leave to build his own startup

Lovable says it’s nearing 8 million users as the year-old AI coding startup eyes more corporate employees

Why a lot of people are getting hacked with government spyware, plus a better way of thinking about the AI bubble

Elon Musk uses Grok to imagine the possibility of love, plus, ‘Pluribus’ was emphatically ‘made by humans,’ not AI

OpenAI asked Trump administration to expand Chips Act tax credit to cover data centers, plus is Wall Street losing faith in AI? and Apple new iPhone features

‘Landfall’ spyware abused zero-day to hack Samsung Galaxy phones; plus CBO confirms it was hacked

Tesla shareholders approve Elon Musk’s $1T pay package; plus, Tesla to begin Cybercab production in April, says Musk

Peloton recalls 833,000 bikes after reports of injuries; plus, Perplexity to pay Snap $400M to power search in Snapchat

Millions to receive free electricity in 2026 thanks to Australia’s solar boom, plus Apple nears deal to pay Google $1B and Blue Origin plans second launch of New Glenn

Microsoft built a fake marketplace to test AI agents. It failed in surprising ways; plus Penn confirms hacker stole data during cyberattack

Anthropic projects $70B in revenue by 2028, plus Tesla’s Master Plan 4 still lacks specifics ahead of $1T Musk pay vote

Wait, people actually use Facebook Dating? plus, ClickUp adds new AI assistant to better compete with Slack and Notion

Alphabet is increasingly launching “moonshot” projects as independent companies — here’s why

Meta has an AI product problem

Elon Musk wants you to know that Sam Altman got a refund for his Tesla Roadster; also, Rising energy prices put AI and data centers in the crosshairs

Nvidia is reportedly investing up to $1 billion in Poolside; also, Luminar is cutting jobs, losing its CFO, and warning of a cash shortage

Digg founder Kevin Rose on the need for trusted social communities in the AI era; plus Canva launches its own design model

Figma acquires AI-powered media generation company Weavy; plus Threads now lets you approve and filter your replies

NBA champion Tristan Thompson partners with World Mobile to launch community-owned network Uplift, also, San Francisco's mayor: ‘We should be the testbed for emerging tech’

US signs collaboration agreements with Japan and South Korea for AI, chips and biotech, and more

Netflix announces interactive real-time voting for live content; plus, Sam Altman says OpenAI will have a ‘legitimate AI researcher’ by 2028

Amazon to cut 14,000 corporate jobs; also, OpenAI completes its for-profit recapitalization

New corporate espionage claims emerge, centered on two highly valued 401(k) admin startups

Workout app Ladder launches nutrition-tracking experience; plus ads might be coming to Apple Maps next year

Trump and Xi will possibly ‘consummate’ TikTok deal on Thursday, High school’s AI security system confuses Doritos bag for a possible firearm, and OpenAI reportedly developing new generative music tool

Ford isn’t going to make more F-150 Lightnings for a while ; also, big tech is paying for Trump’s White House ballroom

20-year-old dropouts built AI notetaker Turbo AI to 5 million users; plus, YouTube paid out $8B to the music industry in 12 months

As China’s 996 culture spreads, South Korea’s tech sector grapples with 52-hour limit

Sumble emerges from stealth with $38.5M to bring AI-powered context to sales intelligence

Airbnb is becoming more social by allowing users to connect with fellow travelers

OpenAI launches an AI-powered browser: ChatGPT Atlas

Cards Against Humanity settles trespass lawsuit against SpaceX

FTC removes Lina Khan-era posts about AI risks and open source

Wikipedia says traffic is falling due to AI search summaries and social video