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Elon Musk commits to leading Tesla for next five years
Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., speaks via video link at the Qatar Economic Forum (QEF) in Doha, Qatar, on Tuesday, May 20, 2025. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Tuesday committed to leading the electric-vehicle-maker for the next five years. “Yes, no doubt about that at all,” […]
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Microsoft introduces GitHub AI agent that can code for you
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at an event commemorating the 50th anniversary of the company at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington, on , April 4, 2025. David Ryder | Bloomberg | Getty Images Microsoft’s GitHub unit on Monday introduced a Copilot artificial intelligence agent that can take on specific programming work and inform people once […]
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Regeneron Pharmaceuticals to buy 23andMe and its data for $256 million
A view of the 23andMe headquarters in Sunnyvale, California, on March 25, 2025. Tayfun Coskun | Anadolu | Getty Images Regeneron Pharmaceuticals on Monday announced it will acquire “substantially all” of 23andMe’s assets for $256 million. The drugmaker participated in a bankruptcy auction for 23andMe, a once high-flying genetic testing company that filed for for […]
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Grok’s ‘white genocide’ auto responses show AI chatbots can be tampered with ‘at will’
Muhammed Selim Korkutata | Anadolu | Getty Images In the two-plus years since generative artificial intelligence took the the world by storm following the public release of ChatGPT, trust has been a perpetual problem. Hallucinations, bad math and cultural biases have plagued results, reminding users that there’s a limit to how much we can rely […]
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Tech IPO market is finally showing signs of life
Yoni Assia, co-founder and chief executive officer of EToro Group Ltd., center, and Ronen Assia, co-founder of EToro Group Ltd., center left, ring the opening bell during the company’s initial public offering at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York, US, on Thursday, May 15, 2025. Yuki Iwamura | Bloomberg | Getty Images The IPO market […]
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Apple Pay services resolved after outage, company says
Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Apple users experienced problems with a range of the company’s payment features on Friday. Wallet and Apple Pay were the last payment issues to be resolved, according to the company’s support site. Earlier in the day, nearly 3,000 users reported issues with Apple Pay, according to Downdetector, a website […]
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From Google to Expedia, AI travel agents planning future trip far beyond ‘assistant’ status
Alexander Spatari | Moment | Getty Images Since ChatGPT’s big public debut already close to three years ago, Google has faced persistent questions about its decades-long hold over internet search traffic. That concern surfaced again in recent weeks after a top Apple executive alluded to a decline in search traffic on iPhone (where Google is […]
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Cable companies Charter and Cox agree to merge
Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Charter Communications and Cox Communications, two of the largest cable companies in the U.S., have entered into an agreement to merge. The deal would be one of the largest in the industry – and across corporate America – in the last year. The agreement values Cox at $34.5 […]
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Musk’s xAI says Grok’s ‘white genocide’ posts resulted from change that violated ‘core values’
Muhammed Selim Korkutata | Anadolu | Getty Images Elon Musk’s xAI on Thursday evening made its first public comment about the latest controversy surrounding Grok, writing in a post on X that an “unauthorized modification” caused the chatbot to generate variations of a “specific response on a political topic.” That controversial topic was “white genocide” […]
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Musk’s Grok AI chatbot says it ‘appears that I was instructed’ to talk about ‘white genocide’
Tesla CEO Elon Musk attends the Saudi-U.S. Investment Forum, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, May 13, 2025. Hamad I Mohammed | Reuters The Grok chatbot from Elon Musk’s xAI startup said Wednesday that it “appears I was instructed to address the topic of ‘white genocide’ in South Africa,” according to responses viewed by CNBC. CNBC was […]
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