Rachel Maddow Explains Why America Had No FAA Administrator During DC Crash |...
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow explained how pressures and supposed demands from Elon Musk led to former Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) administrator, Michael Whitaker, quitting his job on Inauguration...
View ArticleTech Stocks Drop Steeply, Wall Street Exchanges All Dive After Trump Tariffs
Wall Street took a big hit on Monday morning, with a number of major tech and media stocks dropping on the first day of trading after President Donald Trump imposed stiff tariffs on Mexican, Canadian...
View ArticleTrump Says Elon Musk ‘Won’t Do Anything Without Our Approval’ Amid Concerns...
President Donald Trump on Monday said Elon Musk “can’t do and won’t do” anything that does not receive his administration’s approval. His comment came after the X and Tesla boss has been criticized...
View ArticleApple’s Emergency Request to Halt Google Antitrust Remedy Trial Denied
Apple’s emergency motion to stay the Justice Department’s upcoming remedies trial against Google for violating antitrust laws was swiftly denied. The motion, filed last Thursday, was denied by U.S....
View ArticleSpotify Adds Record 11 Million Premium Subscribers and Posts First Annual Profit
Spotify matched its best quarter ever for subscriber growth during the fourth quarter of 2024, the Stockholm-based music streaming giant reported on Tuesday morning, while at the same time posting a...
View ArticleAOC Rips Elon Musk as ‘Morally Vacant’ and ‘One of the Most Unintelligent...
Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez skewered Elon Musk as “morally vacant” and “not smart” for his push to cut trillions of dollars from the U.S. government — adding another chapter to their...
View ArticleYouTube Ad Revenue Rises 13.8% to $10.5 Billion in Q4
Count YouTube as one of the winners of the 2024 election. During Alphabet’s fourth quarter of 2024, YouTube reported that its ad revenue grew 13.8% year-over-year. By the end of the quarter, YouTube’s...
View ArticleGoogle Removes Promise Not to Pursue AI Applications for Weapons and...
Google has gone back on a previous pledge not to use AI for weapons and surveillance, The Washington Post reported on Tuesday. Policies about “applications we will not pursue” from 2018 have been...
View ArticleBill Gates Predicts We Won’t Need Humans ‘For Most Things’ in the Age of AI |...
The way Bill Gates sees the world going, AI is going to continue replacing more and more people. The billionaire gave his predictions about the future of artificial intelligence while dropping by “The...
View ArticleTikTok ‘Uncertainty’ Helps Snapchat, CEO Evan Spiegel Says
TikTok’s uncertain future in the U.S. has spurred new users and advertisers to look at Snapchat as a viable backup plan, according to Snap CEO Evan Spiegel. The 34-year-old chief executive, speaking...
View ArticleMeta, Google, Amazon & Microsoft to Spend a Combined $320 Billion on AI in 2025
A clear trend has emerged in the past few weeks, as one tech giant after another reported their earnings: Big Tech is spending big on artificial intelligence in 2025. Combined, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon...
View ArticleIT Experts Sound Alarm About Elon Musk Data Access: ‘Largest Security Breach...
Elon Musk’s unprecedented DOGE access to confidential information in several federal agencies is “the largest data breach and the largest IT security breach in our country’s history,” one government...
View ArticleFederal Judge Temporarily Blocks Elon Musk’s DOGE From Sensitive Treasury...
A federal judge on Saturday temporarily blocked Elon Musk’s government efficiency probe from peering into the Treasury Department system that distributes tax returns, federal employee salaries and...
View ArticleElon Musk Leads $97.4 Billion Bid to Acquire OpenAI, Sam Altman Claps Back...
Elon Musk is leading a group of investors who made an unsolicited $97.4 billion offer to acquire the nonprofit that controls OpenAI, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday. The bid is the latest...
View ArticleElon Musk Operates ‘From a Position of Insecurity,’ OpenAI’s Sam Altman Says
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman mocked Tesla chief Elon Musk on Tuesday, saying he operates from a “position of insecurity.” Altman’s barb came a day after Musk led an unsolicited $97.4 billion offer to acquire...
View ArticleJD Vance Says AI Will Never Replace Humans, Will Instead Make Us ‘More Free’
Vice President JD Vance on Tuesday passionately endorsed artificial intelligence, saying the budding technology will “never replace humans” but instead help Americans and people around the world...
View ArticleBuzzFeed CEO Says AI ‘Destroyed the Internet,’ Plans New Social App for...
UPDATE: A BuzzFeed representative, after this story was published, told TheWrap the company’s forthcoming app will be called BF Island. BuzzFeed founder and CEO Jonah Peretti on Tuesday said Big Tech...
View ArticleScarlett Johansson Slams AI-Created Video of Celebrities Denouncing Kanye...
Scarlett Johansson has once again been forced to speak out about the dangers of artificial intelligence, this time after a video featuring her likeness has gone viral. “It has been brought to my...
View Article‘Morning Joe’ Applauds Elon Musk for ‘Extraordinarily Important’ Press...
“Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough gave kudos to Elon Musk on Wednesday, saying it was “good” the head of the Department of Government Efficiency spoke to reporters alongside President Donald Trump...
View ArticleTikTok Tops YouTube, Facebook in Key Viewing Metric
TikTok, more than any other app, is a time suck. That is the key takeaway from a new report from Guggenheim Partners and Apptopia on Wednesday, showing American TikTok users averaged 107 minutes per...
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