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Elon Musk said Friday that his artificial intelligence startup, xAI, had acquired his social media platform, X. NBC News reported. He said the deal was an all-stock transaction that valued X at $33 billion. “xAI and X’s future are intertwined. Today, we officially take the step to combine to data, models, compute, distribution, and talent,” Musk wrote in a post
The so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is starting to put together a team to migrate the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) computer systems entirely off one of its oldest programming languages in a matter of months, potentially putting the integrity of the system — and the benefits on which tens of millions of Americans rely — at risk, WIRED reported.
It’s only been a day since ChatGPT’s new AI image maker went live, and social media feeds are already flooded with AI-generated memes in the style of Studio Ghibli, the cult-favorite Japanese animation studio behind blockbuster films such as “My Neighbor Totoro” and “Spirited Away”, TechCrunch reported. In the last 24 hours, we’ve seen AI-generated images representing Studio Ghibli versions
The U.S. on Tuesday added dozens of Chinese tech companies to it’s export blacklist in its first such effort under the Donald Trump administration, as it doubles down on curtailing Beijing’s artificial intelligence and advanced computing capabilities, CNBC reported. The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security added 80 organizations to an “entity list,” with more than 50
Apple is set to stave off a possible fine and an EU order over its browser options on iPhones after it made changes to comply with landmark EU rules aimed at reigning in Big Tech, people with direct knowledge of the matter said on Tuesday, Reuters reported. The European Commission, which launched an investigation in March last year under the
Apple is working on adding cameras to the Apple Watch in order to enable AI features like Visual Intelligence within the next two years, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in today’s Power On Newsletter, The Verge reported. The cameras will be “inside the display” for the standard Series Watch, while the Apple Watch Ultra would feature it on the side,
TechCrunch has a new owner, again. Yahoo has sold the tech news site to the private equity firm Regent for an undisclosed sum, according to an announcement on Friday, The Verge reported. Regent is the same company that snapped up Foundry, the firm behind outlets like PCWorld, MacWorld, and TechAdvisor on Thursday. Founded in 2005, TechCrunch has experienced many shakeups