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Elon Musk’s SpaceX has agreed to acquire 50MHz of wireless spectrum and Mobile Satellite Service spectrum licenses from EchoStar for about $17 billion in cash and stock for its Starlink satellite network.
Amazon Music’s new feature “Weekly Vibe,” generates personalized playlists every Monday that are tailored to each listener’s evolving music tastes.
InDrive plans to expand into multiple verticals over the next 12 months across its top markets, starting with grocery deliveries in Kazakhstan.
Momenta is one of 20 global AV partners that Uber has scooped up across its ridehail, delivery, and freight businesses. Uber says those partnerships have already generated an annualized rate of 1.5 million mobility and delivery.
How can a chatbot be so wrong — and sound so confident in its wrongness?
One investor says Koah is “building the essential monetization layer for consumer AI.”
The shakeup comes as the startup was still struggling to get its test vehicle off the ground — literally. The first flight was only in March.
It’s not clear who cut the cables or why.
This is a bad idea.
This is the EU’s largest antitrust penalty ever — and Trump has already threatened to “nullify” it.
As age and identity verification laws become more mainstream, this legislation could have a dire impact on privacy.
Musk used to say Tesla would make 20 million cars and one million humanoid robots per year. The company’s board wants far less than that in exchange for $1 trillion.
OpenAI is shuffling the team that shapes its AI models’ behavior, and its leader is moving on to another project within the company.
Writers aren’t getting this settlement because their work was fed to an AI — this is just a costly slap on the wrist for Anthropic because it illegally downloaded books instead of buying them.
Dot, a personalized AI companion, is shutting down.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta and Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings met with and sent an open letter to OpenAI to express their concerns over the safety of ChatGPT, particularly for children and teens.
Google’s Gemini comes up short on kids’ safety, says Common Sense Media.
Users can scroll through a feed of gameplay moments shared by the Roblox community and react to the clips using emojis, and they can jump into an experience right from a video.
Tesla spent a fraction on X in early 2025 compared to 2024. It also paid $300,000 to Kimbal Musk’s drone company.
Warner Bros. is suing Midjourney for AI images of Superman, Batman, and other characters.
The sodium-ion battery startup went from announcing a $1.4 billion factory to filing for liquidation in just over a year. Natron’s troubled journey illustrates the challenges in making batteries in the U.S.
X’s new encrypted messaging feature, XChat, has some red flags.
Isotopes, co-founded by Arun Murthy, launched a sophisticated analytics agent. Arun was one of the creators of Hadoop who later joined Scale AI.
The team behind Alex, which built a popular tool that let devs use AI models within Apple’s development suite Xcode, is joining OpenAI.
When you design for people instead of institutions, you don’t just build a product. You build a movement. That’s the idea behind this Builders Stage session called “Creating Communities and Companies That Last.”
A shareholder proposal would allow Tesla to invest in Elon Musk’s rival AI firm, xAI if approved. Tesla’s board didn’t recommend one way or another.
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Imagine Lens allows users to create, edit, and recreate Snaps by entering their own prompts.
Tesla has proposed a new 10-year compensation plan for CEO Elon Musk that could be worth as much as $1 trillion even as the EV maker’s car business stumbles and it sets its sights on humanoid robotics and AI.