Apple terminates developer account, Fortnite maker Epic Games says
March 6, 2024 – 8:58 AM PST Fortnite game installing on Android operating system is seen in this illustration taken, May 2, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo (Reuters) – Apple (AAPL.O) has terminated Epic Games’ developer account, the Fortnite video-game maker said on Wednesday, the latest escalation in a bitter battle between the companies over app store fees […]
SpaceX faces hearing on engineers fired after criticizing Elon Musk over sexism
March 5, 2024 – 3:17 AM PST SpaceX logo and Elon Musk photo are seen in this illustration taken, December 19, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo (Reuters) – Rocket maker SpaceX on Tuesday will appear before a U.S. labor board judge to face claims that it fired eight engineers for criticizing CEO Elon Musk and accusing […]
Apple launches MacBook Air laptops with faster M3 chips
March 4, 2024 – 9:16 AM PST (Reuters) – Apple (AAPL.O) on Monday unveiled a pair of new MacBook Air laptops with its latest M3 processors, betting that the more powerful models would attract consumers looking to upgrade to artificial intelligence-powered personal computers. Advertisement The new MacBook Air models come with 13-inch and 15-inch screen sizes and […]
Wall Street hunts for more AI gold after Nvidia’s soaring rally
February 29, 2024 – 10:03 PM PST NEW YORK (Reuters) – Money managers are scrambling to cash in on the stock market’s interest in artificial intelligence, as a stunning rally by Nvidia (NVDA.O) sparks a search for other companies that are capitalizing on the technology. Advertisement Shares of Nvidia – whose chips are the gold standard in […]
Elon Musk sues OpenAI for abandoning original mission for profit
March 1, 2024 – 8:15 AM PST Tesla CEO and Twitter owner Elon Musk. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes (Reuters) – Elon Musk has sued ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, saying they abandoned the startup’s original mission to develop artificial intelligence for the benefit of humanity and not for profit. Advertisement The lawsuit filed late on Thursday […]
UnitedHealth hackers say they stole ‘millions’ of records, then delete statement
February 28, 2024 – 2:34 PM PST The corporate logo of the UnitedHealth Group appears on the side of one of their office buildings in Santa Ana, California, U.S., April 13, 2020. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo WASHINGTON (Reuters) – In a message posted to, and then quickly deleted from their darknet site, the hackers blamed for […]
Lawsuit by Elon Musk’s X against hate speech watchdog heads to court
February 29, 2024 – 4:33 AM PST (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Thursday will consider whether to dismiss X Corp’s lawsuit against a nonprofit that has criticized a rise in hate speech on the social media platform once known as Twitter since Elon Musk took it over. Advertisement X sued the Center for Countering […]
Google working to fix Gemini AI as CEO calls some responses “unacceptable”
February 28, 2024 – 2:38 AM PST (Reuters) – Google is working to fix its Gemini AI tool, CEO Sundar Pichai told employees in a note on Tuesday, saying some of the text and image responses generated by the model were “biased” and “completely unacceptable”. Advertisement The company had last week paused the use of its […]
Apple cancels work on electric car, source says
February 27, 2024 – 1:03 PM PST FILE PHOTO:Apple logo at an Apple store in Paris (Reuters) – Apple (AAPL.O) has canceled work on its electric car, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Tuesday, a decade after the iPhone maker kicked off the project. Advertisement Shares of the company were up 0.7% in afternoon […]
US SEC expected to drag its feet on new wave of crypto ETFs
February 27, 2024 – 3:08 AM PST U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Gary Gensler testifies before a House Financial Services Committee oversight hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S. September 27, 2023. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo (Reuters) – Buoyed by the successful launch of U.S. bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs), asset managers are lining up to list […]