Elon Musk wants $79 billion to $134 billion in damages from OpenAI and Microsoft, claiming the AI company cheated him by derailing the nonprofit’s mission, Bloomberg first reported. The figure comes from expert witness C. Paul Wazzan, a financial economist…
Runpod, an AI application hosting platform launched four years ago, has reached $120 million in annual revenue, founders Zhen Lu and Pardeep Singh told TechCrunch. His initial journey is a wild example that if you build well and the timing…
Earlier this week, the California Attorney General’s office announced that xAI is investigating reports that its chatbot startup, Grok, is being used to create a nonconsensual sexual image of women and small children. On Friday, the government followed up by…
Database provider ClickHouse secures $400 million in $15 billion valuation, Bloomberg reports reported, representing about a 2.5x increase from the $6.35 billion value last May. The round was led by Dragoneer Investment Group, the beginning saidwith participation from investors including…
An an ongoing conversation – inside and outside the tech community – it’s just about how and when OpenAI, which is now worth $500 billionwill make money. Well, there is one way to do that, and that is through advertising.…
TikTok has released a new standalone short drama app called PineDrama in the US and Brazil. The app offers access to micro-dramas, which are essentially bite-sized TV shows that can be watched in a series of one-minute episodes. Try TikTok,…
XAI Elon Musk has illegally operated dozens of natural gas turbines to power the Colossus data center in Tennessee, the Environmental Protection Agency ruled Thursday. The AI company says that because the turbines are used temporarily, there is no regulation.…
Drug discovery, the art of identifying new molecules to develop drugs, is a notoriously difficult process. Traditional techniques, such as high-throughput screeningoffers an expensive scattershot approach – one that is not often successful. However, new biotech companies are using AI…
Hackers posted the personal data of several hacking victims on an Instagram account named @ihackthegovernment, according to court documents. Last week, Nicholas Moore, 24, of Springfield, Tennessee, pleaded guilty to repeated hacking to the US Supreme Court’s electronic document filing…
The Trump administration wants the world’s largest power grid to add $15 billion in new power plants — and it wants tech companies to pay for it, even if it doesn’t need the capacity. The White House and governors of…