Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Self-driving cars, or autonomous vehicles, are revolutionizing how we move from one place to another. They’re also raising major safety and responsibility issues. In an article…
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Women may pay a ‘mom penalty’ when AI is used in hiring, research suggests
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Maternity-related employment gaps may cause job candidates to be unfairly screened out of positions for which they are otherwise qualified, according to new research from NYU…
Analysis confirms California’s Salton Sea region to be a rich domestic lithium resource
Credit: Jeremy Snyder/Berkeley Lab On Nov. 28, The U.S. Department of Energy announced results of the most comprehensive analysis to date quantifying the domestic lithium resources in southern California’s Salton…
Threads countdown teases app’s potential EU launch
Instagram parent company launched Threads in July but EU users have been unable to access the platform. The wait could be over for internet users in the European Union keen…
French AI start-up Mistral AI raises 385 mn euros
Credit: CC0 Public Domain French artificial intelligence start-up Mistral AI announced Sunday it had raised 385 million euros ($414 million), becoming one of Europe’s two AI leaders. Founded in May…
Amazon asks federal judge to dismiss the FTC’s antitrust lawsuit against the company
The Amazon logo is seen, Sept. 6, 2012, in Santa Monica, Calif. Attorneys for Amazon on Friday, Dec. 8, 2023 asked a federal judge to dismiss the Federal Trade Commission’s…
UK probes Microsoft-OpenAI partnership
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Britain’s competition watchdog announced on Friday that it was looking into whether a partnership between US tech giant Microsoft and artificial intelligence developer OpenAI resembles a…
Bitzlato founder pleads guilty to running ‘criminal’ US crypto exchange
Bitzlato was a China-based cryptocurrency exchange. The Russian founder of the Bitzlato cryptocurrency exchange pleaded guilty on Wednesday to operating a money transfer business that accepted illicit funds. Anatoly Legkodymov,…
Steve Jobs wrote a check to Radio Shack in 1976. Now it’s up for auction
Credit: cottonbro studio from Pexels It’s a pristine piece of Silicon Valley history—and it comes with a famous autograph. A check that Apple co-founder Steve Jobs made out to Radio…
Musk’s AI startup seeks to raise $1 bn
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Elon Musk is seeking to raise a billion dollars for his xAI artificial intelligence company that he hopes will compete with ChatGPT’s Open AI. An official…
