Tag: In Brief
Thiel’s Gawker takedown could be coming to a theater near you
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon have acquired a screenplay called “Killing Gawker,” which presumably delves into billionaire VC Peter Thiel’s campaign to bury...
UAW files federal labor charges against Trump, Musk for intimidating workers at X Spaces event
The United Auto Workers union said Tuesday that it filed federal labor charges against Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
The union alleges that Trump...
Artists’ lawsuit against generative AI makers can go forward, judge says
A class action lawsuit filed by artists who allege that Stability, Runway and DeviantArt illegally trained their AIs on copyrighted works can move...
FBI takes down ransomware gang that hacked dozens of companies
The FBI said Monday it seized the servers of a ransomware and extortion gang called Radar (aka Dispossessor). At the time of writing,...
What is AI good for anyway? Maybe not summarizing
There’s a fascinating look by John Herrman over at NYMag today at one of the big proposed uses of AI: summarizing content. We...
Waymo to begin testing driverless robotaxis on San Francisco freeways
Waymo plans to start testing its fully autonomous vehicles with no human safety driver on freeways in the San Francisco Bay Area this...