Bernie Sanders formally kicks off California wealth tax campaign
Populist Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday formally kicked off the campaign to place a billionaires tax on the November ballot, framing the proposal as something larger than a debate about…
Mid AI scandal, Hollywood studios threaten ByteDance with legal action
After the fake video of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt fighting went viral, a surge of AI-generated content from Seedance 2.0 flooded the internet. Some fans were using the new…
Mark Zuckerberg testifies in L.A. trial over social media addiction
Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg made an extended, pugnacious appearance in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Wednesday, defending his company from the witness stand against a lawsuit that alleges…
OpenAI blocked from using Cameo name for its AI video features
OpenAI has been temporarily blocked from using the word “Cameo” in a product that allows people to generate videos based on prompts amid a trademark dispute. Last year, the celebrity…
Parents who blame Snapchat for their children’s deaths protest outside company’s headquarters
Standing in front of Snap’s Santa Monica offices, parents clutched onto photos of their children who died from taking fentanyl-laced pills facilitated through the disappearing messaging app Snapchat. They rolled…
Rivian earnings signal a comeback, outpacing expectations
Rivian shocked the market with strong earnings results, proving itself an outlier in the electric vehicle market, which has been struggling with the end of government subsidies and cooling consumer…
Instagram boss defends app in lawsuit trial over alleged harms to kids
A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge threatened to throw grieving mothers out of court Wednesday if they couldn’t stop crying during testimony from Instagram boss Adam Mosseri, who took…
Meta, TikTok and others agree to teen safety ratings
Meta, TikTok and Snap will be rated on their teen safety efforts amid rising concern about whether the world’s largest social media platforms are doing enough to protect the mental…
Super Bowl spots spark fight over whether we’re ready for ads from our chatbots
The chatbot wars entered the Super Bowl this year. At Super Bowl LX, a ChatGPT competitor paid millions of dollars for commercials mocking the leading artificial intelligence chatbot’s plans to…
I played asses.masses, a 7-hour live video game. Here’s what happened
The donkeys are pissed off. Put upon, out of work and victims of decades-long systemic abuse, it’s time, they have decided, to protest. The donkeys, metaphorically, are us. At least…