Elon Musk has settled two Austin, Texas lawsuits alleging his 2024 $1 million-per-day voter sweepstakes was fraudulent, with settlement terms kept confidential. The suits claimed winners were not chosen randomly and that the promotion was designed to harvest personal data.
Berkshire Hathaway has disclosed a $330 million stake in Milan-based Bending Spoons, bringing its total investment to over $900 million as the Italian holding company accelerates acquisitions of AI-displaced software companies including Airtable and Miro.
Paysend CEO Ben Chisell limits AI tool access to his top-performing employees, arguing that broad rollouts risk amplifying poor judgment — even as rivals like Lloyds Banking Group deploy tools to tens of thousands of workers.
Apple's first foldable iPhone, the Duo, sold out its launch-day pickup inventory on Friday, with delivery estimates sliding to late January and analysts forecasting the $1,999 device could give Apple roughly 40% of the global foldable market by 2027.
President Trump denied that he or Elon Musk caused a Starlink outage in Ukraine, even as he clashed with President Zelensky over resumed Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil refineries.
E.l.f. Beauty CFO Mandy Fields says the company is directing most of a roughly $50 million tariff refund toward marketing, while selectively keeping prices low only for the 10% of products that saw meaningful sales gains after rollbacks.
Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton warned Friday that AI-related foreign espionage is a reality for both U.S. companies and the government, pointing to the federal case against a former OpenAI employee accused of installing a recording device in an executive conference room.
Berkshire Hathaway has disclosed a $330 million stake in Milan-based Bending Spoons, bringing its total investment to over $900 million as the Italian holding company accelerates acquisitions of AI-displaced software companies including Airtable and Miro.
Apple's first foldable iPhone, the Duo, sold out its launch-day pickup inventory on Friday, with delivery estimates sliding to late January and analysts forecasting the $1,999 device could give Apple roughly 40% of the global foldable market by 2027.
E.l.f. Beauty CFO Mandy Fields says the company is directing most of a roughly $50 million tariff refund toward marketing, while selectively keeping prices low only for the 10% of products that saw meaningful sales gains after rollbacks.
Paysend CEO Ben Chisell limits AI tool access to his top-performing employees, arguing that broad rollouts risk amplifying poor judgment — even as rivals like Lloyds Banking Group deploy tools to tens of thousands of workers.
Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton warned Friday that AI-related foreign espionage is a reality for both U.S. companies and the government, pointing to the federal case against a former OpenAI employee accused of installing a recording device in an executive conference room.
Amazon unveiled the $75 Bee Frontier wearable and $100 Bee Eclipse smartphone-mounted recorder on Thursday, the first hardware update to its Bee AI listening device lineup since acquiring the San Francisco startup in July 2025.
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