OpenAI, the trailblazing artificial intelligence company behind ChatGPT, is facing significant turbulence with the recent rollout of its latest language model, GPT-5. Launched earlier this month to its 800 million ChatGPT users, the upgrade promised breakthroughs in coding, creativity, and…
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Stock Widget AI startup Perplexity AI has made an unsolicited $34.5 billion bid for Google’s GOOGL -1.20% ▼ Chrome browser. That figure is higher than Perplexity’s current valuation, but the company said several investors have agreed to back the deal.…
In one of the largest residential real estate transactions in Los Angeles history, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has purchased the iconic Spelling Manor—a 56,000-square-foot mega-mansion once home to late TV magnate Aaron Spelling—for $110 million, as first reported by…
Zuckerberg, it seems, is pulling every lever possible to accelerate the buildout of his new AI division — Meta’s Superintelligence Labs — in a frantic attempt to catch up with rivals like OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic. But the refusal by TML’s team — not one of whom accepted any offer — paints a telling portrait of the current AI climate: money isn’t everything, even when the checks have nine zeros.
CALIFORNIA — A 29-year-old Google software engineer tragically lost her life earlier this month in a freak accident while hiking along a popular trail in Yosemite National Park, when a massive branch from one of the park’s iconic sequoia trees suddenly…
Almost anyone who has used the internet has probably experienced that alarming moment when a window pops up claiming your device has a virus, encouraging you to click for tech support or download security software. It’s a common online scam,…
The European Union fined Apple and Meta hundreds of millions of dollars last week. The European Commission has fined Apple €500m (£429m) and Meta €200m for breaking rules on fair competition and user choice, in the first penalties issued under one of the EU’s landmark internet…
ChatGPT creator OpenAI and Yahoo would like to buy Google’s Chrome web browser if a federal judge orders a sale of the internet’s most popular gateway. The interest of these companies emerged this week during a trial that will determine…
Twenty years ago this past week, YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim posted the very first YouTube video, titled “Me at the Zoo.” “All right. So here we are, in front of the elephants. The cool thing about these guys is that…
Google has illegally built “monopoly power” with its web advertising business, a federal judge in Virginia has ruled, siding with the Justice Department in a landmark case against the tech giant that could reshape the basic economics of running a…
