The A.I. Election, Bitcoin’s Wall Street Debut and TikTok’s Doodad Era

Billionaire Elon Musk took to social media to express his agreement with a fellow tech leader’s prediction that there will be about 1 billion humanoid robots on Earth in two decades. Musk took to X, formerly Twitter, to concur with the prediction made by David Holz, the founder of artificial intelligence (AI) research lab Midjourney. Holz said in…

Former Meta chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg announced on Wednesday that she is leaving the company’s board of directors. “With a heart filled with gratitude and a mind filled with memories, I let the Meta board know that I will not stand for reelection this May,” Sandberg said in a statement. “After I left my role as…

Sc-gram! Instagram is introducing a new feature designed to send underaged users packing when it’s time for bed. In a blog post published Thursday, tech giant Meta, owner of the app, announced a “nighttime nudges” tool they hope will encourage youngsters to prioritize downtime over anxious-making doomscrolling. The prompt will be triggered after detecting use…

Car rental giant SIXT announced plans to buy as many as 250,000 Stellantis electric vehicles — a month after informing customers that it was dropping Teslas from its EV fleet. SIXT said this week that it came to a “multi-billion euro agreement” with Stellantis, with plans to add an array of the automaker’s cars —…

Story highlights The intuitive amphibious ICON A5 looks like a sports car It does require a sports pilot license to fly it Tampa, Florida CNN  —  When it comes to piloting a plane, I have zero experience. In fact, I’ve never even considered attempting it. Nevertheless, as we swoop over Florida’s Tampa Bay on a…

The Federal Trade Commission said Thursday it had issued orders to OpenAI, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon and Anthropic, requiring them to provide information on recent investments and partnerships involving generative AI companies and cloud service providers. The orders are part of an inquiry that “will scrutinize corporate partnerships and investments with AI providers to build a…