Cruise suspends employee stock program, corp bonuses moved up
Cruise, the autonomous vehicle subsidiary of General Motors, told staff Thursday via email that the employee share-selling program for the fourth quarter is suspended, following an...
Musk: SpaceX now aiming for Saturday for Starship’s second flight test
SpaceX has officially pushed back the second orbital flight test of Starship by one day, to Saturday, CEO Elon Musk confirmed on X.
Rumors about the push-back...
France’s Mistral dials up call for EU AI rules to fix rules for apps,...
Divisions over how to set rules for applying artificial intelligence are complicating talks between European Union lawmakers trying to secure a political deal on draft legislation...
Microsoft Ignite 2023: Copilot AI expansions, custom chips and all the other announcements
Microsoft’s Ignite 2023 event came with a lot of updates, and AI product reveals and expansions were front and center as the company laid out its...
GM absorbs commercial EV unit BrightDrop, CEO is out
BrightDrop, the commercial EV subsidiary of General Motors that launched in 2021, is being swallowed up by its parent company.
GM said Thursday that BrightDrop — a...
Twitch launches Privacy Center to educate users about their personal data
In the name of transparency and accessibility, Twitch launched its new Privacy Center to educate users, after conducting “extensive research” and finding that many of its...
IRL founders allege investors sabotaged company with fake users claims
The founders of IRL, Abraham Shafi and Genrikh Khachatryan, are suing their investors, claiming that they intentionally sabotaged the company.
At its peak, IRL was poised to...
Cybersecurity investor Ballistic Ventures seeks $300M for new fund
Ballistic Ventures, a venture capital firm dedicated to funding and incubating cybersecurity startups, is looking to raise as much as $300 million for a new fund,...
X rival Bluesky hits 2M users, says federation coming ‘early next year’
Bluesky, the company building a decentralized alternative to Twitter/X, announced today it has hit 2 million users — up by another million since September, despite remaining...
YouTube now allows monetization on videos with breastfeeding nudity and ‘non-sexually graphic dancing’
YouTube is updating its guidelines to allow new types of content to monetize adult content, including videos that display nudity while breastfeeding and non-sexually graphic dancing.
With...