Side-by-side riders quoted fares up to $30 apart — and “discounts” may not be real, investigators say Two people standing at the same corner, requesting the same ride at the same time, can be quoted dramatically different prices by Uber…
Americans Hit Record-Low Financial Literacy Scores, With Just 47% of Questions Answered Correctly Americans are less financially literate than at any point in the past decade, according to a new survey from the TIAA Institute — a finding that helps…
OpenAI CEO Concedes That Questions About AI’s Return on Investment Are Legitimate Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, acknowledged Monday what critics and investors have been saying for months: the AI industry is burning through enormous sums of money without clear…
AI Will Eliminate 30% of Some Jobs by 2028, Warns Former Google Executive — Here’s What Workers Should Do Now Mo Gawdat, former chief business officer at Google, is sounding the alarm for a generation of workers entering the labor…
Justice Department Abandons Controversial Fund Following White House Pressure The Justice Department has announced it will halt work on a $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” fund, a move that came just days after President Donald Trump met privately with House Speaker Mike…
Nvidia CEO Says Blaming Artificial Intelligence for Job Cuts Is “Too Lazy” — and Probably Dishonest Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, publicly challenged the growing corporate habit of attributing mass layoffs to artificial intelligence, calling the explanation chronologically implausible and…
Google’s AI-Overhaul Search Stumbles on Basic Words Like “Disregard” and “Stop” Google’s newly redesigned, AI-first search engine is already showing significant cracks, failing to define simple command-like words such as “disregard,” “stop,” and “ignore” — and in some cases actively…
Watchdog Group Asks DOJ to Investigate Microsoft’s Cybersecurity Record and Revolving Door Hiring of Senior Officials A conservative watchdog group has asked the Department of Justice to formally investigate Microsoft’s cybersecurity practices and whether a string of former senior federal…
Meta to lay off roughly 8,000 employees and redirect thousands more into artificial intelligence roles in sweeping reorganization Meta is laying off approximately 10% of its global workforce — around 8,000 employees — while simultaneously moving 7,000 workers into artificial…
Federal Appeals Court Issues Stay, Keeping Contested Import Tax in Place While Legal Battle Continues A federal appeals court on Tuesday temporarily blocked a lower court ruling that had invalidated President Donald Trump’s sweeping 10 percent global tariff, issuing a…