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Ray-Ban heir recounts wild pregnancy mystery with soap opera star ex: ‘I’m pregnant — It can be you or him’
The model and actress has also been accused of supplying her son with ketamine at her birthday party in Los Angeles, a court filing reveals.
Kalshi raises $1B, vaulting valuation to $40B — as founders reveal they used to date
Prediction market giant Kalshi has raised a fresh $1 billion in a funding round that values the company at $40 billion – as the company's co-founders fessed to dating back...
Crooks are ripping off huge shipments of pricey AI equipment – $100M in heists since June: report
The burgeoning illicit activity comes as companies pour billions of dollars into efforts to quickly erect data centers that can power AI.
Meta unveils staggering $95B AI buildout — fueled by offerings of new stock
Mark Zuckerberg led Meta laid out a plan to raise the capital via stock offerings, which could kick off as soon as early next year.
Polymarket fires top executive who was closely allied with CEO Shayne Coplan: sources
Matthew Modabber – who has served as Polymarket’s chief marketing officer – has been ousted following an internal probe that began earlier this year over a string of headline-grabbing incidents.
Kalshi founder ready to take regulation fight to Supreme Court as Utah becomes latest state to go on attack
Utah authorities are seeing to kick Kalshi out of the state, the latest legal battle to hit the prediction market giant as its co-founder Tarek Mansour says efforts to regulate...
DHS cracks down on China’s DeepSeek as AI competition intensifies: ‘Multiple threat vectors’
The Department of Homeland Security has ordered federal civilian agencies to remove AI developed by China’s DeepSeek from their systems – the latest blow to a top Chinese model that...
OpenAI engineer arrested by FBI for allegedly bugging conference room had booked one-way flight to Saudi Arabia
Abdulrahman Alfozan was nabbed by the FBI only three days before his one-way flight to Saudi Arabia was set to take off.
AI safety advocates, doomers, pro-innovation groups pour hundreds of millions into congressional midterms
Techies from both sides of the AI safety debate are pouring a fortune into next month's midterms, with at least $48 million reportedly going to pols poised to crack down...
Character.AI files for bankruptcy amid torrent of legal problems, agrees to sell some assets to Disney for $20M
The potential Disney deal comes roughly a year after the entertainment giant hit Character.AI with a cease and desist letter claiming it was using its iconic characters for "grooming and...
Ray-Ban heir reveals drug addiction, says he’s slept with ‘over 2K women’ in wild interview blasting company leadership
An heir to the immense Ray-Ban fortune says he's been addicted to drugs and slept with over 2,000 women -- the legacy of a dad who never loved him --...
Widespread IT woes hit Southwest Airlines, causing long lines and forcing old-school passenger check-in
Southwest Airlines flights were temporarily grounded Friday after a widespread computer outage knocked out the "IT backbone" for a number of major airlines – causing havoc for some fliers.
OpenAI rejects researchers’ claim they were fired over safety warnings, says they committed ‘breach of trust’
OpenAI defended its firing of three safety researchers who raised concerns about AI societal threats, saying the trio committed a “significant breach of trust.”
Blue Origin IPO could come in next few years, Jeff Bezos says in wake of rocket disaster
The public listing push follows a May disaster in which one of Bezo's $150 million rockets exploded into a massive fireball, setting back Blue Origin back in the race to...
Four Native American tribes break with casino establishment, team with Kalshi on new gambling apps
Tribal gaming officials – which have thrown their weight behind a trio of lawsuits aiming to cripple Kalshi’s business claiming its siphoning money away from Indian casinos – slammed the...
Meet Meta’s billionaire AI guru –a 29-year-old, mullet-wearing tech bro who posts racy meme jokes
Alexandr Wang is a foul-mouthed, mullet-wearing tech bro with a penchant for posting off-color memes on social media.
Hedge fund giant emerges as advocate for ‘little guy’ in AI debate — pushes taxes to boost ‘citizen equity’
Wall Street titan Bridgewater Associates’ has called for for aggressive regulatory action on AI giants that could soon control broad swaths of the American economy.
OpenAI considered partnering with China and Russia, cozying up to Kanye — leading to Amodei split: report
OpenAI leaders reportedly cooked up “insane” ideas like selling future tools to Russia and China and offering Kanye West early access to an unreleased model, horrifying top staffers.
Smart ring maker Oura yanks IPO at last minute – latest company to pump brakes over ‘market uncertainty’
The San Francisco startup was likely to command a valuation well above the $11 billion but cited "uncertainty in the IPO market” in delaying its listing.
Accused killer grandma attacked trans NYT exec when his son started wearing sister’s dresses: explosive court docs
The alleged killer grandma blamed the slain New York Times tech exec for inspiring his son to wear his sister's dresses and tried to force him out of his home,...