SpaceX sues NLRB after company was accused of illegally firing workers critical of Elon Musk

SpaceX sues NLRB after company was accused of illegally firing workers critical of Elon Musk

Rocket and satellite maker SpaceX on Thursday sued a US labor board to block its case accusing the company of illegally firing employees who sent a letter to company executives calling CEO Elon Musk “a distraction and embarrassment.” SpaceX in the lawsuit filed in Brownsville, Texas federal court claims the structure of the National Labor Relations Board, which issued…

Musk once laughed off BYD as a threat. Now the Chinese giant has taken Tesla’s EV crown — here’s how

Musk once laughed off BYD as a threat. Now the Chinese giant has taken Tesla’s EV crown — here’s how

Chinese automaker BYD had one of the biggest stands at the IAA show in Munich, Germany in 2023. Arjun Kharpal | CNBC Elon Musk dismissed BYD in 2011 by laughing at their products during a Bloomberg interview. “Have you seen their car?” Musk quipped. “I don’t think it’s particularly attractive, the technology is not very…

How Google is using AI to help one U.S. city reduce traffic and emissions

How Google is using AI to help one U.S. city reduce traffic and emissions

How Google uses AI to reduce traffic, emissions How Google is using AI to reduce traffic and emissions 02:15 Getting stuck in traffic and hitting several red lights in a row isn’t just frustrating and bad for stress levels, it’s also bad for the environment. But one U.S. city is getting help from a tech…

SpaceX charged with illegally firing workers who spoke critically of Elon Musk — Read the full complaint

SpaceX charged with illegally firing workers who spoke critically of Elon Musk — Read the full complaint

Elon Musk — the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and owner of X, formerly Twitter — speaks during the New York Times annual DealBook summit in New York City, Nov. 29, 2023. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images The U.S. National Labor Relations Board has filed a complaint against SpaceX, alleging that Elon Musk’s defense…

Bitcoin rises as its volatile year continues ahead of an expected ETF approval

Bitcoin rises as its volatile year continues ahead of an expected ETF approval

Yuichiro Chino | Moment | Getty Images Bitcoin rose on Thursday, recovering some of its losses from the previous day, when the cryptocurrency sold off on concerns about the potential of a bitcoin exchange-traded fund approval that many expect as soon as next week. The flagship cryptocurrency was last higher by about 3% at $43,870.01,…

Apple slapped with second stock downgrade as Wall Street fears sagging iPhone demand

Apple slapped with second stock downgrade as Wall Street fears sagging iPhone demand

Apple was slapped with its second major stock downgrade of the week on Thursday as fears mount on Wall Street about lukewarm demand for its flagship iPhone. Piper Sandler & Co. lowered its ratings for Apple’s stock to “neutral” from “overweight” on Thursday. The firm’s analysts, who had been bullish on Apple since March 2020,…

OpenAI offering media outlets as little as $1M to use news articles for AI models

OpenAI offering media outlets as little as $1M to use news articles for AI models

OpenAI is offering paltry payouts of as little as $1 million to media outlets in exchange for using their news articles to train the models that power ChatGPT — and the negotiations are playing out even as the company faces a major copyright infringement lawsuit from the New York Times. The proposed licensing fees of…

Jeff Bezos backs AI-powered startup valued at $520M and working to rival Google

Jeff Bezos backs AI-powered startup valued at $520M and working to rival Google

Jeff Bezos has backed a startup valued at $520 million working to rival Google’s web search dominance by using artificial intelligence to change the way people look for information online. Dubbed Perplexity, its prized product is a forum to “ask anything,” which its San Francisco-based team of less than 40 calls an “answer engine,” according…

Qualcomm announces new chip to power Samsung and Google’s competitors to Apple Vision Pro headset

Qualcomm announces new chip to power Samsung and Google’s competitors to Apple Vision Pro headset

The new Apple Vision Pro headset is displayed during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference on June 05, 2023 in Cupertino, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Qualcomm on Thursday announced a new chip that will be used by Samsung and Google for mixed reality devices that are likely to compete with Apple’s Vision Pro headset….