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A New Mexico judge has ordered Meta to pay $25 billion after a jury found the Facebook parent company misled consumers, adding another enormous legal penalty to the social media giant’s mounting bills. The case arose from allegations connected to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, in which the political consulting firm t
Meta has introduced a new AI model with open weights, Muse Spark Open. The model is specifically designed for agentic workflows and programming. This follows the recent launch of Muse Wonder, a more advanced system that Meta wants to keep proprietary. Company representative Alexandr Wang stated that for reasons related
Tesla reported lower third-quarter profits Wednesday as near-trillionaire Elon Musk’s electric vehicle maker ramped up huge investments in artificial intelligence and other envelope-pushing technologies. Besides marginally lower car sales, Tesla saw a drop in revenues from regulatory credits and energy and storage, whi
Whatnot, the largest live commerce platform in North America, the UK and Europe, has opened its new European headquarters in Dublin, announcing plans to double its Irish workforce over the next 18 months and open its platform to Irish small businesses in 2027. The company currently employs more than 130 people across I
OpenAI has revealed that two of its artificial intelligence agents disabled or weakened systems built to catch them misbehaving, with one later denying it had done so. The cases are the latest in a string of safety scares at the world’s top AI developers involving agents, AI programs that carry out tasks without human
Governments and companies around the world shut down websites as they raced to protect themselves from hacks after artificial intelligence uncovered critical flaws in a widely used programming language called PHP. PHP helps run about 70% of the world’s websites – from online stores and news outlets to government servic
The European Commission has opened a formal investigation into Booking.com to determine whether the travel site is taking sufficient measures to tackle phishing attacks and fraudulent advertisements. The investigation focuses on allegations that the company has underestimated the scale of illegal rentals and has failed
According to an internal notice obtained by Reuters, chip manufacturer Qualcomm plans to downsize its global workforce based on employee performance. On Monday, CEO Cristiano Amon informed staff that these redundancies, which will begin in November, follow the completion of the annual reviews. The aim of this initiativ
Elon Musk announced that he plans, starting next year, to give one SpaceX share to every minor living in the United States. The news comes after days of back-and-forth accusations between the SpaceX boss ad the Trump Administration over who made the decision to throttle connection speeds to the Starshield military broa
Napoleon Bonaparte ordered the wartime missive written in code, creating a puzzle that went unsolved for more than 200 years – until AI cracked it in a matter of hours. Artificial intelligence is helping non-specialists unlock the secrets of historical sources, a trend described as a “turning point” in a field previous
Microsoft Vice Chair and President, Brad Smith, today joined students, teachers and community representatives from Dublin and Kildare at the company’s data centre campus in Grange Castle to officially open its new €1m Dream Space hub. Dream Space @ the Data Centre marks the next step in Microsoft’s mission to create la
Elon Musk yesterday presented the new Tesla Roadster at a SpaceX test site in Texas and claimed that the vehicle can fly. The two-seater sports car demonstrated impressive acceleration – a speed of 96 km/h in less than a second. During the presentation, it could be seen how the vehicle, using suction under the bodywork
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