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California is suing ExxonMobil for allegedly deceiving the public for half a century by promising that recycling would address the global plastics pollution crisis

San Francisco's sidewalks were once notorious for sprawling tents belonging to homeless people but are now largely clear

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has hit the headlines for his latest style statement which features a high end luxury watch.

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Taylor Swift's drive to encourage her followers to cast ballots in this year's election. However, this percentage is down 15 points from February due to a conspiracy theory involving the possibility of a rigged Super Bowl. According to a recent Monmouth University survey, 53% of respondents support Swift's efforts to encourage her followers to cast ballots, while 35% disagree. One in twelve respondents claimed not to know. Swift gave Vice President Harris her support following last week's debate between former President Trump and Harris. Besides attending the team's Super Bowl matchup in Las Vegas against the San Francisco 49ers, Swift is dating Travis Kelce of the Kansas City Chiefs. There was conjecture at the time that the Chiefs might have rigged the game to gain as much publicity as possible in exchange for President Biden's immediate endorsement. Swift did not support this plot at the time, and there was no proof of it either. Monmouth, however, pointed out that since the conspiracy theory, support for Swift's initiatives has sharply declined.

Government scientists and artificial intelligence experts from at least nine countries and the European Union will meet in San Francisco after the U.S. elections to coordinate on safely developing AI technology and averting its dangers

DirecTV on Saturday announced it had reached a deal with Walt Disney Co. that will restore ESPN and ABC-owned stations to its service after a nearly 2-week dispute that blacked out those networks for millions of viewers across the U.S. The end of the i...

Ride-hailing leader Uber on Friday announced it will dispatch robotaxis built by driverless technology pioneer Waymo beginning next year in Austin, Texas, and Atlanta in a deal that deepens the bond between once-bitter rivals

California has been arrested for causing a disturbance on a Frontier Airlines flight bound for San Francisco. Charles Angel Salva, aged 30, may face up to 20 years in federal prison. He assaulted the crew and threatened to kill everyone onboard. This incident reportedly occurred earlier this month. Federal prosecutors revealed that Salva tampered with the oxygen masks in the overhead compartments. A witness mentioned that Salva seemed out of breath and wanted to get off the plane. When he pulled down the oxygen masks, his hand got stuck, and a fellow passenger helped him. Salva then verbally abused a flight attendant, saying, «This airplane is going down, we are all going to hell.» Panic erupted when Salva grabbed a fellow passenger and ran to the back of the plane. He tried to choke a flight attendant, leaving marks on her neck, and threatened to kill everyone on the flight.

Uber on Friday announced it will dispatch robotaxis built by driverless technology pioneer Waymo beginning next year in Austin, Texas, and Atlanta in a deal that deepens the bond between once-bitter rivals. The alliance expands upon a partnership the two companies forged in Phoenix last year, signaling they were ready to set aside their differences and work together following a bruising legal battle revolving around allegations that Uber had stolen Waymo's trade secrets. Uber's increasing reliance on Waymo's robotaxis to supplement the fleet of cars driven by people responding to requests sent on a mobile app comes just a few weeks after it announced plans to deploy driverless cars from General Motors' beleaguered Cruise subsidiary.

People like Elon Musk and Steve Jobs at times seemed to have a je ne sais quoi that allowed them to act and behave as leaders of their companies in ways that would have tripped up mere mortals. This past week, Silicon Valley put a name to it: “Founder Mode." It’s a term coined by Paul Graham, co-founder of Y Combinator, an influential startup incubator in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Federal Reserve interest rate cut next week. The greenback rose for the first time in five sessions versus the Japanese currency, while rising for a second straight day against the euro.

Battery-powered devices are overheating more often on planes, and that is raising safety concerns because of the fire danger

The impasse between DirecTV and Disney over a new carriage agreement has become more heated as it entered its second week

Three sisters from Ohio who inherited a dime kept in a bank vault for more than 40 years knew it had some value

British regulators have cleared Microsoft’s hiring of key staff from startup Inflection AI, saying the deal wouldn’t stifle competition in the country’s artificial intelligence market

A growing number of restaurant customers are choosing to eat alone

Donald Trump supporter Elon Musk called tech investor and Democrat Vinod Khosla “deranged" on X over the latter’s distaste for the former president. Kamala Harris supporter and chief executive of the cloud-computing company Box, Aaron Levie, suggested investor David Sacks must be high on cough syrup for supporting Trump. Green tech investors who admired Musk are calling him a traitor to the cause for siding with Trump.

MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) with search giant Google to set up the 'Tamil Nadu AI Labs' in Chennai. The MoU was signed as part of the TN CM MK Stalin's 17-day visit to the United States to garner fresh investments. «Say hello to what I would like to call 'Chenn.ai,'» Industrie Minister Dr TRB Rajaa said in a post on X (formerly Twitter). «With this partnership we aim to skill 2 million youngsters in AI via Naan Mudhalvan, collaborate with startups, and enable MSMEs and the rural economy. We want our youth to be a future-ready workforce.»

AI startup OpenAI said on Thursday its chatbot ChatGPT now has more than 200 million weekly active users, double the number it had in the last fall season. ChatGPT, launched in 2022, can generate human-like responses based on user prompts and had 100 million weekly active users, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman had said in November. OpenAI said 92% of Fortune 500 companies are using its products and the use of its automated Application Programming Interface, or API, which allows software programs to talk to each other, has doubled since the launch of ChatGPT-4o mini in July.