The penalty, imposed by a state judge, is on top of a $375 million fine ordered by a jury that found Meta misled users about the safety of its platforms.
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China’s Unitree Prices IPO in Bet Investors Are Ready for Humanoid Robots
Unitree Robotics wants to raise about $900 million in an I.P.O. that tests market interest in humanoid robots, a technology that wows but has yet to prove its viability.
Google Names Demis Hassabis to New AI Role in a Leadership Shake-up
Minutes after four top researchers said they were leaving, Google said that Demis Hassabis, the Nobel-winning scientist who led the company’s A.I. lab, was stepping into a new job.
How China’s A.I. Is Surging Across Africa
In African tech hubs, developers are picking China’s cheap, freely available artificial intelligence models over more powerful U.S. ones.
Four Top Google A.I. Researchers Form New Start-Up
Jeff Dean, who for years was one of Google’s most important executives, is leading the new artificial intelligence company with the backing of Google.
Trump White House Readies AI Framework to Review Security Risks
The voluntary review process will cover closed-source artificial intelligence models, but exclude those that publish the underlying code.
Thousands of servers can be backdoored by exploiting buggy motherboard controllers
Thousands of Internet-connected servers sold by the world’s biggest manufacturers can be remotely backdoored by exploiting critical vulnerabilities—some more than a decade old—that lurk deep inside system motherboards, according to research presented Wednesday. Baseboard management controllers are miniature computers that are embedded into the motherboards of virtually every enterprise server. The microcontrollers, typically abbreviated as...
SpaceX, in First Earnings After IPO, Reports Soaring AI Spending
Elon Musk’s rocket company said its capital expenditures jumped nearly seven times from a year ago. Revenue also rose.
In Lawsuit, NJ Accuses Amazon of Suppressing Pay for Delivery Drivers
The state attorney general said in an antitrust lawsuit filed on Tuesday that the company was abusing its market power to keep its delivery costs low.
White House Whipsaws Silicon Valley (and Itself) Over A.I. Rules
The Trump administration has struggled with how to approach “open source” models, which are freely available to download and favored by Chinese companies.