The company’s lawyers blame the driver (who settled with the victims separately) for the crash, and the plaintiffs’ lawyers for “overwhelming” the jury with “irrelevant evidence.”

The agreement creates a model for drivers to be able to organize for increased pay, job protections, and other benefits. In exchange, California regulators say they’ll support legislation to reduce expensive insurance coverage mandates that ride-hailing companies have to pay.

The new capabilities bring TikTok’s messaging experience more in line with that of other popular social apps and services.

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Two months after making a $14.3B investment in Scale AI, Meta is relying heavily on its competitors to train next generation AI models.

Fans accused Will Smith of sharing AI-generated videos from his tour, but the situation is more complicated than it seems.

Commonwealth Fusion Systems has raised nearly $3 billion to commercialize its fusion power plant. It hopes to send electricity to the grid in the early 2030s.

Anthropic is making some major changes to how it handles user data. Users have until September 28 to take action.

The deal allows the U.S. to take more equity in Intel if the company doesn’t retain at least 51% ownership in its foundry business.

With an interactive library that includes tongue twisters, breathing exercises, and advice on gestures, Vocal Image is also leaning more and more into AI to give automated feedback and personalized tips.