OpenAI argued in a court filing Monday that Apple’s accusations of trade theft against the AI company are baseless, suggesting the problem instead lies in the iPhone maker’s policies. The ChatGPT maker pointed to Apple’s practice of encouraging employees to use personal accounts for work and its same-day offboarding process for creating the issues at...

Progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) quipped Monday that a company should build an AI data center near President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, after he said communities will be “backwards and poor” if they oppose the construction of such facilities. “How about we put one in Mar-a-Lago? I love that. Let’s put a data center up in...

GOP Rep. Tim Burchett (Tenn.) responded on Monday to President Trump’s statement that communities that oppose data center construction want to “end up being backwards and poor.” “I guess I’m backwards and poor,” he told MeidasTouch’s Pablo Manríquez on the House steps.  The Tennessee Republican suggested data centers could be built in military installations instead...

Family- and culture-focused groups on the right praised last week’s court settlement that requires Meta to institute safety and addiction guardrails for teenagers on its platforms. But free speech and innovation advocates are less than thrilled, as the settlement represents the biggest victory yet for a novel legal strategy that avoids First Amendment concerns. The settlement lands...

Apple's new CEO John Ternus takes the helm of the iconic tech giant on Tuesday, ending Tim Cook's 15-year tenure during which the company's value skyrocketed to $4.6 trillion thanks to the iPhone's enormous popularity.

NEW YORK (AP) — The Federal Trade Commission and 22 states filed a lawsuit against online retailer Amazon on Monday claiming that it defrauded advertising customers. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court in the Western District of Washington, claims that Amazon overcharged 1.2 million advertising customers by misleading them on prices for online...

The Pentagon announced on Monday that it brought on Starshield AI’s Grok for Government and OpenAI’s ChatGPT for unclassified military use, expanding the number of AI assistants on the department’s platform.  According to the Pentagon, Grok for Government will provide the department with “immediate productivity gains, stronger knowledge continuity and more secure and efficient collaboration.” ...

Prediction market Kalshi has suspended GOP House candidate Laurie Buckhout from its platform for three years, after it determined she wagered on her own race.  After launching her candidacy in North Carolina’s 1st Congressional District last December, Buckhout purchased less than $1,000 worth of contracts related to her race against Rep. Don Davis (D-N.C.), according...

The prediction market Kalshi is permanently banning former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) from its platform for failing to cooperate in an investigation over wagers he placed on this year's State of the Union. Kalshi, in filings published Monday, said Santos will face both a lifetime ban and an additional $71,356 financial penalty. "Hey @Kalshi thanks...

President Trump said Monday that communities that do not want AI data centers will suffer economically.  “The only reason that communities throughout the U.S.A. should not want Data Centers is if they want to end up being backwards and poor,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “If they want to be successful and rich, with far...