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California lawmakers pass AI safety bill SB 53 — but Newsom could still veto
California’s state senate gave final approval early on Saturday morning to a major AI safety bill se ...View More
xAI reportedly lays off 500 workers from data annotation team
Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI laid off 500 team members on Friday night, according to internal messages ...View More
Ram ends EV pickup truck plans
The all-electric Ram 1500 REV pickup truck is dead. Long live the extended-range Ram 1500 REV (once ...View More
Via shrugs off tepid open to end first day of trading slightly above IPO price
Investors took a cautious approach to transit software startup Via’s IPO on Friday, with shares open ...View More
Pilot union urges FAA to reject Rainmaker’s drone cloud-seeding plan
Rainmaker Technology’s bid to deploy cloud-seeding flares on small drones is being met by resistance ...View More
Micro1, a competitor to Scale AI, raises funds at $500M valuation
Micro1, a three-year-old startup that helps AI companies find and manage human contractors for data ...View More
New FAA program will let eVTOL startups test some operations before full certification
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has announced a new pilot program that will let electric v ...View More
Mastodon rolls out quote posts with protections to prevent ‘dunking’
Mastodon, an open source, decentralized alternative to X, is rolling out a somewhat controversial fe ...View More
A California bill that would regulate AI companion chatbots is close to becoming law
California has taken a big step toward regulating AI. SB 243 — a bill that would regulate AI compani ...View More
OpenAI secures Microsoft’s blessing to transition its for-profit arm
OpenAI announced Thursday it reached a non-binding agreement with Microsoft, its largest investor, o ...View More
