Category Archives: Business

Hotel prices and tourism numbers are up as New York City goes through its first holiday season with new rules that ban nearly all Airbnbs and other short-term rentals.

Big Tech data centers are not only being used to power the internet but also to heat people’s homes. But who’s really winning when Facebook keeps you warm at night?

Google’s doomed social network Buzz led US regulators to force Google and Meta to monitor their own data use. Insiders say the results were mixed, as pressure mounts for a federal privacy law.

The 217-mph, 1,001-hp electrified Lamborghini Revuelto is so much fun it will make you lose the ability to speak properly.

Raising a range of concerns into the way X has been run under Elon Musk, EU officials will also probe whether graphic content from Hamas’ attack on Israel was allowed to spread across the site.

Kytch, the company that tried to fix McDonald’s broken ice cream machines, has unearthed a 3-year-old email it says proves claims of an alleged plot to undermine their business.

Cruise, the self-driving subsidiary of General Motors, will lay off a quarter of its staff. After a grisly October accident in San Francisco, GM said it would slash the unit’s funding.

The “superalignment” team led by OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever has devised a way to guide the behavior of AI models as they get ever smarter.

Some Elon Musk fans are concerned that Grok, xAI’s answer to ChatGPT, is too politically liberal. The nature of the underlying AI technology will make “fixing” its outlook difficult.

Millennials may have popularized Pinterest, but Gen Z is pushing the platform to new heights.