23andMe has agreed to pay $30 million to settle a lawsuit over a data breach that exposed the personal information of 6.4 million customers in 2023. The proposed class action settlement (PDF), filed Thursday in a San Francisco federal court and awaiting judicial approval, includes cash payments for affected customers, Read more…
Dell and HP executives have acknowledged a delay in the anticipated commercial PC refresh cycle. Michael Dell, speaking at the Citi 2024 Global TMT conference, stated that the refresh cycle “has been delayed for sure.” Without offering any reasons for postponement — and not being pressed for one by the Read more…
OpenAI’s latest models have “meaningfully” increased the risk that AI will be misused to create biological weapons [non-paywalled link], the company has acknowledged. The San Francisco-based company announced its new models, known as o1, on Thursday, touting their new abilities to reason, solve hard maths problems and answer scientific research Read more…
Have you ever been in a high-stakes situation in which you needed to perform but completely bombed? You’re not alone. Experiments in monkeys reveal that ‘choking’ under pressure is linked to a drop in activity in the neurons that prepare for movement. “You see it across the board, you see Read more…
A U.S. District Court judge on Thursday allowed New York-based startup Kalshi to legally offer betting on the outcome of the November Congressional elections (Warning: source paywalled; alternative source), despite opposition from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), which plans to appeal the decision due to concerns about potential market Read more…
General Motors is joining forces with EVgo, one of the biggest electric vehicle charging operators in the United States, to build 400 ultra-fast DC chargers nationwide to support the growing number of battery-powered cars hitting U.S. roads. To be clear, these are individual stalls, not charging stations. However, the two Read more…
Can AI kill the enterprise software app industry that’s led by companies such as Salesforce and Workday? That’s the trillion-dollar question at the heart of recent comments from the CEO of Klarna, Sebastian Siemiatkowski, who’s made a name for himself — and drawn some skepticism too — as a chief Read more…