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A DoorDash driver was caught red-handed trying to scam a customer with AI. The driver accepted an order in Austin, Texas, immediately marked it as delivered and sent an AI-generated image of the food at the customer’s front door. One problem: the order never actually arrived. Customer Byrne Hobart posted side-by-side photos on X showing […]
Meta’s AI shake-up is backfiring, says one of the company’s former leaders. Yann LeCun, Meta’s former chief AI scientist known as a “godfather of AI,” called the company’s new 29-year-old AI boss, Alexandr Wang, “young” and “inexperienced” in an interview with the Financial times. Wang became LeCun’s manager after Meta invested $15 billion in his […]
Tesla lost its throne as the world’s largest electric vehicle maker after reporting a brutal fourth quarter in which sales fell 16 percent to 418,000 vehicles. China’s BYD took first place with 2.26 million electric vehicles sold worldwide by 2025, an increase of 28 percent compared to last year. The collapse came after September’s elimination […]
Shaquille O’Neal now makes more money selling chicken sandwiches than he ever did dominating the paint. The former 7’1″ center made $30 million at his peak in the NBA, but now rakes in more than $95 million annually from business ventures and endorsements. Its restaurant portfolio includes approximately 50 locations, including Big Chicken (40 locations, […]
Where do young people get their news? The same app that brought us sailor songs and dance challenges. Forty-three percent of 18- to 29-year-olds say they will regularly get news from TikTok by 2025, compared to 41 percent for both YouTube and Facebook and 40 percent for Instagram, according to new data from the Pew […]
Gmail users have been stuck with the same email addresses for 20 years, but that could soon change. Google has quietly started rolling out a way for users to change their @gmail.com address while keeping all their emails, files, photos, and connected services like YouTube and Google Drive. The New York Times reports this. The […]
Michael Burry, immortalized by Christian Bale in The big short onerevealed bets against Nvidia and Palantir worth about $10 million, The Wall Street Journal reported. His bet pays off if Nvidia falls 37 percent to $110 by 2027 (it’s about $190 now) and Palantir drops from about $200 to $50. Burry announced his AI prediction […]
A lucky person in Arkansas scored a miracle on Christmas Eve by winning the $1.8 billion Powerball jackpot – and they may never have to reveal their identity. A single Powerball ticket sold at a price of Murphy USA gas station in Cabot, Arkansasmatched all six numbers in Monday’s drawing to win an estimated $1.8 […]
The opinions of contributing entrepreneurs are their own. </p><div> Key Takeaways Additional tax credits and deductions are available for small businesses to provide child care benefits and paid family and medical leave. Changes in taxes on overtime and tips can affect your administration and payroll deductions. Some changes are retroactive to January 1, 2025. With […]
When JPMorgan acquired Charlie Javice’s startup Frank for $175 million in 2021, it agreed to pay her legal fees if she got into trouble. Then she got into trouble. Javice told the bank that she had millions of customers, but that she had falsified much of her customer list. She was convicted of fraud in […]
