YouTube has evolved from a dinner party lark 20 years ago into a modern lifestyle staple poised to overtake U.S. cable television in paid viewership. PayPal colleagues Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim conceived YouTube in 2005, reportedly during a dinner party. The domain YouTube.com launched on Valentine's Day… Read
The feud between Elon Musk and Sam Altman has become one of the bitterest rivalries in business history, with the Tesla tycoon bidding to buy Altman's OpenAI in an apparent attempt to derail the ChatGPT maker's ascent to becoming one of the world's most important companies. What sparked the rivalry?… Read
A neutrino detector submerged in the Mediterranean Sea has sniffed out the most energetic ghost particle yet, scientists reported Wednesday. The newly detected neutrino is around 30 times more active than the previous recordholder. Scientists think it came from outside the Milky Way galaxy but its exact source remains a… Read
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has dismissed a $97.4 billion takeover bid led by rival Elon Musk, but the unsolicited offer could complicate Altman's push to transform the maker of ChatGPT into a for-profit company. "We are not for sale,” Altman said Tuesday at an artificial intelligence summit in Paris. Musk’s… Read
U.S. Vice President JD Vance told Europeans on Tuesday their "massive" regulations on artificial intelligence could strangle the technology, and rejected content moderation as "authoritarian censorship". In another sign of divergence on AI governance, the United States and Britain did not sign up to the final statement of a French-hosted… Read
France hopes that world leaders and tech executives at an artificial intelligence summit in Paris will agree the AI revolution should be inclusive and sustainable, although it was unclear on Monday whether the United States would be supportive. Eagerness to rein in AI has waned since previous summits in Britain… Read
Europe’s Euclid space telescope has detected a rare halo of bright light around a nearby galaxy, astronomers reported Monday. The halo, known as an Einstein ring, encircles a galaxy 590 million light-years away, considered close by cosmic standards. A light-year is 5.8 trillion miles. Astronomers have known about this galaxy… Read
Elon Musk, the world's richest person and a top advisor to U.S. President Donald Trump, said he has no interest in acquiring social media platform TikTok's operations in the United States, in comments released Saturday. "I've not put in a bid for TikTok and I don't have any plans for… Read
Development of artificial intelligence (AI) should not be an unregulated "Wild West", French President Emmanuel Macron said ahead of a global summit on the technology in Paris. The call to impose rules -- tempered with the pro-business president's fundamental optimism about the technology -- comes as France and Europe push… Read
From the United States to Thailand, users of the popular Sony PlayStation consoles might encounter "difficulties," the Japanese group said Saturday, as game players around the world expressed their frustration. "You might have difficulty launching games, apps or network features," Sony said on its status page. "We're working to resolve… Read