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Top venture capitalist Vinod Khosla and Palantir advisor Jacob Helberg penned an open letter to the U.S. Senate calling on it to pass the so-called TikTok ban bill.Helberg and Khosla have regularly voiced their views on the dangers TikTok poses to the U.S., describing it as a "weapon of war."In an interview with CNB...

The European Union's parliament on Wednesday approved the world's first major set of regulatory ground rules to govern the mediatized artificial intelligence at the forefront of tech investment.Born in 2021, the EU AI Act divides the technology into categories of risk, ranging from "unacceptable" — which would see t...

A New Jersey man was arrested on charges for allegedly trafficking 675 SpaceX Starlink terminals purchased with stolen credit card accounts or hacked Starlink billing accounts, police said.Kelvin Rodriguez-Moya of Newark was stopped by police Dec. 4 while driving 223 Starlink terminals in a pickup truck and trailer ...

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and X, speaks at the Atreju political convention organized by Fratelli d'Italia (Brothers of Italy), in Rome, Dec. 15, 2023.Antonio Masiello | Getty ImagesThe House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party sent a letter on Saturday to Elon Musk demanding that U.S. troops stationed in T...

The X social media platform on Tuesday restored the account of Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, after a brief suspension.It was not immediately clear why Navalnaya's account was suspended in the first place.Upon contacting the X press team, CNBC received an automated response o...

Thierry Breton, France's European Union commissioner for internal market and consumer protection, industry, research and energy.JOHN THYSApple faces strong action if changes to its App Store do not meet incoming European Union regulations, the bloc's industry chief said on Friday.In a move designed to comply with th...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said artificial general intelligence, or AGI, could be developed in the "reasonably close-ish future."AGI is a term used to refer to a form of artificial intelligence that can complete tasks to the same level, or a step above, humans.Altman said AI isn't yet replacing jobs at the scale that man...

The IMF assessed the potential impact of AI on the global labor market and found that, in most cases, AI is likely to worsen overall inequality.IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva urged policymakers to tackle this "troubling trend" and proactively take steps "to prevent the technology from further stoking social tensions...

The Supreme Court decline to take an appeal by Elon Musk's X company challenging a ban on the company disclosing federal surveillance of Americans and foreign nationals using the service.X, formerly known as Twitter, had argued that the federal government's prohibition on the company disclosing the receipt of nation...