Elon Musk defended Telegram co-founder and CEO Pavel Durov after his arrest in Paris on Saturday and criticized his social media billionaire Mark Zuckerberg for bowing to “censorship pressure”. Musk tweeted “#FreePavel” X hours after the exiled Russian billionaire was arrested at Le Bourget airport, reportedly on charges that he allowed criminal activity to flourish on his encrypted messaging app. ...
The father of Kansas City Chiefs star Travis Kelce revealed that he is no longer welcome on social media platform X as he blasted it for a recent report about arms dealers in Yemen. Ed Kelce shared an article based on a report from The Times of London that claimed arms dealers in the war-torn country are selling weapons to ...
Pavel Durov, the Russian-born founder of Telegram who was arrested in Paris, has nothing to hide as it is absurd to hold an owner responsible for abusing the messaging and social media platform, Telegram said in a statement. Durov, a 39-year-old billionaire billed as “Russia’s Mark Zuckerberg”, was arrested at Le Bourget airport outside Paris shortly after boarding a private ...
Former President Donald Trump said Tesla CEO Elon Musk is unlikely to serve in his cabinet if he wins a second term in the White House because of his extensive business obligations, which include running several companies. “He wants to be involved. Now look, he’s running big businesses and all that, so he can’t, really, I don’t think he can ...
Pavel Durov, the Russian-born founder of messaging app Telegram, was arrested in France as part of an ongoing judicial investigation and had no political motive, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday. Macron’s statement at X was the first official confirmation of Durov’s arrest, nearly two days since he was detained at Le Bourget airport outside Paris shortly after boarding ...
Russia seized more than $100 million from Google and used the money to fund its own propaganda campaign in support of President Vladimir Putin’s ongoing war in Ukraine, according to a report. Court documents obtained by Britain’s Telegraph newspaper show that Google’s bank accounts in Russia were emptied shortly after the invasion two years ago, leading to the bankruptcy of ...
Tech mogul Marc Andreessen’s family owns tracts of land near the city’s controversial California Forever project he’s backing — and plans to build more than 1,000 homes as part of a “visionary” real estate plan, according to a report. Andreessen, co-founder of the venture firm Andreessen Horowitz, is one of several Silicon Valley bigwigs trying to build a new city ...
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has said he is reluctant to lay off employees, choosing instead to “torture them into greatness” – a strategy he claims has turned the company into one of the world’s most valuable . Huang — whose employees can work up to seven days a week, sometimes until 2 a.m., but are said to stick around because ...
California lawmakers approved a hotly contested artificial intelligence safety bill on Wednesday, after which it will need one more procedural vote before its fate rests in the governor’s hands. Gavin Newsom, who has until September. 30 to decide whether to sign it into law or veto it. Tech companies developing generative artificial intelligence — which can respond to requests with ...
Google relaunched its Gemini artificial intelligence software after its text-to-image tool drew condemnation for generating fake depictions of black Nazis, female popes and “different” versions of America’s Founding Fathers. The Alphabet-owned tech giant announced on Wednesday that an early access version of the image generation feature will be available to users of subscription-based services such as Gemini Advanced, Gemini Business ...