Nation May 30 Elizabeth Holmes, former Theranos CEO, reports to federal prison for 11 year sentence Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes on Tuesday will be moving to her new home — a federal prison where she has been sentenced to spend the next 11 years for overseeing a blood-testing hoax that became a parable about greed…
Economy May 23 Waymo, Uber set aside past rift to team up on self-driving taxis in Phoenix The partnership announced comes five years after Uber reached a $245 million settlement with Waymo to resolve a lawsuit alleging former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick conspired with former Google engineer Anthony Levandowski to steal Waymo's technology.
Economy May 10 Google is giving its dominant search engine an artificial-intelligence makeover Google has disclosed plans to infuse its dominant search engine with more advanced artificial-intelligence technology. The effort is in response to one of the biggest threats to its long-established position as the internet's main gateway.
Economy Apr 21 Lyft employees brace for ‘significant’ layoffs as new CEO takes the reins Lyft is preparing to lay off hundreds of employees just days after new CEO David Risher began steering the ride-hailing service with a eye of driving down costs to help bring its fares more in line with its biggest rival, Uber.
Arts Apr 18 Netflix to end DVD-by-mail service that changed video rental industry Netflix is poised to shut down the DVD-by-mail rental service that set the stage for its trailblazing video streaming service.
Economy Mar 14 Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse rattles tech industry leaders, entrepreneurs “They were the gold standard, it almost seemed weird if you were in tech and didn’t have a Silicon Valley Bank account,” Stefan Kalb, CEO of Seattle startup Shelf Engine, said during an interview.
Science Feb 07 Google looks to challenge ChatGPT and Microsoft with own ‘Bard’ Google is girding for a battle of wits in the field of artificial intelligence with "Bard." That's the name the company's given to its conversational service that's apparently aimed at countering the popularity of the ChatGPT tool backed by Microsoft.
Economy Feb 03 Jury clears Elon Musk of wrongdoing for 2018 Tesla tweets The trial pitted Tesla investors represented in a class-action lawsuit against Musk, who is CEO of both the electric automaker and the Twitter service he bought for for $44 billion a few months ago.
Nation Jan 23 Elon Musk returns to court to testify in Tesla tweet trial The tweet resulted in a $40 million settlement with securities regulators, claimed he had lined up the financing to take Tesla private in a deal that never came close to happening.
Economy Jan 20 Elon Musk takes witness stand to defend 2018 Tesla buyout tweets That tweet resulted in a $40 million settlement with securities regulators and a class-action lawsuit alleging he misled investors.