Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has decided to withdraw his lawsuit against OpenAI, the artificial intelligence company he helped found. The lawsuit, filed in the San Francisco Superior Court earlier this year, had accused OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman and co-founder Greg Brockman of straying from the company’s original goal of developing AI for the public good. Musk’s legal team did not disclose the reasons behind the decision to dismiss the case, which was scheduled for a hearing this Wednesday. The lawsuit had claimed that OpenAI “set the founding agreement aflame” when it released its powerfu ..read more

Elevate, a fintech based in London and Dubai, has secured financing of $5 million to expand further into South Asia. They’ve raised a total of $10 million in equity and debt from investors including Y Combinator, Goodwater, Global Founders Capital and VSQ. Since launching earlier this year, over 50,000 freelancers and remote workers from Pakistan and more than 150,000 have signed up in total. “Having received an unprecedented response from Pakistani freelancers in a very short span of time, Elevate is looking at registering over 500,000 Pakistani freelancers and remote workers facilitating the ..read more

More money is pouring into solar power than all other electricity sources combined, with investments set to reach half a trillion dollars this year, the world’s top energy research body said Thursday. The International Energy Agency (IEA) forecast in a report that global investment in clean energy this year will hit $2 trillion, twice the amount going to fossil fuels. It said combined investment in renewable power and grids overtook the amount spent on fossil fuels for the first time in 2023. “Clean energy investment is setting new records even in challenging economic conditions, highlighting ..read more

Airlines may not be replacing pilots with artificial intelligence anytime soon, but aviation industry experts say the new technology is already revolutionising the way they do business. “Data and AI are fantastic levers for the aviation sector,” said Julie Pozzi, the head of data science and AI at Air France-KLM, ahead of the 80th meeting of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) in Dubai. Airline executives will gather at the influential annual global airline summit in the United Arab Emirates on Monday for talks on the latest in the industry, including upcoming AI projects. Aviat ..read more

China’s Chang’e-6 lunar probe successfully landed on Sunday on the far side of the Moon to collect samples, state media reported — the latest leap for Beijing’s decades-old space programme. The Chang’e-6 set down in the immense South Pole-Aitken Basin, one of the largest known impact craters in the solar system, state news agency Xinhua said, citing the China National Space Administration. It marks the first time that samples will be collected from the rarely explored area of the Moon, according to the agency. The Chang’e-6 is on a technically complex 53-day mission that began on May 3. On Sun ..read more

As Japan plays host to a record influx of tourists, one of the country’s more private attractions – the high-tech toilet – is becoming a must-have in luxury bathrooms worldwide. With their warm seats and precision spray technology, bidet toilets are the norm in Japan, where more than 80 percent of homes have one, according to a government survey. Now sales are surging abroad and especially in the United States, led by A-list bidet fans such as Drake, the Kardashians and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Japanese company TOTO, which pioneered the electric bidets it claims have sparked “a global revolut ..read more

According to the cloud security company Zscaler, over 90 malicious Android applications were discovered to be present in the Google Play store. Zscaler revealed that these malicious Android apps were downloaded by unsuspecting users over 5.5 million times. One of the most dangerous threats among these apps was the notorious Anatsa banking Trojan, also known as TeaBot, as noted by Zscaler. The company noted that the malicious Android apps initially appeared harmless to users. For example, apps like “PDF Reader & File Manager” and “QR Reader & File Manager” did not immediately infect use ..read more

Social media platform, WhatsApp is rolling out a new feature under which users will be able to post longer voice notes as a status update. WhatsApp is expanding the capabilities of its status feature for both iOS and Android users. The Meta-owned messaging app is enhancing the status feature by allowing users to share voice notes up to one minute in length. This new functionality enables users to record and share longer audio messages through their status updates, making it easier to communicate more detailed thoughts and stories without interruption. Additionally, WhatsApp is also rolling out ..read more

SpaceX on Wednesday launched an inaugural batch of operational spy satellites it built as part of a new US intelligence network designed to significantly upgrade the country’s space-based surveillance powers, the first deployment of several more planned this year. The spy network was revealed in a pair of Reuters reports earlier this year showing SpaceX is building hundreds of satellites for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office, an intelligence agency, for a vast system in orbit capable of rapidly spotting ground targets almost anywhere in the world. Northrop Grumman (NOC.N), opens a new ta ..read more

Some of the world’s biggest tech companies pledged to work together to guard against the dangers of artificial intelligence as they wrapped up a two-day AI summit, also attended by multiple governments, in Seoul. Sector leaders from South Korea’s Samsung Electronics to Google promised at the event, co-hosted with Britain, to “minimize risks” and develop new AI models responsibly, even as they push to move the cutting-edge field forward. The fresh commitment, codified in a so-called Seoul AI Business Pledge Wednesday plus a new round of safety commitments announced the previous day, build on th ..read more