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AI safety, yes. AI apocalypse, no. Loading audio narration… The California judge overseeing Elon Musk’s civil trial against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman shut down the Tesla CEO’s robot-apocalypse talk on Thursday — drawing a hard line against any further doomsday speculation in her courtroom.”We’re not going to talk about extinction in this case,” Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers told Musk on this third day of testimony in the high-profile case.The reprimand came after Musk answered questions about Tesla’s robot-making business and his past comments about “building a robot army.””No, we do not make weapons,” said Musk of Tesla, while under…

Apple kept the good times rolling with another quarter that beat estimates across the board.The iPhone giant’s latest earnings, coming off a white-hot holiday quarter, mark the beginning of the end of the Tim Cook era as he gets ready to step down as CEO in September. Apple reported revenue of $111.2 billion, up 17% year over year and topping Wall Street’s estimates of $109.6 billion. Earnings per share also topped expectations at $2.01.Apart from eyeing rising hardware demand in the company’s iPhone and Mac segments, Wall Street is deeply curious about what the next chapter of leadership looks like…

Nvidia has laid a new brick in its AI empire. NVentures, its corporate VC fund, has backed Legora, reportedly its first legal AI investment. Leveraging AI to help lawyers streamline their work, the Swedish-born legal tech startup is competing with U.S. player Harvey. Alongside Atlassian and other new financial investors, NVentures joined Legora’s cap table as part of a $50 million Series D extension that comes a month after the startup’s $550 million Series D.  In the interval, this Y Combinator alum crossed $100 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) — a milestone that contributed to its new $5.6 billion…

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Police in Tacoma, Washington, responded to a report of a possible stabbing at a high school to find four students and an adult security guard injured, authorities said Thursday. The suspect, a student, was in custody and also injured, said Shelbie Boyd, a spokesperson for the Tacoma Police Department.All those injured were taken to a hospital, including the suspect, she said. The Tacoma Fire Department responded to Foss High School at 1:38 p.m. for a possible stabbing, spokesperson Chelsea Shepherd said. Upon arrival, crews treated and took five patients to local hospitals, including four in critical…

After Sam Altman trash-talked Anthropic for gatekeeping its cybersecurity tool Mythos by only releasing it to select users, he confirmed that OpenAI would be doing the same with its competing tool, Cyber. Altman said in a post on X on Thursday that OpenAI will begin rolling out GPT-5.5 Cyber “to critical cyber defenders” in the next few days. OpenAI has an application on its website where people submit information about their credentials and planned use in order to gain access. Cyber can perform such tasks as penetration testing, vulnerability identification (and exploitation), and malware reverse engineering, the application implies. It’s…

Finding the best budget TV isn’t as simple as picking the lowest price tag. A lot of cheaper models make big trade-offs, but if you know what to look for, you can land an affordable TV that doesn’t cut corners. That’s where I come in — after years of testing and reviewing, I’ve narrowed it down to the best budget TVs that are truly worth your money.Leading the pack is the TCL QM6K. It’s a budget-friendly QLED that punches above its weight, mainly because of its Mini LED backlight, which gives it a clear boost in picture quality compared to…

When Silvio Pfeufer first got into cheffing, he was surprised by the amount of administrative work involved. Loading audio narration… “It’s not only the evening, sending nice plates to guests. There’s a lot of stuff to do to make that happen,” Pfeufer told Business Insider. He took long phone calls from food suppliers and producers that kept him away from the kitchen.Sourcing and buying food is a process riddled with disorganization, since farmers, wholesalers, logistics providers, and restaurants communicate in different ways — by phone, email, text message, and PDF blast — starting as early as 4 a.m. The cost…

It’s time to welcome back two social networks we once loved: Friendster and Vine. Loading audio narration… After shutting down in the 2010s, the two social media platforms are rising from the dead this week.Both of the apps, however, are Frankenstein versions of their predecessors. Neither is being resurrected by its original founders, and the app design and experiences differ from the original platforms.Nostalgia for a simpler internet, especially for those who remember the early days with rose-colored glasses, is partially fueling this resurgence.Evan Henshaw-Plath — who goes by Rabble — is the early Twitter employee behind the Vine reboot, DiVine.…

OpenAI is getting serious about account security. The company on Thursday launched Advanced Account Security (AAS), a set of opt-in protections for ChatGPT users designed for high-value individuals — but available to anyone who wants them. As part of that new program, digital security provider Yubico announced it has partnered with OpenAI to link two new security key products to ChatGPT accounts. The company said the partnership was designed to protect users from the threat of phishing, which is considered to be a growing threat for chatbot users. The two companies are releasing a pair of “co-branded” YubiKeys — dubbed…

OpenAI and Anthropic have been on the warpath lately against third-party efforts to train new AI models by prompting their publicly accessible chatbots and APIs, a process known as “distillation.” That conversation has focused on Chinese firms using distillation to create open-weight models that are nearly as capable as U.S. offerings, but available at a much lower cost. However, tech workers have widely assumed that American labs use these techniques on each other to avoid falling behind competitors. Now we know it’s true in at least one case: On the stand in a California federal court on Thursday, Elon Musk…