Feb 13 (Reuters) - Grok, Elon Musk's AI chatbot, has been gaining ground in the U.S. over the past months, data showed, even as it draws global censure and regulatory scrutiny after being used to generate a wave of non-consensual sexualized images of women and minors. Read full story

Feb 13 (Reuters) - Elon Musk's SpaceX is considering a dual-class share structure in its planned IPO this year, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. Read full story

Feb 13 (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's global bond sale this week underscored the high level of investor demand for the major AI hyperscalers, but raised concerns about the debt's lack of protections for existing and future bondholders. Read full story

The Detroit Big Three -- General Motors, Ford and Stellantis -- have collectively announced more than $50 billion in write-downs on their electric- vehicle businesses after years of aggressive investment into a transition that, even before Republican lawmakers abolished a $7,500 federal tax credit last fall, was already running below expectations. U.S. EV sales fell more than 30% in the fourth quarter of 2025 once the credit expired in September, and Congress also eliminated federal ..

STOCKHOLM, Feb 13 - A group of 15 companies, led by Microsoft and Ericsson, launched on Friday the "Trusted Tech Alliance," built around five principles to safely use technology regardless of where it is developed. Read full story

CDC awarded $1.6 million for study birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine in Guinea-Bissau.

Law firms representing the NAACP sent xAI a notice of intent to sue over alleged Clean Air Act violations in Mississippi.

Samsung begins to ship HBM4 memory at 11.7Gbps speeds, and claims an early industry lead.

Hayden AI's cameras will scan for violations from 7 city vehicles.

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman criticized Anthropic's Super Bowl ad campaign, which took a swipe at the ChatGPT maker's decision to bring ads to the platform.

Here's a sneaky way to watch the NBA All star Weekend 2026 for free from anywhere in the world as basketball's annual tournament returns Feb 13-15

Roku has added nine more free, ad-supported channels to The Roku Channel

Someone used ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 generative AI video platform to depict Tom Cruise fighting Brad Pitt, and no one in the film industry is happy about it.

Amazon, Uber Eats and Doordash have scaled more aggressively in grocery delivery in recent months, amping up the pressure on Instacart

ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 model that created the viral Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt fight videos got the attention of Elon Musk.

Samsung is finally unveiling the Galaxy S26, S26+, and S26 Ultra on February 25 (missing the opportunity to align with the names and the year and have it take place on February 26). Ahead of that, the company is now in full teaser mode. Today, Samsung's US arm posted the video teaser you can see below to its X account. No spotlight needed. Can your phone do that? Get ready for the next level of Nightography with #GalaxyAI to light up any occasion.Reserve now: https://t.co/dTlilFNoHy ..

Verizon unlocks have 35-day waiting period after paying off device plan online.

There are also UI changes to the volume and brightness sliders.

As OpenAI removed access to GPT-4o in its app on Friday, people who have come to rely on the chatbot for companionship are mourning the loss all over the world.

Waymo is paying DoorDash drivers to close doors that are left ajar on their self-driving robotaxis.

By partnering with CodePath, AI biz aims to modernize how people learn to program Can using AI teach you to code more quickly than traditional methods? Anthropic certainly thinks so. The AI outfit has partnered with computer science education org CodePath to get Claude and Claude Code into the hands of students, a time-tested strategy for seeding product interest and building brand loyalty.

The essay exploded across platforms like Elon Musk's X, prompting a range of praise and criticism from readers.

Meta was granted a patent in late December that describes how a large language model could be trained on a deceased user's historical activity -- their comments, likes, and posted content -- to keep their social media accounts active after they're gone. Andrew Bosworth, Meta's CTO, is listed as the primary author of the patent, first filed in 2023. The AI clone could like and comment on posts, respond to DMs, and even simulate video or audio calls on the user's behalf. A Meta spokesperson told ..

Oxide says AMDs Turin EPYCs are coming, switch revamp under review, more open hardware in the works Remember that giant green rack-sized blade server Oxide Computer showed off a couple of years back? Well, the startup is still at it, having raked in $200 million in Series-C funding this week as it prepares to bring a bevy of new hardware to market with updated processing power, memory, and networking.

Thought the Trump Phone plot was already weird enough? Turns out it started with a sporting superstar.

Roku executives said in a shareholder letter that it marked "our biggest quarter ever" for net adds to premium subscriptions.

A Super Bowl advert had sparked new scrutiny of the smart doorbell company's privacy practices.

Killing Satoshi , an upcoming biopic about the elusive creator of Bitcoin, will reportedly rely heavily on artificial intelligence to generate locations and adjust actors' performances, Variety reports . The film was announced in 2025 as being directed by Doug Liman ( The Bourne Identity , The Edge of Tomorrow ) and starring Casey Affleck and Pete Davidson in undisclosed roles, but its connection to overhyped technology was previously understood to begin and end with cryptocurrency. According ..

The oceans hold vast uranium resources, and Chinas recent extraction milestone is a start but does not yet ensure a large-scale fuel supply.

"Many of the largest retailers have been disproportionately impacted by tariffs and have been pulling back on advertising spend," Pinterest's CEO said.

OpenAI retired the GPT-4o model on Feb. 13, the day before Valentine's Day. The AI relationships community is heartbroken.

Corsair is putting its high-end RAM in a sealed plastic clamshell to help prevent return-related scams.

This One UI 9 leak delivers new details on Samsung's Now Nudge feature.

The Honor Pad X8 was announced in 2022, and now the Honor Pad X8b has quietly been launched in Saudi Arabia. We won't even try to make sense of the naming scheme and why, three and a half years after the X8, the X8b has arrived. The new tablet has an 11-inch 1920x1200 IPS LCD screen with a 90Hz refresh rate, a 5MP rear camera, a 5MP front camera, and a 10,100 mAh battery. The Honor Pad X8b is powered by the Snapdragon 680 SoC, paired with 4GB of RAM and 128GB of storage. It runs Android 16 with ..

OM System has announced the entry of Chinese budget camera manufacturer Sonida into the Micro Four Thirds System, but the expected new Songdian-branded camera probably won't take on offerings from OM System or Lumix

Shares of Nvidia fell on Friday, while rival Advanced Micro Devices rallied after the CEO of Arista Networks said her company is shifting some workloads.

Europe risks undermining its own competitiveness drive by restricting access to foreign technology, Google's president of global affairs and chief legal officer Kent Walker told the Financial Times, as Brussels accelerates efforts to reduce reliance on U.S. tech giants. Walker said the EU faces a "competitive paradox" as it seeks to spur growth while restricting the technologies needed to achieve that goal. He warned against erecting walls that make it harder to use some of the best technology ..

Even with new owners in China, iRobot says your Roomba data stays under US control.