An often-overlooked but crucially important environmental issue—Big Tech’s growing water footprint—is coming under more public scrutiny as a result of a global rush to capitalize on the next wave of generative artificial intelligence. Researchers say the race to profit from the next wave of AI is one of the main causes of the significant increase…
Activision Blizzard’s $69 billion acquisition by Microsoft has been completed, the company announced in a regulatory filing on Friday. It’s the biggest deal Microsoft has ever made in its 48-year history, and it comes after the company allayed regulators’ concerns about competition in the U.K. and Europe and won a favorable decision from a U.S….
Elon Musk discussed his plans on Twitter, now called X, in a live discussion with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Musk said, “The social network is moving to get a small monthly fee to use the X system to fight big robot armies.” Musk did not say how much the new plan would cost users…
Tesla plans to install 20,000 electric vehicle charging stations at 2,000 Hilton properties in the United States, Mexico, and Canada early next year, the companies said Thursday. For Tesla, building wall plugs is another way to increase mass adoption by providing more convenient charging locations. The company’s Universal Wall Connector can charge any North American…
