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Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is facing accusations from the UK’s Gambling Commission that the social media giant is deliberately overlooking advertisements from unlicensed gambling operators on Facebook and Instagram.

Elon Musk’s Tesla Cybertruck suffered the largest sales drop of any electric vehicle in the United States during 2025, with deliveries falling by nearly half compared to the previous year.

British police forces are planning to trial Artificial Intelligence schemes to predict and target potential criminals before an offence has been committed.

Emergency services responded to the Edinburgh HQ of Rockstar North early Monday morning following a boiler room incident that reportedly resulted in structural damage to the building. The company has since announced it is “open and operational,” good news for fans of the hotly anticipated game Grand Theft Auto 6.

Elon Musk has requested damages ranging from $79 billion to $134 billion from OpenAI and Microsoft in a lawsuit alleging that Sam Altman’s AI startup defrauded him by abandoning its nonprofit mission.

Actor Matt Damon says Netflix wants the plot explained “three or four times” in movies, because viewers are watching while scrolling on their phones.

Elon Musk’s xAI is still permitting users to create and post highly sexualized pictures and videos of real women generated through its AI tool Grok, despite recent company claims of implementing stricter content controls.

An 11-year-old Pennsylvania boy is facing criminal homicide charges after fatally shooting his father this week. According to law enforcement officials, the boy told his mother “I killed daddy” after the killing, which was reportedly motivated by his parents taking away his Nintendo Switch.

Australian Communications Minister Anika Wells said on Friday that some 4.7 million social media accounts have been shut down since her country’s ban on social media for children under 16 went into effect in December.

Rockstar Games has banned player-created “missions” in its Grand Theft Auto Online game that recreated the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk. The company also reportedly added “Charlie Kirk” to a filter used for flagging prohibited content.

Five families from the UK are pursuing legal action against TikTok in a Delaware court, marking the first time British families have sued the social media company in American courts over the deaths of their children.

Ford CEO Jim Farley has provided an update on the automaker’s ambitious electric vehicle platform project, comparing the undertaking to historic space exploration programs while confirming that prototype vehicles are now operational. Ford recently took a historic $19.5 billion write down related to electric cars, signaling its retreat from EVs.

Tech Tycoon Elon Musk has declared that traditional retirement planning is obsolete due to coming technological advances he believes will eliminate scarcity. Musk says, “Don’t worry about squirreling money away for retirement in 10 or 20 years. It won’t matter.”

A senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) has raised concerns about OpenAI’s financial sustainability, predicting the AI startup could deplete its capital reserves within the next year and a half, at which point it would be swallowed by another tech giant.

Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot will no longer allow users to sexualize images of real people by portraying their targets in revealing clothing, the company announced Wednesday evening, following global criticism over the tool’s usage as a “nudify” app to portray women and even children in sexual situations.

A 35-year-old man who set fire to a Tesla Cybertruck and attempted to burn down a Tesla dealership in Mesa, Arizona, has been sentenced to five years in prison followed by three years of probation.

Verizon customers across the United States experienced widespread service disruptions on Wednesday, with voice calling and mobile data access failing for several hours. The company has not disclosed what caused the outage, but law enforcement sources do not suspect a cyberattack.

SAG-AFTRA union leader Duncan Crabtree-Ireland warned that the union has no problem going back on strike if they don’t reach their demands.

Volvo has issued an urgent safety recall for its 2025 EX30 electric crossover after discovering that faulty high-voltage batteries supplied by a Chinese manufacturer could potentially short-circuit and catch fire.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is moving forward with plans to reduce its Reality Labs division workforce by approximately 10 percent, affecting more than 1,000 employees in the unit responsible for developing the company’s virtual reality and Metaverse products.

The father of a motorcyclist killed when a Tesla driver using the EV’s “Autopilot” feature struck him from behind has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Elon Musk’s electric car giant, claiming the company knowingly sold dangerous technology.

YouTube has more viewers than all BBC channels combined, industry figures reveal, yet Britain’s TV tax -seems unlikely to be abolished.

Left-wing govt performs another about-face, this time on mandatory digital I.D., but Farage makes clear there is still more work to be done.

War Secretary Pete Hegseth visited aerospace, defense, and weapons manufacturers as part of his ongoing “Arsenal of Freedom” tour, where he emphasized the Pentagon’s push to support smaller technology contractors and thanked the engineers for their work.

The FCC voted this week to close a loophole that allows criminals to more easily profit from stolen smartphones — fueling retail theft and strengthening organized crime networks involved in trafficking devices.

Eric Adams, the former mayor of New York City, is under fire from the crypto community following allegations of a “rug pull” scheme involving a newly launched memecoin he promoted. 

President Donald Trump announced on Monday that Microsoft will introduce significant changes to prevent American consumers from facing increased utility bills resulting from the company’s data center construction for AI operations. The President wrote that tech giants must “pay their own way” to power their data centers.

A senior State Department diplomatic official has indicated that Washington may take retaliatory action if British regulators move forward with potential plans to ban Elon Musk’s social media platform X.

Dina Powell McCormick has been named president and vice-chairman of Meta, a move celebrated by President Donald Trump and her husband, Senator Dave McCormick.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has removed approximately 550,000 user accounts across its platforms during the initial implementation phase of Australia’s new teen social media ban.

An investigation has revealed that Google’s “AI Overview,” found at the top of most searches, provided users with false and potentially harmful medical information when they searched for health-related information like what the results of a liver function test meant. The search giant has scrubbed AI Overviews off the web in the cases of medical misinformation researchers uncovered.