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Wall Street is looking to Tesla's earnings for clues to Musk's plan to restore company's wild growth

Apr. 23, 2024 06:03 AM EDT

Faced with falling global sales and a diving stock price, Tesla has slashed prices again on some of its electric vehicles and its “Full Self Driving” system in an apparent effort to boost the company's earnings growth. But Wall Street was unimpressed and will be looking for other...

Elon Musk accuses Australia of censorship after court bans violent video

Apr. 23, 2024 00:21 AM EDT

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Tech billionaire Elon Musk accused Australia of censorship after an Australian judge ruled that his social media platform X must block users worldwide from accessing video of a bishop being stabbed in a Sydney church. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese...

US advances review of Nevada lithium mine amid concerns over endangered wildflower

Apr. 23, 2024 00:07 AM EDT

RENO, Nev. (AP) — The Biden administration has taken a significant step in its expedited environmental review of what could become the third lithium mine in the U.S., amid anticipated legal challenges from conservationists over the threat they say it poses to an endangered Nevada wildflower. ...

Trump called this visa 'very bad' for Americans. Truth Social applied for one

Apr. 23, 2024 00:05 AM EDT

MIAMI (AP) — The social media company founded by former President Donald Trump applied for a business visa program that he sought to restrict during his administration and which many of his allies want him to curtail in a potential second term. Trump Media & Technology Group,...

Biden marks Earth Day by going after GOP, announcing $7 billion in federal solar power grants

Apr. 22, 2024 17:52 PM EDT

TRIANGLE, Virginia (AP) — President Joe Biden marked Earth Day by announcing $7 billion in federal grants for residential solar projects serving 900,000-plus households in low- and middle-income communities — while criticizing Republicans who want to gut his policies to address climate change....

Without cameras to go live, the Trump trial is proving the potency of live blogs as news tools

Apr. 22, 2024 17:08 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — They watched from the courtroom or via closed-circuit television in an overflow room — roughly 140 reporters, most with laptops or other silenced electronic devices, serving up news at its most elemental and in rapid-fire fashion. There were utterances posted a...

Insider Q&A: Trust and safety exec talks about AI and content moderation

Apr. 22, 2024 16:48 PM EDT

Alex Popken was a longtime trust and safety executive at Twitter focusing on content moderation before leaving in 2023. She was the first employee there dedicated to moderating Twitter's advertising business when she started in 2013. Now, she's vice president of trust and safety at...

Report urges fixes to online child exploitation CyberTipline before AI makes it worse

Apr. 22, 2024 15:33 PM EDT

A tipline set up 26 years ago to combat online child exploitation has not lived up to its potential and needs technological and other improvements to help law enforcement go after abusers and rescue victims, a new report from the Stanford Internet Observatory has found. The fixes to...

Lawsuit alleges negligence in hiring of maintenance man accused of torturing resident

Apr. 22, 2024 15:21 PM EDT

BALTIMORE (AP) — April Hurley’s attacker entered her apartment after identifying himself as the building maintenance man — a job he should never have obtained, according to a lawsuit filed Monday that accuses the property owner and management company of engaging in negligent hiring practices....

Russia convicts the spokesperson for Facebook owner Meta in a swift trial in absentia

Apr. 22, 2024 14:26 PM EDT

A court in Russia on Monday convicted the spokesperson of U.S. technology company Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, of justifying terrorism and sentenced him to six years in prison in a swift trial in absentia, Russia's independent news site Mediazona reported. According to...