Jay-Z asks judge to unmask Jane Doe who said in lawsuit that he and Diddy raped her when she was 13 years old
Rap entrepreneur Jay-Z, given name Shawn Carter, wants a federal judge to unmask a woman whose lawsuit says he and Sean “Diddy” Combs took turns raping her at a party when she was 13 years old. Rapper Jay-Z is fighting to quickly unmask the Jane Doe accuser who has sued him and Sean “Diddy” Combs…
Ukraine’s changing up its Black Sea attacks on Russia with drone boats armed with machine guns and flying exploding drones
A Russian warplane is seen from the camera on a Ukrainian naval drone. Ukraine appears to be operating modified naval drones in the Black Sea, sending its crewless boats into battle against Russian helicopters and patrol boats and combat against strategic gas platforms. The naval drones used in these recent engagements were said to have…
Top Russian official says internal corruption surged in 2024, with 30,000 officials caught for graft this year
Igor Krasnov, Russia’s prosecutor-general, pictured left here, said bribery is up by 30% compared to 2023. Russia’s prosecutor-general said on Monday that detections of corruption among officials have jumped this year, with a 30% increase in bribery cases compared to 2023. Igor Krasnov told state media that almost 30,000 Russian officials were caught and disciplined…
The market’s blistering postelection rally has some on Wall Street sounding the alarm for 2025
The postelection rally in the stock market is running hot into year-end, but investors shouldn’t abandon all caution as they chase the gains. Some forecasters see the stellar rally since the November 5 election as cause for concern, with the record-setting run in the stock market signaling that a correction could be in store as…
Alphabet stock adds $136 billion in market value after it unveils quantum computing breakthrough
Sundar Pichai (left) and Daniel Sank pose with one of Google’s quantum computers in the company’s Santa Barbara lab in California, October 2019. Alphabet stock surged on Tuesday, a day after the tech giant revealed a breakthrough in quantum computing. The Google parent company unveiled its new Willow chip on Monday, which it said can…
Amazon’s pharmacy business is expected to reach $2 billion in sales as shopper interest skyrockets, a top analyst says
Prescription medications from Amazon Pharmacy. Amazon’s online pharmacy business is drawing significantly more customer interest now, and it could generate roughly $2 billion in revenue this year, according to financial firm Evercore. In a note published last week, Evercore analyst Mark Mahaney highlighted his firm’s recent survey showing rising interest in and usage of Amazon…
I left a career at Amazon and Microsoft to start a hedge fund. After raising almost $10M in my first year, I’m never going back to Big Tech.
If you ask Alexa to play Taylor Swift, my team built the system that recommends similar songs to listen to afterward. I studied computer science and philosophy at Carnegie Mellon during college and always thought I would work in engineering. I applied to work at Amazon during my senior fall semester in college and started…
Marc Benioff says Big Tech’s ‘excessive’ AI spending is a ‘race to the bottom’
Marc Benioff says some of Salesforce’s competitors are overdoing it with their spending on AI. Salesforce’s CEO says the company isn’t spending as lavishly on AI as some of its tech peers — and he isn’t worried about falling behind. Instead, Marc Benioff says the company will capitalize on the vast AI spending gap between…
Microsoft’s Mustafa Suleyman says Sam Altman’s AGI timeline is plausible — but not probable
Mustafa Suleyman oversees all things AI at Microsoft. Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft’s AI CEO, indicated that the timeline of AI advancement will be much longer than Sam Altman has predicted. During an interview on The Verge’s Decoder, Suleyman gave his take on when artificial general intelligence — AI with human-level proficiency at tasks — will become…
