Tesla suffered a data leak in May that affected more than 75,000 employees, according to a breach notification letter filed in Maine on Friday.
Why it matters: Leaked data includes information about current and former employees, such as their address, phone number, email addresses and Social Security number, per the letter.
U.S. officials are increasingly turning their attention to how best to keep spies and hackers out of the country's space systems — especially as private industry continues to play a bigger role in their development.
Driving the news: Intelligence officials issued a warning Friday that foreign spies could be targeting commercial space firms.
FTX's embattled hedge fund shop and other Wall Street investment firms are banding together for a refund.
Driving the news: Alameda Research and another hedge fund, Fir Tree Partners, started GrayscaleLitigation.com to bring together potential co-plaintiffs against Grayscale Investments over fees paid to its flagship Bitcoin Trust, better known by its ticker symbol GBTC, as well as its Ethereum Trust.
Microsoft is roping in Ubisoft in its attempt to win regulatory approval of its $69 billion bid for Activision Blizzard.
Driving the news: Microsoft announced early this morning a plan to divest cloud gaming rights that belong to Activision Blizzard games to the French gaming giant.
CEO optimism about the economy has trickled down into their organizations, a new PwC survey reveals.
Why it matters: Senior business leaders have plenty to worry about already as the effects of extreme weather threaten worker safety and supply chains, the labor market remains in favor of employees and the AI arms race raises more questions every day about the way we live and work.
Why it matters: Where the debate leads may shape the future of the direct air capture (DAC) industry, and the ability of countries to meet climate goals.
Facebook parent company Meta on Tuesday released an AI-powered translation engine that can more easily translate languages across text and speech.
Why it matters: AI is particularly well suited to language translation, and Meta's newest engine can translate spoken words from one language to another without having to first convert to text behind the scenes, among other advancements.
Leading media organizations are issuing guidance on leveraging artificial intelligence in the newsroom at the same time they're making licensing deals to let AI firms use their content to train AI models.
Why it matters: The sudden arrival of publicly and commercially available generative AI tools has forced a new set of ethical choices on media companies struggling to protect public trust while still experimenting with the technology and preserving their legal rights.
Arm, the giant British chipmaker, on Monday filed for its highly anticipated initial public offering.
Why it matters: This would be the year's largest IPO so far, with the company's American Depositary Shares (ADS) set to trade on the Nasdaq under the ticker "ARM."
Developers behind a recently canceled Ubisoft game were aiming to create a Polynesian action-adventure that combined traits from two all-time beloved games: the mystery-filled Elden Ring and Nintendo's sea-faring The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, sources tell Axios.
Why it matters: The ambitious game, codenamed Oxygen, recently ran aground of the company's desire to focus on proven franchises, namely Assassin's Creed.
Stronghold's CEO Greg Beard believes that the market is undervaluing his company versus other Bitcoin miners, but he thinks its thesis will be proven out in 2024.
Why it matters: Stronghold is a publicly traded bitcoin mining firm operating in Pennsylvania that represents its work as "environmentally beneficial," because it powers its data center by burning off waste coal and reclaiming land for humans and wildlife.
The iconic English-language voice behind Mario, Luigi, Wario and other Nintendo protagonists is "stepping back" from playing those roles, Nintendo announced today.
Why it matters: Anyone who has played a Mario game since the late '90s has probably had Charles Martinet's "wa-hoo"s imprinted in their brain.
As we begin to glimpse what AI will mean for art and its audiences, Google DeepMind gave Axios an exclusive early look at a new online exhibition, "Visualizing AI," in which 13 artists explore the risks and visualize the opportunities of AI.
Why it matters: We need more ways to engage with AI, and art about these technologies can help us think beyond stereotypical images of mazes of code and godlike robots.
