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CNN, CNN BUSINESS By Sara Ashley O’Brien, CNN Business Elon Musk, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO and world’s richest man, welcomed twins last year with an executive at one of his other companies, Neuralink, Insider reported on Wednesday. Musk, who posted a tweet on May 24 saying “USA birth rate has been below min sustainable

By Sara Ashley O’Brien, CNN Business Elon Musk, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO and world’s richest man, welcomed twins last year with an executive at one of his other companies, Neuralink, Insider reported on Wednesday. Musk, who posted a tweet on May 24 saying “USA birth rate has been below min sustainable levels for ~50

By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Amazon Prime members in the United States can now get free meal deliveries through Grubhub as part of a growing business partnership between the two companies. The deal, announced Wednesday, will give Amazon’s paying subscribers the option to sign up for a free one-year Grubhub+ membership (normally $9.99 a month)

CNN By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Two years after then-President Donald Trump said he would ban TikTok in the United States through an executive order, the short-form video platform is once again under scrutiny in Washington. And the underlying issue remains largely the same: TikTok’s ties to China through its parent company, Bytedance. A growing

By Brian Fung, CNN The UK competition regulator on Wednesday announced the launch of an antitrust investigation into Microsoft’s proposed $68.7 billion acquisition of video gaming giant Activision Blizzard. The probe into what would be Microsoft’s biggest acquisition in its history will focus on whether the deal may substantially lessen competition — or create expectations

By Diksha Madhok, CNN Business Twitter has mounted its first legal challenge to the Indian government over official orders to take down content. The social media company has had a tough time in India since last year, spending months locked in a high-stakes standoff with the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi over freedom of

By Jackie Wattles, CNN Business SpaceX’s satellite-based internet business, Starlink, now has approval from the US government to expand its service to planes, ships, automobiles, RVs and other mobile vehicles. The move sets the company up to expand its customer base, which so far has been focused solely on providing roughly $100-per-month internet services to

By Toyin Owoseje, CNN Minecraft YouTuber Technoblade has died at the age of 23 following a year-long battle with cancer, his family announced Friday. In a YouTube video entitled “so long nerds,” the content creator’s father shared a final message from his son with his subscribers. “Hello everyone, Technoblade here,” the message began. “If you’re

CNN By Brian Fung, CNN US Android app developers will be able to claim money from a new $90 million fund Google will establish as part of a wider settlement with app makers over the tech giant’s app store practices, the company said Thursday. The proposed settlement is designed to address app developers’ years-long allegations

By Brian Fung, CNN US Android app developers will be able to claim money from a new $90 million fund Google will establish as part of a wider settlement with app makers over the tech giant’s app store practices, the company said Thursday. The proposed settlement is designed to address app developers’ years-long allegations that

CNN By Rachel Metz, CNN Business A million bears walking on the streets of Hong Kong. A strawberry frog. A cat made out of spaghetti and meatballs. These are just a few of the text descriptions that people have fed to cutting-edge artificial intelligence systems in recent weeks, which these systems — notably OpenAI’s DALL-E

By Sara Ashley O’Brien, CNN Business Even as its ridership was decimated by the pandemic in 2020, Uber recorded 141 reports of rape on its platform in the United States, the company disclosed in its safety report released Thursday. The 78-page report, which covers 2019 and 2020, is the second-ever Uber has released regarding safety

By Jackie Wattles, CNN Business Lori Garver spearheaded the NASA program that paved the way for SpaceX to return human spaceflight to the United States after a decade-long wait. In her new book and in a recent interview she reflects on that success, the controversial cast of characters driving this new space race, and the