A prominent artificial intelligence researcher known as the "Godfather of AI" has quit his job at Google - and says he now partly regrets his work advancing the burgeoning technology due to the various risks it poses to society.

Billionaire LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman visited Jeffrey Epstein's private island and had plans to stay at Epstein's notorious Manhattan townhouse back in 2014, a new report revealed. Hoffman, 55, paid a single visit to Epstein's Caribbean island Little St.

Billionaire corporate raider Carl Icahn's conglomerate is allegedly bilking investors with a "Ponzi-like economic structure," according to bombshell allegations from prominent short-seller Hindenburg Research on Monday.

By MARCIA DUNN, AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - A NASA spacecraft has officially "touched" the sun, plunging through the unexplored solar atmosphere known as the corona. Scientists announced the news Tuesday during a meeting of the American Geophysical Union.

Shares of electric vehicle companies tumbled Monday following the apparent failure of President Joe Biden's "Build Back Better" plan that includes significant incentives for the growing sector. The stocks of EV start-ups such as Lordstown Motors, Faraday Future and Nikola all shed more than 7% Monday.

Microsoft is shutting down the Chinese version of LinkedIn after facing scrutiny for censoring academics and journalists at the behest of the Chinese government. LinkedIn China will be replaced with a standalone product called "InJobs" that's separate from LinkedIn, the company said Thursday.

A project centered around the development of a subsea wave energy converter has taken another step forward after its two major constituent parts were joined together at a facility in Scotland. According to a statement from AWS Ocean Energy on Wednesday, the assembly, which it described as "a critical milestone", took place last week.

Two brothers in South Africa have disappeared along with $3.6 billion worth of bitcoin that was housed on their cryptocurrency investment platform, according to a Cape Town law firm hired by investors to investigate the alleged heist. The law firm, Hanekom Attorneys, said it has reported the incident to the Hawks, an elite unit of South Africa's national police force.