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  South Korean tech mogul Chey Tae-won has made a lot of money selling memory chips, but yesterday might be a day he’d rather forget. A Seoul court ordered him to pay his ex-wife, Roh Soh-yeong, 944 billion won (~ $640 million )—a settlement in what’s known as the “divorce of the century.” Who is he? Chey is the chairman of SK Group, a massive conglomerate. Its SK Hynix affiliate, which recently made its US market debut , supplies chips to Nvidia. Chey is worth ~$5 billion and posts photos of himself with other tech titans under the AIM screen name Instagram handle “ papatonybear .” Who is she? Roh is the daughter of former South Korean President Roh Tae-woo, who was imprisoned after leaving office for accepting bribes and participating in a military coup. A settled affair? After decades of marriage, Chey publicly announced in 2015 that he was leaving Roh for a younger woman with whom he had a child. But during the decade of divorce proceedings that followed, the AI boom drove C...

  If you need proof that technology is changing corporate travel, AI has the receipts—literally. From reimbursements to booking trips, companies are turning to AI to streamline the process of heading out of town. Expense rapport: Travel technology companies like Navan and Amadeus say AI can help remove friction from the expense process (you’re welcome, employees) and ensure policy compliance (you’re welcome, employers). It can also detect fraud by screening receipts to see if that sales client really ordered a $60 grilled cheese (when they got the lobster). According to the AI finance platform AppZen: Over a six-month period, more than 3.5 million phony AI-generated receipts were created on just a handful of websites. From 2024 to 2025, the number of fraudulent receipts detected jumped about 30%. Bundle up: The ultimate goal for many AI companies is to bring all facets of business travel under one umbrella. In May, software company Workday rolled out an AI travel agent designed ...

  As students return to America’s college campuses, the rise of artificial intelligence means no one has to pull an all-nighter to crank out five paragraphs on religious symbolism in The Brothers Karamazov. But apparently all that time college students are saving using AI is going to something else: existential angst over whether AI is rendering their major useless—and it’s changing what they choose to study. In a recent survey of US college students by Superhuman, 69% said they feared AI would make it harder to find a job and 22% said they’ve changed their major or concentration because of job market worries. Another survey published this year by the Lumina Foundation and Gallup found that 13% of bachelor’s degree students and 19% of associate degree students had changed their major or field of study because of AI. Plus, 47% of students surveyed said they had given at least “a fair amount” of consideration to changing their majors due to AI. They’re not wrong: Researchers at th...

  SpaceXAI has released its latest model, Grok 4.5 — the first since the company went public several weeks ago. In a blog post published Wednesday, SpaceXAI characterized its new release as a workhorse that can tackle all of the typical tasks that the AI industry has sought to automate: coding and app-building, office and clerical work, research, writing, and other forms of routine knowledge work. Grok can supposedly do all this for less spend, too, as SpaceXAI says that its model has “twice greater token efficiency” than other leading models. If it carries through to real-world use cases, that efficiency would be a big advantage for SpaceXAI, since the cost of tokens has been a growing concern for AI consumers. The company released benchmark metrics Wednesday that appeared to show Grok’s competitiveness with other top models from SpaceXAI competitors, although just short of best-in-class: In a post on his social media platform X (which is a subsidiary of SpaceXAI), founder Elon ...

  Despite the fact that AI increasingly dominates our economy (it’s a hot IPO summer and we’re all just along for the ride), most Americans are not particularly optimistic about the technology’s long-term impact on the country, a new study from Pew Research reveals. In fact, although a whole lot of Americans increasingly use AI in their daily lives, most of them have neutral to negative views about it, the research reveals. Only 16% of Americans think that AI’s impact on society during the next 20 years will be positive, Pew says, while around 40% say that it will have a negative impact. A vast majority of people (67%) don’t believe that the U.S. government will do anything to meaningfully regulate AI. A similarly skeptical cohort (59%) don’t trust companies to develop it safely. Young people — that is, those people under 30 — are the ones with the most negative feelings about AI. Pew says that only 14% of this cohort believe the tech will have a positive impact on society. On top...

  A woman identified as Jane Doe 4 has joined a lawsuit filed by three Tennessee teenagers against Elon Musk’s xAI over the role the company’s chatbot Grok allegedly played in creating child sexual abuse material. According to  a report in The Washington Post , the woman alleged that her stepfather used Grok to manipulate a photo taken when she was 11 years old to create more than 7,000 explicit images of her. The woman also said that her stepfather was found dead of suicide two days after the images were uncovered in a law enforcement raid. “Limitless access to these tools is spreading so quickly,” said the woman. “It is taking everyday life and turning it into child sexual abuse.” The teenagers who’d filed the lawsuit accused xAI  (now part of SpaceX) of failing to take basic precautions to prevent Grok from being used to create explicit images of real people, including minors. (X was  flooded with millions of Grok-generated sexualized images  earlier this yea...

  Uber is investing in, and partnering with, drone delivery company Zipline with the goal of making one million deliveries per day using the startup’s drones by the end of 2029. Zipline drones will make the first deliveries on the Uber Eats platform by the end of this year, the companies said on Monday. These deliveries will start in Zipline’s existing markets, and the companies want to expand into “dozens of U.S. cities.” The companies didn’t disclose the investment amount. Uber has been taking on multiple drone delivery partners as it looks for ways to keep growing Uber Eats. The ride-hail giant is replicating the early business model it’s adopted for robotaxis and other services built around autonomous vehicles , which is to essentially bring as many companies on to its platform as possible. This approach has helped Uber stay at the forefront of these new technologies despite selling off its own programs like the aerial ride-sharing service, Uber Elevate, and Uber Autonomous Te...