Technology News for Tuesday 11th February 2025

1. Elon Musk Leads $97.4 Billion Bid to Control OpenAI

The consortium includes Vy Capital and Xai, Mr. Musk's artificial intelligence company, as well as the Hollywood power-broker Ari Emanuel and other investors, said the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the discussions are ongoing.

2. In Civilization VII, Empires Rise and Stereotypes Start to Fall

The turn-based strategy game has two Ph.D. historians on the design team and a palpable appreciation of cultures across the globe. It also maintains a deeply colonialist worldview.

3. Two doctors help patients with spinal cord injuries walk again

It was in June 2015 when neuroscientist Grégoire Courtine watched a paralyzed monkey walk that he knew his AI-driven implants would one day do the same for people. “In that moment I knew that it was not if but when,” Courtine recalls.

4. The future of work: AI PCs with Intel at the core

This integrated platform has the latest PC technologies designed into one validated solution built to provide what IT needs and employees want. Ideal for businesses of all sizes, devices built on the Intel vPro® platform have features ...

5. AI chatbots unable to accurately summarise news, BBC finds

Four major artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots are inaccurately summarising news stories, according to research carried out by the BBC. The BBC gave OpenAI's ChatGPT, Microsoft's Copilot, Google's Gemini and Perplexity AI content from the BBC website ...

6. Samsung unpacks the Galaxy S25 series at the Galaxy AI Future Lab in BGC

Events host Katz Salao, Samsung Electronics Philippines Corporation (SEPCO) Product Marketing Manager for Flagship Isabelle Kim, Head of Product Marketing for Mobile Experience Jun Guevara, #TeamGalaxy Catriona Gray, Mobile Experience Business Director ...

7. King Corvette: 1064-horsepower ZR1 obliterates North American track lap records

The King of Corvettes, the ZR1, continues to live up to its name. The Chevy's top, track-course performance trim has shattered production car lap records at five of North America's top racetracks, making it the quickest supercar in the U.S. market.

8. Apple partners with Alibaba to develop AI features for iPhone in China, The Information reports

Apple began testing different AI models from Chinese developers in 2023 and selected Baidu as the primary partner, according to the report, quoting two people with direct knowledge of the matter. But the collaboration was ...

9. Vance, in First Foreign Speech, Tells Europe That US Will Dominate AI

Vice President JD Vance told European and Asian leaders in Paris on Tuesday that the Trump Administration was adopting an aggressive, America First approach to the race to dominate all the building blocks of artificial intelligence, ...

10. Sam Altman-Elon Musk Feud Timeline: Altman Says Musk Isn't A 'Happy Person' After 'Crazy' OpenAI Offer

The dispute between arguably the two biggest names in generative artificial intelligence—billionaires Sam Altman and Elon Musk—received a new wrinkle Monday as Musk made a nearly $100 billion offer to buy the non-profit entity controlling Altman's ...

11. Athena, Next US Commercial Moon Lander, Is Set for Spectacular Lunar Science

In partnership with NASA, the Intuitive Machines lander Athena will send a water-seeking drill, a pogo-sticking crater probe and other novel technologies to the moon. By Gayoung Lee edited by Lee Billings. Artist rendering of an Intuitive Machines ...

12. Pro Tour Aetherdrift Viewer's Guide

Nearly 250 competitors—from Regional Championship events, top finishers at previous Pro Tours, MTG Arena, Magic Online Premier Play, and more—have invitations to play in Pro Tour Aetherdrift. The invitation list is available online (and subject to change).

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14. OpenAI's Altman says Musk offer is tactic 'to try to mess with us'

PARIS/NEW YORK, Feb 11 (Reuters) - The nonprofit that controls ChatGPT maker OpenAI is not for sale, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told Reuters on Tuesday when asked about Elon Musk's offer to buy it. "I have nothing to say. I mean, it's ridiculous," Altman ...

15. Need help hearing? You can use Apple AirPods Pro 2 or over-the-counter options

You see them in ears nearly everywhere you go: Apple's AirPods Pro. Most people use them to listen to music and podcasts or make phone calls. Consumer Reports says more people use AirPods as a discreet alternative to traditional hearing aids.

16. Musk's $97.4 Billion OpenAI Bid Piles Pressure on Sam Altman

Elon Musk's offer for the assets of OpenAI could end up costing Sam Altman, whether he takes it or not. For months, the OpenAI chief executive has been working with investors to determine how to fairly compensate the nonprofit that currently controls ...

17. Microsoft Says Workers are Already Using AI to Lighten Workloads, at Risk to Their Own Brainpower

Eccentric science fiction author and technophile Douglas Adams once wrote about how tech was taking an effort-saving role in people's lives: “Dishwashers washed tedious dishes for you, thus saving you the bother of washing them yourself,” he explained, ...

18. Astrobotic finds new private Moon rover to deliver after NASA pulls plug on VIPER mission

Later this year, Astrobotic will launch its medium-class Griffin lander on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. NASA's VIPER mission was set to fly on Griffin as part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) to look for water in the polar regions on the ...

19. How to avoid a $97 billion distraction: What Elon Musk's bid for OpenAI means for Microsoft

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman at the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Wash. on July 15, 2019. (Photography by Scott Eklund/Red Box Pictures for Microsoft). Elon Musk's $97.4 billion bid for the nonprofit that controls OpenAI could ...

20. 2025 Chevy Corvette ZR1 Races into Action with Five Track Records

The Corvette team took a pre-production ZR1 on a tour of the United States, setting five course records at four of the most iconic tracks in the country. The test model was equipped with the optional ZTK performance package, which adds the high-downforce ...

21. Elon Musk's OpenAI bid creates a legal maze and investor uncertainty—which is probably just what he wants

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman gave an unequivocal answer at a conference in Paris today when asked whether his company was for sale following a surprise $97.4 billion bid by an Elon Musk-led investor group. With thousands of attendees listening in the audience ...