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Foremost Group CEO Angela Chao was intoxicated last month when she accidentally drove her Tesla X SUV in reverse over a wall into a pond on the Texas ranch she owned with her husband, billionaire venture capitalist Jim Breyer, according to a police report released Wednesday.Chao drowned after friends and rescue workers tried without success to get the 50-year-old shipping executive out of the submerged vehicle.That desperate effort is detailed in the new report, which concluded she died from an "unfortunate accident."A…

Tamara had not been sleeping well. Some days she woke up at four o’clock in the morning in tears and overwhelmed by a feeling of helplessness. She had moved her family three times over the past six years. Her house in New Hampshire was shot at—possibly by someone aiming at thce rainbow signs in her front yard. In 2022 she fled to Massachusetts, which seemed to be safer for her child, Grey, who is transgender. But whenever she hears the words “safe state,” a thought pops into her head: “Austria felt like a safe place in…

The pushback from legislators sympathetic to ranchers and the broader meat industry puts cultivated meat companies in a difficult situation. Major meat producers Cargill and Tyson have both invested in cultivated meat companies, while Brazil’s JBS is working on a cultivated research site in Brazil. “We see ourselves as an ‘and’ solution, not an ‘or.’ We’re never looking to replace conventional ,” says Sean Edgett, chief legal officer at Upside Foods, a cultivated meat startup which counts Cargill and Tyson among its…

Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal On Tesla Entering Indian Market: 'Won't Tailor Laws'. (Photo: Bleeping Computer)Tesla seeks a tariff waiver, aiming to deduct 70% customs charge on less than $40,000 (Rs 33,07,176) vehicles and 100% on pricier ones.Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal stated that India will not modify its policies to accommodate US electric car manufacturer Tesla.Instead, its laws and tariff regulations will be designed to entice global manufacturers of all-electric vehicles to establish a base in the…

It’s hard to imagine more intimate data than that collected by female technologies or “femtech.” These apps and devices not only monitor women’s menstrual cycles but also record their sexual encounters, orgasms, and pregnancies. A new study shows that many femtech companies do not adequately safeguard such sensitive information. Some may even intentionally leak personal data to third parties. The research, led by Dr Maryam Mehrnezhad at the Royal Holloway University in London, is part of a…

Europe changed the rules of the internet this week when the Digital Markets Act took effect, holding the biggest tech companies to tough new standards. Now the world is waiting to see which giant will be first to fall foul of the law. One of the architects of the DMA says Apple is a strong candidate for the first formal investigation, describing the company as “low hanging fruit.”Apple has faced intensifying pressure in recent years from competitors, regulators, and courts in both Europe and the US, over the restrictions…

If an eighth-grader in California shared a nude photo of a classmate with friends without consent, the student could conceivably be prosecuted under state laws dealing with child pornography and disorderly conduct.If the photo is an AI-generated deepfake, however, it’s not clear that any state law would apply.That’s the dilemma facing the Beverly Hills Police Department as it investigates a group of students from Beverly Vista Middle School who allegedly shared photos of classmates that had been doctored with an…

Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman for allegedly violating their original contractual agreements related to AI. The lawsuit, filed in a San Francisco court, centers on OpenAI's most recent natural language model, called GPT-4. Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman for allegedly violating their original contractual agreements related to AI. The lawsuit, filed in a San Francisco court, centers on…

Entrepreneurs and startups should comply with the rules and laws, irrespective of their size, scale and growth momentum, minister of state for electronics and information technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar said on Monday.“I have seen entrepreneurs beginning to trespass because the momentum of entrepreneurship takes them beyond what the regulators have allowed them to do at that particular point in time…even if you are a hard-charging, successful, innovative entrepreneur, you cannot live in denial of the reality that there…

Credit: https://lawatlas.org/datasets/debt-collection-litigation-laws While most states have laws that specifically govern debt collection lawsuits, the laws vary widely and few offer protections for consumers, according to new data released today by the Center for Public Health Law Research at Temple University Beasley School of Law. In addition to…