Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg to attend Trump’s inauguration

By Jarrett Renshaw WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Tech CEOs Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg will attend U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday, according to a source familiar with planning for the event. The chief executives of Tesla, Amazon and Meta will be featured prominently at Trump’s swearing in, sitting with the Republican’s Cabinet nominees…

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OpenAI rolls out assistant-like feature ‘Tasks’ to take on Alexa, Siri

(Reuters) – Generative artificial intelligence bellwether OpenAI said on Tuesday that it is introducing a beta feature called Tasks to ChatGPT, signaling the company’s foray into the virtual assistant space, competing with Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa. Tasks will enable ChatGPT users to request tasks to be performed at a future time, including one-time reminders…

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Apple, Amazon fight off $600 million UK lawsuit over alleged ‘collusion’

LONDON (Reuters) – Apple and Amazon have successfully fought off a mass lawsuit in Britain over alleged collusion between the tech giants to remove resellers of new Apple products from Amazon’s website, a tribunal ruled on Tuesday. The lawsuit was brought by consumer law academic Christine Riefa on behalf of around 36 million British consumers…

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U.S. posts record $711 billion deficit for first three months of fiscal 2025

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. government posted an $87 billion budget deficit in December, reduced partly by a shift of benefit payments into November but capping a record $711 billion deficit for the first three months of the 2025 fiscal year, the U.S. Treasury Department said on Tuesday. The Treasury, releasing its final budget report…

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