Nikola founder Trevor Milton was sentenced Monday to four years in prison in connection to defrauding investors of the embattled electric- and hydrogen-powered truck maker. Milton also was fined $1 million and could later be forced to forfeit property as part of his sentence. The punishment was far lower than the 11 years prosecutors had … Read more
Illustration: Jody Serrano / Gizmodo / Getty Photographs Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes, who was estimated to have a private wealth of $4.5 billion within the heyday of her failed fraud of a blood testing firm, can’t afford to pay the victims she bilked $250 per 30 days in restitution, her attorneys mentioned this week. … Read more
Picture: Dimitrios Kambouris (Getty Pictures) The fast proliferation of ChatGPT-style chatbots over the previous yr has led an honest chunk of salesmen, docs, journalists, and different keyboard warriors to nervously fret over their future job safety. One body of workers that most likely don’t want to fret about chatbots anytime quickly, nonetheless, are bartenders. Gizmodo … Read more