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HBO's show about Elon Musk and the early days of SpaceX is dead

HBO's drama series about Elon Musk and the early days of SpaceX is dead, and biographer Ashlee Vance suggested that Hollywood ...

Is Elon Musk's Pay Package Really $1 Trillion? And What Could It Mean for Tesla's Stock?

Using Tesla's current shares outstanding (3.5 billion) and the market cap target suggests a share price of about $2,400. That ...

Elon Musk's X posts new job advertisement, gets DOGE community excited

Musk is a strong believer in cryptocurrencies and has often voiced his support for virtual assets on previous occasions. When ...

Inside a Black community’s fight against Elon Musk’s supercomputer

A small, primarily Black Memphis town is up against Elon Musk's massive AI data center, aptly named Colossal. Residents say the pollution is exacerbating existing environmental concerns.

HBO TV Show About Elon Musk’s SpaceX Gets the Worst Update Possible

The SpaceX-inspired TV show has been quietly shelved, delivering what many would consider the worst possible update for fans ...

Elon Musk Admits It Is ‘Impossible’ To Spend Time With All of His Kids—but Says He’s ‘Not Opposed’ To Welcoming More Via Adoption

Musk has admitted that he is "not opposed" to adopting more children, despite it being "impossible" to spend time with his ...

New unicorn Brevo raises $583M to challenge CRM giants

Brevo, a customer relationship management company headquartered in Paris, is now a unicorn.

Day One Ventures’ Masha Bucher on why every founder needs to be an influencer

Tech is racing ahead while society struggles to keep up. Masha Bucher, founder and GP of Day One Ventures, built her firm around closing that gap by combining venture capital with hands-on PR to help portfolio companies not just raise money, but actually break through the noise.   Day One’s been an early backer of companies like World, Superhuman, and Remote.com, with 12 […]

Amazon hopes to jump-start its AI coding tool Kiro by giving it away to startups

Can Kiro win the hearts of startup founders above the many AI coding tools they already have? Amazon hopes a free year will tempt them.

All the biggest news from AWS’ big tech show re:Invent 2025

Amazon Web Services' giant tech conference re:Invent 2025 is happening this week with news ranging from chips to AI services.

Meta poaches Apple design exec Alan Dye to lead new creative studio in Reality Labs

Dye led Apple's user interface team for the last decade.

Could MrBeast IPO? His CEO wants fans to have ‘a chance to be owners of the company’

Three years ago, the idea of a YouTuber with a $1.5 billion valuation left some onlookers incredulous -- but Beast Industries ended up raising at a $5 billion valuation last year. Now we're asking a bigger question: Would you buy stock in a 27-year-old named Jimmy?

Roblox banned in Russia, local media says

Russia's communications agency cited the presence of LGBTQ content on the platform as one of the reasons behind the ban.

Andy Jassy says Amazon’s Nvidia competitor chip is already a multibillion-dollar business

Can any company, big or small, really topple Nvidia's AI chip dominance? Maybe not entirely, but Amazon is already making big bucks trying.

Gemini 3 Pro scores 69% trust in blinded testing up from 16% for Gemini 2.5: The case for evaluating AI on real-world trust, not academic benchmarks

Just a few short weeks ago, Google debuted itsGemini 3 model, claiming it scored a leadership position in multiple AI benchmarks. But the challenge with vendor-provided benchmarks is that they are just that — vendor-provided. A new vendor-neutral evaluation fromProlific, however, puts Gemini 3 at the top of the leaderboard. This isn't on a set of academic benchmarks; rather, it's on a set of real-world attributes that actual users and organizations care about. Prolific was founded by r

Trump administration rolls back fuel economy standards, again

The regulatory decision would make it harder for future administrations to implement stricter fuel efficiency standards.

WordPress’s vibe-coding experiment, Telex, has already been put to real-world use

Though WordPress's Telex is still an experiment, the vibe coding software has already been used to help build real-world websites.

VCs deploy ‘kingmaking’ strategy to crown AI winners in their infancy

While VCs have long used big investments to spur category winners, they are taking this strategy to new extremes.

‘End-to-end encrypted’ smart toilet camera is not actually end-to-end encrypted

Kohler, the makers of a smart toilet camera, can access customers' data stored on its servers, and can use customers’ bowl pictures to train AI.

Company backed by Donald Trump Jr.’s firm nabs $620M government contract

Vulcan Elements, a rare-earth magnets startup, has secured a $620 million contract from the U.S. defense department.