In February 2023 California governor Gavin Newsom and Elon Musk stood side by side at a press conference celebrating Tesla’s new AI innovation lab in Palo Alto. They traded jokes about a $100,000 ...
Former Tesla Inc. president Jon McNeill revealed that after its 2010 IPO, Elon Musk intentionally “starved the balance sheet,” often keeping only enough cash on hand to last a single quarter to avoid complacency. Tesla Operated on Minimal Cash Speaking on TBPN with John Coogan and Jordi Hays, McNeill explained that Tesla sometimes had less than three weeks of net cash once payables were included. Musk believed that operating so close to financial risk forced the team to stay focused and discipli
Mr. Musk’s participation was notable because it is rare for a private citizen to be on a call between heads of state. It also ...
On Saturday, Elon Musk posted on X that he wanted “to offer to pay the salaries of TSA personnel during this funding impasse ...
Elon Musk was reportedly patched into a high-stakes phone call between U.S. President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi that focused on the war in Iran, an unexpected cameo that is ...
Bluesky’s new app Attie uses AI to help people build custom feeds the open social networking protocol atproto.
While the relationship was once thorny enough that Musk challenged Zuckerberg to a cagefight, things seem to have warmed up by the early days of the second Trump administration.
While there’s been plenty of debate about AI sycophancy, a new study by Stanford computer scientists attempts to measure how harmful that tendency might be.
Every co-founder Elon Musk recruited to build xAI has now reportedly left the company. Manuel Kroiss, who led the pretraining team, told people this month that he was departing. Ross Nordeen, described by Business Insider as Musk’s “right-hand operator,” left on Friday. They were the last two of eleven co-founders, all of whom have exited […]This story continues at The Next Web
Meta is preparing to launch two new Ray-Ban smart glasses models designed specifically for prescription wearers, according to a Bloomberg report published on Thursday. The models, codenamed Scriber and Blazer, were first spotted in Federal Communications Commission filings and are expected to reach consumers as early as next week. They do not represent a new […]This story continues at The Next Web
Kandou AI, a Swiss semiconductor company that builds chip-to-chip interconnect technology, has raised $225 million in what it calls a Series A round, led by Maverick Silicon with strategic participation from SoftBank, Synopsys, Cadence Design Systems, and Alchip Technologies. The round values the company at $400 million. The label is worth pausing on: Kandou was […]This story continues at The Next Web
All but two of Musk's 11 xAI co-founders departed before this week.
We’ve compiled a list of some of the best iPad apps for creativity that are available on the App Store.
Many people have tried AI tools and walked away unimpressed. I get it — many demos promise magic, but in practice, the results can feel underwhelming.That’s why I want to write this not as a futurist prediction, but from lived experience. Over the past six months, I turned my engineering organization AI-first. I’ve shared before about the system behind that transformation — how we built the workflows, the metrics, and the guardrails. Today, I want to zoom out from the mechanics and talk about wh
Estimates for total Claude consumer users are all over the map (we've seen figures ranging from 18 million to 30 million). Anthropic hasn't disclosed this data, but a spokesperson did tell TechCrunch that Claude paid subscriptions have more than doubled this year.
Fusion, fission, and even natural gas are appeared tied in the race to deliver new power to the grid in the early 2030s.
Boomboxes, instant cameras, and even landlines are making a comeback. Here are the coolest retro-inspired devices available.
We polled nearly a dozen VCs to find out which W26 startups are the sought after in the batch.
The class of 2025 graduated into the worst entry-level job market in five years. Now a growing number of them are using AI tools during live job interviews, and a cottage industry of startups is rushing to sell them the means to do it. Whether that constitutes cheating or common sense depends on which side […]This story continues at The Next Web
The White House rejected Elon Musk’s offer to pay TSA workers during the shutdown, citing legal issues tied to federal ...