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What is Elon Musk's net worth? A timeline of the billionaire-to-be's wealth and how he made his fortune

What is Elon Musk's net worth? A timeline of the billionaire-to-be's wealth and how he made his fortune ...

Elon Musk hits out at ‘extremely skilled propagandist’ Jon Stewart over X criticism

World’s richest man lashes out after Daily Show veteran questions his social media platform’s algorithm incentivizing ...

Elon Musk Says China Will Win The AI Race, But Here's Where SpaceX Will Win

Tesla Inc. and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has shared that Alphabet Inc. will win the AI race in the West, while China stands to win AI on Earth, days after claiming that his enterprises will exceed rivals in the development of the technology. Google Will Win AI In The West On Thursday, Musk, in a response to user Bindu Reddy on X, who complained of issues with Google’s Gemini 3.0 model, made his predictions. “Google will win the AI race in the West, China on Earth and SpaceX in space,” he said in his

Elon Musk Wins Defamation Lawsuit Brought by Someone Musk Allegedly Misidentified in X Post

From today's Texas Court of Appeals decision in Musk v. Brody, decided by Chief Justice (retired) J. Woodfin Jones, joined...

Musk Explodes at Jon Stewart in Fiery Social Media Clash

Elon Musk and Jon Stewart traded barbs in a social media spat which saw the billionaire and late-night host repeatedly fling ...

New court filing reveals Pentagon told Anthropic the two sides were nearly aligned — a week after Trump declared the relationship kaput

Anthropic submitted two sworn declarations to a California federal court late Friday afternoon, pushing back on the Pentagon's assertion that the AI company poses an "unacceptable risk to national security" and arguing that the government's case relies on technical misunderstandings and claims that were never actually raised during the months of negotiations.

Elon Musk misled Twitter investors while trying to get out of acquisition, jury says

At the time, Musk had tweeted that Twitter had too many bots, which is why he was trying to renege on his commitment to buy the company.

The dummy server and the chip war

The indictment of Super Micro’s co-founder exposes not just a $2.5 billion scheme, it exposes a system that was never built to stop one. Somewhere in a rented warehouse in Southeast Asia, a man was using a hair dryer on a server box. Not to dry it. To loosen the adhesive on a serial-number sticker, […]This story continues at The Next Web

Microsoft rolls back some of its Copilot AI bloat on Windows

The company is reducing Copilot entry points on Windows, starting with Photos, Widgets, Notepad, and other apps.

Three ways AI is learning to understand the physical world

Large language models are running into limits in domains that require an understanding of the physical world — from robotics to autonomous driving to manufacturing. That constraint is pushing investors toward world models, with AMI Labs raising a $1.03 billion seed round shortly after World Labs secured $1 billion.Large language models (LLMs) excel at processing abstract knowledge through next-token prediction, but they fundamentally lack grounding in physical causality. They cannot reliably pre

What happened at Nvidia GTC: NemoClaw, Robot Olaf, and a $1 trillion bet

CEO Jensen Huang took the stage at Nvidia’s GTC conference this week in his signature leather jacket to deliver a two-and-a-half-hour keynote, projecting $1 trillion in AI chip sales through 2027, declaring that every company needs an “OpenClaw strategy,” and closing with a rambling Olaf robot that had to get its mic cut. The message was hard to miss: Nvidia […]

Amid legal turmoil, Kalshi is temporarily banned in Nevada

It's the latest escalation in a regulatory battle over the future of prediction markets.

Pinterest CEO calls on governments to ban social media for users under 16

Pinterest’s chief compares social media to tobacco and alcohol, saying children need similar protections.

WordPress.com lets AI agents write, publish, and manage your site

Automattic has added write capabilities to WordPress.com’s MCP integration, giving AI agents like Claude and ChatGPT the ability to create posts, build pages, manage comments, and restructure content, all through natural conversation, with human approval at every step. For most of the past six months, connecting an AI agent to your WordPress.com site has meant […]This story continues at The Next Web

Why scientists can’t get a laugh

Humor is hard to pull off in front of a cold audience, full stop.

A French Navy officer accidentally leaked the location of an aircraft carrier by logging his run on Strava

A French naval officer went on a run around the deck of the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier, inadvertently leaking the warship's location when he uploaded the workout to Strava.

WordPress.com now lets AI agents write and publish posts, and more

New AI agents on WordPress.com could lower barriers to publishing while increasing machine-generated content across the web.

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin enters the space data center game

"Project Sunrise" would include more than 50,000 satellites performing high-energy compute on orbit.

Scale AI launches Voice Showdown, the first real-world benchmark for voice AI — and the results are humbling for some top models

Voice AI is moving faster than the tools we use to measure it. Every major AI lab — OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, xAI — is racing to ship voice models capable of natural, real-time conversation. But the benchmarks used to evaluate those models are largely still running on synthetic speech, English-only prompts, and scripted test sets that bear little resemblance to how people actually talk.Scale AI, the large data annotation startup whose founder was poached by Meta last year to lead its S

US accuses Iran’s government of operating hacktivist group that hacked Stryker

The U.S. Justice Department said an Iranian security ministry operates the fake activist persona known as Handala, which claimed responsibility for the destructive hack targeting medical tech giant Stryker.