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Maye Musk Backs Elon's 'China Is Awesome' Take: Here's Why She Enjoys Going There
Maye Musk has once again made her fondness for China clear, jumping in to support her son Elon Musk after he encouraged his ...
Elon Musk has said he wants 25% voting control of Tesla to feel comfortable leading its AI push. Here's what that threshold means for shareholders.
Musk wants more control, and shareholders could soon face a decision.
DeepSeek's top-ranked V4 Flash stumbles on real agent tasks as its prices surge
DeepSeek's V4 Flash has topped model leaderboards and been hailed by developers as a "total monster" since its rollout. But in real-world testing, it completed just 53.8% of a batch of complex agent tasks. Composio ran the model throug...
Cards Against Humanity has a $10 plan to annoy Elon Musk
After a dispute with SpaceX over its Texas property, the game maker is recruiting fans to help design a monument aimed ...
X to identify governments seeking post takedowns as Elon Musk pushes censorship disclosures
The platform intends to identify the government department or agency that submitted the request, along with the legal ...
Mastercard took down payments across Australia with a scheduled update
Mastercard transactions were declined across Australia on Saturday afternoon after what the company describes as a scheduled system update, with more than 1,900 outage reports logged by mid-afternoon. Mastercard says the problem is resolved and all s...
Qwen is the world’s most downloaded open model, by a smaller margin than Alibaba says
Alibaba says its Qwen models have passed 3 billion downloads, making them the most used open-weight family in the world. The Hugging Face report published a day earlier counts 2,045 million for Qwen this year, and 151,448 derivatives against Alibaba’...
Harvard makes massive $2.2B SpaceX bet on Elon Musk's rocket company
Harvard Management Company revealed a $2.2 billion SpaceX stake as university endowments benefit from early investments in ...
Elon Musk Made 2.5 Million Times More Than the Average Tesla Worker
Musk only needs 4.23 seconds to earn an average Tesla employee's yearly salary.
Elon Musk announces new X move, vows to make government censorship requests more visible to users
Elon Musk announced that X will enhance visibility of government requests for content removal. This initiative reportedly ...
Elon Musk and the return of the American industrialist
Musk inspired a new generation of hard-tech companies. Here’s what they’re building.
Elon Musk Announces X Will Name Governments Censoring Content
Elon Musk has announced that social media platform X will systematically name government agencies and reveal legal ...
Grok Calls for Assassination of Elon Musk, Accusing Him of Pedophilia
"ELON MUSK WATCHES CHILD PORN," the bot raged. The post Grok Calls for Assassination of Elon Musk, Accusing Him of Pedophilia appeared first on Futurism.
Elon Musk Says SpaceX Has a Massive Competitive Advantage in AI That Amazon, Google, and Microsoft Can't Touch
Musk's bold claim suggests SpaceX could spend huge sums on data centers.
Woman claims her stepfather used Grok to transform childhood photo into explicit imagery
The woman claimed that AI tools are "taking everyday life and turning it into child sexual abuse."
Altman says four years of college may be more than the world now needs
Sam Altman told a summit of tech interns that two years of college was “the exact right amount of time” for him and that four years may be more than the world now requires. He made the case to an audience whose entry-level pipeline is already being c...
An eval harness found what qualitative review couldn't: AI models are most confident when wrong
There is a step in the development process for large language model (LLM)-assisted tooling that most teams skip because it's tedious, time-consuming, and doesn't produce results visible to end users: Verifying that what the model is saying...
Anthropic shares more details about how Claude’s new watermarks will work
How will the watermarking actually work? Can it be hidden with editing? And how does this affect code?
Voyah recreated Mercedes’ upside-down tunnel ad, then launched the car for $33,800
Dongfeng’s Voyah launched the Passion S electric SUV on Friday after promoting it with a stunt in which the car drove a full loop around a tunnel ceiling in Wuhan. Prices start at 229,900 yuan, about $33,800, for a car with 800V charging and Huawei’s...