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Tech CEOs boast and bicker about AI at Davos
There were times at this week’s meeting of the World Economic Forum when Davos seemed transformed into a…
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Tesla launches robotaxi rides in Austin with no human safety driver
Tesla is offering passengers robotaxi rides in Austin without a human safety driver in the front seat. CEO…
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Elon Musk says Tesla’s restarted Dojo3 will be for ‘space-based AI compute’
Elon Musk said over the long weekend that Tesla aims to restart work on Dojo3, the electric vehicle…
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Trump administration admits DOGE may have misused Americans’ Social Security data
Two members of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency may have accessed and shared Social Security numbers in…
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Sequoia to invest in Anthropic, breaking VC taboo on backing rivals: FT
Sequoia Capital is reportedly joining a blockbuster funding round for Anthropic, the AI startup behind Claude, according to…
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California AG sends Musk’s xAI a cease-and-desist order over sexual deepfakes
Earlier this week, the California attorney general’s office announced that it was investigating xAI over reports that the…
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EPA rules that xAI’s natural gas generators were illegally used
Elon Musk’s xAI has been illegally operating dozens of natural gas turbines to power its Colossus data centers…
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X is down for the second time this week
Elon Musk’s X is experiencing its second large-scale outage this week. The site and app, formerly known as…
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US senators demand answers from X, Meta, Alphabet, and others on sexualized deepfakes
The tech world’s nonconsensual, sexualized deepfake problem is now bigger than just X. In a letter to the…
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Musk denies awareness of Grok sexual underage images as California AG launches probe
Elon Musk said Wednesday he is “not aware of any naked underage images generated by Grok,” hours before…