Elon Musk, CEO of X (formerly Twitter), shared an ambitious vision this week for enhancing the platform's news dissemination capabilities using AI. The proposed initiative, revealed through an email exchange with Big Technology, aims to synthesize real-time news with social media reactions into comprehensive, live updates. This novel approach could...
An executive at Elon Musk's social media company X has revealed the platform's payments "end goal" could play havoc with the Bitcoin price and wider crypto market. Musk has previously stated his desire to have X become an "everything app". The social network’s payments chief information security officer, Christopher Stanley,...
Tesla has cleared key regulatory obstacles that had previously hindered the rollout of its self-driving software in China. This progress sets the stage for a favorable outcome following Elon Musk's unexpected visit to the U.S. automaker's second-largest market. The American automaker will reportedly be able to implement its autonomous driving...
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence (AI) start-up, xAI, looks like it has some serious venture capital money behind it with the commitment of Sequoia Capital, to invest in the company. Musk launched xAI in 2023 with lofty ideals and plans to work on existential problems like understanding the nature of the universe....
In the wake of two tragic stabbing incidents in Australia this month, a row has erupted between X owner Elon Musk and the Australian government over orders to remove graphic videos of the attacks from social media. The dispute is the latest clash between the 52-year-old billionaire's company and a...
OpenAI has stated that Elon Musk's claim that the company violated its contractual commitments to create an open-source, nonprofit entity is "revisionist" and is an attempt to promote his own competing AI firm. The Tesla CEO, who helped to found the company in 2015, sued the company and its chief...
X owner Elon Musk has plans to make new users of the social media platform, formerly known as Twitter, pay for the privilege of posting. In the days when X was still Twitter — that is, before Musk was forced to buy it in October 2022, then renaming it X...
Elon Musk’s xAI has officially introduced its first-generation multimodal model that can understand documents, translate code, and process real-world situations. The tool, named Grok -1.5V, is said to have ‘strong text capabilities’ and will soon be available to early testers and existing Grok users. The update comes just a week...
Tesla CEO and X owner Elon Musk has predicted that artificial intelligence (AI) will be smarter than any human by the end of next year. It's no secret that AI has been growing and improving at a rapid rate over the last few years and especially in recent months with...
Synchron Inc., a rival of Elon Musk's Neuralink brain implant startup, has announced the launch of an online registry for patients interested in joining its trial. According to Reuters, the trial could include dozens of participants, with around 120 clinical trial centers already expressing an interest in helping to conduct...
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is to be investigated by a Brazilian Supreme Court justice over reports of disseminating fake news and alleged obstruction. Justice Alexandre de Moraes wrote in his decision that the chief executive of X (formerly known as Twitter) began waging a public “disinformation campaign” regarding the actions...
In an escalation of the artificial intelligence (AI) talent war, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said in a post on X that OpenAI has been "aggressively recruiting Tesla engineers with massive compensation offers" and as a result, Tesla will be increasing the compensation it gives its AI engineering team. The 52-year-old...
With Nelson Peltz’s ongoing battle for a Walt Disney Co. board shake-up to come to an end shortly, Elon Musk has taken to X (formerly Twitter) to share his support for the investor. This morning (April 3) Musk posted online that Pelz, the CEO of Trian Fund Management, “should definitely...
A San Francisco district judge has delivered a scathing response to Elon Musk's X Corp, throwing out their lawsuit against a campaign group targeting hate speech online. The case was dismissed in accordance with the state's anti-Slapp laws which negate legal action taken for the primary concern of censuring free...
Analysts have indicated the number of daily users on X is falling, more than a year after Elon Musk acquired the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. Since the rebranding, there have been a lot of changes in the social network. In a move geared toward an ambition of...
The first patient to receive a brain chip from Elon Musk's Neuralink has put it to the test in an online chess game. Elon Musk announced in January of this year that the first patient had received their brain chip from his company, Neuralink. Although the patient wasn't first identified,...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has reiterated his disdain for Elon Musk as he commented on a gesture the Tesla billionaire made toward Amazon chief Jeff Bezos in 2021. When Musk surpassed Bezos as the richest person in the world, he sent him an emoji of a silver medal to outline...
xAI has confirmed the open release of its Grok artificial intelligence (AI) model, detailing the weights and architecture of the system. Elon Musk’s company detailed the Grok-1 version as a “314 billion parameter Mixture-of-Experts model trained from scratch by xAI.” In addition, the San Francisco-based startup outlined how the model...
Elon Musk has abruptly pulled the plug on Don Lemon's upcoming talk show on the X platform, after a tense inaugural interview between the former CNN anchor and the billionaire. Lemon said Musk texted him to say “contract terminated”. He then shared a post and a video on X discussing the...
According to reports in the Washington Post, former president Donald Trump asked Elon Musk if he would be open to buying his Truth Social network. A conversation is said to have taken place last summer, months after the Tesla and SpaceX billionaire had closed a $44 billion deal for the...
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