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Elon Musk Blasts South African Politicians Over “Racist” Starlink Blockade

Elon Musk isn’t exactly known for holding back his opinions on X (formerly Twitter), but the billionaire tech mogul just ...

Anthony Scaramucci Says He Owns SpaceX Stock And Won't Miss Out On The IPO Despite Elon Musk's 'Cult Of Personality' Premium

Anthony Scaramucci said Thursday he plans to invest in SpaceX's upcoming initial public offering even while acknowledging that Elon Musk's personal following inflates the company's valuation beyond what traditional measures would justify. Scaramucci Sees Premium But Still Buys In a post on X, the SkyBridge Capital founder said he already owns SpaceX through a private round and argued that the "cult of personality" around Musk can push valuations "off the charts," much as Tesla Inc.’s stock "defi

Elon Musk says he experienced mild symptoms from first Covid-19 strain, second vaccine shot ‘almost' got him hospitalised

In his post, Musk wrote that he had contracted the “original Wuhan virus” before vaccines were available and described it as ...

Trump officials may be encouraging banks to test Anthropic’s Mythos model

The report is particularly surprising since the Department of Defense recently declared Anthropic a supply-chain risk.

Apple reportedly testing four designs for upcoming smart glasses

These glasses are a step back from an ambitious plan that once called for Apple to launch a variety of mixed and augmented reality devices.

Five signs data drift is already undermining your security models

Data drift happens when the statistical properties of a machine learning (ML) model's input data change over time, eventually rendering its predictions less accurate. Cybersecurity professionals who rely on ML for tasks like malware detection and network threat analysis find that undetected data drift can create vulnerabilities. A model trained on old attack patterns may fail to see today's sophisticated threats. Recognizing the early signs of data drift is the first step in maintainin

Mac mini and Mac Studio go out of stock – is it the RAM crisis or an M5 refresh?

In short: Several high-RAM Mac mini and Mac Studio configurations disappeared from Apple’s online store in the US on 11 April 2026, listed as “currently unavailable” with no delivery estimate and no option to order. The affected models are Mac mini configurations with 32GB or 64GB of RAM and Mac Studio configurations with 128GB or 256GB […]This story continues at The Next Web

OpenAI’s new $100 ChatGPT Pro plan targets Claude Max with five times the Codex access

In short: OpenAI launched a new $100 per month Pro plan for ChatGPT on 9 April 2026, inserting a new tier between the existing $20 Plus plan and the $200 Pro plan and directly targeting Anthropic’s Claude Max, which is also priced at $100 per month. The new plan offers five times more Codex usage than […]This story continues at The Next Web

The Netherlands becomes the first European country to approve Tesla’s FSD Supervised

In short: The Dutch vehicle authority RDW approved Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (Supervised) software on 10 April 2026, making the Netherlands the first European country to authorise the system under UN Regulation 171, the EU standard governing driver control assistance systems. The approval follows 18 months of testing, 1.6 million kilometres of European road data, and more […]This story continues at The Next Web

X says it’s reducing payments to clickbait accounts

X is cutting back on payments to accounts that are “flooding the timeline” with clickbait and rapid-fire news aggregation, according to its head of product Nikita Bier

TechCrunch Mobility: Who is poaching all the self-driving vehicle talent?

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, how AI is playing a part.  

Your developers are already running AI locally: Why on-device inference is the CISO’s new blind spot

For the last 18 months, the CISO playbook for generative AI has been relatively simple: Control the browser.Security teams tightened cloud access security broker (CASB) policies, blocked or monitored traffic to well-known AI endpoints, and routed usage through sanctioned gateways. The operating model was clear: If sensitive data leaves the network for an external API call, we can observe it, log it, and stop it. But that model is starting to break.A quiet hardware shift is pushing large language

Anthropic brings Claude into Microsoft Word, and legal contract review leads its use cases

In short: Anthropic has released a beta add-in that places Claude directly inside Microsoft Word, with every AI-generated edit appearing as a native tracked change and legal contract review listed first among the tool’s example applications. The add-in, available to Claude Team and Enterprise subscribers, completes Anthropic’s integration across the full Microsoft Office suite and arrives […]This story continues at The Next Web

From LLMs to hallucinations, here’s a simple guide to common AI terms

The rise of AI has brought an avalanche of new terms and slang. Here is a glossary with definitions of some of the most important words and phrases you might encounter.

At the HumanX conference, everyone was talking about Claude

Anthropic was the star of the show at San Francisco's AI-centric conference.

Why data quality matters when working with data at scale

Data quality has always been an afterthought. Teams spend months instrumenting a feature, building pipelines, and standing up dashboards, and only when a stakeholder flags a suspicious number does anyone ask whether the underlying data is actually correct. By that point, the cost of fixing it has multiplied several times over. This is not a […]This story continues at The Next Web

Slate Auto: Everything you need to know about the Bezos-backed EV startup

Slate auto burst onto the scene in April 2025. Here is a timeline that covers its origins, backers, product, and other new details.

Elon Musk’s xAI faces lawsuit over Mississippi power plant tied to AI data centers

Elon Musk's AI venture, xAI, faces a legal challenge in Mississippi over plans for a gas-powered plant. Environmental groups ...

Elon Musk's estranged daughter Vivian, 21, says relationship with her dad is 'not the future of my story'

It’s never easy when family drama goes public, especially when your dad happens to be one of the richest men on the planet.

Elon Musk's SpaceX Is Nearing Its $1.75 Trillion IPO—Bitget Is Offering Pre-IPO Exposure

Bitget's new IPO Prime platform debuts with a Republic-issued token offering exposure to SpaceX's eventual public market performance.