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Elon Musk puts $10 million into heated US Senate race in Kentucky

Elon Musk has turned his attention to the race to replace U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell with an eight-digit donation to a PAC backing a GOP candidate.

Ryanair Announces 'Big Idiot Seat Sale' As Elon Musk Feuds With CEO

O’Leary and Musk have called each other idiots online and Musk has said he “really” wants to buy low-cost airline Ryanair.

Elon Musk said automakers don't want to license Tesla FSD. We're starting to see why.

Legacy automakers and Tesla rival Rivian have recently announced roadmaps to pursue autonomous driving technology in-house.

Spat deepens between Elon Musk and Ryanair's O'Leary

Elon Musk has suggested he could buy Ryanair and called for its chief executive to be fired amid a deepening spat between the ...

Elon Musk Calls Ryanair CEO 'An Utter Idiot,' Floats Buying the Company

Elon Musk is musing about acquiring Ryanair Holdings plc (NASDAQ:RYAAY) following a heated online disagreement with Ryanair ...

The gloves are off in the feud between Sam Altman and Elon Musk

The tech titans escalated their long-running feud on Tuesday, trading barbs in public posts about the safety of ChatGPT, Grok ...

Elon Musk says X's algorithm is 'dumb' and 'needs massive improvements' as he open-sources recommendation system

Elon Musk isn't a fan of X's algorithm, so he's documenting the company's efforts to improve the tech that decides what you ...

Elon Musk feuds with Ryanair's CEO — then runs a poll on buying the airline

Elon Musk has been arguing with Ryanair and its CEO for days, calling each other idiots after Michael O'Leary ruled out ...

Bolna nabs $6.3M from General Catalyst for its India-focused voice orchestration platform

Bolna said that 75% of its revenue is coming from self-serve customers.

Anthropic’s CEO stuns Davos with Nvidia criticism

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei unloaded on both the administration and U.S. chip companies over plans to sell to China. The criticism was particularly notable because one of those chipmakers, Nvidia, is a major partner and investor in Anthropic.

Netflix to redesign its app as it competes with social platforms for daily engagement

At the center of the redesign is deeper integration of vertical video feeds, which the streaming giant has been experimenting with since May.

One-time hot insurance tech Ethos poised to be first tech IPO of the year

Ethos was backed by a who's who of VCs and celebs through 2021. It is currently profitable, it says.

In an effort to protect young users, ChatGPT will now predict how old you are

The feature is designed to stop problematic content from being delivered to users under the age of 18.

Elon Musk says Tesla’s restarted Dojo3 will be for ‘space-based AI compute’

Tesla aims to restart work on Dojo3, its previously abandoned third-generation AI chip. Only this time, Dojo3 won’t be aimed at training self-driving models on Earth. Instead, Musk says it will be dedicated to “space-based AI compute.”

X open sources its algorithm while facing a transparency fine and Grok controversies

In a post to GitHub on Tuesday, the social media giant purported to share its secret sauce.

Luminar founder Austin Russell agrees to accept subpoena in bankruptcy case

The agreement comes two weeks after Luminar accused its billionaire founder of dodging information requests, as it evaluates potential legal claims.

Why Serve Robotics is acquiring a hospital assistant robot company

Diligent Robotics is a startup that builds robots designed to assist in hospitals by delivering lab samples, supplies, and other tasks. The deal values Diligent's common stock at $29 million.

Trump administration admits DOGE may have misused Americans’ Social Security data

The revelation comes as part of a series of corrections in a legal case over DOGE’s access to Social Security Administration data.

MIT’s new ‘recursive’ framework lets LLMs process 10 million tokens without context rot

Recursive language models (RLMs) are an inference technique developed by researchers at MIT CSAIL that treat long prompts as an external environment to the model. Instead of forcing the entire prompt into the model's context window, the framework allows the LLM to programmatically examine, decompose, and recursively call itself over snippets of the text.Rather than expanding context windows or summarizing old information, the MIT team reframes long-context reasoning as a systems problem. By

Europe Inc is not law yet. It is a signal.

In a Davos dominated by talk of tariffs, subsidies, and geopolitical risk, Europe used the stage to question its own economic limits. At the World Economic Forum, Ursula von der Leyen put forward one of the clearest signals yet that the European Union is preparing a structural shift in how it treats business, competitiveness, and economic power.  The phrase that stuck, “Europe Inc”, is not the name of a regulation, nor a new Brussels invention ready to roll out. It is a political framing for a s