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Elon Musk makes ‘fun of’ Nvidia after GTC 2026 conference; says: While others go to …

Elon Musk playfully jabbed at AI rivals like Nvidia, stating his ventures "study the blade" while others attend conferences.

Elon Musk-owned X suffers outage in India, thousands report access issues

As of 8:49 pm, Downdetector showed 4,586 outage reports across India. The cause of the outage was not immediately clear.

Elon Musk’s Ketamine use can’t be probed in OpenAI fraud trial

Musk has said he has used ketamine under a prescription years ago and has not used it since, although he has been plagued by media reports that he has engaged in extensive recreational drug use. 

Elon Musk Vows to Donate Any OpenAI Legal Victory Proceeds to Charity. The Internet Labels Him “the Man of the People”

Elon Musk took to X on March 16 and dropped a short but powerful message. He wrote, “Btw, the proceeds of any legal victory ...

Elon Musk roasted on social media as photo shows peculiar McDonald's habit

A resurfaced photo of Elon Musk eating a McDonald's Quarter Pounder With Cheese Meal has sparked reactions online after ...

Elon Musk Claims the New Tesla Roadster Will "Probably" Be Unveiled in April 2026

Elon Musk Claims the New Tesla Roadster Will "Probably" Be Unveiled in April 2026: The CEO teases a next-level redesign as filings hint at a squarer roofline and new composite seating for the long-delayed EV.

Rivia raises €13M to bring agentic AI to clinical trials

The Zurich-based startup, which previously raised €3M to unify fragmented trial data, has secured a larger round to build AI agents that actively manage the complex operational layer of running a clinical trial. Clinical trials are, by almost any measure, one of the most information-intensive processes in modern medicine, and one of the least efficiently […]This story continues at The Next Web

Meta’s Manus AI agent arrives on your desktop to take on OpenClaw

Manus’s new desktop app can read, edit, and act on files and applications directly on a user’s machine. The launch puts Meta’s AI agent ambitions in direct competition with the open-source tool that has dominated the conversation this week. OpenClaw arrived on the internet last month like a weather system. Within days of its release […]This story continues at The Next Web

Mastercard buys stablecoin firm BVNK for up to $1.8bn

For most of its fifty-year history, Mastercard has been, in essence, a message-passing network. A transaction happens; Mastercard’s rails carry the authorisation signal between issuer and acquirer in milliseconds; settlement follows on a separate, slower track. The system is extraordinarily reliable and extraordinarily profitable. It is also, increasingly, a system designed for a world that […]This story continues at The Next Web

Finnish startup Elea & Lili raises €2.5M to replace the plastic

Polyacrylate is the synthetic crystal at the heart of every modern disposable nappy, is derived from petroleum, and it does not break down. It persists for centuries, leaching microplastics into soil and groundwater as it degrades. The hygiene industry has long regarded it as an engineering necessity: nothing else absorbs as fast, as much, or […]This story continues at The Next Web

Ofiniti raises $6.8M to push its maritime fuel software into global shipping hubs

The Oslo-based DNV spinout processed over 25,000 bunker operations in 2025 and claims roughly 40% of Singapore’s digital bunkering market. Verb Ventures leads a growth round that brings total funding to $9 million. The paperwork of global shipping is notoriously stubborn. Every fuel delivery to every vessel at every port generates a chain of manual […]This story continues at The Next Web

Closing arguments set to begin in Twitter shareholder trial accusing Musk of driving down stock

Closing arguments are set to kick off Tuesday in a trial pitting Elon Musk against Twitter shareholders who say the world’s ...

Elon Musk pours cold water on April 1 Tesla Roadster unveiling — but says it'll 'probably' happen later that month

Elon Musk is once again pushing back the target date for the Roadster launch. The Tesla CEO now says it'll "probably" happen ...

JAY-Z & Elon Musk Once Fought Over Food Bill At Swanky NYC Restauant Carbone

Mario Carbone reveals the moment JAY-Z and Elon Musk fought over who'd pay the bill at his legendary restaurant.

Closing arguments in Twitter shareholder trial accusing Musk of driving down stock

The trial is pitting Elon Musk against Twitter shareholders who say he engaged in a pattern of deceptive behavior that misled investors as he attempted to back out of his $44 billion deal to buy the ...

Judge Rules That Elon Musk’s Ketamine Use Is Off Limits

Hands off! The post Judge Rules That Elon Musk’s Ketamine Use Is Off Limits appeared first on Futurism.

Open source Mamba 3 arrives to surpass Transformer architecture with nearly 4% improved language modeling, reduced latency

The generative AI era began for most people with the launch of OpenAI's ChatGPT in late 2022, but the underlying technology — the "Transformer" neural network architecture that allows AI models to weigh the importance of different words in a sentence (or pixels in an image) differently and train on information in parallel — dates back to Google's seminal 2017 paper "Attention Is All You Need."Yet while Transformers deliver unparalleled model quality and have underpi

AWS names 12 European AI startups mapping oceans, diagnosing leukaemia, and predicting airstrikes

The 2026 AWS Pioneers cohort spans healthcare, climate, and conflict zones, and lands alongside a stark warning that Europe risks losing its best innovators if the regulatory environment doesn’t change. Amazon Web Services announced today the second annual cohort of its Pioneers Project: twelve European companies using AI and cloud infrastructure to tackle problems that […]This story continues at The Next Web

Kalshi’s legal troubles pile up, as Arizona files first ever criminal charges over ‘illegal gambling business’

It's the latest salvo in an escalating battle between state regulators and an industry that claims it's not beholden to them.

Mistral bets on ‘build-your-own AI’ as it takes on OpenAI, Anthropic in the enterprise

Mistral Forge lets enterprises train custom AI models from scratch on their own data, challenging rivals that rely on fine-tuning and retrieval-based approaches.