Elon Musk abruptly bails on live interview as SpaceX slumps
Elon Musk was a dramatic no-show for a hyped live TV interview on Friday. CNBC’s much-touted exclusive interview with the ...
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Elon Musk is The World’s First Trillionaire. Here’s How Big His Future Social Security Benefit Will Be
Elon Musk just crossed into trillionaire territory, but the same Social Security rules that apply to everyday workers will determine his retirement check. The number that comes out of that formula is almost comically at odds with his wealth.
OpenAI bets on families as ChatGPT goes deeper into households
ChatGPT is hiring a dedicated product manager to build experiences for families, caregivers, and older adults, according to a job posting.
The EU says autoplay and infinite scroll are illegal. Meta has until it responds to disagree.
The European Commission issued preliminary findings on Friday accusing Meta of building Facebook and Instagram to be addictive, giving the company a formal opportunity to respond before Brussels reaches a final decision that could trigger fines of up to 6% of its global annual revenue. Based on Meta’s 2025 turnover of roughly $201 billion, that […]This story continues at The Next Web
OpenAI has folded safety into research again. Its head of safety is leaving.
OpenAI’s head of safety systems, Johannes Heidecke, is leaving the company following an internal restructuring that merges its safety and research teams under a single leader, Wired reported on Friday. Chief Research Officer Mark Chen told staff in a memo that safety teams would now report to Mia Glaese, whose title has been expanded to […]This story continues at The Next Web
Meta killed its Muse Image AI feature three days after launch. Hollywood had had enough.
Meta has pulled its Muse Image AI feature from Instagram and the Meta AI app just three days after launch, saying the tool “missed the mark” on user privacy. The model, the first image generator to emerge from Meta Superintelligence Labs under chief AI officer Alexandr Wang, launched on Tuesday with a design flaw that proved […]This story continues at The Next Web
Apple sues OpenAI for stealing hardware designs, alleging employees brought prototypes to “show and tell” interviews
Apple has sued OpenAI in a California federal court, accusing the ChatGPT maker of using current and former employees to steal hardware designs as it prepares to launch AI-focused consumer devices. The lawsuit, filed on Friday, names OpenAI’s chief hardware officer Tang Tan and former Apple engineer Chang Liu, and alleges a pattern of misconduct […]This story continues at The Next Web
US cybersecurity agency CISA had to build its incident playbook during the incident, agency reveals
Independent cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs reported in May that a security researcher with cyber firm GitGuardian alerted him to reams of exposed passwords stored in a publicly accessible GitHub repository, which an employee of a CISA contractor had uploaded.
Elon Musk’s plans refer to an idea conceived in the 1960s. What is the Kardashev scale?
A Soviet astronomer in the 1960s proposed a scale to classify hypothetical alien civilizations. Here’s why the framework is ...
This ETF firm is giving investors a way to avoid Elon Musk
Subversive ETFs filed to launch new "Ex-Elon" funds excluding Elon Musk's companies, Tesla and SpaceX.
Elon Musk says SpaceX could be worth more than earth
Elon Musk has never been accused of thinking small. But his latest statement may be his most audacious yet. Responding to a ...
Elon Musk SEC settlement over alleged deception in Twitter purchase raises 'red flags'
Elon Musk got off lightly this time around.
Elon Musk postpones first TV interview since SpaceX went public
CNBC's Julia Boorstin reports on news regarding Elon Musk's interview with CNBC.
“You Are a Parasite”: Elon Musk Humiliated for Criticizing Zohran Mamdani
"Everything you have was built by workers and you fight to keep from unionizing while you receive govt welfare." ...
Elon Musk praises Mythos/Fable, promises not to ‘cut off’ Anthropic
Should Anthropic trust Elon Musk to host its models? With about $40 billion in revenue at stake, Musk insists that the ...
Mark Zuckerberg Just Returned to Elon Musk’s X After 3 Years—Here’s Why He Came Back
The last post the tech executive made on the platform was on July 5, 2023, making his return particularly notable.
Elon Musk sets timeline for SpaceX to launch orbital data centers, moon base
Environmental groups are urging federal regulators to review risks of satellite-based data centers proposed by Elon Musk and ...
Phia accused of ‘cookie stuffing,’ taking affiliate credit on purchases it didn’t earn
Phia, the shopping startup founded by Bill Gates’ daughter, Phoebe, and her friend Sophia Kianni is under fire for a practice known as “cookie stuffing,” which helped the product receive commissions and credit for sales it did not actually generate, per a Bloomberg investigation.
Meta removes controversial AI feature on Instagram after backlash
"Our intent was to provide a useful creative tool and to give people control over whether their public content could be referenced in this way," the company said in a blog post. "We've heard the feedback that this feature missed the mark, so it's no longer available."
Bluesky’s interim CEO, Toni Schneider, drops the ‘interim’
Schneider, who formerly served as the CEO of Automattic and is a partner at True Ventures, says he is "all in" on the unconventional social media platform.