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Elon Musk says Optimus and Grok could transform universal medical care in major health breakthrough

Elon Musk outlined a massive long-term vision where artificial intelligence and robotics fundamentally transform global ...

Rocket Lab CEO Says $8 Billion Iridium Deal Won’t Take on Elon Musk’s Starlink — Don’t Intend to 'Directly Compete,’ But Plans Something That 'Hasn’t Been Seen ...

Rocket Lab Corporation CEO Peter Beck said the company’s acquisition of Iridium Communications Inc. would help the Space ...

Errol Musk: ‘I’m Elon’s father, not his pal’

The far-right convener on his violent upbringing in South Africa, why he admires Vladimir Putin and Tommy Robinson — and his ...

Elon Musk calls for Derek Chauvin to be freed, claims he was ‘unjustly convicted’

The billionaire offered no evidence for his claim that Chauvin did not cause Floyd’s death, which the medical examiner ruled ...

Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot starts sending confusing nonsense to users

Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot starts sending confusing nonsense to users - ‘App scale designs with that and to your horse,’ ...

Elon Musk Says mRNA Has ‘Tremendous’ Potential After Moderna, Merck Cancer Vaccine Breakthrough — MRNA Stock Falls Over 11% in Premarket (UPDATED)

The story has been refreshed with the latest market price action and a revised headline. Elon Musk said Wednesday that mRNA ...

Broadcom seeks more than $60bn in debt to fund AI chips for Anthropic

Broadcom is in talks with lenders to raise more than $60bn in debt, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. The money would finance AI chips for Anthropic and other companies. Bloomberg cited people with knowledge of the matter. The figures under discussion...

Nvidia pays Poolside $6bn to license its model factory and hire 109 staff

Nvidia has agreed to pay Poolside $6bn to license the software the startup used to build AI models, and to offer jobs to 109 of its staff. It is also investing $1bn in what remains, at a $12bn pre-money valuation. The terms come from a letter Poolsid...

Mark Zuckerberg bought a castle, while the rest of us get one made of sand, once a year

Strancally Castle stands above a bend in the Blackwater, half an hour’s drive from Youghal, in a stretch of Co Waterford where the river runs wide, and the light is mostly grey. James and George Richard Pain built it around 1830 for John Keily, MP fo...

DeepSeek launches an experimental multimodal model to rival Anthropic

DeepSeek released an experimental multimodal model on Friday and said its agent performance is close to Anthropic’s Opus-4.8. On DeepSeek’s own published table, it beats that model on three benchmarks out of eleven. DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp is li...

Samsung approves a record $80bn shareholder return, and the stock falls

Samsung Electronics approved the largest shareholder return in South Korean corporate history on Friday. Its shares then fell as much as 2.6% in post-market trading. The board signed off on a Samsung shareholder return of between 90 trillion and 110...

YouTube raises Premium prices across Europe with an opt-in deadline

YouTube Premium is getting more expensive across Europe. This time the company is asking subscribers to agree, rather than simply imposing the increase. A price-change notice seen by TNW went to a Romanian subscriber on Friday. It puts the individual...

Castelion raises $1bn at $13bn to scale hypersonic weapon production

Castelion has raised $1bn at a $13bn valuation. Three SpaceX executives founded the company in 2022 to build missiles. Its first product is Blackbeard, a hypersonic strike weapon designed for quantity rather than craft. The structure repays a close r...

Adobe Firefly can now generate music, speech and sound effects

Adobe Firefly’s audio tools became generally available on Thursday. Generate Music, Generate Speech and Generate Sound Effects now sit beside the image, video and design tools in its creative AI studio. Each runs on a different model. Generate Music...

Trump’s DOJ and Elon Musk Think AI Has a Right to Turn People Nude

President Trump's Justice Department is teaming up with Elon Musk's xAI to fight Minnesota's ban on AI that lets users create sexual images of people without their consent. The DOJ filed a statement ...

SpaceX will try for 1st Starship tower catch 'in a few months,' Elon Musk says

SpaceX will likely try to make the first-ever catch of its Starship upper stage a few months from now, according to Elon Musk ...

Elon Musk calls for Derek Chauvin's release — claims ex-cop was 'unjustly convicted' in George Floyd's death

Elon Musk is calling for Derek Chauvin’s release, saying the former Minneapolis police officer was wrongly convicted in ...

Elon Musk calls for release of former police officer Derek Chauvin

Tech billionaire Elon Musk publicly called for the release of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, stating on ...

Elon Musk renews his battle with Delta after it snubbed Starlink for Jeff Bezos' Amazon Leo

After some X users posted about choosing rival airlines over Delta due to Starlink internet, Musk said, "I warned them." ...

Trump signs a memo to clear the regulatory path to three launches a day

The United States conducted 178 orbital launches and re-entries last year, but the White House now wants at least a thousand a year by 2030. President Donald Trump signed a memorandum on Thursday directing federal agencies to clear the path to that n...