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Elon Musk accuses Christopher Nolan of pandering for awards with casting in ‘The Odyssey’
Elon Musk blasted Christopher Nolan over diverse casting in “The Odyssey” after the director confirmed Lupita Nyong'o will portray Helen of Troy in the upcoming adaptation.
Alec Baldwin Calls Out Elon Musk for Criticizing Lupita Nyong'o as Helen of Troy: 'But She IS the Most Beautiful Woman'
Lupita Nyong'o will portray Helen of Troy and Helen's sister Clytemnestra in 'The Odyssey,' in theaters July 17 ...
Elon Musk steals the show in Beijing with charming antics
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, was a member of President Donald J. Trump’s delegation to China, along with Nvidia’s CEO ...
Elon Musk Accused of Racism After Lupita Nyong’o Comments
Elon Musk faced accusations of racism after he seemed to agree with criticism of Lupita Nyong’o’s casting as Helen of Troy in Christopher Nolan’s upcoming film, The Odyssey. Musk, 54, responded on X to a post by right-wing commentator Matt Walsh, who said, “not one person on the planet actually thinks that Lupita Nyong’o is ‘the most beautiful woman in the world.
The OpenAI jury has to decide: Do you trust Elon Musk or Sam Altman?
That’s the billion-dollar question as two tech collaborators turned rivals eye trillion-dollar IPOs.
Elon Musk rudely breaks formation in China moment caught on camera
Elon Musk joined President Donald Trump in Beijing on Thursday (May 14), but was caught breaking protocol in a big way during Chinese President Xi Jinping's reception ceremony
Elon Musk Slams 'The Odyssey' Casting and Academy Diversity Standards
Elon Musk is continuing his campaign against Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” asserting that the Academy’s diversity ...
Elon Musk’s Twitter Deal Looked Like a $44 Billion Disaster. Now, His Investors Stand to Make a 200 Percent Return—Thanks to a Brilliant (and Controversial) M&A Move
Larry Ellison, Bill Ackman and Andreessen Horowitz backed Musk’s Twitter deal. It’s set to pay off in a big way.
Elon Musk Turned a Formal China State Dinner into The Internet's Favorite Reality Show
When the world's richest man walks into a formal state ceremony hosted by the President of China, people usually expect dark ...
Intercom, now called Fin, launches an AI agent whose only job is managing another AI agent
The company formerly known as Intercom just did something that no major customer service platform has attempted at scale: it built an AI agent whose sole job is to manage another AI agent.Fin Operator, announced Thursday at a live event in San Francisco, is a new AI-powered system designed specifically for the back-office teams that configure, monitor, and improve Fin, the company's customer-facing AI agent. Rather than replacing human support agents — which is what Fin itself does on the f
How RecursiveMAS speeds up multi-agent inference by 2.4x and reduces token usage by 75%
One of the key challenges of current multi-agent AI systems is that they communicate by generating and sharing text sequences, which introduces latency, drives up token costs, and makes it difficult to train the entire system as a cohesive unit. To overcome this challenge, researchers at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Stanford University developed RecursiveMAS, a framework that enables agents to collaborate and transmit information through embedding space instead of text. This chang
RJ Scaringe has raised more than $12B across three startups and investors still want more
Investors can't seem to get enough of RJ Scaringe or his ideas. Storytelling and communication are one of his superpowers, according to Jiten Behl, who joined Rivian when the company had just a handful of employees.
General Catalyst posted VC rage bait and it worked, especially on a16z
Compulsive X user Marc Andreessen himself couldn't resist responding, many, many times.
A hotel check-in system left a million passports and driver’s licenses open for anyone to see
The tech company that maintains the hotel check-in system set its cloud storage to public, allowing anyone to access customers' data without a password.
Anthropic and the Gates Foundation are betting $200 million that AI can do more than make money
Anthropic has committed $200 million over four years to a partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the largest deal of its kind between an AI company and a global philanthropy. The money, a mix of grant funding, Claude usage credits, and technical support, will fund programmes in global health, life sciences, education, […]This story continues at The Next Web
Silicon Valley’s vacationland needs a new energy provider just as AI is driving prices up
Lake Tahoe, Silicon Valley's favorite vacation spot, is about to get hit with higher energy prices as AI drives demand for electricity.
Eighteen48 raises EUR175 million to back the private equity deals no one else sees
Eighteen48 Partners, the London-based alternative asset manager co-founded by Julien Sevaux, Tarek AbuZayyad, and Edward Clive, has closed €175 million for the first tranche of its inaugural private equity fund. The fund is targeting €350 million in total and will back mid-market buyouts across Europe, sourced exclusively through independent sponsors, dealmakers who find and […]This story continues at The Next Web
Tesla reveals two Robotaxi crashes involving teleoperators
Newly unredacted crash reports reveal some of the troubles Tesla has had as it tries to scale its robotaxis.
Claude’s next enterprise battle is not models: it’s the agent control plane
New VB Pulse data shows Microsoft and OpenAI leading enterprise agent orchestration, but Anthropic’s first measurable foothold points to a larger fight over who controls the infrastructure where AI agents run.For the last two years, the enterprise AI race has mostly been framed as a model war: OpenAI’s GPT series versus Anthropic’s Claude versus Google’s Gemini, with smaller and open-source alternatives also coming in from the U.S. and China. But the next strategic fight may not be over which mo
China’s tech giants are replacing the search bar with AI agents that shop for you
For years, buying something online in China meant typing keywords into a search bar and scrolling through an endless grid of listings. That ritual is being dismantled. On Monday, Alibaba Group integrated its Qwen artificial intelligence assistant with Taobao, its largest marketplace, giving the chatbot access to a catalogue of more than four billion products. […]This story continues at The Next Web