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Elon Musk is ratcheting up his attacks on his old partner Sam Altman, calling him ‘Swindly Sam’ and OpenAI a ‘market-paralyzing gorgon’

Altman’s tense relationship with Musk could complicate his and his company's access to Trump’s administration.

Scottie Pippen’s Elon Musk Tweets, Explained

Although there’s no direct evidence this is what Scottie Pippen is doing with the Elon Musk tweets, it’s not out of the ...

Wall Street isn’t buying Trump’s deportation threats or Elon Musk’s spending cut claims

President-elect Donald Trump has promised to expel millions of undocumented people as part of the biggest deportation program ...

5 things to know for Dec. 3: Trump’s Paris visit, Middle East, Hunter Biden fallout, Elon Musk, panda sculptures

Today is Giving Tuesday, and you can help Mother Nature in a battle for survival. Pollinators like bees and butterflies, ...

Elon Musk Department Says Illegal Immigration Costs Taxpayer $150.7 billion

The figure provided by Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, if correct, would equate to around 2.4 percent of federal ...

A Surprising Historical Figure Offers a Lesson for Elon Musk and the Dept. of Government Efficiency

William Howard Taft also focused on government efficiency—but he knew it sometimes required more bureaucrats and experts.

Elon Musk asks court to block OpenAI conversion from nonprofit to for-profit

Elon Musk on Friday filed a motion for preliminary injunction asking a federal court to block OpenAI's planned conversion ...

How Elon Musk's memes, jokes, and passing thoughts influence the stock market

When Elon Musk posts to X, his 206 million followers, powerful people including President-elect Donald Trump, and the stock ...

A Question No One Was Asking: What if Elon Musk Was on the Bulls?

Scottie Pippen, a basketball star turned crypto fanatic, posted about how many championships Chicago would have won with Mr.

Fidelity just boosted the value of its stake in Elon Musk's xAI by 70%

Financial giant Fidelity bumped up the valuation of two Elon Musk-owned companies, social media platform X and AI startup xAI ...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk loses bid to get $56 billion pay package reinstated

Tesla CEO Elon Musk lost his bid to get his 2018 CEO pay package reinstated on Monday when a Delaware judge upheld her ...

Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy to meet with House Republicans next week to discuss DOGE

Businessmen Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will meet with House Republicans this week to discuss cuts to federal government ...

‘Elon Musk is right,’ Bernie Sanders admits, agreeing the defense budget needs to be cut because the Pentagon has ‘lost track of billions’

Elon Musk is right,” Sanders said in an X post on Dec. 1. “The Pentagon, with a budget of $886 billion, just failed its 7th ...

Does Dragon Age: The Veilguard do enough to renovate BioWare’s rep?

Dragon Age: The Veilguard is the latest game from BioWare after a few rough years. Is it enough to bring back the love from fans?Read More

Liquid AI’s new STAR model architecture outshines Transformer efficiency

The STAR framework leverages evolutionary algorithms and a numerical encoding system to balance quality and efficiency in AI models.Read More

KPay, a financial management platform for SMEs, raises $55M Series A

Sometimes, the easiest way to find a great idea for a startup is to look beyond the current problem you’re solving for your customers. That’s exactly what worked for the founders of KPay. Davis Chan and his co-founders previously helped small and medium-sized merchants optimize their revenue and traffic in Asia, but they eventually noticed […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Hume launches Voice Control allowing users and developers to make custom AI voices

Hume focuses on providing tools for creating unique, expressive voices that align with user needs, such as customer service chatbots.Read More

The race is on to make AI agents do your online shopping for you

Millions of Americans will pop open their laptops to buy gifts this holiday season, but tech companies are racing to turn the job of online shopping over to AI agents instead. Perplexity recently released an AI shopping agent for its paying customers in the United States. It’s supposed to navigate retail websites for you, find […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Judge confirms decision to sink Elon Musk’s $56B pay package despite Tesla shareholder vote

Delaware Chancery court judge Kathaleen McCormick has denied Tesla’s request to revise her decision to strike down CEO Elon Musk’s $56 billion pay package — despite shareholders voting at the company’s annual meeting this year to “re-ratify” the deal. Her decision, laid out in a 103-page opinion piece published on Monday, explains that the attempt […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Threads takes on Bluesky with more advanced search

Meta’s X competitor Instagram Threads is gaining an improved search interface, the company announced on Monday. The app, which offers a Meta-run alternative to Elon Musk’s X, but built on top of Instagram’s social graph, is rolling out a new way to search for specific posts, allowing users to filter searches by user profiles and […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.