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Elon Musk Praised Alibaba's LLM. Then Its Leader Quit: 'Bye My Beloved Qwen' (UPDATED)

Editor’s Note: This story has been updated to include a response from Alibaba Lin Junyang, head of Alibaba Group‘s Qwen artificial intelligence division, announced on Tuesday that he is stepping down. The announcement comes just two days after the company rolled out its updated AI products. Lin posted on X: “me stepping down. bye my beloved qwen.” me stepping down. bye my beloved qwen.— Junyang Lin (@JustinLin610) March 3, 2026 Don't Miss: This Energy Storage Company Already Has $185M in Contrac

Nashville opposes Elon Musk’s Loop tunnel — a decade later, still no proof it beats a subway

Nashville’s Metro Council voted 20-15 to formally oppose the Boring Company’s Music City Loop, a proposed 13-mile underground tunnel ...

Ike Barinholtz Explains How He Prepared to Play Elon Musk in Luca Guadagnino's Film: 'Ketamine?' | Video

Ike Barinholtz will play Elon Musk in Luca Guadagnino's upcoming film "Artificial," and on Wednesday night, the actor explained his prep for the role. But, Jimmy Kimmel had a guess first: "Ketamine?" ...

Elon Musk: Tesla's Robots Could Be The First 'Atom-Shaping' AGI

Tesla, Inc. CEO Elon Musk continues to raise the stakes on his AI vision, arguing that Tesla could be among the first companies to create artificial general intelligence—and to embody it in humanoid robots. Elon Musk's Claim In an early morning post on X, he said Tesla will be one of the firms to make AGI and "probably the first to make it in humanoid/atom-shaping form," expressing his view of the company as a front‑runner in the race for human‑level AI. Tesla will be one of the companies to mak

Appeals court again rebuffs Maryland judge's crusade against Elon Musk & DOGE

An appeals court has once again rebuffed a Maryland federal judge's attempt to crackdown on Elon Musk and his prior work with DOGE.

IndieBio is Now SOSV NY & SOSV SF, Underscoring SOSV’s Leadership in Deep Tech

In 2015, SOSV opened IndieBio San Francisco, Silicon Valley’s first biotech program that offered bio-labs as well as pre-seed investment to scientists ready to launch startups. IndieBio took the world by storm and biotech investing surged. In 2020, SOSV opened a second IndieBio in New York City. Between 2015 and 2025, IndieBio’s 310 graduates raised $3.6 billion and helped establish SOSV’s reputation as a groundbreaking health and climate investor in fields ranging from food, agriculture, i

Rivian is betting its future on one of the fastest EV launches in US history

If Rivian reaches its R2 sales target in 2026, it will be one of the fastest ramp-ups ever of a new EV in the United States.

Lio raises $30M from Andreessen Horowitz and others to automate enterprise procurement

AI procurement startup Lio announced a $30 million Series A in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz.

Remember Twitter? Elon Musk testifies over flip-flop in $44 billion buyout

Musk is on trial for a case filed by Twitter investors in 2022, the year he purchased the social media company for $44 billion.

Analysis argues Tesla's tax havens help power Elon Musk's wealth

Oxfam analysis says Tesla's pay, tax and governance practices have fueled Musk's wealth and widened inequality as he nears ...

Elon Musk dodged cameras ahead of courthouse testimony. Snubbed photogs blamed a 'decoy' Tesla.

Elon Musk rushed into the courthouse while photographers were distracted by a Tesla being surrounded by security, the photogs ...

Elon Musk’s proposed Tesla tunnel loop met with opposition by Nashville metro council

Nashville metro councilmembers have passed a resolution opposing a planned tunnel by one of Elon Musk’s companies to offer people express rides in Teslas.

‘This Will Be Big’—Elon Musk Reveals ‘Once-In-A-Generation Opportunity’ Amid Bitcoin Price Surge

Musk has said X Money “will be big,” sharing details that include “crypto integration,” and calling it a financial ...

Pre-trial fight in OpenAI case focuses on Elon Musk’s dual role as Microsoft partner and plaintiff

Pre-trial motions in Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft focus in part on his company's business dealings with ...

Musk tells jury 'people read too much' into his posts

Billionaire Elon Musk told a jury in California on Wednesday that stock market investors read too much into his social media ...

Jensen Huang says Nvidia is pulling back from OpenAI and Anthropic, but his explanation raises more questions than it answers

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Wednesday that his company's investments in OpenAI and Anthropic will likely be its last — but his explanation may not tell the whole story.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military deal ‘straight up lies,’ report says

Anthropic gave up its contract with the Pentagon over AI safety disagreements -- then, OpenAI swooped in.

Apple Music to add Transparency Tags to distinguish AI music, says report

The label or distributor has to opt in to tagging their music as AI, so it's unclear how effective this intervention will be.

Black Forest Labs' new Self-Flow technique makes training multimodal AI models 2.8x more efficient

To create coherent images or videos, generative AI diffusion models like Stable Diffusion or FLUX have typically relied on external "teachers"—frozen encoders like CLIP or DINOv2—to provide the semantic understanding they couldn't learn on their own. But this reliance has come at a cost: a "bottleneck" where scaling up the model no longer yields better results because the external teacher has hit its limit.Today, German AI startup Black Forest Labs (maker of the FLUX ser

Google settles with Epic Games, drops its Play Store commissions to 20%

Google has dropped its commission, charging a 20% service fee and an optional 5% to use its billing services. It will also offer a new process for third-party app stores.