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Harvard makes massive $2.2B SpaceX bet on Elon Musk's rocket company

Harvard Management Company revealed a $2.2 billion SpaceX stake as university endowments benefit from early investments in ...

Elon Musk Made 2.5 Million Times More Than the Average Tesla Worker

Musk only needs 4.23 seconds to earn an average Tesla employee's yearly salary.

Elon Musk announces new X move, vows to make government censorship requests more visible to users

Elon Musk announced that X will enhance visibility of government requests for content removal. This initiative reportedly ...

Elon Musk and the return of the American industrialist

Musk inspired a new generation of hard-tech companies. Here’s what they’re building.

Elon Musk Announces X Will Name Governments Censoring Content

Elon Musk has announced that social media platform X will systematically name government agencies and reveal legal ...

Grok Calls for Assassination of Elon Musk, Accusing Him of Pedophilia

"ELON MUSK WATCHES CHILD PORN," the bot raged. The post Grok Calls for Assassination of Elon Musk, Accusing Him of Pedophilia appeared first on Futurism.

Elon Musk Says SpaceX Has a Massive Competitive Advantage in AI That Amazon, Google, and Microsoft Can't Touch

Musk's bold claim suggests SpaceX could spend huge sums on data centers.

Woman claims her stepfather used Grok to transform childhood photo into explicit imagery

The woman claimed that AI tools are "taking everyday life and turning it into child sexual abuse."

Altman says four years of college may be more than the world now needs

Sam Altman told a summit of tech interns that two years of college was “the exact right amount of time” for him and that four years may be more than the world now requires. He made the case to an audience whose entry-level pipeline is already being c...

An eval harness found what qualitative review couldn't: AI models are most confident when wrong

There is a step in the development process for large language model (LLM)-assisted tooling that most teams skip because it's tedious, time-consuming, and doesn't produce results visible to end users: Verifying that what the model is saying...

Anthropic shares more details about how Claude’s new watermarks will work

How will the watermarking actually work? Can it be hidden with editing? And how does this affect code?

Voyah recreated Mercedes’ upside-down tunnel ad, then launched the car for $33,800

Dongfeng’s Voyah launched the Passion S electric SUV on Friday after promoting it with a stunt in which the car drove a full loop around a tunnel ceiling in Wuhan. Prices start at 229,900 yuan, about $33,800, for a car with 800V charging and Huawei’s...

Anthropic’s quarterly revenue passed $11.5bn, up more than 14-fold

Anthropic has told prospective investors that second-quarter revenue exceeded $11.5bn, more than 14 times the $787mn it made a year earlier, and that it recorded positive adjusted operating income. The figures are preliminary and come as the company...

LG’s humanoid robot arrives in 2027, running Nvidia’s Isaac GR00T

LG will unveil a bipedal humanoid robot in the first quarter of 2027, built on Nvidia’s Jetson Thor processor, Isaac GR00T foundation model and Halos safety system. The two signed the agreement at Nvidia’s Santa Clara headquarters on 13 August. LG wi...

AMD raises $4.75bn in its biggest ever bond sale

AMD has raised $4.75bn in its biggest ever US dollar bond offering, sold in four tranches with maturities from three to ten years. It held $13.1bn in cash against $3.2bn of debt at the end of June, and has committed up to $5bn to Anthropic. AMD has r...

SpaceX officially closes its Cursor acquisition

AI coding startup Cursor is now officially a part of SpaceX.

How to tell if your AI platforms’ accounts have been hacked

A guide on how to check if hackers have broken into your accounts on the most popular AI platforms.

Elon Musk plans $100 million push for Republicans in US midterms months after Trump feud: Report

Elon Musk is preparing to spend $100-$120 million through his super PAC to help Republicans in the US midterms, signalling a ...

Elon Musk’s new Texas community laments ‘What about our dreams?’ as he builds world’s ‘largest and most valuable building’ in their backyard

Elon Musk is buying land in Grimes County, Texas. Now, residents want out, but it’s proving difficult to find buyers.

The US is about to tell 35 countries to choose between it and China on AI

Michael Martina reported the draft for Reuters on 14 August, citing a US official and an internal document. The letter goes to the 35 signatories of an American “AI Opportunity Statement” from June. Its message is that countries must choose. The word...