Tesla Is Getting Absolutely Destroyed in Europe

Elon Musk may be “saving” money for the federal government, however questionably — but it’ll take a minor miracle for him to salvage his automaker’s situation across the pond. According to the latest data from the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA), sales of new Tesla cars in the continent have plummeted to just 9,945 vehicles… Continue reading Tesla Is Getting Absolutely Destroyed in Europe

Trump White House Tells Elon He’s Stepped Over the Line

It took just over a month after his second inauguration, but it appears that Donald Trump may finally have put Elon Musk in his place. After Musk’s team at DOGE emailed virtually all federal workers over the weekend demanding that they summarize their activities over the past week in bullet points or risk termination, there was… Continue reading Trump White House Tells Elon He’s Stepped Over the Line

Alleged Leader of Roko’s Basilisk Murder Cult Says She Did Nothing Wrong, and Would Appreciate Some Vegan Food in Jail

After being arrested in connection with a years-long, country-spanning string of murders, the alleged leader of a “Roko’s Basilisk” cult is insisting she hasn’t done anything wrong — and that she should be granted access to a vegan diet. As the San Fransisco Chronicle reports, Jack “Ziz” LaSota spoke ramblingly during her Maryland bail hearing last… Continue reading Alleged Leader of Roko’s Basilisk Murder Cult Says She Did Nothing Wrong, and Would Appreciate Some Vegan Food in Jail

An OpenAI Engineer Wrote a Wild Reply When Elon Musk’s AI Company Tried to Recruit Him

After Elon Musk’s “anti-woke” AI company tried to poach him, an OpenAI engineer rebuffed the offer in stark terms — and now, he’s airing the dirty laundry. In a post on X, OpenAI’s Javier Soto shared a screenshot of his response to xAI when the company tried to recruit him. “I could not in good… Continue reading An OpenAI Engineer Wrote a Wild Reply When Elon Musk’s AI Company Tried to Recruit Him

There’s Something Very Weird About This $30 Billion AI Startup by a Man Who Said Neural Networks May Already Be Conscious

Three years ago, OpenAI cofounder and former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever raised eyebrows when he  declared that the era’s most advanced neural networks might have already become “slightly conscious.” That flair for hype is on full display at Sutskever’s new venture, another AI outfit sporting the un-subtle name of “Safe Superintelligence.” And if you were fretting… Continue reading There’s Something Very Weird About This $30 Billion AI Startup by a Man Who Said Neural Networks May Already Be Conscious

Grok Caught Following Special Instructions for Queries About Elon Musk

Elon Musk has boasted that his “anti-woke” AI is supposed to be “maximum [sic] truth-seeking.” But as flagged by The Verge, it quickly emerged that when you asked his company xAI’s buzzy new chatbot Grok 3 about disinformation, it had some extremely special instructions for answers about its creator. Over the weekend, a user discovered that when… Continue reading Grok Caught Following Special Instructions for Queries About Elon Musk

Shark Steals Camera, Capturing Amazing Footage From Inside Its Mighty Jaws

Divers hanging out with a school of tiger sharks in the Bahamas had a wild run-in with one particularly curious specimen. A video shared by diver Andrea Ramos Nascimento on Instagram shows a shark gobbling up an Insta360 underwater camera, leading to incredible views from inside the sea creature’s cavernous mouth — before it spits… Continue reading Shark Steals Camera, Capturing Amazing Footage From Inside Its Mighty Jaws

You Are Completely Unprepared for What This Humanoid Servant Robot Looks Like

Norwegian robotics startup 1X has shown off its latest humanoid robot, dubbed Neo Gamma, in a flashy new promotional video claiming to show the bot preparing tea, doing laundry, and vacuuming around the house. In a bid to separate its bipedal household laborer from the far creepier competition, 1X wrapped Neo Gamma in what it’s… Continue reading You Are Completely Unprepared for What This Humanoid Servant Robot Looks Like

OpenAI Researchers Find That Even the Best AI Is “Unable To Solve the Majority” of Coding Problems

OpenAI researchers have admitted that even the most advanced AI models still are no match for human coders — even though CEO Sam Altman insists they will be able to beat “low-level” software engineers by the end of this year. In a new paper, the company’s researchers found that even frontier models, or the most advanced… Continue reading OpenAI Researchers Find That Even the Best AI Is “Unable To Solve the Majority” of Coding Problems

Hypocrite Elon Musk Is Criticizing OpenAI for Not Open Sourcing ChatGPT While Refusing to Do the Same With Grok

Last week, multi-hyphenate billionaire and White House operative Elon Musk made a gigantic $97.4 billion bid to buy the nonprofit that controls OpenAI. Musk cofounded the ChatGPT maker alongside current CEO Sam Altman in 2015, but ragequit four years later after growing frustrated with its direction. Ever since, Musk has maintained that OpenAI needs to… Continue reading Hypocrite Elon Musk Is Criticizing OpenAI for Not Open Sourcing ChatGPT While Refusing to Do the Same With Grok