Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, whose company has invested billions of dollars in ChatGPT maker OpenAI, has had it with the constant hype surrounding AI. During an appearance on podcaster Dwarkesh Patel’s show this week, Nadella offered a reality check. “Us self-claiming some [artificial general intelligence] milestone, that’s just nonsensical benchmark hacking to me,” Nadella told… Continue reading Microsoft CEO Admits That AI Is Generating Basically No Value
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Body Panels Flying Off Cybertrucks on Highway, Drivers Report
Tesla’s Cybertruck has quickly become an extremely politically charged target of anti-Elon Musk sentiment. The bulky steel tanks seem to court vandals and loathing almost everywhere they go. But when spray paint is the worst a Cybertruck driver has to worry about, they’ve gotten off easy — there are now several reports of the 6,600-pound… Continue reading Body Panels Flying Off Cybertrucks on Highway, Drivers Report
Windows at Tesla Dealership Blown Out by Gunfire
As anti-Elon-Musk sentiment reaches a fever pitch, a Tesla dealership has found itself caught in the crossfire — again. Local authorities and federal agents are investigating a shooting that took place early Wednesday morning at the automaker’s location in Salem, Oregon, per The Salem Reporter. Police discovered windows completely blown out or riddled with bulletholes… Continue reading Windows at Tesla Dealership Blown Out by Gunfire
Startup Investors Foaming at the Mouth To Carve Up Your Job With AI
If there’s one throughline linking us to our ancestors at the birth of industrial society, it’s the anxiety of automation. Back then it was the robber barons pushing the mechanized loom — and now it’s kids in their 20s founding tech startups. Meet Mercor: the software that might decide whether you get that next job,… Continue reading Startup Investors Foaming at the Mouth To Carve Up Your Job With AI
Large Law Firm Sends Panicked Email as It Realizes Its Attorneys Have Been Using AI to Prepare Court Documents
The law firm Morgan & Morgan has rushed out a stern email to its attorneys after two of them were caught citing fake court cases invented by an AI model, Reuters reports. Sent earlier this month to all of its over 1,000 lawyers, the email warns at length about the tech’s proclivity for hallucinating. But the… Continue reading Large Law Firm Sends Panicked Email as It Realizes Its Attorneys Have Been Using AI to Prepare Court Documents
This Muscle-Powered Robot Might Be the Creepiest Thing We’ve Ever Seen
Forget valleys; we’re now entering veritable Grand Canyons of uncanniness. Behold the robot known as “Protoclone,” built by Clone Robotics. It’s supposedly the world’s first bipedal, musculoskeletal android. But it’s mostly just got people extremely creeped out. In a promotional video shared on X this Wednesday, the startup — of which little is known —… Continue reading This Muscle-Powered Robot Might Be the Creepiest Thing We’ve Ever Seen
Mother of Elon Musk’s Child Begs Him for Help With Their Kid’s “Medical Crisis”
As Elon Musk wielded a chainsaw during a baffling appearance at a political event, the mother of several of his children is begging for help, saying he’s not responding to an urgent issue around one of their kids’ health. In a since-deleted post on X-formerly-Twitter, the 36-year-old songstress and producer Claire “Grimes” Boucher implored Elon… Continue reading Mother of Elon Musk’s Child Begs Him for Help With Their Kid’s “Medical Crisis”
Elon Musk Is Flagrantly Gutting an Agency in Charge of Regulating Tesla
Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency is gutting the the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which has a long history of investigating the unelected White House advisor’s EV maker Tesla. As the Washington Post reports, between 70 and 80 people — or roughly ten percent of the small agency’s headcount — will be cut. As… Continue reading Elon Musk Is Flagrantly Gutting an Agency in Charge of Regulating Tesla
New Polling Shows Americans Increasingly Disgusted With Elon Musk
Unelected White House budget slasher and richest man in the world Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency has ripped through the federal government like a bull in a china shop. The billionaire’s hodge-podge team of underqualified 20-somethings — and at least one literal teenager — have already ripped up countless government contracts and fired… Continue reading New Polling Shows Americans Increasingly Disgusted With Elon Musk
Explorers Discover First Pharaoh Tomb in Over 100 Years
A British-Egyptian team of researchers has discovered what it says is the first pharaoh’s tomb in over a century. As the BBC reports, the team discovered the tomb of King Thutmose II in the Western valleys of the Theban Necropolis, near Luxor, Egypt. “It is an extraordinary moment for Egyptology and the broader understanding of… Continue reading Explorers Discover First Pharaoh Tomb in Over 100 Years