Another day, another person of note being singled out by conspiracy theorist and X owner Elon Musk. The mercurial CEO’s latest target is Disney CEO Bob Iger, whose empire recently pulled out of advertising on Musk’s much-maligned social media network. Along with plenty of other big names in the advertising space, Disney decided to call… Continue reading Elon Musk Says CEO of Disney Should Be Fired, Seemingly for Hurting His Feelings
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Google Admits Gemini AI Demo Was at Least Partially Faked
Google has a lot to prove with its AI efforts — but it can’t seem to stop tripping over its own feet. Earlier this week, the tech giant announced Gemini, its most capable AI model to date, to much fanfare. In one of a series of videos, Google showed off the mid-level range of the… Continue reading Google Admits Gemini AI Demo Was at Least Partially Faked
Ex-OpenAI Board Member Refuses to Say Why She Fired Sam Altman
Once again, the mystery deepens. Mum’s The Word The now-former OpenAI board member who was instrumental in the initial firing of CEO Sam Altman has spoken — but she’s still staying mum on why she pushed him out in the first place. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, 31-year-old Georgetown machine learning researcher and… Continue reading Ex-OpenAI Board Member Refuses to Say Why She Fired Sam Altman
Nicki Minaj Fans Are Using AI to Create “Gag City”
Eat your heart out, Barbz. Gag City Fans are anxiously awaiting the drop of Onika “Nicki Minaj” Maraj-Petty’s “Pink Friday 2” — and in the meantime, they’ve occupied themselves with artificial intelligence image generators to create visions of a Minajian utopia known as “Gag City.” The entire “Gag City” gambit began with zealous (and perhaps… Continue reading Nicki Minaj Fans Are Using AI to Create “Gag City”
Elon Musk Drags Grimes’ Tweets Into Increasingly Nasty Custody Battle
You simply hate to see it. California Love The custody fight between Tesla CEO Elon Musk and ex-girlfriend Claire “Grimes” Boucher is heating up as the dueling Canadians duke it out over whether or not the latter lives in Texas. According to court filings viewed by Business Insider, Musk has cited several of Boucher’s tweets… Continue reading Elon Musk Drags Grimes’ Tweets Into Increasingly Nasty Custody Battle
Sam Altman Got So Many Texts After Being Fired It Broke His Phone
“It felt like a dream. I was confused. It was chaotic. It did not feel real.” You’re F-Hired It’s been a bizarre couple of weeks for OpenAI. First, CEO Sam Altman was unexpectedly ousted by the company’s non-profit board. Several ersatz CEOs, an impending mutiny, and a reshuffling of the board later, the executive was… Continue reading Sam Altman Got So Many Texts After Being Fired It Broke His Phone
CEO of Twitter Posts Brain-Meltingly Idiotic Message About Elon’s Foulmouthed AI
Earlier this year, X owner Elon Musk announced the creation of a new AI venture dubbed xAI. The newly-created company wasted no time in unveiling its first AI model, dubbed Grok, an astoundingly vulgar dad joke generator that was allegedly trained on posts submitted by X users. To hype up its AI model, X CEO… Continue reading CEO of Twitter Posts Brain-Meltingly Idiotic Message About Elon’s Foulmouthed AI
New Factory About to Open Will Pump Out Humanoid Robots
“We want to get to general-purpose humanoids as soon as we can.” Pumping Out Robots The world’s first factory mass-produced humanoid robots will soon be opening in the Pacific Northwest. God help us all. Agility Robotics CEO Damion Shelton told Axios in an unsettling interview that the company is slated to make 10,000 robots at its… Continue reading New Factory About to Open Will Pump Out Humanoid Robots
A Gigantic Hole Just Opened Up in the Sun
It’s absolutely huge. Solar Hole A massive hole opened up in the Sun’s atmosphere over the weekend, measuring more than 60 times the diameter of the Earth across at its peak. Coronal holes like this one, imaged by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, occur when the Sun’s magnetic field suddenly allows a huge stream of the… Continue reading A Gigantic Hole Just Opened Up in the Sun
The Cybertruck’s Giant Windshield Wiper Is Floppy
Wait… what!? Droopy Wiper We appear to have gotten a peek at one of the biggest mysteries plaguing car culture today: the single massive windshield wiper blade on Tesla’s Cybertruck, the end of which is seemingly made from a floppy, rubber-like material. In other words, it may not be composed of multiple standard-issue wiper blades after… Continue reading The Cybertruck’s Giant Windshield Wiper Is Floppy