Waymo robotaxis are making their way to more American cities, but they’re not always winning the hearts and minds of the people who live there. The autonomous cars have been spotted blundering the wrong way down a street and causing traffic jams, and residents have quickly grown fed up with their obnoxious back-up noise. They’re… Continue reading Family Baffled By Waymo Robotaxis Constantly Hanging Out in Front of Their House
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Tesla Announces Plans to Give Elon Musk $1 Trillion
Tesla’s board has proposed an unprecedented pay package for its CEO Elon Musk: around $1 trillion worth of shares, Bloomberg reports. It’s a major escalation in the firm’s increasingly desperate attempts to encourage its highly divisive leader to stick around and stay attentive. That’s despite Tesla’s core business imploding over the past year, largely the… Continue reading Tesla Announces Plans to Give Elon Musk $1 Trillion
Horrible Things Are Happening at Antarctic Facilities
If you think your job is tough, just be glad you haven’t had to do a tour at an Antarctic research base. A horrifying new workplace survey by the US National Science Foundation is raising alarms about a terrible HR crisis unfolding on the white continent. In particular, the report found that sexual assault, sexual… Continue reading Horrible Things Are Happening at Antarctic Facilities
A Quarter of Nvidia’s Revenue Comes From a Single Giant Customer
In case you haven’t heard, there might be a slight problem with the US economy: that it’s being propped up by a tiny number of tech companies betting big on an AI revolution. Among the tech titans, no company is more important than the AI chip maker Nvidia. Often likened to a shovel seller during… Continue reading A Quarter of Nvidia’s Revenue Comes From a Single Giant Customer
Sam Altman Says He’s Suddenly Worried Dead Internet Theory Is Coming True
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, creator of the most popular AI chatbot on Earth, says he’s starting to worry that “dead internet theory” is coming true. “I never took the dead internet theory that seriously,” Altman tweeted in his typical all-lowercase style, “but it seems like there are really a lot of LLM-run twitter accounts now.”… Continue reading Sam Altman Says He’s Suddenly Worried Dead Internet Theory Is Coming True
Elon Musk’s New Robot Demo Is Astonishingly Bad
Hot off of proudly announcing that he had replaced 4,000 people with AI at his company, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff posted a video of Tesla’s humanoid robot, Optimus, calling it a “productivity game-changer.” However, going by the 52-second clip, the carmaker has a long way to go until it can successfully have AI-powered bipedal robots… Continue reading Elon Musk’s New Robot Demo Is Astonishingly Bad
Desperate Companies Now Hiring Humans to Fix What AI Botched
For a while now, we’ve been seeing companies that fired a bunch of their human workers in favor of artificial intelligence move to recoup some of that flesh-and-blood labor. Now, that push has resulted in a new line of gig work: slop fixer-uppers, who get paid to improve AI-generated art, writing, and code — by making… Continue reading Desperate Companies Now Hiring Humans to Fix What AI Botched
Donald Trump Snubs Elon Musk Yet Again, Invites All of His Biggest Competitors to the White House
Musk’s biggest competitors were invited to the White House — but he wasn’t. President Donald Trump is throwing a major party in the White House’s recently paved-over Rose Garden for some of the biggest names in tech — but billionaire Elon Musk’s name isn’t on the list. As The Hill first reported, the upcoming event… Continue reading Donald Trump Snubs Elon Musk Yet Again, Invites All of His Biggest Competitors to the White House
Tesla Software Update Will Deploy Airbags Before Crash Actually Happens
Tesla is issuing a controversial software update that allows its AI-enhanced camera system, dubbed Tesla Vision, to pre-emptively deploy frontal airbags before a collision occurs. “This upgrade builds upon your vehicle’s superior crash protection by now using Tesla Vision to help offer some of the most cutting-edge airbag performance in the event of a frontal crash,”… Continue reading Tesla Software Update Will Deploy Airbags Before Crash Actually Happens
AI Startup Says It Will End Crime by Blanketing the Entire United States in Ever-Watching Spy Cameras
Crime rates in the United States, as a matter of statistical fact, have fallen drastically over the past 30 years — but at the same time, due to a mix of sensational news reporting and irresponsible political rhetoric, the average American mistakenly believes they’re increasing. And now, barreling into that reality is a 38-year-old tech… Continue reading AI Startup Says It Will End Crime by Blanketing the Entire United States in Ever-Watching Spy Cameras