Hyundai’s Boston Dynamics has hired Milan Kovac, Tesla’s former senior vice president and head of the Optimus humanoid robot program, as a group adviser and outside director. The move is a major blow to Tesla’s humanoid robot ambitions and a significant coup for Hyundai, which is clearly serious about dominating the nascent humanoid robot market.… Continue reading Hyundai’s Boston Dynamics scoops up Tesla’s former Optimus head Milan Kovac
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AI Data Centers Pushing Electric Grid Into Meltdown
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images AI data centers on the East Coast are gobbling up so much juice that nonprofit grid operator PJM may be forced to enact rolling blackouts on its customers during both heat waves and exceptionally cold weather just to protect the grid’s integrity. These blackouts would impact… Continue reading AI Data Centers Pushing Electric Grid Into Meltdown
Furious Protestor Tears AI-Generated Art Off Wall of Exhibit, Chews It Up Into Tiny Shreds Using His Teeth
The use of generative AI for creative purposes has spawned a major countermovement. From game developers reeling from a wave of criticism for using the tech to artists staging mass protests against AI, the backlash against what’s being hailed as a technological revolution grew massively last year. In a startlingly literal example of this growing… Continue reading Furious Protestor Tears AI-Generated Art Off Wall of Exhibit, Chews It Up Into Tiny Shreds Using His Teeth
Trump Administration Cancels Grotesquely Unethical Medical Study After Being Caught Red Handed
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP via Getty Images What do you get when you put a vaccine conspiracy theorist in charge of the agency responsible for funding medical research throughout the globe? A recipe for Tuskegee 2.0, apparently. Some bombshell reporting over the last month has revealed a monstrous… Continue reading Trump Administration Cancels Grotesquely Unethical Medical Study After Being Caught Red Handed
Ads Are Coming to ChatGPT. Here’s How They’ll Work
OpenAI plans to start testing ads inside ChatGPT in the coming weeks, marking a significant shift for one of the world’s most widely used AI products. The company announced Friday that initial ad tests will roll out in the United States before expanding globally. OpenAI says ads will not influence ChatGPT’s responses, and that all… Continue reading Ads Are Coming to ChatGPT. Here’s How They’ll Work
Canada is going to start importing Chinese EVs — will the US follow?
Transportation President Trump recently signaled he was fine with Chinese automakers setting up shop in the US. But there are still a lot of hurdles to clear. President Trump recently signaled he was fine with Chinese automakers setting up shop in the US. But there are still a lot of hurdles to clear. by Andrew… Continue reading Canada is going to start importing Chinese EVs — will the US follow?
Researchers Just Found Something That Could Shake the AI Industry to Its Core
For years now, AI companies, including Google, Meta, Anthropic, and OpenAI, have insisted that their large language models aren’t technically storing copyrighted works in their memory and instead “learn” from their training data like a human mind. It’s a carefully worded distinction that’s been integral to their attempts to defend themselves against a rapidly growing… Continue reading Researchers Just Found Something That Could Shake the AI Industry to Its Core
‘Sideshow’ concerns and billionaire dreams: What I learned from Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI
Highlights from Musk v. Altman. Highlights from Musk v. Altman. by Alex Heath Jan 16, 2026, 1:15 PM UTC Alex Heath is a contributing writer and author of the Sources newsletter. This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once… Continue reading ‘Sideshow’ concerns and billionaire dreams: What I learned from Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI
Clean Technica: Ah, THIS Is Why Tesla “Full Self Driving” Sales End On February 14004325
Support CleanTechnica’s work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Yesterday, I wrote about Tesla’s decision to stop selling “Full Self Driving” after February 14. One of the main questions was, “Why February 14?” Well, one of our readers pointed out the now-obvious reason to us now. Mark Spohr writes: “How about: February 14 is… Continue reading Clean Technica: Ah, THIS Is Why Tesla “Full Self Driving” Sales End On February 14004325
RFK Jr Startled by Trump’s Ability to Remain Alive Despite Dumpster-Tier Diet
Mandel Ngan / AFP via Getty Images Much ink has been spilled over US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s dalliances with anti-vaccine conspiracy theories, brain worms, nicotine pouches, and bizarre self-treatment with a synthetic dye known as methylene blue. In spite of all those wellness eccentricities of his own, Kennedy is apparently in awe… Continue reading RFK Jr Startled by Trump’s Ability to Remain Alive Despite Dumpster-Tier Diet