Tesla is about to tumble off a familiar policy cliff. The $7,500 federal tax credit that juiced demand for electric vehicles in the US, Tesla’s last large, healthy market, ends after September 30, 2025. Tesla has been here before, but the ground underneath the company looks very different today. Let’s dig into what happened last… Continue reading Tesla is about to lose the $7,500 EV tax credit – again – and this time the cliff is a lot steeper
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Tesla is rumored to be behind LG’s $4 billion LFP battery cell order
A rending of LG Energy Solution’s Stand-Alone Battery Manufacturing Complex Project in Arizona / Source: LG Energy Solution Tesla is rumored to be behind a large $4 billion lithium-iron phosphate (LFP) battery cell order with Korea’s LG Energy Solution. Yesterday, LG reported having secured a $4.3 billion order for LFP battery cells from its new… Continue reading Tesla is rumored to be behind LG’s $4 billion LFP battery cell order
Tesla stops taking Model S/X orders in Europe
Tesla has stopped taking new orders for its flagship Model S and Model X vehicles in Europe. It’s not the first time it happened, but it still raises questions. Following the 2021 Model S/X refresh, Tesla ceased taking new orders for the vehicles in Europe for an unexpectedly long period. The refreshed models were unveiled… Continue reading Tesla stops taking Model S/X orders in Europe
Elon Musk Publicly Kicks His AI Employee’s Legs Out From Under Him
Elon Musk publicly took a dump on one of his underlings for the unthinkable crime of using the word “researcher.” At the receiving end of his boss’s wrath was Aditya Gupta, an employee at Musk’s AI startup xAI. “We at [xAI] are looking for researchers and engineers,” Gupta tweeted Tuesday, with a link to a… Continue reading Elon Musk Publicly Kicks His AI Employee’s Legs Out From Under Him
It Doesn’t Take Much Conversation for ChatGPT to Suck Users Into Bizarre Conspiratorial Rabbit Holes
Earlier this month, venture capitalist and OpenAI backer Geoff Lewis posted an alarming video on X-formerly-Twitter, prompting concerns among his peers. Lewis, the managing partner of the multibillion-dollar investment company Bedrock, spoke of an inscrutable “non-governmental system” that “inverts signal until the person carrying it looks unstable,” which he had supposedly uncovered using ChatGPT. He went… Continue reading It Doesn’t Take Much Conversation for ChatGPT to Suck Users Into Bizarre Conspiratorial Rabbit Holes
Lawsuit Claims Meta Pirated Vast Numbers of Dirty Movies to “Train Its AI”
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has been accused of pirating — we are not kidding — a whole adult bookstore’s worth of dirty movies to train its artificial intelligence models. First flagged by the blog TorrentFreak, a copyright company called Strike 3 Holdings and an adult film studio called Counterlife Media have filed suit against Meta, alleging that… Continue reading Lawsuit Claims Meta Pirated Vast Numbers of Dirty Movies to “Train Its AI”
I Watched AI Agents Try to Hack My Vibe-Coded Websit
A few weeks ago, I watched a small team of artificial intelligence agents spend roughly 10 minutes trying to hack into my brand new vibe-coded website. The AI agents, developed by startup RunSybil, worked together to probe my poor site to identify weak spots. An orchestrator agent, called Sybil, oversees several more specialized agents all… Continue reading I Watched AI Agents Try to Hack My Vibe-Coded Websit
Everything You Wanted to Know About China’s Auto Industry Takeover
All products featured on WIRED are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through these links. What is the future of cars? For one thing, after substantial government support and poaching of top Western talent, China’s car industry is about to dominate globally with charging… Continue reading Everything You Wanted to Know About China’s Auto Industry Takeover
How Edward ‘Big Balls’ Coristine and DOGE Got Access to a Federal Payroll System That Serves the FBI
In early February, Edward “Big Balls” Coristine was one of two operatives for Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) granted potentially wide-ranging access to a number of systems at the Small Business Administration (SBA). Through that foray, DOGE gained access to the National Finance Center (NFC), a sensitive system that provides human resources… Continue reading How Edward ‘Big Balls’ Coristine and DOGE Got Access to a Federal Payroll System That Serves the FBI
AIR lands $23M to bring its eVTOLs to the US
The combined forces of escalating geopolitical tensions and rising defense budgets are spurring many electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) makers to take a two-pronged approach to building their aircraft: crewed vehicles for personal or commercial taxi use, and uncrewed vehicles meant for logistics and defense purposes. AIR, an Israel-based startup developing eVTOLs, thought it… Continue reading AIR lands $23M to bring its eVTOLs to the US