Johan Helberg is a retired museum director living out his days on the idyllic shores of Trondheim Fjord in Central Norway. That relaxation was interrupted early Thursday morning, when he awoke to discover the bow of a 9,990-ton cargo ship had rammed through his backyard garden. The vessel, registered as the NCL Salten out of… Continue reading Man Alarmed to Find Ten Thousand Ton Cargo Ship Crashed Into the Garden Next to His House
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Freedom of the Press Foundation Threatens Legal Action if Paramount Settles With Trump Over ’60 Minutes’ Interview
Media advocacy group Freedom of the Press Foundation has sent a warning letter to Paramount mogul Shari Redstone, outlining plans to file a lawsuit if the media company settles a suit brought by President Donald Trump against its subsidiary, CBS. “Corporations that own news outlets should not be in the business of settling baseless lawsuits… Continue reading Freedom of the Press Foundation Threatens Legal Action if Paramount Settles With Trump Over ’60 Minutes’ Interview
Zoox issues second robotaxi software recall in a month following collision
Amazon-owned autonomous vehicle company Zoox has issued its second voluntary software recall in a month, following a collision between one of its robotaxis and an e-scooter rider in San Francisco on May 8. The latest incident involved an unoccupied Zoox vehicle operating at low speed, which the company says was struck by the e-scooter after… Continue reading Zoox issues second robotaxi software recall in a month following collision
TechCrunch Mobility: Uber Freight’s AI bet, Tesla’s robotaxi caveat, and Nikola’s trucks hit the auction block
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! For those U.S.-based readers out there, enjoy the long Memorial Day weekend, and if you’re on the road, expect it to be crowded. AAA projects 45.1 million… Continue reading TechCrunch Mobility: Uber Freight’s AI bet, Tesla’s robotaxi caveat, and Nikola’s trucks hit the auction block
Tesla Full Self-Driving veers off road, flips car in scary crash driver couldn’t prevent
A Tesla vehicle on the latest Full Self-Driving (FSD) Supervised update suddenly veered off road and flipped the car upside down – creating a scary crash that the driver said he couldn’t prevent. We have seen many crashes involving Tesla’s Supervised FSD over the years, but the vast majority of them have a major contributing… Continue reading Tesla Full Self-Driving veers off road, flips car in scary crash driver couldn’t prevent
Tesla ranks under UnitedHealth, Temu, BP in brand reputation poll due to Musk
The 2025 version of the Axios Harris poll of brand reputation is out, and it shows a sharp decline in the reputation of Tesla and other Elon Musk-related brands, putting them among the lowest-ranked brands in America, largely due to the toxicity of Musk himself. The Axios Harris Poll 100 ranks brand reputation of America’s… Continue reading Tesla ranks under UnitedHealth, Temu, BP in brand reputation poll due to Musk
China Is Building an AI-Powered Supercomputer Network in Space
They’re all the rage right now. Space Computer China is launching a space-bound AI supercomputer — and the first batch of the satellites it’s comprised of was just sent up. As the South China Morning Post reports, the so-called “Three-Body Computing Constellation” project launched the first 12 of its planned 2,800 satellites last week from the… Continue reading China Is Building an AI-Powered Supercomputer Network in Space
Terrifying Survey Claims ChatGPT Has Overtaken Wikipedia
A striking graph, which went viral on Reddit last week, shows the purported percentage of internet users visiting OpenAI’s blockbuster AI chatbot ChatGPT overtaking Wikipedia over the past two years. The data, compiled by UK-based market research company GWI, shows a steady decline in the proportion of users visiting Wikipedia worldwide, excluding China. In less… Continue reading Terrifying Survey Claims ChatGPT Has Overtaken Wikipedia
Google’s New Video-Generating AI May Be the End of Reality as We Know It
Google’s got a brand new AI video generator, and it’s so sophisticated that we’re starting to sweat around the collar a bit. Google DeepMind describes the new model, Veo 3, as capable of delivering “best in class quality, excelling in physics, realism and prompt adherence” — and as videos posted to social media indicate, that… Continue reading Google’s New Video-Generating AI May Be the End of Reality as We Know It
Readers Annoyed When Fantasy Novel Accidentally Leaves AI Prompt in Published Version, Showing Request to Copy Another Writer’s Style
Readers were annoyed to discover something galling: evidence that an author used AI, right in the middle of a novel. The novel, titled “Darkhollow Academy : Year 2,” penned by author Lena McDonald, falls under a romance subgenre called “reverse harem,” which conventionally follows a female protagonist with multiple male partners. But as eagle-eyed fans… Continue reading Readers Annoyed When Fantasy Novel Accidentally Leaves AI Prompt in Published Version, Showing Request to Copy Another Writer’s Style