The TOI correspondent from Washington: Among Silicon Valley elites where tech titans have largely aligned with President Donald Trump’s purportedly race-driven MAGA vision, Indian-American venture capitalist Vinod Khosla has been an outlier. Exceptional as his opposition to Trump has been, the billionaire tech savant has set off a political and cultural firestorm this week with…
London — A CBS News investigation has found that the Grok AI tool on Elon Musk’s X platform is still allowing users to digitally undress people without their consent. The tool still worked Monday on both the standalone Grok app, and for verified X users in the U.K, the U.S. and European Union, despite public pledges…
The European Commission on Monday said it opened an investigation into Elon Musk’s X over the spreading of sexually explicit material by the AI chatbot Grok. The probe is being conducted under the European Union’s sweeping Digital Services Act (DSA) regulation. “The new investigation will assess whether the company properly assessed and mitigated risks associated…
Despite Elon Musk’s multiple proclamations that he is an alien—something he reiterated on the stage of the World Economic Forum on Thursday—the billionaire SpaceX CEO thinks it’s very unlikely there is intelligent life beyond Earth. In a conversation in Davos, Switzerland, with BlackRock CEO and World Economic Forum interim chair Larry Fink, Musk said this…
Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta on Wednesday said it will begin to show advertising on its Threads microblogging service to all users globally starting next week. “With ads on Threads, businesses can authentically join this conversation while finding new ways to connect with the people most interested in…
Elon Musk that Tesla will be restarting work on Dojo3, the third generation of its . The Dojo team had been as the company prioritized the that run on board Tesla vehicles. Musk said the company is returning to the project “now that the AI5 chip design is in good shape.” The purpose of the…
Elon musk and the xAI logo. Vincent Feuray | Afp | Getty Images The Environmental Protection Agency closed a loophole this week that Elon Musk’s xAI had exploited to rapidly stand up its first data center in Memphis, Tennessee. Musk’s artificial intelligence startup created a kind of off-grid power plant for its Colossus facility by…
Elon Musk’s tunneling startup Boring Company is working with a Nevada state-affiliated group to study a tunnel project that would go under the nine-mile stretch of highway from Reno to Tesla’s Gigafactory, according to documents reviewed by Fortune. The Economic Development Authority of Western Nevada (EDAWN), a non-profit that recruits companies to do business and…
Who the hell appointed Elon Musk to be the loudest defender of white men? From the moment the South Africa native took over what was once called Twitter in 2022, the wealthiest human being on Earth has let neo-Nazi accounts flourish while repeating their insistence that white men are an endangered species as the world…
Despite being one of the richest people in the world, Elon Musk doesn’t obsess over his bank balances – wealth is just “shares” in his companies. In a 2014 BBC interview, he shrugged off riches as he said, “It’s not as if there is a pile of cash somewhere… It’s really just that I have…