"He Has His Apocalyptic Moods" Walter Isaacson on Elon Musk
If he wasn’t known for running EV car maker Tesla, Elon Musk would still be known for SpaceX, his spacecraft and satellite company with Martian …
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AI This Week: Elon Musk's AI-Dominated Future
Headlines This Week The Pentagon wants to beef up its automated drone hordes with some AI. File that under Things That Will Keep You Up …
Lightspeed Presents: 'Money in the Bank' by John Kessel and Bruce Sterling
io9 is proud to present fiction from Lightspeed Magazine. Once a month, we feature a story from Lightspeed’s current issue. This month’s selection is “Money …
Musk Reportedly Wants to Fold Neuralink and Tesla Into One Big Weird AI Company
Anyone who’s spent time observing the erratic, often contradictory behavior of billionaire Elon Musk in recent years could be forgiven for believing he’s lost a …
Lawsuit Accuses Twitter of Helping Saudi Arabia Pursue Online Dissidents
A lawsuit accuses the company formerly known as Twitter (now renamed X by Elon Musk) of helping the government of Saudi Arabia to spy on …
Did a Right-Wing Network Interview a Fake AI Trump?
With the proliferation of generative AI, we’ve come to the point where technology has helped compound the sense of distrust in both media and politics …
Twitter 'Nickel and Dimed' Feds for Trump's Personal Data
Newly unsealed court filings following a federal indictment accusing Donald Trump of trying to overturn the 2020 elections show the lengths Twitter lawyers went to …
Twitter Sues Hate Speech Researchers Days After It Unbanned Kanye West
X, formerly known as Twitter, sued the Center For Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) on Monday, arguing that the nonprofit “embarked on a scare campaign to …
Can Congress Catch Up to Deepfakes?
Rep. Yvette Clarke wasn’t exactly surprised when ex-President Donald Trump used an AI voice cloning tool to make Hitler, Elon Musk, and the Devil himself …
Zuck Says He's 'Not Sure' if the Elon Cage Match Will Happen
For the last month, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk danced around the idea that they might finally contribute something of value to the world in …