On Thursday, Bloomberg reported that Tesla CEO Elon Musk has ordered its Dojo supercomputer project to be disbanded after the project’s leader and most of its employees left to join another AI project. The news marked a major setback to the automaker’s efforts to develop its own in-house developed supercomputer to train AI models for…
Actor Gina Carano has publicly thanked Elon Musk after settling her high-profile lawsuit against Disney and Lucasfilm, which alleged she was wrongfully fired from The Mandalorian over her social media posts. The lawsuit, funded by Musk’s X Corp, was dismissed this week after both sides reached an undisclosed agreement. Newsweek contacted Disney and Lucasfilm for…
Robert Keele, the top lawyer at Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI, has resigned from this position. Keele stepped down after just over a year in the role, citing personal reasons and philosophical differences with Musk. Keele announced his decision to resign from xAI by sharing a post social media platform X (formerly known as…
In a statement that has reignited tensions in the AI industry, Elon Musk claimed that OpenAI is poised to “eat Microsoft alive,” just as Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced full integration of GPT-5 across Microsoft’s ecosystem. The comment came shortly after OpenAI unveiled its most advanced model yet, GPT-5, which Nadella hailed as a breakthrough…
Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI, has reignited global debate by declaring that concerns about overpopulation are “the most nihilistic lie ever told.” In a series of posts on X, Musk argued that the real threat facing humanity is not overpopulation but a dramatic, accelerating decline in birth rates. By calling…
In 2025, artificial intelligence is no longer a futuristic concept but a tangible force reshaping the healthcare landscape. Elon Musk recently made a post on X stating, “AI is already better than most doctors. That’s the honest truth. And it will become far better. Same for all jobs tbh, including mine.” Such a candid admission…
China has unveiled a road map to achieve critical technological advances by 2027, with brain-computer interfaces (BCI) playing a pivotal role in the nation’s tech rivalry with the United States. Seven ministries, including the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, jointly released a policy blueprint on Thursday providing innovation and implementation guidelines for China’s BCI…
Chinese brain-computer interface (BCI) companies, such as Nanjing Panda Electronics and MicroPort NeuroScientific, are benefiting from supportive policies, as the country vows to develop “two or three” global players in the sector by 2030 to compete with US entrepreneur Elon Musk’s Neuralink. In a document released on July 30 by seven ministries, including the Ministry…
Delaware’s chancery court stands between Elon Musk and investors willingly offering him a fortune. In 2018, when Tesla was worth around $50bn, the carmaker’s shareholders approved a plan to link Mr Musk’s pay to the value of the company. By January 2024, when the court ruled that the pay package was illegal, the carmaker and…
Elon Musk‘s journey from AI alarmist to AI evangelist has played out noisily on X/Twitter, but now the mercurial billionaire is touting the latest frontier for the technology: a rapid video generation tool that is being used to create deepfake nudes of celebrities. Grok Imagine was rolled out this week to Apple users and has…