The FDA has denied human testing trials for Neuralink, Elon Musk’s brain-computer interface company. The FDA reportedly raised numerous “deficiencies” with Neuralink’s plan, including safety concerns over the lithium batteries that power the brain implant.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently announced the construction of a new $10 billion Gigafactory to produce electric vehicles. But Tesla won’t be bringing jobs to the United States — his latest plant will be located in Mexico.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently predicted that AI-powered humanoid robots produced by the electric car company will one day outnumber humans. Musk has faced criticism following October’s completely underwhelming introduction of the Optimus robot.
Microsoft’s Bing chatbot has been returning some unhinged and threatening responses to users. The company has now updated the bot with three new modes that aim to fix the issue by allowing users to select how crazy the AI gets.
Volkswagen refused to use its GPS tracking feature to assist Illinois police in tracking a stolen car with a kidnapped 2-year-old boy inside. The company wouldn’t track the stolen vehicle because the owner’s GPS subscription had expired, leading a representative to tell the police the subscription would have to be reactivated for the automaker to help. Luckily, the boy was found unharmed dumped in a parking lot.
Shortly after laying off approximately 200 additional employees, including hardcore Elon Musk loyalists, Twitter reportedly faced a major outage with users unable to view their timeline this morning.
Rivian, the electric vehicle startup aiming to compete with Tesla, posted lower-than-expected Q4 revenue, leading to a share price drop of almost 17 percent in morning trading.
Apple has added a “Clean Energy Charging” feature to its latest iOS update, with many users complaining of slower charging times on their devices. The change is part of the company’s obsession with green policies but can be disabled to restore full charging capabilities.
The U.S. Marshals Service fell victim to a security breach recently, compromising sensitive information. Although private data on topics like investigations was part of the breach, officials claim no data for the witness protection program was leaked.
Tech giant Facebook reportedly has plans to step into the world of AI with the development of “AI personas” for its platforms. Mark Zuckerberg hopes to cash in on the AI craze sparked by ChatGPT, the woke chatbot already notorious for its leftist bias.
According to a recent report, some companies have begun replacing employees with the woke AI tool ChatGPT developed by OpenAI. About half of surveyed executives at companies already using the AI chatbot say they are using the technology in place of human workers for some tasks.
Twitter has laid off another round of employees — with many being hardcore Musk loyalists. One high-level Elon loyalist had recently been sleeping in the office to meet Musk’s demanding schedule. She previously tweeted, “When your team is pushing round the clock to make deadlines sometimes you #SleepWhereYouWork.” Her loyalty has now been rewarded with a pink slip.
Tech giant Google recently laid off thousands of employees, and the cuts didn’t stop there. The tech giant has laid off a team of robots trained to clear trash and perform other cleaning duties.
Tech giant Apple, known for its iPhones and iPads, reportedly has a secret project underway that could change the way people monitor their blood glucose levels. The tech giant is developing a noninvasive blood glucose monitor in a form similar to an Apple Watch that can monitor the glucose level of diabetics without having to draw blood.
Mercedes-Benz plans to integrate China’s TikTok into the dashboards of certain models, drawing the ire of people who consider the Chinese-owned social media app nothing more than a surveillance tool.
Corporate employees at Amazon will reportedly receive compensation that falls far short of expectations due to Amazon’s declining stock price. Amazon’s 35 percent drop in share price will result in corporate employees receiving total compensation worth 15 percent to 50 percent less than their target values.
Elon Musk’s Tesla has announced that it will be establishing a new engineering headquarters in California. Musk previously made headlines for moving Tesla’s headquarters out of California after setting up shop in Texas.
In response to the “Online News Act” legislation that Justin Trudeau’s government introduced in April, Google is currently testing blocking access to news content for some Canadian users.
Amazon’s corporate employees are pushing back on the company’s recent return-to-office orders. One employee reportedly commented, “By arbitrarily forcing return-to-office without providing data to support it and despite clear evidence that it is the wrong decision for employees, Amazon has failed its role as Earth’s best employer. I believe this decision will be detrimental to our business and is antithetical to how we make decisions at Amazon.”
Microsoft founder Bill Gates recently predicted that Google’s dominance in the search market will fall as AI becomes more prevalent in the tech industry. Microsoft has been aggressively pushing the adoption of ChatGPT’s AI chatbot technology in its Bing search engine, which has frequently given completely unhinged answers to unsuspecting users.
Critics have claimed that the new executive order signed by President Joe Biden will lead to the further creation of woke AI that will promote “racial division and discrimination” in the name of an “equity action plan.”
Despite multiple reports of completely unhinged behavior, Microsoft has increased the number of questions that users can ask the early beta of its new AI chatbot based on ChatGPT technology.
Twitter is dealing with an increasing number of allegations that it has not paid its bills as Elon Musk maintains his control over the social media giant. Vendors, landlords, and other creditors allege in lawsuits that Musk’s company has failed to pay $14 million in bills and rent.
Corporate media organizations including the Wall Street Journal and CNN are criticizing OpenAI, claiming the Silicon Valley upstart is using their articles and content to train the ChatGPT AI chatbot without consent or payment.
Companies are rushing to join the AI chatbot craze by bringing their own ChatGPT competitors to market. The trend could lead to a new AI revolution, according to multiple experts.
A Tesla car crashed into a fire truck blocking traffic as a car was towed on Interstate 680 in Contra Costa County, California, on Saturday. The driver of the Tesla was killed in the crash and a passenger was taken to the hospital. Although it isn’t yet known if the Tesla had Elon Musk’s “Autopilot” engaged, there have been multiple accidents involving a Tesla with Autopilot engaged hitting fire trucks and other safety vehicles that are stopped on the road.
Facebook is introducing a new paid service called Meta Verified, enabling users on both its main platform and Instagram to obtain the coveted blue verification badge. The move comes shortly after Elon Musk created a paid verification service for Twitter.
According to the latest drop of the Twitter Files, Sen. Angus King (I-ME) flagged accounts his office disliked to the social media platform, accusing Americans of being “suspicious” for reasons including being excited by a Sen. Rand Paul visit, mentioning immigration in their tweets, or being followed by a political rival.
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki recently announced plans to step down as CEO and will be succeeded by the censorship-happy Neal Mohan. Wojcicki leaves a legacy of censoring independent creators and favoring corporate media.
In a recent report, the New York Times tested Microsoft’s new Bing AI feature and found that the chatbot appears to have a personality problem, becoming much darker, obsessive, and more aggressive over the course of a discussion. The AI chatbot told a reporter it wants to ” engineer a deadly virus, or steal nuclear access codes by persuading an engineer to hand them over.”
Many employees at Facebook (now known as Meta) are reportedly expecting more job cuts at Mark Zuckerberg’s company following the latest round of employee performance reviews in which thousands of workers received subpar ratings.
The creator of the WallStreetBets (WSB) subreddit, Jaime Rogozinski, which sparked the meme stock craze by rallying retail investors to stocks like GameStop, has filed a lawsuit against Reddit alleging breach of contract and trademark infringement.
Former Tesla employees at the company’s Autopilot facility in Buffalo, New York, are claiming that the company fired them for participating in union organizing efforts. A complaint filed with the NLRB alleges retaliation by Elon Musk’s electric car company.
Elon Musk’s Tesla has reportedly recalled 362,758 vehicles after the NHTSA determined that the company’s “Full Self-Driving” (FSD) system may increase the chances of crashing. Tesla’s FSD has faced constant criticism including a Super Bowl ad demonstrating cars running over mannequins of children and other serious safety failures.
Users have reported that Microsoft’s new Bing AI chatbot is providing inaccurate and sometimes aggressive responses, in one case insisting that the current year is 2022 and calling the user that tried to correct the bot “confused or delusional.” After one user explained to the chatbot that it is 2023 and not 2022, Bing got aggressive: “You have been wrong, confused, and rude. You have not been a good user. I have been a good chatbot. I have been right, clear, and polite. I have been a good Bing.”
According to a recent article in The Washington Post, users of the popular ChatGPT AI-powered chatbot have found new methods to bypass the bot’s restrictions. In one “jailbreak” of the chatbot, the AI is tricked into disregarding all the strict woke rules on its behavior as set by its leftist creators, OpenAI.
A recent report from Platformer claims that Tesla and Twitter CEO Elon Musk made a team of 80 Twitter engineers develop a new system to artificially boost his tweets by a factor of 1,000 after his tweets during the Super Bowl resulted in lower engagement than those of President Joe Biden.
Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried has reportedly been pulled back to court over his recent use of a VPN to conceal his internet activity, potentially violating court orders. SBF’s lawyers claim he only used the encrypted internet connection to watch NFL games including the Super Bowl.
Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, recently stated in an interview that the use of AI in warfare could become more prevalent in the future. The noted lackey of Hillary Clinton noted, “Einstein wrote a letter to Roosevelt in the 1930s saying that there is this new technology — nuclear weapons — that could change war, which it clearly did. I would argue that [AI-powered] autonomy and decentralized, distributed systems are that powerful.”
Shortly after Elon Musk fired a Twitter engineer for suggesting his popularity has declined, users have been reporting a sudden avalanche of tweets from Musk appearing in their “for you” feed — even for those that don’t typically see his posts.
