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Court rules Musk statements on bots misled Twitter investors

Volgens een jury in San Francisco hebben tweets van Musk over nepaccounts in aanloop naar zijn overname van Twitter de aandelenkoers negatief beïnvloed.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on Saturday that the company’s Terafab project to make artificial intelligence (AI) chips will launch in seven days. Musk had said last year that Tesla probably will have to build “a gigantic chip fab” to make AI chips. Tesla is designing its fifth-generation AI chip to power its autonomous ambitions, and Musk at the company’s annual meeting last year laid out potential manufacturing plans. Musk had said at the time that the EV maker could work with Intel and said, “You know, maybe we’ll, we’ll do something with Intel.” “We haven’t signed any deal, but it’s probably worth having discussions with Intel,” he had said. Tesla did not immediately respond to a Reuters request seeking more details about the project. Musk has teased the AI5 chip before and reiterated that Tesla was also partnering with Taiwan’s TSMC and South Korea’s Samsung. The AI chips power Tesla’s autonomous driving systems, including the Full Self-Driving software. “Even when we extrapolate the best-case scenario for ch...

xAI’s Grok drew massive attention on X after delivering profanity-filled roasts of Elon Musk, Benjamin Netanyahu and Keir Starmer following user prompts. xAI’s chatbot Grok has sparked widespread buzz on X after delivering a series of explicit roasts targeting high-profile figures like Elon Musk, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer. The exchanges began after users prompted Grok to produce “extremely vulgar” roasts of political leaders and public figures. The chatbot responded with profanity-filled insults directed at several well-known individuals. “Elon Musk, you pretentious bald fuck with a micro-penis and god complex—you blew $44B on X to stroke your fragile ego after endless ratioings,” the AI chatbot said about Musk, adding that his Teslas “are flaming deathtraps, SpaceX rockets are pricey fireworks, Neuralink fries brains, and your Mars fantasy is cult bait.” Read more

SpaceX pare să fie miza fuziunilor din grupul Musk, după ce xAI și Tesla se întrec în a atrage atenția investitorilor, cu atât mai mult cu cât xAI are o mare nevoie de finanțare, iar SpaceX i-ar putea-o oferi.

Rivalitatea dintre Elon Musk și Jeff Bezos intră într-o nouă etapă. După ani în care a vorbit despre colonizarea planetei Marte, Musk a anunțat că își mută temporar atenția asupra Lunii, unde dorește să construiască un oraș „autosustenabil”.

Door xAI in SpaceX te vouwen schuift Musk de geldproblemen van het AI-bedrijf handig in de schoenen van beleggers.

Wie de glorieuze toekomst van Tesla als AI-bedrijf wil zien, moet naar Texas, is de boodschap van Musk. Maar als je daar al een ‘Robotaxi’ te pakken weet te krijgen, zit er gewoon iemand achter het stuur.

Seventy-five years ago, the idea of harnessing the power of the skies was little more than a fantasy spun by futurists like Arthur C. Clarke and Isaac Asimov. Elon Musk’s mega-merger of his companies xAI and SpaceX this week brings this sci-fi dream a step closer. Nasa engineers and technologists have speculated for nearly two decades about moving energy-hungry computing off the planet. More recently, the idea has captured the attention of Big Tech, including Alphabet and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin. The physics made sense; the solar energy was abundant. Still, the challenges seemed insurmountable. Musk, though, known for betting on seemingly far-out theories and getting them to work, may finally be laying the groundwork to make data centres in space a reality. He is armed with the world’s busiest satellite launch fleet, an AI startup, and an appetite for infrastructure that stretches from Earth to vacuum. “In the long term, space-based AI is obviously the only way to scale,” Musk said on Monday. “To harness even...

Met een deal van $250 mrd neemt SpaceX de start-up xAI over. Musk lijkt het zeer verlieslatende concern daarmee zo snel mogelijk naar de beurs te willen brengen.

Musk voegt zijn AI-bedrijf samen met zijn ruimtevaartbedrijf. Daardoor hoopt hij sterker te staan in de concurrentiestrijd met andere AI-bedrijven om een datacenter te kunnen ontwikkelen in de ruimte.

Elon Musk said on Monday that SpaceX has acquired his artificial-intelligence startup xAI in a record-setting deal that unifies Musk’s AI and space ambitions by combining the rocket-and-satellite company with the maker of the Grok chatbot. The deal represents one of the most ambitious tie-ups in the technology sector yet, combining a space-and-defence contractor with a fast-growing AI developer whose costs are largely driven by chips, data centers and energy. It could also bolster SpaceXs data-center ambitions as Musk competes with rivals like Alphabet’s Google, Meta, Amazon-backed Anthropic and OpenAI in the AI sector. The transaction values SpaceX at $1 trillion, and xAI at $250 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter. Investors in xAI will receive 0.1433 shares of SpaceX for every share of xAI as part of the acquisition, this person said. Some xAI executives may also opt for cash instead of SpaceX stock at $75.46 per share, the person said. “This marks not just the next chapter, but the nex...

Elon Musk’s platform X on Wednesday announced measures to prevent its AI chatbot Grok from undressing images of real people, following global backlash over its generation of sexualised photos of women and children. The announcement comes after California’s attorney general launched an investigation into Musk’s xAI — the developer of Grok — over the sexually explicit material and multiple countries either blocked access to the chatbot or launched their own probes. X said it will “geoblock the ability” of all Grok and X users to create images of people in “bikinis, underwear, and similar attire” in those jurisdictions where such actions are deemed illegal. “We have implemented technological measures to prevent the Grok account from allowing the editing of images of real people in revealing clothing such as bikinis,” X’s safety team said in a statement. “This restriction applies to all users, including paid subscribers.” In an “extra layer of protection”, image creation and the ability to edit photos via X’s Gro...

Tesla-topman Elon Musk heeft vrijdag een overwinning behaald in de rechtbank. Het Hooggerechtshof van de Amerikaanse staat Delaware heeft een megabeloning uit 2018 ter waarde van ongeveer 56 miljard dollar (zo’n 47,8 miljard euro) aan Musk hersteld.

Doge bestaat niet meer, zegt een hoge Amerikaanse regeringsfunctionaris. Daarmee lijkt de bezuinigingsafdeling van Elon Musk een stille dood te sterven. Het is een groot contrast met de bombarie waarmee ze werd opgestart. De kettingzaag van Musk ronkt niet meer. Heeft het initiatief iets opgeleverd? Vijf vragen en antwoorden.

Harde voorwaarde voor Elon Musks megabonus bij Tesla: hij moet minstens 1 miljoen menselijk ogende robots verkopen. Musk zet hoog in: zijn Optimus-robots moeten de armoede uitroeien en massaal banen vervangen. Voorlopig delen ze vooral snoep uit.

Elon Musk expects X Chat to launch within the next few months and promises it won’t sell or share users’ data with advertisers. Tech entrepreneur and billionaire Elon Musk is set to launch a standalone messaging app called “X Chat” to compete with Telegram and WhatsApp, with a rollout expected within the next few months.  “On X, we just rebuilt the entire messaging stack into what’s called ‘X Chat,’” said Musk during The Joe Rogan Experience podcast, which aired on Friday.  Musk said he hopes the new messaging app will be released in a “few months,” adding it won’t have any “hooks for advertising” as he pointed to competitors like WhatsApp, which “knows enough about what you’re texting to know what ads to show you,” he said.  Read more

Elon Musk expects X Chat to launch within the next few months and promises it won’t sell or share users’ data with advertisers. Tech entrepreneur and billionaire Elon Musk is set to launch a standalone messaging app called “X Chat” to compete with Telegram and WhatsApp, with a rollout expected within the next few months.  “On X, we just rebuilt the entire messaging stack into what’s called ‘X Chat,’” said Musk during The Joe Rogan Experience podcast, which aired on Friday.  Musk said he hopes the new messaging app will be released in a “few months,” adding it won’t have any “hooks for advertising” as he pointed to competitors like WhatsApp, which “knows enough about what you’re texting to know what ads to show you,” he said.  Read more

Elon Musk expects X Chat to launch within the next few months and promises it won’t sell or share users’ data with advertisers. Tech entrepreneur and billionaire Elon Musk is set to launch a standalone messaging app called “X Chat” to compete with Telegram and WhatsApp, with a rollout expected within the next few months.  “On X, we just rebuilt the entire messaging stack into what’s called ‘X Chat,’” said Musk during The Joe Rogan Experience podcast, which aired on Friday.  Musk said he hopes the new messaging app will be released in a “few months,” adding it won’t have any “hooks for advertising” as he pointed to competitors like WhatsApp, which “knows enough about what you’re texting to know what ads to show you,” he said.  Read more

Het lijkt weer aan tussen de Amerikaanse president Donald Trump en techmiljardair Elon Musk. Na een periode van ijzige kou, vijandigheid en publieke moddergevechten heeft Trump de strijdbijl met Musk begraven, zo bleek tijdens de reis van de Amerikaanse president door Azië.