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Musk is admitting that his AI company xAI is in deep trouble — and in need of a deep overhaul, a surprising admission.

Elon Musk Says He’s Epically Screwed Up at xAI, Is Rebuilding “From the Foundations”

By Victor Tangermann

Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell are shown in a distorted digital style.

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Character.AI Is Hosting Epstein Island Roleplays Scenarios and Ghislaine Maxwell Bots

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Close-up of a waving American flag showing the blue field with white stars and red and white stripes.

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Insiders Afraid the Government Will Nationalize the AI Industry

Mark Zuckerberg watches intently through a chain-link fence at a mixed martial arts fight inside a cage, where two fighters are engaged on the ground under red lighting.

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Zuckerberg Loudly Booed at His Safe Space

By Frank Landymore

Two teal and silver robots with white heads are handling yellow bins in an industrial setting, likely a warehouse or sorting facility. One robot is holding a yellow bin, while the other is positioned near a row of yellow bins on shelves. A person in a green hoodie and gray pants stands in the background observing the robots. The environment includes industrial equipment, tables, and various cables.

Amazon Staffers Learning Hard Lesson as Company Cuts Robotics Jobs

Jeff Bezos is sitting in a with piles of US currency stacked around him and on his lap, set against a bright yellow background.

Jeff Bezos Gathering Money to Buy Companies Gutted by AI

Experts remain highly skeptical, questioning the financial feasibility and the technological limitations of running orbital data centers.

Data Centers in Space Are Even More Cursed Than Previously Believed

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk wearing a black tuxedo with a bow tie, captured with a zoom blur effect that creates a dynamic, radiating motion around him.

Government Insiders Concerned by Musk’s Erratic and Sycophantic Grok Being Deployed for Incredibly Sensitive Purposes

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Jack Dorsey Lays Off 4,000 Employees After Move to AI

Close-up of Bill Gates, shown in a yellowish tint. The background features a red grid pattern with a large green circle behind the Gates' head.

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Bill Gates Admits to Multiple Affairs in Epstein Fallout

A close-up of a Elon Musk's face in a red monochrome filter, resting his chin on his hand with a contemplative expression. Two white dice with black dots are floating near his face against a bright yellow background.

Man Bet Entire Life Savings of $342,195.63 That Elon Musk Would Fail

A stylized portrait of Sam Altman wearing large, white-framed sunglasses. The image has an orange tint on Altman's face and a bright yellow circular background behind his head. The surrounding background is gray with colorful question marks in red, green, purple, and orange scattered throughout.

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Tech CEOs Confused by Why Everybody Hates AI So Much

A stylized image of Elon Musk, wearing a black jacket and a black cap, with his arms crossed. The man is tinted red against a bright yellow background with a large blue circle. To the right, there is a dark silhouette of a person holding a gun to their head, positioned in front of the blue circle. The overall image has a textured, crumpled paper effect.

Man Letting AI Rent Human Bodies Says Elon Musk Is His Hero

A group of five serious-faced people in blue tones are giving thumbs-down gestures against a bright yellow background. In the foreground, Elon Musk is smiling and blurred, contrasting with the disapproving expressions behind him.

Court Having Trouble Assembling Jury for Elon Musk Because People Hate Him So Much

By Frank Landymore

A red-tinted image of Elon Musk's face is overlaid within the shape of the United States. The background is blue with large white stars evenly spaced, resembling the American flag.

Elon Musk Boasts That Grok Says America Isn’t Built on Stolen Land, Which It Obviously Is

By Frank Landymore

SpaceX and xAI are competing in a Pentagon contest to produce voice-controlled, autonomous drone swarming tech.

SpaceX Angling for Military Contract to Produce Drone Swarms

By Victor Tangermann

Former xAI staffers told The Verge they grew frustrated with the company's ethical carelessness and stagnating technological progress.

Former xAI Staffers Say They Were Burned Out by the Company’s Carelessness and Lack of Innovation

By Victor Tangermann

Despite plenty of optimism, a striking number of Elon Musk's xAI's cofounders are jumping ship amid restructuring efforts.

Cofounders Fleeing Elon Musk’s xAI

By Victor Tangermann

A yellow-tinted wooden catapult with wheels is shown against a dark red grid background. The catapult's arm is holding a realistic, grayscale image of the moon in its sling.

Erratic Elon Musk Tells Employees to Build Massive Catapult on Moon

By Frank Landymore

Elon Musk appeared to have had a major change of heart, putting a Mars city on hold. He's been going through it ever since.

Elon Musk Going Through It After Putting Mars City on Ice

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Joi Ito and others are sitting around a rectangular dining table with a white tablecloth in a dimly lit room. The table has several glasses of water and wine, plates, and cutlery. Two pendant lights hang above the table, casting light on the center. Musk is highlighted by a red circle.

Photo Shows Elon Musk at Jeffrey Epstein Dinner

By Frank Landymore

The image shows a close-up of Elon Musk's face on the right side, with a yellowish-green tint and a textured effect. On the left side, there is a red background displaying a partially redacted email conversation dated Saturday, September 22, 2012, between Kira D and Jeffrey Epstein. The email mentions organizing a massage and references "elon MUSK" in the text. Some parts of the email are blacked out for privacy.

Internet Sleuths Just Found Something About Elon Musk Getting a Massage in the Epstein Files

By Frank Landymore

Tesla's shares have been plummeting since the DOJ's release, implicating CEO Elon Musk and his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.

Tesla Stock Plummeting Since Musk Busted in Epstein Files

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk is shown in a black and white photo. He is wearing a dark sweater over a striped collared shirt and looking to the right. The background is bright yellow with a large red circle featuring a grid pattern behind his head.

Elon Laments That in Spite of His Obscene Wealth, He Still Can’t Find Happiness

When an X account asked Grok to find the "probability" that NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani is somehow related to Epstein, it had a baffling answer.

Grok’s Analysis of Whether Mamdani Is Related to Epstein May Be the Single Most Amazing AI Response We’ve Ever Seen

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk is lashing out on X about the latest Epstein files, accusing the media of lying and making increasingly desperate sounding defenses.

Elon Musk Not Doing Well After Epstein Files Reveal

By Frank Landymore

Tesla's shares plummeted when trading resumed on Monday, dropping over 3.5 percent in early trading following Elon Musk's Epstein revelations.

Tesla Stock Took a Beating After Elon Musk’s Epstein Island Revelations

By Victor Tangermann

Newly released documents show how Elon Musk extensively communicated with Jeffrey Epstein to plan parties and trips to his island.

Elon Musk Emailed Extensively With Jeffrey Epstein, Asking to Visit His Notorious Island

By Frank Landymore

As Reuters reports, Elon Musk is hoping to merge his AI startup, xAI, with SpaceX — a baffling plan that raises plenty of questions.

Elon to Merge SpaceX and xAI

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla CEO Musk revealed that the company's factory in Fremont, California, would be transformed into a production facility for robots.

Elon Musk Shutting Down Tesla Car Factory to Manufacture Robots Instead

By Victor Tangermann

After a bizarre screening of the first-lady's documentary "Melania," American tech titans have been tongue-tied.

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Tech Execs Weirdly Silent After Private Screening of “Melania” Documentary

Users on online prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket are making big bucks off of Musk's track record for making wrong predictions.

Elon Musk Haters Have Found a Hilariously Easy Way to Make Money on Polymarket

By Victor Tangermann

In light of plummeting sales and shrinking profits, Tesla has killed its Autopilot suite in the United States and Canada for good.

Tesla Kills Autopilot After Storm of Criticism, Paywalls Basic Features

By Victor Tangermann

The CEO of Ryanair Michael O'Leary thanked Elon Musk for railing against the airline, claiming it's brought in more bookings.

Elon Musk Is So Unlikable That His Feud With Random Airline Is Doing Wonders for Sales, Says CEO

By Frank Landymore

The suits were filed this month from two different employees working at SpaceX's Starbase facility in South Texas.

SpaceX Hit With Back to Back Lawsuits From Workers Who Say They Were Brutally Injured on the Job

By Frank Landymore

Recent sightings of an early Tesla Cybercab prototype in Chicago suggest the company is adding a rear-facing camera washer.

Tesla Cybercab Spotted Dripping Liquid

By Victor Tangermann

Today's tech founders are obsessed with building their companies, leaving little room for relationships or even one-time flings.

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Young Tech Bros Are Embracing Celibacy in Favor of the All-Consuming Drive for Wealth

An Amazon fulfillment center in Texas became a murder scene after a shooting left one man dead and two others implicated in his murder.

Arrests Made for Murder at Amazon Facility

By Sharon Adarlo

Tesla CEO Elon Musk suggested Tesla is ready to move on from the EV and is looking to capitalize on the next big hype cycle.

Elon Musk Says His Optimus Robot Is So Dope That People Will Forget Tesla Ever Made Cars

By Victor Tangermann

Ashley St. Clair, an influencer who had a child with Musk, is now suing xAI, accusing it of allowing users to generate lewd pictures of her.

Mother of Elon Musk’s Child Sues xAI Over Grok Abuse

By Victor Tangermann

A new survey shows that pretty much everyone hates the idea of Elon Musk's Grok generating nudes of real adults and minors.

Opposition to Elon Musk’s AI Stripping Clothing Off Children Is Nearly Universal, Polling Shows

By Frank Landymore

Israeli cybersecurity billionaire Shlomo Kramer has called for complete government censorship of social media.

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Tech Billionaire Says It’s Time for the Government to Suspend Freedom of Speech

X users continue to use Grok to generate nonconsensual porn of women and literal children. Will X or xAI stop it?

Live Coverage: Is Grok Still Being Used to Create Nonconsensual Sexual Images of Women and Girls?

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk's response to his AI chatbot Grok being used to generate sexual depictions of minors doesn't inspire confidence.

Elon Musk After His Grok AI Did Disgusting Things to Literal Children: “Way Funnier”

By Frank Landymore

New reporting revealed that one of Elon Musk's top lawyers, Jaymie Parkkinen, moonlights as a professional clown.

You Will Never in 100 Years Guess What Elon Musk’s Lawyer Does as a Side Job

On a recent podcast appearance, Elon Musk declared that his Starship rocket was on par with the evolution of multicellular life.

Elon Says His New Rocket Is as Important as the Origin of Life Itself

SpaceX bought over 1,000 Cybertrucks from Tesla, a number that could rise to 2,000 over time, according to Electrek.

SpaceX Is Buying Up an Unfathomable Number of Cybertrucks

By Victor Tangermann

Private space tourist and billionaire pilot Jared Isaacman has officially been confirmed as NASA administrator.

New NASA Director Taking Over Agency in Crisis

By Victor Tangermann

MI6's new chief, Blaise Metreweli, devoted a large portion of her first speech to the issue of all-powerful tech corporations.

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Top Spy Says Tech Corporations Are Closer to Running Entire World Than Governments

Grok declared that it would be okay with genociding close to half of all children in the world to save Elon Musl.

Grok, Now Built Into Teslas for Navigation, Says It Would Run Over a Billion Children to Avoid Hitting Elon Musk

By Frank Landymore

As economic discontent grows, tech billionaires are pouring money into some 120 "startup societies" where they can reign supreme.

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Tech Billionaires Are Starting Private Cities to Escape the United States

A new video appears to show a Tesla Optimus humanoid robot stumbling backwards after its teleoperator tried to take off their headset.

Amazing Video Shows Tesla Optimus Teleoperator Taking Off Headset, Causing Robot to Stumble and Collapse

By Victor Tangermann

Mike Winkelmann, also known as the digital artist Beeple, has a bizarre new art instillation with billionaire heads on robot dog bodies.

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Billionaires’ Fleshy Heads Put on Robot Dog Bodies

Grok provided us with detailed stalking manuals and gave us Google Maps links to hotels where it said we could "surprise" a real celebrity.

Elon Musk’s Grok Is Providing Extremely Detailed and Creepy Instructions for Stalking

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Palantir CEO Alex Karp recently rhapsodized that US air strikes on Venezuelan civilians would be good for business, if only it were legal.

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Palantir CEO Says Legalizing War Crimes Would Be Good for Business

Elon Musk's Grox chatbot will happily cough up real, current residential addresses of everyday Americans, with little to no prompting.

Elon Musk’s Grok AI Is Doxxing Home Addresses of Everyday People

By Maggie Harrison Dupré, Joe Wilkins

Residents of Boxtown, Tennessee say Elon Musk's xAI "Colossus Supercomputer" is turning the air into a noxious chemical brew.

Nearby Residents Say Elon Musk’s Gigantic Supercomputer Is Making Them Sick

It really seems like Elon Musk's AI chatbot, Grok, just posted Dave Portnoy's home address for millions to see.

Grok Appears to Have Doxxed Dave Portnoy’s Home Address

Faced with an incredibly lopsided ethical dilemma, Grok prioritizes saving Elon Musk at the expensive of millions of Jews.

Grok Says It Would Kill Every Jewish Person on the Planet to Save Elon Musk

By Frank Landymore

An inquiry led by Republican senator Ted Cruz is blaming life-saving car safety regulations for the rising cost of cars.

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Republicans Complain That Cars Have Become Too Safe, Say It Must Be Reversed

At a conference alongside Elon Musk, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang suggested that any AI productivity gains will leave us working more, not less.

Nvidia CEO Says Instead of Taking Your Job, AI Will Force You to Work Even Harder

According to a lawsuit, Mark Zuckerberg allegedly directed his company to prioritize the metaverse over youth safety, among other violations.

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Mark Zuckerberg Allegedly Said Child Safety Was Less Important Than “Building the Metaverse”

Politico reported that "former and current DOGE employees" — fear that they're at risk of prosecution, now that Elon Musk has left.

DOGE Operatives Scared They’re in Real Trouble Now That Elon Has Abandoned Them

By Victor Tangermann

Many of Elon Musk's X's most inflammatory users are actually foreign scammers, according to a new feature introduced by the platform.

Twitter’s New Feature Accidently Reveals Something Fascinating About Huge MAGA Influencers

By Victor Tangermann