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Tesla is yet again in hot water with regulators over its decision to rely exclusively on cameras for its "Full Self-Driving" feature.
Self-Driving Vehicles

A decision that could haunt him.

Despite increasingly dire global calls to curb deadly emissions, 2023 was apparently the worst year for global warming on record.
Global Warming

"These are more than just statistics."

People canvassing for Elon Musk's America PAC are allegedly dealing with workplace conditions way harsher than expected.
Elon Musk

"I felt embarrassed and played."

Elon Musk was a no-show at his court ordered appearance for a hearing on his pro-Trump scheme to pay voters in swing state.
Elon Musk

He's delaying.

In Silicon Valley, accurately reporting on a tech exec's domestic violence arrest seems to be a punishable offense.
Future Society

A Constitutional scholar is calling bull.

NASA said that Voyager 1 suddenly stopped transmitting after its onboard emergency system activated without warning.
Off-World

But it keeps on ticking.

Google paid billions to license Character.AI's tech — and is now facing hard questions over the AI chatbot company's alleged carelessness.
Google

"These questions would not have been alien to Google prior to this happening."

New York City has been forced to reveal that its AI-powered gun-scanning pilot for its sprawling subway system was a total bust.
Artificial Intelligence

Eat your heart out, Eric Adams.

Elon Musk's SpaceX just launched a bunch of spy satellites for the Pentagon — and some in the DOD are getting worried.
Off-World

And they have good reason to worry.

Linux creator Linus Torvalds dismissed the AI industry as "90 percent marketing" and bemoaned its "hype cycle."
Artificial Intelligence

"My approach to AI right now is I will basically ignore it."

Grok now has image understanding capabilities, and to test and improve, Elon Musk wants you to feed it medical documents.
Developments

It's a terrible idea.

During Google's latest quarterly earnings call, the tech giant's CEO boasted that a large percentage of its new code is written by AI.
Google

"This helps our engineers do more and move faster."

A Tesla purportedly running Full Self-Driving mode fails to recognize a deer on the road and slams into the animal with slowing or stopping.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Guy whose Tesla just obliterated an animal: "FSD works awesome!"

NASA's Orion spacecraft chipped after reentering the Earth's atmosphere during its maiden voyage. The agency remains tight lipped about it.
Moon

"When it comes out, it’ll all come out together."

Elon Musk is hellbent on crashing the economy if Donald Trump is elected, something that could result in "hardship" for many Americans.
Elon Musk

He has promised to crash it himself.

NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) is still spinning through space uncontrollably. One of its boom arms has a bend as well.
NASA

Uh oh.

Nabla, a popular medical AI transcription tool, is powered by OpenAI's Whisper model that researchers have found is horribly unreliable.
Artificial Intelligence

Generative AI and medical documents. What could go wrong?

A driverless Tesla crashed into a woman's car in a mall parking lot while being summoned by its owner through an app.
Tesla

"There was no driver, no passenger. It was an empty car that was driving itself into my car."

The man in charge of the United States stockpile of nuclear missiles, says the Pentagon is doubling down on artificial intelligence.
Nuclear Fusion

What could go wrong?

Chinese space startup Deep Blue Aerospace sold tickets for a 12-minute journey to space, which could take place as soon as 2027.
Off-World

Traveling to space could soon get a lot cheaper.