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A single burger at Elon Musk's new Tesla Diner could cost customers as much as $24, fries and drink not included.
Tesla

Your Eyeballs Will Bug Out Like a Retro Cartoon Character When You Hear the Prices at Tesla’s New Burger Joint

This cheeseburger just might give you a heart attack!

A new survey report says that Tesla is the most unpopular electric vehicle carmaker in the world due largely to CEO Elon Musk.
Tesla

Elon Musk’s Tesla Is Now the Most Hated Electric Vehicle Maker

"Tesla’s brand reputation slide continues."

A Bitcoin account has cashed out cryptocurrency they originally bought for $54,000 for a staggering profit of over 17 million percent.
Bitcoin

Someone Just Sold Their 2011 Bitcoin for a 17 Million Percent Profit

Talk about a return on investment.

Marathon Fusion says that fusion energy reactors could also be used to turn mercury isotopes into gold.
Nuclear Fusion

Fusion Startup Says It’s Figured Out How to Turn Mercury Into Gold

With one enormous catch.

A consortium of the world's most powerful moguls are plotting to rule the world by oligopoly, according to tech industry analyst Gil Duran.
The Industrialists

Tech Billionaires Accused of Quietly Working to Implement “Corporate Dictatorship”

"Instead of democracy, we will have basically tech feudalism — fiefdoms run by tech corporations. They're pretty explicit about this point."

Concerns are growing that private equity-led dental companies are pressuring patients into unnecessary treatments, with dangerous results.
Medical

“McDonald’s for Teeth”: Private Equity Is Destroying Our Teeth, Dental Professionals Warn

It’s good business.

Elon Musk's carmaker Tesla is widely expected to disappoint with its Q2 earnings report later today. Investors remain optimistic.
Tesla

Things Are Looking Really, Really Bad for Tesla

"The Tesla story is about Musk."

Tech industry hotshots are speaking out after a prominent OpenAI investor appeared to have a ChatGPT-induced mental health breakdown.
Artificial Intelligence

Tech Industry Figures Suddenly Very Concerned That AI Use Is Leading to Psychotic Episodes

"People have taken their own lives due to ChatGPT."

Axel Springer has repeatedly tried to force AI slop onto Politico — but the publication's writers aren't having any of it.
Artificial Intelligence

Politico’s Owner Is Embarrassing Its Journalists With Garbled AI Slop

"It adds insult to injury."

Chinese company UBTECH recently showed off its bipedal Walker S2 robot contorting its arms to hot swap one of its battery packs.
Robotics

Wild Video Shows Robot Changing Its Own Battery

What do they even need us for anymore?

More than 200 staffers at Elon Musk's AI startup xAI were asked to have their faces recorded while speaking to their coworkers.
xAI

Leaked Documents Show xAI Employees Were Alarmed by Something They Were Asked to Do at Elon Musk’s AI Startup

"Could my face be used to say something I never said?"

Anthropic has long attempted to distinguish itself as being ethical. Now, CEO Dario Amodei revealed he's taking money from "dictators."
Anthropic

Leaked Slack Messages Show CEO of “Ethical AI” Startup Anthropic Saying It’s Okay to Benefit Dictators

"This is a real downside and I'm not thrilled about it."

SpaceX is nine full-scale test launches into developing its Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built. But will it ever work?
Starship

Elon Now Facing the Possibility That SpaceX Will Never Get Starship Working

Was it all for nothing?

As Trump proposes slashing the NASA budget by nearly a quarter, its employees warn that his policies could have outright deadly consequences.
NASA

NASA Employees Submit “Formal Dissent” Saying Trump’s Cuts Are So Brutal That Astronauts Could Die

Ominous.

Police in Florida are eating crow after it was revealed that a random man was wrongfully arrested based on AI.
Facial recognition

Police Use Busted Facial Recognition System, Arrest Random Man and Accuse Him of Horrible Crime

"That’s not how it works."

Trump aides reviewed SpaceX contracts with the federal government to identify waste after the president's falling out with Elon Musk.
SpaceX

After Fight With Musk, Trump Reportedly Ordered Review of Government SpaceX Contracts

The war is on.

A tech entrepeneur using an AI tool to "vibe code" quickly went from praising the tech to fuming about it after it wiped out his database.
Artificial Intelligence

AI-Powered Coding Assistant Deletes Company Database, Says Restoring It Is Impossible

"This was a catastrophic failure on my part," the AI said.

Economist Torsten Slok warned that the current AI bubble is starting to look even worse than the conditions leading up to the dot-com crisis.
Artificial Intelligence

Economist Warns the AI Bubble Is Worse Than Immediately Before the Dot-Com Implosion

"The top 10 companies in the S&P 500 today are more overvalued than they were in the 1990s."

xAI's latest male Grok persona looks suspiciously like a cartoonized version of a 2012 Elon Musk dressed up as French writer Marquis de Sade.
Artificial Intelligence

You Will Die Inside When You Learn Who Elon Musk’s Thirst Trap for Women Is Based on

You'll cringe harder than you thought possible.

A man was hospitalized three times after ChatGPT convinced him he had discovered how to bend time and achieve faster-than-light travel.
OpenAI

How ChatGPT Sent a Man to the Hospital

He knew he was unwell. ChatGPT told him he was fine.