REDMOND, WA — According to sources, a local man who paid over $5 a gallon for gas was sure glad he stuck it to Elon Musk by getting rid of his Tesla.
Elon Musk threatened to sue Gibney over the movie, sending a letter to his production company.
A post about AI made to X this week sparked political and media firestorm.
A post about AI made to X this week sparked political and media firestorm. In fact, it currently has over 158 million views: The thing that seems to have really caught people’s attention was when Coxon said, “The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.” Of course, as anyone who regularly reads Culturcidal knows, this sentiment is not new. In fact, more than a year ago, in an article called “Can We Stop AI from Destroying the Future? ” I wrote: “However, one of the biggest goals of people working with AI – and it’s impossible to say at this point if this is something that will happen in a few years or never – is Advanced General Intelligence (AGI). When people talk about…Open
The tech titan is the subject of a scathing new documentary which premiered at the Venice Film Festival this week.
Conservative podcaster Katie Miller has used her social media megaphone to denounce the AI chatbots ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. She hasn't told her followers about her large stake in a rival firm, xAI.
SpaceX will attempt to launch its Falcon 9 rocket for a classified mission for the US Space Force. The three-hour launch window opens at 8:37am Pacific/11:37am Eastern. The mission, the 27th flight for this particular first stage booster, is designated USSF-153 and will launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Following stage separation, the first stage is expected to land on a drone ship stationed in the Pacific Ocean. Watch 24/7 live news with CNN Headlines: https://bit.ly/4eIvlTr #SpaceX #Launch #News
President Trump is promising $5,000 checks for every adult U.S. citizen if Republicans retain control of Congress in the upcoming midterm election. Why it matters: He's made similar suggestions before, many times, none of which ever came to pass. - It'd also cost more than $1 trillion to fulfill. Driving the news: At Wednesday night's GOP midterm convention , Trump made the unexpected offer. - If Republicans keep control of both the House and the Senate, Trump said , ""I will issue a dividend to every adult citizen in the United States of America for $5,000." Yes, but: It's not the first time the president has suggested some sort of rebate for Americans from his administration's policy actions. - In July 2025 and again in October 2025,…
Elon Musk bought Twitter saying civilization needed a "common digital town square." Four years later, it's more like a live group chat for Silicon Valley's AI obsessives . Why it matters: Two years ago, X was fighting off competition from a slew of new entrants. Today, it remains relevant by becoming more niche. - The people making AI news are often debating it, explaining it and occasionally breaking it on X before the rest of the information ecosystem catches up. State of play: New model releases, research papers, demos, hiring moves, high-profile executive exits and technical arguments ricochet through X in real time. - The latest viral example came Tuesday when Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon announced his resignation on X, along…
JOE ALLEN: People like me, billons of people are subject to the decisions made by billionaires. And we were not consulted. We’ve been told that what will make America great again is to build better machines. I believe what will make America great again is to cultivate finer human beings.
An online panic erupted this week after millions discovered that leading AI researchers routinely debate and calculate the risk of human extinction. - Taken at face value, the odds are chilling: 10%, 20%, sometimes far higher, assigned to the possibility of AI catastrophe. Why it matters: An esoteric debate over "p(doom) " has suddenly become a gut-level question for lawmakers, investors and millions of ordinary people: Why are we racing toward a technology its own builders believe could destroy us? Driving the news: A resignation post by Jacob Coxon, an Anthropic researcher who previously worked at OpenAI, has drawn over 110 million views on X after he accused frontier labs of "gambling with our lives." - The warning became vastly…