Want to See How Bad Twitter’s Bot Problem Is? Ask for Crypto Help.
Twitter, the platform formally known as X, has a bot problem. If you want to see just how bad it is, I’ll teach you the magic words that summon the…
Musk Reportedly Wants to Fold Neuralink and Tesla Into One Big Weird AI Company
Anyone who’s spent time observing the erratic, often contradictory behavior of billionaire Elon Musk in recent years could be forgiven for believing he’s lost a sense of direction. That tale…
Lawsuit Accuses Twitter of Helping Saudi Arabia Pursue Online Dissidents
A lawsuit accuses the company formerly known as Twitter (now renamed X by Elon Musk) of helping the government of Saudi Arabia to spy on and violate the human rights…
AI This Week: Chuck’s Big Meeting with Zuck and Elon
Headlines This Week In what is sure to be welcome news for lazy office workers everywhere, you can now pay $30 a month to have Google Duet AI write emails for…
‘Bring Back Twitter!’ Elon Gets Booed at Video Game Tournament
Photo: cristiano barni / Shutterstock.com (Shutterstock) It seems Elon Musk isn’t very popular in the video game community, at least not among the gamers who gathered for the Valorant World…
Tesla Speeds Toward Twin Trials Over Autopilot-Related Crashes
Image: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images) Tesla has certainly been overly ambitious in advertising an Autopilot feature that doesn’t really work, and now it’s facing legal ramifications over its cars’ self-driving…
Elon Musk’s X is Testing User Verification That Requires Government ID
X (the social media site formerly known as Twitter) is in the process of launching a new identity verification feature that could prove controversial. The feature, which is currently only…
Bitcoin Freefalls to Two-Month Low After SpaceX Write-Down
Image: tungtaechit (Shutterstock) If the spectacular failure of Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX exchange wasn’t evidence enough, the crypto bubble has officially popped. Now, Bitcoin, one of the most widely used cryptocurrencies,…
Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover Sparked an Exodus of Climate Voices, Researchers Find
Accounts that used to regularly engage and tweet about climate-related issues have been dropping like flies on Twitter, less than a year after Elon Musk’s purchase of the company. A…
NYU Professor Locked Out of Twitter After Reportedly Declining to Meet With Elon Musk
New York University professor and Kara Swisher’s podcasting buddy Scott Galloway voiced his outrage at being banned from posting on Twitter in a Threads post on Tuesday. Galloway claims he’s been…