Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI said on Thursday it will launch an enhanced version of its chatbot Grok. The new version, called Grok-1.5, will be made available to early testers and existing Grok users on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, in the coming days, xAI said in a statement. The startup … Read more
Screenshot: TikTok / Gizmodo Congressman Jeff Jackson’s latest TikTok video starts simply: “I apologize.” Last week, the House of Representatives passed a bill that could ultimately ban TikTok from the US. For many, it turned Jackson into enemy number one. The North Carolina Democrat spent the last year amassing 2.3 million followers on TikTok, leveraging … Read more
On Wednesday, Neuralink introduced the first human subject to receive the company’s brain implant, a 29-year-old man who has been paralyzed from the shoulders down for eight years after a diving accident. In a brief livestream on the social media platform X, the man introduced himself as Noland Arbaugh and said he’s able to play … Read more
Geoff Keighley briefly, and barely, addressed the recent, historic number of layoffs that have hit the video game industry already this year, after failing to do so for months. But before I could even give the guy some credit for doing the bare minimum, he turned around and started advertising his next big video game … Read more
Updated Mar 6, 2024, 12:32pm EST Topline Amazon founder Jeff Bezos briefly surpassed Elon Musk as the richest person in the U.S. on Wednesday, though Musk reclaimed the title after just a few minutes, according to Forbes’ calculations, as Musk’s net worth takes a dramatic hit in the midst of Tesla’s stock market woes. American … Read more
From Elon Musk filing a lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman to Google removing many popular Indian apps from its Play Store only to restore them a day later, there has been a lot of activity in the tech world. With all this big news, it’s natural that some important tech news might slip under … Read more
Elon Musk conveyed his discomfort with the obligatory Microsoft account setup for Windows PCs. Tech mogul Elon Musk recently reached out to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, expressing his reservations about the mandatory Microsoft account requirement on his newly purchased Windows laptop PC. Mr Musk shared this interaction on his platform, X, formerly Twitter, after a … Read more
Billionaires: They’re just like us. That’s what Elon Musk reminded us of when he started using X, the social media network that he bought for $44 billion, to resolve his personal tech support problems. Mr. Tweet Fumbles Super Bowl Tweet The saga began over the weekend when Musk posted about the problems he was facing … Read more
A number of new announcements rocked the tech world this week, from the launch of OpenAI’s text-to-AI generation model Sora to the unveiling of Google’s new Gemini 1.5 language model, but fear not, we’ve got you covered with all the top news in this week’s Tech Recap. OpenAI unveils its text to video generation mode, … Read more
U.S. stocks are drifting Thursday following mixed reports on the economy, as this week’s big swings on Wall Street calm a bit. The S&P 500 was 0.1% higher in morning trading, coming off a 1% jump that followed a 1.4% tumble. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 158 points, or 0.4%, as of 10:50 … Read more