U.S. stocks set another record Thursday following some mixed reports on the economy. The S&P 500 rose 29.11 points, or 0.6%, to 5,029.73 and squeaked by its prior all-time high set last week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 348.85, or 0.9%, to 38,773.12, and the Nasdaq composite climbed 47.03, or 0.3%, to 15,906.17. TripAdvisor … Read more
The current week saw a number of developments in the world of technology, including Neuralink’s first human brain chip implant, OpenAI’s announcement of new features for ChatGPT, and a number of AI-related product launches. Here’s a look at the week’s top tech news stories. Elon Musk’s Neuralink makes first bran chip implant: In a groundbreaking … Read more
Tesla CEO Elon Musk and noted diversity skeptic Ben Shapiro.Photo: Klaudia Radecka/NurPhoto via Getty Images (Getty Images) Tesla’s annual shareholder report is out. It includes a bunch of growing numbers: Almost $100 billion in revenue, more than 1.8 million cars delivered to customers, more than 140,000 employees. But one thing that isn’t increasing in size, … Read more
X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, purged an unknown number of prominent accounts over the last 24 hours with little to no explanation. The list includes popular accounts belonging to journalists, writers, and podcasters. Among them are Ken Klippenstein of the Intercept, writer and podcaster Rob Rousseau, Texas Observer correspondent Steven Monacelli, the account … Read more
Françoise Bettencourt Meyers was already the richest woman in the world, but on Thursday, she hit a new milestone—the first female to accumulate a staggering fortune of over $100 billion ($100.2 billion, to be exact), according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Bettencourt Meyers, the granddaughter of L’Oreal founder Eugène Schueller, is the vice-chair of L’Oréal’s … Read more
You don’t need to drill a hole in your head and implant a microchip in order to lose weight. There are much safer ways of slimming down—including a new class of very promising drugs that make weight-control brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) seem downright perilous in comparison. Conspiracy-peddling billionaire Elon Musk raised the prospect of computer-chip-aided weight-loss … Read more
ROME: Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Saturday said that there is a “compatibility problem” between Islamic culture and European values and rights. This statement was made during an event hosted by her right-wing, ultra-conservative Brothers of Italy party, which was attended by notable figures including UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and entrepreneur Elon Musk.Meloni, … Read more
Home Tech News Walmart Is Latest Company to Stop Advertising on Musk’s X Walmart Inc. has stopped advertising on the social media platform X, the latest major company to do so. By: BLOOMBERG Updated on: Dec 02 2023, 06:27 IST The exit of Walmart, the largest retailer in the US, adds to the growing number … Read more
The Cybertruck hasn’t even hit the market yet, and Elon Musk already is lamenting that Tesla Inc. has dug its own grave. Its stainless steel body may be able to withstand bullets and arrows, but it’s going to be a bear putting the panels together. It will be Tesla’s first high-voltage vehicle, offering the benefit of faster charging, but … Read more
Jimmy Wales tells Euronews Next about the “terrible” early stages of ChatGPT, the lesson for OpenAI, and about his open-source social media platform. ADVERTISEMENT ChatGPT, the wildly popular generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool from OpenAI, is currently a “mess” when it’s used to write articles on Wikipedia, the platform’s founder Jimmy Wales tells Euronews Next. … Read more