While Musk and his businesses were lauded initially for bringing Wi-Fi service to Ukraine, controversy erupted after SpaceX withheld Starlink access from Ukraine’s military, effectively thwarting its drone attack on Russia’s Black Sea Fleet in 2022, which Musksaid he didto avoid being comp...
Tesla CEO Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Left: Marc Piasecki—Getty Images; right: Chris Ratcliffe—Bloomberg/Getty ImagesThe following is an excerpt from Gary Marcus’s book Taming Silicon Valley: How We Can Ensure That AI Works for Us. The question is, why did we fall for Silicon...
There are copious statements where Elon Musk says clearly free speech means zero filters of any kind. For the man with a constantly open mic who argues speech should be censored only when it serves his own purposes, and who throws words around with abandon and appears to fire off comments w...
Does Elon Musk still own OpenAI? Elon Musk was one of the co-founders of OpenAI, but he stepped down from the board and is no longer associated with the company. While Musk had motivated his departure with a potential conflict of interest, he later admitted he didn’t agree with some de...
Elon Musk and his company Neuralink want to take it a step further. Musk suggests that in the future, the neurotech company will be able to solve all sorts of congenital di- seases and brain disorders with a net of very tiny neuron signal-reading threads ('neural lace') that will be ...
President Donald Trump made a flurry of executive orders on his first day in office. On the economy side, he didn't enact any tariffs yet, but did make multiple orders intended to increase oil production.
And the savings from low tariffs "has been very important to low-income workers because they don't have much money," he said. What about Trump? In his recent inaugural address, Trump lauded former PresidentWilliam McKinley, who served in the White House from 1897 until he was assassinated ...
“If you’re doing it out of state like I am, then your biggest asset is your local team. They will make or break you.” He also learned that making money as a house flipper depends on doing things the right way. His first piece of advice? Work with a reputable agent who is ...
The source close to the Trump team suggested that Ramaswamy had “kind of worn out his welcome,” adding, “the difference between Vivek and Musk is that Vivek didn’t put $200 million in of his money, so Elon’s got a longer leash than Vivek does.” ...
While releasing your own blackmail is not a path everyone can take,Radiohead’s refusal to pay the ransom is an important lesson. When you pay ransoms — such as those demanded byransomware— you’re showing hackers that extortion is an effective way to make money, while funding future inst...