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Mar 13, 2024

Tesla pushes new FSD Beta v12 update, no new note, but Musk says it’s a ‘big release’

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Tesla has started to push a new Full Self-Driving Beta v12 software update. It’s still not going wide, there’s no new release note, but CEO Elon Musk says it’s a “big release”

When talking about Tesla’s Full Self-Driving program, it’s hard not to talk about delays.

Tesla fans would argue that the company is trying to solve a major problem in self-driving and we should cut it some slack when it comes. The counter argument is that Tesla started selling Full Self-Driving since 2016 and by doing it, it created pressure on itself to deliver on its promise.

Mar 11, 2024

Why Elon Musk Had to Open Source Grok, His Answer to ChatGPT

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, robotics/AI

Earlier this month Elon Musk sued OpenAI for keeping its technology secret. Today he promised to give away his own “truth-seeking” chatbot Grok for free.

Mar 10, 2024

Exclusive: Elon Musk’s X is launching a YouTube clone for smart TVs, starting with Amazon and Samsung, in its bid to pivot to video

Posted by in categories: electronics, Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s X is doubling down on its shift to video with the introduction of its own TV app, launching next week.

Mar 9, 2024

Elon Musk Says Starship Will Spin for Artificial Gravity

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, space travel

SpaceX is gearing up for its third attempt to get its massive Starship spacecraft into orbit. In a recent update, the company hinted at a March 14 launch “pending regulatory approval.”

Meanwhile, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is already thinking many steps ahead, envisioning what’ll be like to travel on board the spacecraft all the way to Mars.

“Starship will have a small spin on the way to Mars,” Musk replied after Id Software founder John Carmack suggested SpaceX should try to spin its Dragon astronaut shuttle to test out spin gravity. “Even a tiny gravity vector is better than none.”

Mar 9, 2024

Elon Musk’s OpenAI Lawsuit Sparks Questions About GenAI And AGI

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, robotics/AI

Elon Musk’s OpenAI lawsuit—and OpenAI’s response—raise questions about generative AI, artificial general intelligence and the relationship between the two.

Mar 9, 2024

Tesla app for Apple Watch in the works, Musk suggests

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, sustainability, transportation

Tesla owners might soon be able to control their car using their Apple Watch, at least if Elon Musk is to be believed. In response to a https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1763707499239121086″ target=“_blank” rel=“noreferrer noopener”>question on social media about whether Tesla could add Apple Watch integration, Musk responded: “Sure.”

Whether Tesla follows through on this remains to be seen. There’s no timeline on when the feature might be added. In fact, it sounds like this wasn’t something in the works until Musk responded to this particular social media post.

Ideally, Tesla’s app for Apple Watch would allow Tesla owners to unlock their car and do things like precondition the cabin, enable/disable Sentry mode, remote start their car, and more. But again, Tesla hasn’t confirmed anything about what to actually expect.

Mar 9, 2024

Texas Parks and Wildlife votes unanimously to swap 43 contested acres to Elon Musk’s SpaceX for 477 acres a few miles south

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, space travel

Some of the 43 contested acres are landlocked with no public access but with protected plant and animal species. Although SpaceX is proposing swapping the public land for 477 acres, it has not yet purchased that property. None of the land in the deal has beach access, but the 43 acres sit near protected federal land and lagoons that stretch along the coast.

“Through this transaction we are guaranteeing the conservation of 477 acres, which would otherwise potentially be developed into condominiums or strip centers,” Jeffery D. Hildebrand, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission chairman appointed by Gov. Greg Abbott, said at the meeting’s close.

The deal started in 2019 as a conversation between the state and SpaceX. But it was finally worked out in 2023, said David Yoskowitz, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s executive director.

Mar 2, 2024

Elon Musk Sues OpenAI and Sam Altman for ‘Flagrant Breaches’ of Contract

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, information science, law, robotics/AI

Elon Musk is suing OpenAI and Sam Altman for allegedly abandoning OpenAI’s original mission to develop artificial intelligence to benefit humanity.

“OpenAI, Inc. has been transformed into a closed-source de facto subsidiary of the largest technology company in the world: Microsoft,” Musk’s lawyers wrote in the lawsuit, which was filed late on Thursday in San Francisco.

“Under its new board, it is not just developing but is refining an AGI [Artificial General Intelligence] to maximize profits for Microsoft, rather than for the benefit of humanity,” claims the filing. “On information and belief, GPT-4 is an AGI algorithm.”

Mar 2, 2024

“There’s a lot of concern”: Doctors Demand Full Transparency After Being Frightened by Elon Musk’s Brain Chip Tech Neuralink

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, computing, Elon Musk, neuroscience

Elon Musk has done a lot of things in his life but doctors demand answers from Musk after his Neuralink tech scared them.

Mar 1, 2024

‘Can control computer mouse with thoughts’: Says Elon Musk on Neuralink’s first human patient as he successfully recovers

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Elon Musk disclosed that a human patient implanted with a brain chip from the company has fully recovered and demonstrated the ability to control a computer mouse using their thoughts.

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