People dine inside during the opening of the Tesla Diner and Drive-In restaurant and Supercharger on Santa Monica Blvd in the Hollywood neighborhood Los Angeles, California on July 21, 2025. Patrick T. Fallon | Afp | Getty Images Elon Musk‘s flagship Tesla Diner opened Monday in Hollywood, California, and the CEO is already eyeing expansion “If our retro-futuristic diner turns …
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In the bitter fallout from the breakup of the year, President Donald Trump threatened to cancel government contracts held with Elon Musk and his SpaceX operations. Now that he’s in the “find out” stage, he’s discovering it’s not as easy as he thought. Trump administration staffers tasked with reviewing SpaceX’s government contracts believe that terminating them would have a serious …
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IN A NUTSHELL 🌞 Solar storms are causing SpaceX’s Starlink satellites to reenter Earth’s atmosphere sooner than planned. 🚀 The increased atmospheric drag from geomagnetic storms shortens the satellites’ lifespan by 10 to 12 days. ⚠️ A higher risk of satellite collisions emerges due to unpredictable drifts caused by solar activity. 🛰️ Managing a crowded orbit is crucial as more …
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Experts at OpenAI and Anthropic are calling out Elon Musk and xAI for refusing to publish any safety research — and for potentially not having done any at all. In the wake of Grok, xAI’s chatbot, calling itself “MechaHitler” and publicly spewing a ton of racist and antisemitic vitriol, safety experts at those rival firms are, as flagged by TechCrunch, extremely …
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AI safety researchers from OpenAI, Anthropic, and other organizations are speaking out publicly against the “reckless” and “completely irresponsible” safety culture at xAI, the billion-dollar AI startup owned by Elon Musk. The criticisms follow weeks of scandals at xAI that have overshadowed the company’s technological advances. Last week, the company’s AI chatbot, Grok, spouted antisemitic comments and repeatedly called itself …
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Tesla is going to a rare trial after a woman died after a vehicle on Autopilot sent her 75 feet into the air. 04:49 ET, 15 Jul 2025Updated 16:16 ET, 15 Jul 2025 A lawsuit against Tesla and its driver-assistance technology goes to trial in Florida A rare trial against Elon Musk’s car company has begun over the death of …
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xAI has offered a couple more fixes for “issues” with its Grok AI chatbot, promising it will no longer name itself “Hitler” or base its responses on searches for what xAI head Elon Musk has said. According to an X post earlier today, the chatbot’s latest update sets new instructions that its responses “must stem from your independent analysis, not …
Read More »AI has increasingly become the connective tissue of Musk Inc. In the last week, Elon Musk has shed light on two potential efforts to channel funding into his AI company, xAI, through his broader business empire. Over the weekend, Musk said Tesla shareholders would vote on a potential investment in xAI, after responding to a Wall Street Journal report that …
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Hello, and welcome to TechScape. This week, Elon Musk’s X, formerly Twitter, saw its artificial intelligence chatbot Grok go Nazi. Then its CEO resigned. In the past three years of Musk’s ownership of the social network, it feels like X has weathered at least one public crisis per week, more often multiple. Musk’s chatbot melts down, then wins a military …
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