60 posts tagged ‘elon musk’
NYT: Yet more advertisers flee Twitter after Elon Musk's endorsement of antisemitic conspiracy theory
Boing Boing,
Add Disney, Warner Bros., Sony and others to the list of those not spending their money advertising on Twitter, following owner Elon Musk's praising an antisemitic tweet accusing jews of "hatred against whites" and his endorsement of the conspiracy theory that Jews are replacing whites with illegal immigrants. — Read the rest
Elon admits ads ran against Nazi content, threatens to sue watchdog site that wrote about it
Elon Musk threatened to sue Media Matters yesterday over its article about brand advertising running against Nazi material on the site. In his threat, Musk admitted exactly what the site had been accused of, a fact Media Matters wasted no time pointing out in its response. — Read the rest
Elon Musk threatens "thermonuclear lawsuit" over Twitter antisemitism report
AV Club,
Elon Musk has now gone from “posting through it” to “irradiated-level incandescent with rage,” apparently, as the Twitter owner and monkey brainchip entrepreneur announced today that he intends to file a “thermonuclear lawsuit” over a recent media report that alleged that his social media network was serving up ads… Read more...
SpaceX’s Starship Clears Crucial Hurdle in Dramatic Second Flight Test
Gizmodo,
SpaceX’s latest test flight of the Starship rocket lasted for around eight minutes—twice the length of the previous test. Both the booster and the Starship upper stage were lost, but SpaceX achieved many key milestones during the flight test. Read more...
OpenAI Fires CEO Sam Altman
OpenAI announced Friday that Sam Altman departed the company on Friday. Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati has been appointed interim CEO to lead OpenAI. The news comes just weeks after OpenAI’s DevDay, where Sam Altman announced some of the company’s biggest advancements yet. Read more...
ChatGPT Is Apparently a Great Surveillance Tool
Welcome to AI This Week, Gizmodo’s weekly roundup where we do a deep dive on what’s been happening in artificial intelligence. Read more...
Disney, Apple, and more suspend Twitter ads amid Elon Musk antisemitism scandal
Several of the biggest companies on the planet—including Disney and Apple, plus Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes studio Lionsgate—have suspended ads on the social networking service we’ll just go ahead and keep calling Twitter today. This comes after the company’s owner, Elon Musk, made a post on Wednesday in which he… Read more...
Tesla Investors Call for Elon Musk to Be Suspended, Apple Pulls Ads on X
Tesla shareholders condemned Elon Musk’s antisemitic behavior, on his own social media platform, X, and other media outlets Thursday. Some investors are publicly saying he should be suspended, according to a Bloomberg report Friday. Apple also took action over Musk’s tweets by pausing ads on X, Axios reported Friday. Read more...