20 posts tagged ‘musk’
Grok may soon get an ‘Unhinged Mode’
TechCrunch,
Last April, Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of X, teased a mysterious “Unhinged Mode” for X’s AI-powered chatbot, Grok. Nearly a year later, xAI, the Musk-owned company behind Grok, has updated an FAQ page on its website that sheds light on the new mode. Grok in Unhinged Mode will provide responses “intended to be objectionable, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
xAI’s next-gen AI model didn’t arrive on time, adding to a trend
The list of flagship AI models that missed their promised launch windows continues to grow. Last summer, billionaire Elon Musk, the founder and CEO of AI company xAI, said that Grok 3, xAI’s next major AI model, would arrive by “end of year” 2024. Grok, xAI’s answer to models like OpenAI’s GPT-4o and Google’s Gemini, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Texas Is Considering a Controversial Land Swap Deal With SpaceX
Gizmodo,
In April 2023, SpaceX’s massive Starship rocket lifted off for the first time, sending chunks of debris thousands of feet across the South Texas landscape and sparking a fire in a nearby state park. It was an environmental nightmare; the launchpad is surrounded by a wildlife habitat that’s home to endangered species.… Read more...
Why SpaceX Is Joining Forces With a Tractor Company
SpaceX is collaborating with agricultural industry giant John Deere to provide satellite internet connectivity, enabling its tractors to operate autonomously and communicate with each other in rural areas. Read more...
How Many of These Stupid-Hard Puzzles Can You Solve?
In 2023, I posed 23 challenges as part of the Gizmodo Monday Puzzle series. Some require a bit of math, and others a light familiarity with physics; but most can be solved through logic and creative thinking. For each of the following puzzles, I provide a link to the solution, but I suggest you resist the temptation… Read more...
Siri's Not Dead Yet, Jony Ive Comes Out of Hibernation, and More of the Biggest Tech News
The sleepy week between Christmas and New Year’s is for hangouts and hangovers. That is unless you work at Apple. For the folks in Cupertino, this week was all about trying to get the Apple Watch unbanned and scrambling to find a new lead designer for the iPhone. Read more...
The biggest pop culture news stories of 2023
AV Club,
What a year, huh? It feels like we’ve been saying that since March (in the spirit of a 30 Rock meme) but, finally, the expression is earned. Every year is weird at this point; they have been since at least 2020, and you could make the case the weirdness started even earlier. Maybe life itself is weird. It probably is. Read more...
Sorry Elon: Chinese Company Overtakes Tesla as Most Popular Electric Carmaker
2023 was a bad year for Elon Musk. Even before his antisemitic tirade, the billionaire’s mounting failures at X/Twitter took Musk from media darling to a near-laughing stock. His bid to take SpaceX pubic is faltering after its satellite internet business Starlink brought in just $1.4 billion of the $12 billion Musk… Read more...