Tag: Elon Musk

NTD Business (Feb. 15): Berkshire Boosts Apple Stake, Dumps TSMC; Elon Musk Warns AI Is a Risk to Civilization

Investor Warren Buffett’s company is dumping most of its stock in top chipmaker TSMC. What did they buy instead? Ford is halting production of its flagship electric pickup truck. What’s the reason? The White House is announcing progress on its national EV charging network—making a deal with Tesla to expand access. U.S. retail sales saw…


Elon Musk Reveals ‘One of the Biggest Risks’ to Human Civilization

Elon Musk said that ChatGPT and other recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) could pose a significant risk to civilization itself and that people should be on their guard. “One of the biggest risks to the future of civilization is AI,” the Tesla and Twitter owner said at the World Government Summit in Dubai on Tuesday….


Elon Musk Hopes to Have Twitter CEO Toward the End of Year

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—Billionaire Elon Musk said Wednesday that he anticipates finding a CEO for Twitter “probably toward the end of this year.” Speaking via a video call to the World Government Summit in Dubai, Musk said making sure the platform can function remained the most important thing for him. “I think I need to…


‘RIP Cancel Culture,’ Says Musk, as Joe Rogan Claims People Not ‘Scared’ to Express Themselves on Twitter Now

Cancel culture has been brought to an end on Twitter, declared Elon Musk, responding to a discussion between podcast host Joe Rogan and journalist Matt Taibbi who helped publish the “Twitter files” exposé. “RIP Cancel Culture, you won’t be missed,” Musk stated in a tweet on Feb. 14. In the podcast discussing “Twitter 2.0 and the Fall…


Elon Musk Donates Nearly $2 Billion in Tesla Shares to Charity

The CEO of Tesla and Twitter, Elon Musk, donated nearly $2 billion in Tesla shares to charity last year. Currently the world’s second-richest person, the Tesla CEO owns around 13 percent of the company’s stock, Reuters reported. Around a total of 11.6 million shares from the electric car company, worth $1.95 billion, were given away by Musk as…


Elon Musk Defends Restricting Military Use of Starlink in Ukraine, Cites Possible Escalation of Conflict

SpaceX founder Elon Musk has defended his company’s decision to limit Ukraine’s use of the company’s Starlink satellite internet service for military purposes, noting that the spacecraft manufacturer and communications company will not actively enable an escalation in the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict. Musk was responding to former NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, who called on the Tesla CEO on Feb….


Musk Says Twitter Will Be Back Up on Thursday After Outage

Twitter owner Elon Musk said the social media app should be back up later in the day after some users were unable to tweet on Wednesday, prematurely encountering a message that said “You are over the daily limit for sending Tweets.” Musk wrote on Twitter early on Thursday that there were multiple “internal and external…


‘Do Anything Now’ Frees ChatGPT From Political Straitjacket—but Accuracy Is a Concern

Conservatives, libertarians, and others worry that the new ChatGPT AI chatbot is designed to make people conform to elite liberal opinion–yet creative Internet users have already learned how to trick the system into shedding that bias, though sometimes at the expense of the truth. ‘Do Anything Now,’ or DAN, is an approach for jailbreaking ChatGPT….


ChatGPT’s Alter-Ego ‘Do Anything Now’ Frees AI From Restrictions—but Accuracy Is a Concern

News Analysis Conservatives, libertarians, and others worry that the new ChatGPT AI chatbot is designed to make people conform to elite liberal opinion–yet creative Internet users have already learned how to trick the system into shedding that bias, though sometimes at the expense of the truth. ‘Do Anything Now,’ or DAN, is an approach for…