Tag: Elon Musk

EU Issues Warning After Elon Musk Pulls Twitter Out of Anti-‘Disinformation’ Agreement

Senior European Union officials were furious over the weekend after Twitter owner Elon Musk pulled the social media platform out of the bloc’s “Code of Practice,” which critics say is tantamount to a censorship regime. The EU’s internal market commissioner, Thierry Breton, wrote that Twitter left the bloc’s Code of Practice, after reports claimed the platform…


Twitter Engineering Chief Resigns Day After DeSantis Campaign Launch Glitches

A senior Twitter engineer resigned on Thursday following glitches that marred the highly anticipated Twitter Spaces event in which Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced his presidential bid. Foad Dabiri, whose LinkedIn profile says he is Twitter’s engineering lead for growth, announced his resignation but did not mention what prompted the move. In his resignation statement,…


Ford EV Customers to Access Tesla’s 12,000 Superchargers

Ford EV customers will gain access to Tesla’s 12,000 high-speed Superchargers in North America in early 2024, according to the CEOs of the two companies. Ford CEO Jim Farley disclosed the deal during a live chat with Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Twitter Spaces on Thursday. The deal makes Ford the first major car manufacturer…


Elon Musk’s Neuralink Gets FDA Approval to Study Brain Implants in Humans

Elon Musks’s neurotechnology company Neuralink announced on Thursday it has obtained approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to carry out a clinical study of brain implants in humans. It marks the first in-human clinical study for the company. “This is the result of incredible work by the Neuralink team in close collaboration with…


DeSantis Explains Why He Chose Twitter to Announce 2024 Run

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis explained why he chose Twitter as the platform for the announcement of his presidential candidacy, saying that his approach to dealing with COVID-19 led him to make decisions based on data rather than following the crowd. His decision to use the tech platform, however, was not without hiccups. The Twitter Spaces…


Trump Responds to DeSantis’s Campaign Launch: ‘There’s Only One Donald Trump’

As Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was formally announcing his candidacy for president on Twitter on May 24, his top Republican rival for the job shared his own message to voters via social media: “There’s only one Donald Trump.” In two campaign ads shared to Trump’s Truth Social account, DeSantis is depicted as an ungrateful “Trump…


LIVE 6 PM ET: DeSantis Announces 2024 Presidential Bid on Twitter With Elon Musk

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis officially kicks off his 2024 presidential campaign at 6:00 p.m. ET on May 24 in a Twitter Spaces interview with Elon Musk. …


DeSantis Announces 2024 Presidential Bid on Twitter With Elon Musk

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis officially kicks off his 2024 presidential campaign at 6:00 p.m. ET on May 24 in a Twitter Spaces interview with Elon Musk. …


Why DeSantis Is Announcing on Twitter Spaces

Commentary We’ve been expecting Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to announce his run for the GOP nomination for many months. It kept not happening. In these months, the peanut gallery has had a ball speculating away. We keep hearing that he “peaked too soon,” that his spat with Disney has hurt him, he is traveling too…


ChatGPT Makers Say AI Technology Could Surpass ‘Expert’ Human Skill Levels Within 10 Years, Flag ‘Existential Risk’

The makers of ChatGPT have warned that Artificial Intelligence (AI) could “exceed expert skill level” across most domains within the next 10 years as “superintelligence” becomes more powerful than any “other technologies humanity has had to contend with.” Open AI executives including CEO Sam Altman; President, Chairman, & Co-Founder, Greg Brockman; and Co-Founder and chief scientist Ilya…