Elon Musk Has Gone From Most Popular Figure In 2016
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CNET on MSNWhat Is Grok? Everything to Know About Elon Musk's AI ToolWe take a deep dive into the advantages and controversies of Grok, and what sets it apart from other generative AI chatbots.
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Elon Musk has weighed back into the Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein drama he helped create with a string of spicy social media posts. On Thursday, the president was pulled back into the Epstein saga after a Wall Street Journal article claimed Trump once sent the sex offender a letter including a drawing of a naked woman.
In a familiar critique of corporate structures, Musk also weighed in on the ideal environment for fostering such long-term, existentially focused AI. He declared, “For long-term optimization, it is better to be a private than a public company, as the latter is punished for long-term optimization beyond the reward cycle of stock portfolio managers.”
Elon Musk on Wednesday teased a forthcoming male Grok companion from xAI, which already offers an anime waifu named Ani and a red panda named Rudi.
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Katie Miller was appointed by Trump as an adviser to the bureaucracy-slashing Department of Government Efficiency led by Musk, whose companies include SpaceX and Tesla, until around the time he left that role at the end of May. Musk's feud with Trump, over the administration's spending plans, swiftly followed.
Over the weekend, visitors at Arches National Park near Moab, Utah, spotted a massive bust of Elon Musk being carted around by a pickup. A sign attached to the figure read “MAKE AMERICA WAIT AGAIN” and “Now With Longer Lines Thanks to DOGE Cuts!”
Mark Cuban has said Elon Musk's America Party's focus on a few Congressional races could create "leverage."
One of the new “companions,” or AI characters for users to interact with, is a sexualized blonde anime bot called “Ani."
I drove a Tesla Model 3 self-driving car, a Cybertruck, a Porsche Taycan and then gathered intriguing insights from Electrify Expo CEO BJ Birtwell.