Exclusive: Musk's DOGE using AI to snoop on U.S. federal workers, sources say
At the Environmental Protection Agency, Musk’s team is using AI to monitor communication apps and software, including Microsoft Teams, looking for anti-Trump or anti-Musk language. “Be careful what you say, what you type and what you do,” a manager said.
Elon Musk sets the stage for Tesla to bail out Twitter/xAI at an insane valuation
Musk paid $44 billion for Twitter. A year later, Fidelity valued Twitter, X by now, at just $10 billion. But in March 2025, X was somehow valued back at $44 billion, because a company’s valuation is only what someone is willing to pay for it and Musk was willing for xAI to “pay” $45 billion. In late March, Musk announced that xAI had acquired X in a deal valuing xAI at $80 billion and X at $45 billion, while xAI would take on X’s $12 billion debt.
It’s worth noting that xAI had raised only $12 billion at a $40 billion valuation with virtually no revenue as of December 2024, and now it’s a $125 billion company, based entirely on Musk’s valuation, with $12 billion in debt.
It’s now very possible that Musk will push for Tesla to invest in xAI, with cash or stock, at the automaker’s next shareholders meeting, with Musk claiming that Tesla needs xAI to stay competitive on the AI front with LLMs and for its upcoming humanoid robot.
The real humans behind the ‘Stop hiring humans’ billboards everyone loves to hate
Artisan sells AI agents for use as virtual employees.
Tesla Sitting On Thousands Of Unsold Cybertrucks As It Stops Accepting Its Own Cars As Trade-Ins
Trump Administration Conditions Harvard’s Funding on Eliminating DEI, Restricting Protests
An anonymous AI engineer is funding the city’s oddest events
She funded a "flower run" -- people running around Golden Gate park handing out flowers; a six-week scavenger hunt with timed clues all over the city, and a NYE party with exotic fruits.
Trump’s auto tariffs: Which vehicles are actually made in the United States?
The top spot belongs to Kia for its EV6 electric crossover vehicle, the only vehicle NHTSA rated having 80% domestic content. It is built in the United States and 15% of its parts are made in Korea.
Three vehicles tied for second highest domestic content, the Honda Ridgeline pickup and Tesla’s Model 3 rear wheel and all-wheel drive vehicles, at 75%.
Third place was split between 13 vehicles that had 70% domestic content. They include two Acuras, seven Hondas and four Teslas.
Pickup trucks from America’s “big three” didn’t crack the 50% mark. Ford’s F-150 ranked at 45% and Chevy’s Silverado and GMC Sierra pickups have 36% domestic content, according to NHTSA.
The 2025 Chevy Malibu and Cadillac’s ST-4 were tied as the highest ranked GM vehicles at 39% domestic content.
Pharmacist hacked hospital computers to watch doctors undress, breastfeed, lawsuit alleges
He installed keyloggers on computers over a decade to spy on the women. He won a award as the best instructor of the year in 2015. He has not been charged with a crime. Six women are suing the hospital for negligence, saying they only discovered that they had been spied on in recent months after FBI agents showed them some of Bathula’s photos and videos.
Don’t call it a drone: Zipline’s uncrewed aircraft wants to reinvent retail
Zipline is launching its airborne delivery service for real, rolling it out in the Dallas-Fort Worth suburb of Mesquite ahead of a gradual spread that, if all goes according to plan, will also see its craft landing in Seattle before the end of the year. These automated drones can be loaded in seconds, carry small packages for miles, and deposit them with pinpoint accuracy at the end of a retractable tether.