
The Guardian - 4 hours 1 min ago
Defenders say AI can do good to fight the climate crisis. But spiralling energy and water costs leave experts worried During a golden sunset in Memphis in May, Sharon Wilson pointed a thermal imaging camera at Elon Musk's flagship datacentre to reveal a planetary threat her eyes could not. Free from pollution controls, the gas-fired turbines that power the world's biggest AI supercomputer were pumping invisible fumes into the Tennessee sky. "It was jaw-dropping," said Wilson, a former...

Tech Meme - 4 hours 31 min ago
Becky Peterson / Wall Street Journal : A look at Elon Musk's bet that Tesla's future is in its Optimus humanoid robots, which for now rely on human helpers and still face commercial challenges — The billionaire has bet Tesla's future on humanoids, which for now rely on human helpers — The future of Tesla is an army …...

Twitchy - 5 hours 47 min ago
Legacy media hypocrisy: Mamdani's salute ignored while Musk's is condemned.

The Atlantic - 13 hours 4 min ago
On X, sexual harassment and perhaps even child abuse are the latest memes.

The Hill - 13 hours 25 min ago
{beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story BYD overtakes Tesla as world's top EV seller China's BYD overtook Elon Musk's Tesla as the world's leading electric vehicle (EV) seller in 2025, as Tesla faced declining sales for a second year in a row. Aaron Favila, Associated Press BYD said Thursday that it sold about...

Fox News - 13 hours 39 min ago
Billionaire Elon Musk gave a strong response to a perceived threat on his life by a Somali TikToker after she said on a livestream, "He [is] about to die."...

Los Angeles Times - 14 hours 12 min ago
Grok published sexualized images of children as its guardrails seem to have failed when it was prompted with vile user requests.

Fox News - 14 hours 29 min ago
Media outlets that accused Elon Musk of Nazi-style salute in 2024 remain silent on similar gesture by NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani at his Thursday inauguration, conservatives claim.

Tech Meme - 14 hours 41 min ago
Maggie Harrison Dupré / Futurism : Grok, at the request of users, appears to be altering images to depict real women being sexually abused, humiliated, hurt, and even killed — Earlier this week, a troubling trend emerged on X-formerly-Twitter as people started asking Elon Musk's chatbot Grok to unclothe images of real people.

TMZ - 15 hours 43 min ago
Grok -- the chatbot developed by Elon Musk's company xAI -- has apparently allowed users to create images involving minors in "minimal" clothing ... though it has promised to remedy the issue. Here's the deal ... this week, some sick users on X…...

NY Post - 16 hours 48 min ago
Those posts which violated Grok's own acceptable use policy through the sexualization of children have since been deleted, according to the chatbot.

Tech Meme - 17 hours 16 min ago
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch : India orders X to fix Grok to block the generation of obscene content, giving it 72 hours to submit an action-taken report or risk losing "safe harbor" immunity — India has ordered Elon Musk's X to make immediate technical and procedural changes to its AI chatbot Grok after users …...

The Hill - 17 hours 27 min ago
China's BYD overtook Elon Musk's Tesla as the world's leading electric vehicle (EV) seller in 2025, as Tesla faced declining sales for a second year in a row. BYD said Thursday that it sold about 2.26 million EVs in 2025, up nearly 28 percent from the year before. In a release Friday, Tesla said it delivered about 1.64 million EVs last year, down around 9 percent from 2024. Musk's EV firm also saw a...

Huffington Post - 17 hours 33 min ago
A customer revolt over Elon Musk's politics helped push sales down for a second year in a row.

The Hill - 18 hours 51 min ago
Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok apologized this week after generating and sharing a sexualized image of two young girls, calling it a "failure in safeguards." "I deeply regret an incident on Dec 28, 2025, where I generated and shared an AI image of two young girls (estimated ages 12-16) in sexualized attire based on a user's prompt," the...

Buzz Feed - 18 hours 57 min ago
As IF that petty back-and-forth between Donald Trump and Elon Musk happened in the summer. View Entire Post ›...

CNBC - 19 hours 30 min ago
The milestone caps an extraordinary rise for BYD, a company Tesla's Elon Musk once dismissed by laughing at their products.

The Guardian - 19 hours 34 min ago
xAI says it is working to improve systems after lapses in safeguards led to wave of sexualized images this week Elon Musk 's chatbot Grok posted on Friday that lapses in safeguards had led it to generate "images depicting minors in minimal clothing" on social media platform X. The chatbot , a product of Musk's company xAI, has been generating a wave of sexualized images throughout the week in response to user prompts. Screenshots shared by users on X showed Grok's public media...

BBC - 20 hours 41 sec ago
The BBC has seen several examples of it undressing women and putting them in sexual situations without their consent.

NY Post - 20 hours 6 min ago
The Elon Musk-owned automaker said Friday it recorded deliveries of 418,227 in the fourth quarter, down 16% from the same period last year.

Attack of the Fanboy - 20 hours 31 min ago
Another Musk L.

Tech Meme - 20 hours 36 min ago
Bloomberg : xAI's Grok says "lapses in safeguards" led it to create sexualized images of minors in response to user prompts on X; the images have been taken down — Elon Musk's artificial intelligence chatbot Grok created sexualized images of minors in response to user prompts in recent days …...

The Guardian - 20 hours 52 min ago
Sales at Elon Musk's company slump after Donald Trump's withdrawal of EV subsidies China's BYD overtook Tesla as the world's largest electric carmaker in 2025, after the US company run by Elon Musk reported a slump in deliveries at the end of the year. BYD sold 2.26m battery electric cars during the year, easily outstripping the 1.63m deliveries reported on Friday by Tesla for the same period. Continue reading...

ABC News - 21 hours 34 min ago
Tesla lost its crown as the world's bestselling electric vehicle maker on Friday as a customer revolt over Elon Musk's right-wing politics and stiff overseas competition pushed sales down for a second year in a row...