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Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and owner of social media platform X, speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference at the Gaylord National Resort Hotel and Convention Center in Oxon Hill, Maryland, Feb. 20, 2025.Andrew Harnik | Getty ImagesFor X owner Elon Musk, the solution to monitoring misinformation online has been the community, rather than a group of fact checkers. Since buying the social media company formerly known as Twitter in 2022, he’s touted the Community Notes feature as the best way to correct false posts.That is, until he didn’t like the results.Musk wrote in a post Thursday…
Schools spent hundreds of billions of COVID-relief funds on expenses that had “little” impact on students, such as Las Vegas hotel rooms and the purchase of an ice cream truck, according to the Trump administration’s cost-cutting department.The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by Elon Musk to purge wasteful government spending, revealed on Thursday that schools have spent nearly $200 billion in COVID-relief funds “with little oversight or impact on students.”Granite Public Schools in Utah spent their COVID-relief funds on $86,000 in hotel rooms at Caesars Palace, a ritzy Las Vegas Casino, while Santa Ana Unified spent $393,000 to rent…
Microsoft researchers announced a new foundation model on Wednesday that can perform agentic functions. Dubbed Magma, the artificial intelligence (AI) model is pre-trained on a large volume of datasets across text, images, videos, as well as spatial formats. The Redmond-based tech giant said that Magma is an extension of vision-language (VL) models and it can not only understand multimodal information but can also plan and act on them. The AI agent-enabled model can be used in a wide range of tasks including computer vision, user interface (UI) navigation, and robot manipulation.Microsoft Announces Magma Foundation ModelIn a GitHub post, Microsoft researchers…
Your support helps us to tell the storyFrom reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it’s investigating the financials of Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, ‘The A Word’, which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.The…
Meet Samuel Edyme, Nickname – HIM-buktu. A web3 content writer, journalist, and aspiring trader, Edyme is as versatile as they come. With a knack for words and a nose for trends, he has penned pieces for numerous industry player, including AMBCrypto, Blockchain.News, and Blockchain Reporter, among others. Edyme’s foray into the crypto universe is nothing short of cinematic. His journey began not with a triumphant investment, but with a scam. Yes, a Ponzi scheme that used crypto as payment roped him in. Rather than retreating, he emerged wiser and more determined, channeling his experience into over three years of insightful…
From left, the Trump Royale, The Trump Palace and the Trump International Beach Resort are shown in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida, U.S. March 13, 2017.Joe Skipper | ReutersAs the rich have gotten richer, family offices have exploded in popularity, numbering 8,000 worldwide and managing some $3.1 trillion in assets, according to Deloitte. Family office-tailored events and conferences have followed. There were 123 such family-office conferences in 2024, and nearly twice as many — 244 — are scheduled for this year, according to Dakota Marketplace, a research firm for investment sales professionals. “People are interested in this world because it’s growing so fast,…
Clone Robotics just brought the very essence of your worst nightmares to life in gleaming, astonishing, graphic detail.The Polish startup posted a video on X of Protoclone, a faceless, anatomically accurate synthetic human hanging from strings in the ceiling. “Protoclone, the world’s first bipedal, musculoskeletal android,” Clone Robotics introduced in the video that has now been seen by more than 33 million people on the platform. It has over “200 degrees of freedom, over 1,000 Myofibers, and 500 sensors.” It has synthetic organ systems. You can “stab it with a fork and it will bleed out.” Mashable Light Speed Tweet…
OpenAI began rolling out its artificial intelligence (AI) agent Operator in several countries on Friday. The agentic tool was so far available in preview to ChatGPT Pro users residing in the US, after the company introduced it in January. Equipped with a dedicated browser, the Operator is a general-purpose AI agent that can autonomously perform tasks online based on prompts given by the user. While the AI agent is now available in several major regions, the AI firm said it will not be available in European countries.OpenAI’s Operator AI Agent Finally Rolls OutIn a post on X (formerly known as…
Your support helps us to tell the storyFrom reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it’s investigating the financials of Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, ‘The A Word’, which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.The…
Tesla may attract a lot of hate and controversy today due to Elon Musk’s political behavior, but in Sweden, the electric car maker’s vehicles seem to be doing fine. This is, at least, as per comments from Swedish used car titan Riddermark Bil. Tesla’s resilience Jonas Björkman, head of business development at Riddermark Bil, shared in an interview with CarUp that Tesla’s “sales have increased.”The company, which raked in SEK 9.6 billion last year, is among the largest in Sweden’s used car market.“Tesla is the electric car brand we have sold the most units of, and sales continue at a…