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Check, Please At least one big Silicon Valley venture capital firm is considering a $6 billion cash infusion for Elon Musk's xAI startup and its chatbot, Grok. As people close to the fundraising told The Information, Musk is closing in on a first-round fundraising deal with Sequoia Capital, which invested $800 million into Twitter when he […]

After being sent a very guilt-inducing cease-and-desist, Drake has taken down his AI-generated diss track that deepfaked the voices of Tupac and Snoop Dogg. As The Verge reports, the Canadian-born rapper, née Aubrey Graham, has taken the track "Taylor Made" down from

  Federal regulators released a report this week, finding that Tesla's controversial driver assistance software was linked to hundreds of injuries and dozens of deaths. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration found that especially those making use of the EV maker's misleadingly called "Full Self-Driving" software were lulled into a false sense of security and […]

AI Schematics A Baltimore-area educator has been arrested after he allegedly used AI to deepfake his school's principal into spewing bigotry for blackmail. As the Baltimore Banner and other news outlets report, now-former athletic director Dazhon Darien has been charged with several crimes related to the AI blackmailing scheme after audio surfaced of Pikesville High School […]

  Tesla is going through a crisis. The company, which posted disastrous first-quarter results earlier this month, isn't just losing the over ten percent of its global workforce due to layoffs, a number of high-profile insiders are also looking to jump ship. Longtime Tesla executive Drew Baglino, who joined Tesla in 2006, has sold $181.5 […]