Technology

Tesla CEO Elon Musk's on-and-off-again partner Claire "Grimes" Boucher has come out in support of the mercurial entrepreneur's estranged, transgender daughter Vivian Jenna Wilson. "I love and am forever endlessly proud of Vivian," the musician tweeted late Thursday evening. The news comes shortly after NBC News published an exclusive first interview with the 20-year-old, who […]

  The rocket designed to carry the first humans to the Moon in over half a century has officially made its way to NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) just over a year ahead of its tentative launch date. The enormous, 212-foot rocket stage made its way from NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans to […]

So Close! ChatGPT creator OpenAI has officially entered the AI search competition with SearchGPT, an AI-powered search engine prototype that, according to the company's announcement, is designed to "combine the strength of our AI models with information from the web to give you fast and timely answers with clear and relevant sources." "We believe that […]

Mighty Likely NASA's Perseverance Rover has found a rock on Mars that scientists believe may contain signs of ancient life on the Red Planet. As the New York Times reports, NASA researchers aren't quite ready to declare that they've found definitive biosignatures — the scientific term for "signs of life" — in the piece of ancient […]

Spare Seats The return date of NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who traveled to the International Space Station on board Boeing's plagued Starliner spacecraft over seven weeks ago, keeps getting pushed back. Engineers have been hard at work investigating several helium leaks that officials discovered after the pair arrived at the station, affecting […]

What happens when you feed AI-generated content back into an AI model? Put simply: absolute chaos. A fascinating new study published in the journal Nature shows that AI models trained on AI-generated material will quickly experience rapid "model collapse." Basically, as an AI model cannibalizes AI-generated data, that AI model's outputs become increasingly bizarre, garbled, […]

Ten or fifteen years ago, Elon Musk seemed like a milquetoast liberal. He chummed around with Barack Obama, talked about the need to move away from fossil fuels, and accepted huge amounts of government assistance. But over the past few years, he's taken a rightward turn so extreme that it gives a sense of whiplash. […]

Despite executives' expectations to the contrary, a new study from one of the world's largest freelancer platforms has found that artificial intelligence is hindering, rather than helping, employees' workloads.  

A viral text-to-video AI generator developed by Runway was trained on copious amounts of pirated content and ripped off YouTube videos, according to a gigantic internal spreadsheet obtained by 404 Media. Last month, the company's Gen-3 Alpha video generation tool drew huge amounts of attention, with publications (including yours truly) lauding the photorealistic clips it […]

The Tea is HOT A woman, who is likely the estranged trans daughter of tech billionaire Elon Musk, has come out swinging against the Tesla CEO on social media, painting Musk to be a big fat liar and an absentee dad barely involved in his children's lives. Her searing and eyeopening comments, posted under the […]