House Democrats are trying to force the White House to turn over President Donald Trump’s conversations with AI chatbots, including when he consulted Elon Musk’s Grok about deposing Venezuela’s former president Nicolás Maduro at the start of the year. In a joint letter to Trump last week, Rep. Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat, and Rep.
Grok is on a streak. On SpaceX’s Q3 earnings call on Oct. 20, CEO Elon Musk told analysts the company’s AI bot is “seeing the fastest growth of a product that I’ve ever seen in my life.” But that growth comes with a cost. On Sunday, Musk responded to an X user who asked him
You don’t hear the defenders of so-called Western civilization talk much about The Odyssey these days. Maybe that’s because their rabid denunciations of Christopher Nolan’s film adaptation of Homer’s epic were buried in an avalanche of money. The July blockbuster has grossed nearly $1.8 billion worldwide, silencing the right-wingers who predicted a massive flop due
Three months after Elon Musk declared that Grok would release a full-length, “historically accurate” movie version of “The Odyssey,” Grok has published a whole seven minutes, which the company is now calling “Episode 1 of our Odyssey series.” Musk had previously lashed out at Christopher Nolan’s version of “The Odyssey” because Nolan cast nonwhite and
Months after Elon Musk promised that his AI tool Grok Imagine would create an entirely AI-generated, feature-length version of “The Odyssey,” the tech mogul has partially followed through on the claim. On Friday, the company shared the first 7-minute, AI-generated episode of the “Odyssey” series on X. The account also credited the “creative collaboration” to
For anyone who has come to rely on AI chatbots, especially for work, Thursday morning was rough. According to online reports, including from staffers at the companies that make them, outages shut down some of the most popular AI services: OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude AI, Google’s Gemini and xAI’s Grok. The widespread outages appear to
