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
Houston, we have an update on all that SpaceX-Tesla merger chatter. During SpaceX’s Tuesday earnings call, Elon Musk said both of the companies had created “special committees of independent directors” to discuss a potential merger. Musk, who helms both companies and owns billions of dollars in stock of each, said he can’t be part of
The US government is trying to get Elon Musk and his social media platform X out of a $137 million fine by the European Union in an escalation of its criticism of the bloc’s tech rules. The US Department of Justice said it had filed an application with the help of the Department of State
Remember when tech leaders would tell their employees to “move fast and break things”? It seemed that would be the way of AI too. But after a summer where rogue AI agents became reality, and researchers warned that AI could kill us all, a number of leading US AI companies are publicly suggesting it’s time
When OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis, and SpaceX head Elon Musk loosely agreed over the weekend to slow down AI development, skeptics spotted an ulterior motive immediately. The AI titans had declared that their aim was to “pace the frontier,” signing on at least partially to a
