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President Donald Trump and Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, want to make living on Mars a reality. Musk has said that his company, SpaceX, can get humans to Mars as early as 2029. Meanwhile, NASA officials have said that sending humans to Mars even by 2040 would be an “audacious” goal. China also has…
Muhammed Selim Korkutata | Anadolu | Getty Images In the two-plus years since generative artificial intelligence took the the world by storm following the public release of ChatGPT, trust has been a perpetual problem. Hallucinations, bad math and cultural biases have plagued results, reminding users that there’s a limit to how much we can rely…
Muhammed Selim Korkutata | Anadolu | Getty Images Elon Musk’s xAI on Thursday evening made its first public comment about the latest controversy surrounding Grok, writing in a post on X that an “unauthorized modification” caused the chatbot to generate variations of a “specific response on a political topic.” That controversial topic was “white genocide”…
The Grok chatbot from Elon Musk’s xAI startup is responding to user queries with unrelated comments about the controversial topic of “white genocide” and South Africa. CNBC on Wednesday found numerous instances of Grok discussing the topic in response to unrelated user prompts. Screenshots of examples were also posted by users across X. When an…
Vincent Feuray | Afp | Getty Images The digital advertising market was sunny enough for investors this past quarter, providing what could be a last hurrah before a looming economic storm from President Donald Trump‘s tariff onslaught. Wall Street cheered the first-quarter results from tech giants like Meta and Alphabet, which both saw shares rise…
Bill Ready, CEO of Pinterest, rings the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange on May 15, 2024. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Pinterest shares rose 15% in extended trading Thursday after the company reported first-quarter earnings and provided better-than-expected guidance. Here’s how the company did, compared to analysts’ consensus estimates from LSEG: Revenue: $855…
An Apple store in Walnut Creek, California, U.S., on April 30, 2025. Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Apple is asking a court to pause a recent decision in its case against Epic Games and allow the iPhone maker to once again charge a commission on in-app transactions that link out for payment. Last…
Thomas Fuller | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images AppLovin shares soared as high as 15% in extended trading after the company reported earnings and revenue that beat expectations and announced the sale of its mobile gaming business. Here’s how the company did compared to LSEG consensus estimates: Earnings: $1.67 per share vs $1.45…
Lisa Su, CEO of AMD, attends the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit at the Grand Palais in Paris on Feb. 10, 2025. Benoit Tessier | Reuters Advanced Micro Devices reported first fiscal-quarter earnings on Tuesday that topped expectations, and provided a strong forecast for current-quarter revenue. Shares of AMD rose 3% in extended trading. Here’s how…
Apple CEO Tim Cook, after nearly a month of anticipation from investors, on Thursday finally revealed how Apple was navigating the Trump administration’s tariffs. The company only saw a “limited impact” on tariffs between January and the end of March, Cook told investors on an earnings call for the company’s second quarter results. For the…