SAN FRANCISCO, March 29 — Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI said on Thursday it will launch an enhanced version of its chatbot Grok. The new version, called Grok-1.5, will be made available to early testers and existing Grok users on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, in the coming days, xAI said … Read more
SAN FRANCISCO, March 21 — Elon Musk’s brain-chip startup Neuralink livestreamed on Wednesday its first patient implanted with a chip using his mind to play online chess. Noland Arbaugh, the 29-year-old patient who was paralysed below the shoulder after a diving accident, played chess on his laptop and moved the cursor using the Neuralink device. … Read more
WASHINGTON, Feb 2 — Elon Musk’s announcement this week that his startup Neuralink had implanted the first human patient with its experimental brain device generated immediate buzz. But Musk’s statements on his social media platform X raised more questions than they answered about the trial for a risky device that the tech billionaire says could … Read more
WASHINGTON, Nov 3 — Elon Musk said his new artificial intelligence company would release a new AI model tomorrow to a “select group” of users as he looks to rival industry leaders OpenAI and Google. The release would be the first from Musk’s new startup, xAI, that he launched in July after hiring researchers from … Read more
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 27 — A year ago Elon Musk purchased X, formerly known as Twitter, taking the platform on a journey that has resulted in lost money, advertisers and trust. Musk closed the US$44 billion deal on October 27, 2022, facing a lawsuit that held him to terms of purchase he was keen to … Read more
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 20 — Elon Musk said today social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, will soon launch two new tiers of premium subscriptions. “One is lower cost with all features, but no reduction in ads, and the other is more expensive, but has no ads,” Musk said on a post on X. … Read more
SYDNEY, Sept 27 — Elon Musk’s X, formerly called Twitter, disabled a feature that let users report misinformation about elections, a research organisation said today, throwing fresh concern about false claims spreading just before major US and Australian votes. After introducing a feature in 2022 for users to report a post they considered misleading about … Read more
PARIS, July 27 — Elon Musk is rebranding his Twitter platform as “X” and wants to create a super-app where users will do all their finances as well as their socialising. His inspiration is China’s WeChat, which dominates the Chinese internet with chat, payments, games and a host of other functions in its walled garden. … Read more
WASHINGTON, July 12 — After years of bad press and scandal, Mark Zuckerberg is seeing his reputation spruced up in the fickle world of tech, largely thanks to the increasingly unpredictable behaviour of Elon Musk. Always bubbling just beneath the surface, the on-again, off-again rivalry between Musk and Facebook creator Zuckerberg has boiled over with … Read more
SAN FRANCISCO, April 21 — Elon Musk was at the news epicentre yesterday, from stripping Pope Francis of Twitter verification to Tesla’s drag on stocks and the explosion of the world’s largest rocket. Three utterly disparate stories dominated global news in a way that underlined the extraordinary influence of the one person who connects them … Read more
