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The internet is trying—and failing—to spend Elon Musk’s $342 billion

How would you spend $342 billion?

A number of games called “Spend Elon Musk’s Money” have been popping up online, inviting users to imagine how they’d blow through the wealth of the world’s richest man.

“If Elon cashed out all of his stocks & assets today he would have approximately $354,000,000,000 (US Dollars) in his bank account (Forbes 2025),” reads one such website. “What would you spend it

Moonvalley releases its ‘power tool’ for AI filmmaking

On Tuesday, AI lab Moonvalley announced the public release of Marey, a video model designed as a production-grade tool for professional filmmakers.

Marey—pronounced “Mary” and named after early film pioneer Étienne-Jules Marey—was trained exclusively on expl

What happened at Wimbledon? ‘Human error’ blamed for ball-tracking tech mishap

The All England Club, somewhat ironically, is blaming “human error” for a glaring mistake by the electronic system that replaced human line judges this year at Wimbledon.

The CEO of the club, Sally Bolton, said Monday that the

Elon Musk has ‘fixed’ Grok—to be more like him than ever

As Elon Musk announced plans over the Fourth of July weekend to establish a third political party, his AI chatbot, Grok, gave a sneak preview of the information ecosystem in that party.

It’s pretty much indistinguishable from Musk’s personal feed on X.

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Dr. Becky is the parenting guru for the social media era. Now she’s an AI chatbot, too

Dolores Ballesteros, a Mexico-based mother of two, was getting desperate. Her 6-year-old son kept hitting his brother, age 3, and seemed angry at her all the time. No matter what she did, she couldn’t get through to him. At her lowest moments, she says, “I really thought he was acting like a psychopath.” Last Mother’s Day, she asked her husband for outside help: a subscription to the Good Inside parenting app and its

Five truths about being a female founder in 2025

Rarely has Silicon Valley experienced a more profound period of transformation than it has in the past handful of years. The big VC boom of 2020–2021. The great VC hangover starting in 2022. The global pandemic and its massive impact on tech adoption. The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. And more recently the advent of

YouTube to Hollywood: We are going to eat you

A YouTube executive needed only 27 minutes to make the case that the company is taking over all aspects of how people create and consume video online.

That was the length of a recent talk by Fede Goldenberg, YouTube’s head of TV and film partnerships, at the StreamTV conference in Denver last month. Goldenberg’s presentation had an upbeat title, “YouTube is the new TV.” But the talk carried an unmistakable undertone: Resistance is futile.

How AI is advancing even faster than sci-fi visionaries imagined

Every time I read about another advance in AI technology, I feel like another figment of science fiction moves closer to reality.

Lately, I’ve been noticing eerie parallels to Neal Stephenson’s 1995 novel The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer.

Racist AI-generated videos are all over TikTok, thanks in part to Google’s Veo 3 tool

Racist AI-generated videos are going viral on TikTok, according to a new report from Media Matters for America, a progressive watch

This planet is drawing huge flares from its young star

Scientists are tracking a large gas planet experiencing quite a quandary as it orbits extremely close to a young star – a predicament never previously observed.

This exoplanet, as planets beyond our solar system are called, orbits its star so tightly that it appears to trigger flares from the stellar surface – larger than any observed from the sun – reaching several million miles (km) into space that over time may strip much of this unlucky world’s atmospher


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