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Could Tesla lose Elon Musk if $56B payday doesn’t go his way?

A Tesla shareholder vote on Thursday on whether to reinstate CEO Elon Musk’s $56 billion pay package that was shot down by a Delaware judge will not provide a quick resolution, irrespective of the tally’s results.

Tesla’s board is hoping sharehol

We spent nearly a year building a gen AI tool. These are the 5 (hard) lessons we learned

When generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) emerged prominently in late 2022, it quickly became the next big thing. McKinsey also got inspired, not only publishing extensively on the topic but also realizing that it could use gen AI to help bring together the company’s vast but separate knowledge sources. 

Will Oklo make money before OpenAI’s Sam Altman cashes out?

One of the fun things about being a Silicon Valley executive is that there are so many different ways to make money.

Sam Altman, CEO of AI powerhouse OpenAI, also runs a famed startup incubator called Y Combinator. That position afforded him the opportunity in 2013 to meet a new company in the nuclear power business, Oklo, which he invested in. Altman was intrigued by the Oklo’s mission to make a more-efficient nuclear reactor to

How autonomous vehicles and sensors could help reduce carbon and boost ocean discovery

Deep below the ocean surface, the light fades into a twilight zone where whales and fish migrate and dead algae and zooplankton rain down from above. This is the ">heart of the ocean’s carbon pump, part of the natural ocean processes that capture about a third of all human-produced carbon dioxide and sink it into the deep sea, where it remains for hundreds of years.

NASA’s asteroid sample mission was important for meteor research. Here’s why

Earth is constantly bombarded by fragments of rock and ice, also known as meteoroids, from outer space. Most of the meteoroids are as tiny as grains of sand and small pebbles, and they completely burn up high in the atmosphere. You can see meteoroids larger than about a golf ball when they light up as meteors

‘Her’ isn’t the movie you should watch to learn about AI companions. It’s ‘The Stepford Wives’

When OpenAI launched the voice assistant ChatGPT-4o in May, users quickly noticed some eerie similarities to the 2013 Spike Jonze film Her. Scarlett Johansson, who voiced the film’s AI assistant, Samantha, even called out the company for producing a voice so indistinguishab

Apple’s commitment to data privacy could pay off big with its AI

At long last, Apple has finally entered the AI race. The company announced on Monday a raft of new AI-driven features at its WWDC developer conference, as well as a new partnership with

What to know about OpenAI’s new CFO and CPO

OpenAI named Sarah Friar as its CFO and Kevin Weil as CPO, the artificial intelligence company announced Monday.

The move to bring in the two Silicon Valley veterans comes as the company is expanding its partnerships and ramping up its

Boeing’s Starliner has more test objectives to reach

Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft scored a crucial achievement last week with the delivery of two astronauts to the International Space Station, but problems encountered along its journey in space and more hurdles that lie ahead make the aerospace

Tesla banks on small investors to vote for Musk’s $56 billion payday

With major Tesla shareholders appearing divided over whether to endorse Elon Musk’s $56 billion pay package, the company also is looking for support from retail investors who make up an unusually high percentage of the electric carmaker’s ownership base.


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