Delhi Police, Elon Musk and ‘police cats’, just look at what happened

4Jun

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Delhi Police, Elon Musk and ‘police cats’, just look at what happened

Billionaire Elon Musk's quirky tweet about his son Lil X asking if 'police cats' exist has received a "purr-fect" reply from the Delhi Police and wacky responses from netizens.The Twitter owner on Thursday had posted: "Lil X just asked if there are police cats, since there are police dogs." While a large number of netizens have been engaging with Musk's tweet since then, it is Delhi Police's pun-laced response on Friday that has caught the attention of many Twitterati. "Hi @elonmusk, please tell Lil X that there are no police cats because they might get booked for feline-y and 'purr'petration," the Delhi Police tweeted.Many netizens have given a thumb-up to this amusing wordplay by the law enforcement agency of India's national capital, and some have called it a "purr-fect" response.De...

4Jun

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Human extinction threat ‘overblown’ says AI sage Marcus

Ever since the poem churning ChatGPT burst on the scene six months ago, expert Gary Marcus has voiced caution against artificial intelligence's ultra-fast development and adoption.But against AI's apocalyptic doomsayers, the New York University emeritus professor told AFP in a recent interview that the technology's existential threats may currently be "overblown." "I'm not personally that concerned about extinction risk, at least for now, because the scenarios are not that concrete," said Marcus in San Francisco. "A more general problem that I am worried about... is that we're building AI systems that we don't have very good control over and I think that poses a lot of risks, (but) maybe not literally existential."Long before the advent of ChatGPT, Marcus designed his first AI program ...

3Jun

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Elon Musk is accused of insider trading

Elon Musk is being accused of insider trading in a proposed class action by investors accusing the Tesla Inc CEO of manipulating the cryptocurrency Dogecoin, costing them billions of dollars.In a Wednesday night filing in Manhattan federal court, investors said Musk used Twitter posts, paid online influencers, his 2021 appearance on NBC's "Saturday Night Live" and other "publicity stunts" to trade profitably at their expense through several Dogecoin wallets that he or Tesla controls. Investors said this included when Musk sold about $124 million of Dogecoin in April after he replaced Twitter's blue bird logo with Dogecoin's Shiba Inu dog logo, leading to a 30% jump in Dogecoin's price. A "deliberate course of carnival barking, market manipulation and insider trading" enabled Musk to de...

2Jun

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Twitter’s Top Content Policy Executive Ella Irwin Resigns

Ella Irwin, the Twitter executive in charge of content moderation and policy, has resigned, leaving new owner Elon Musk without one of his most loyal lieutenants.As head of Trust and Safety, Irwin helped oversee Twitter's policies on harassment, hate speech and violent content — rules which were relaxed under Musk. She was also heavily involved in account suspensions, and would frequently respond to Twitter users whose accounts were blocked. Irwin confirmed her departure, which was earlier reported by Fortune, in an email. Current and former employees have said Irwin was one of Musk's most trusted executives, willing to carry out and defend his decisions on content as the team's efforts became strained with layoffs and firings. While that work improved her standing at Twitter, it also ...

2Jun

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Elon Musk-led Neuralink wins US FDA approval to test brain chips in humans

In 2016, Elon Musk, along with a team of seven scientists and engineers launched Neuralink. The neurotechnology company has been developing implantable brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). For the unaware, these are microchips, ranging between 4 to 6 nanometers wide, which are attached to the brain to heal certain disabilities and genetic diseases. Now, the US Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) has approved Neuralink's demand to conduct its first tests on humans.These brain chips are said to improve the condition of people suffering from vision and mobility disorders using neural links between the brain and the body part. In 2019, Neuralink demonstrated a monkey playing the game "Pong" using the Neuralink implant. The company received praise for creating a wireless technology that was ca...

31May

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5 things about AI you may have missed today: China warns of AI risks, Elon Musk as Indian groom and more

The field of artificial intelligence is one of huge extremes. While on one end, companies like Google and Microsoft are rolling out AI products virtually every day, on the other hand, major protests are taking place that want the rise of AI to be halted. And these protests include major AI researchers including the father of AI Geoffrey Hinton and the man that started the AI craze, the founder and CEO of OpenAI Sam Altman. In a development to the protests, today China also called for security measures against AI, highlighting its risks. In a separate, lighter vein, a digital artist used AI to reimagine Elon Musk as an Indian groom. This and more in our daily AI roundup. Let us take a look.China warns of AI risksThe ruling party of China, the Chinese Communist Party, called for major na...

27May

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Twitter Withdraws From EU Disinformation Code, Commissioner Says

Twitter exited the voluntary European Union's Code of Practice on Disinformation, the bloc's Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton said.Twitter Inc. was earlier this year the only major tech platform that didn't send a complete report to the European Union under the code, which the company agreed to follow before it was taken over by Elon Musk in late 2022. Its report was short of data and didn't include commitments from the social media company that it would empower fact-checkers, the EU's executive arm said in February. “Twitter leaves EU voluntary Code of Practice against disinformation. But obligations remain,” Breton said on his Twitter account late on Friday. “You can run but you can't hide.” He said that beyond voluntary commitments, fighting disinformation will become a l...

26May

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Twitter’s launch of DeSantis’ presidential bid underscores platform’s rightward shift under Musk

Two years ago, signing a bill intended to punish Twitter and other major social media companies, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis blasted the platforms as "suppressing ideas” during the COVID-19 pandemic and silencing conservative voices.What a turnaround. The new Elon Musk-owned version of Twitter helped DeSantis launch his bid for the Republican presidential nomination Wednesday. Though it was marred by technical glitches and skewered by the candidate's critics, the forum nevertheless underscored Twitter's unmistakable shift to the right under Musk, who bought it for $44 billion and took over in October. “The truth was censored repeatedly, and now that Twitter is in the hands of a free speech advocate, that would not be able to happen again on this Twitter platform,” DeSantis said during th...

26May

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Ford electric vehicle owners to get access to Tesla Supercharger network starting next spring

All of Ford Motor Co.'s current and future electric vehicles will have access to about 12,000 Tesla Supercharger stations in the U.S. and Canada starting next spring.Ford CEO Jim Farley and Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced the agreement Thursday during a “Twitter Spaces” audio chat. “We think this is a huge move for our industry and for all electric customers,” Farley said. Musk said he didn't want Tesla's network to be a “walled garden” and that he wants to use it to support sustainable transportation.“It is our intent to do everything possible to support Ford and have Ford be on an equal footing at Tesla Superchargers,” Musk said.Farley said there will be a cost to Ford owners, perhaps a monthly subscription, but he didn't give specifics. Details of any financial arrangement between For...

26May

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Twitter Will Keep Using Spaces as a Forum for Politics After DeSantis Campaign Launch

Twitter will “keep experimenting” with its audio platform Spaces to give political candidates a chance to connect with an audience, despite the technical glitches in a high-profile event, said David Sacks, who moderated a discussion between Elon Musk and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Wednesday.Sacks, a general partner at venture capital firm Craft Ventures, acknowledged that the conversation got off to a rocky start, but said it went well after they switched from Musk's account to his own. “If your viewers go to Twitter now and go listen to the recording, I think they're going to wonder what all the fuss was about,” he said on Bloomberg TV Thursday. “Once we got started in a room on my account, we worked up perfectly,” The Twitter Spaces event was intended to kick off DeSantis' 2024...