walter isaacson
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SpaceX Working on Hundreds of Swarming Spy Satellites for U.S. Intelligence Agency
SpaceX is working with the National Reconnaissance Office to build a classified system of swarming spy satellites, according to a report published by Reuters. And while the $US1.8 billion contract was reportedly signed in 2021, news of the program’s ties to NRO just leaked on Saturday—a great reminder that it’s entirely possible for some tech…
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Enter ‘Grok,’ Elon Musk’s Anti-Woke Chatbot
Elon Musk unveiled ‘Grok’ Saturday, a snarky, anti-woke AI chatbot that has access to all tweets, giving real-time knowledge about the world – if you can call everything on X ‘knowledge’. It’s built on Grok-1, the first large language model from the billionaire’s artificial intelligence company, xAI. Grok will answer “spicy questions’’ with a bit…
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‘He Has His Apocalyptic Moods’: What Walter Isaacson Has to Say About Elon Musk
If he wasn’t known for running EV car maker Tesla, Elon Musk would still be known for SpaceX, his spacecraft and satellite company with Martian ambitions. Or for Neuralink, a company working on developing implantable brain–computer interfaces. Or for X.AI, the latest entry in the artificial intelligence arms race. Or, of course, for buying social…
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Trademark Disputes Could Mean Elon’s ‘X’ Is Already Fxxked
Meta, Microsoft, and hundreds more own a trademark on the name. Hell, Musk can’t even take down Twitter’s old sign without cops getting involved.