When Elon Musk was forced to buy Twitter two years ago, he said his goal was to turn the platform into two things: the “digital town square” and the “everything app.” He has failed at both goals.
X isn’t something that is upsetting “the far right and the far left equally,” Instead, it has become Musk’s political weapon. In fact, he may be so preoccupied with trying to get Donald Trump elected that he has forgotten that X was supposed to be a bank by now.
This time last year, Musk said in an internal X meeting that it “would blow my mind” if the service couldn’t handle “someone’s entire financial life” by the end of 2024.

The fundamental issue is they don’t have technology that works. And by works, I want to differentiate between a driver assistance system that drives most of the time — except when it doesn’t, and then you have to take over — versus a system that’s so reliable and robust that you don’t need a person in it.

Kamala Harris’s economic policies proved far more popular than Donald Trump’s plans in a blind test of their proposals.

Four of the top five most popular proposals were from the Democratic candidate’s campaign, according to a new Harris Poll conducted exclusively for the Guardian.

Canada's home ownership crisis is likely to worsen over the next few years as proposed project sales languish at historically low levels, stalling the funding needed for construction, half a dozen economists and realtors told Reuters.

According to federal housing agency CMHC's Housing Supply Report from last month where it cites an independent study, new condominium sales were down more than half in the first six months of 2024 than in the same period a year ago.

Aled ab Iorwerth, deputy chief economist at CMHC, who co-authored the report said there are many developers who need money to start planned condo projects.

The Supreme Court has rejected an emergency appeal to remove Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from the presidential ballot in two battleground states.

Miller is facing two counts of intentionally signing false certificates and one count of casting an illegal vote. It is unclear if she will still be allowed to recast her vote before Election Day.

The report is from the 1980s and was recently rehashed by podcaster Joe Rogan.

Adding a bit of graphene oxide to slurry and zapping with ultrasound for 10 minutes yields best tiles.

A new report reveals OpenAI's audio transcription tool, Whisper, has recorded consistent "hallucinations", according to multiple studies.

Soft-serve machines get a not-quite-parfait exemption to DMCA circumvention rule.

This is something that irritates me personally because I’ve used those quotes from Elon about service to counter the hesitation of many potential Tesla buyers regarding the maintenance and service of electric vehicles.

Elon’s statement reassured them, but if that was ever really the plan, it certainly isn’t anymore based on the latest results.

Tesla’s gross margins for service and selling replacement parts are surging, and Tesla is proudly saying it in its financial results.

Google is gearing up to unveil its latest AI language model, Gemini 2.0, in December, according to insider sources from The Verge.

Another indication of the plateau thesis: OpenAI has just confirmed that a new model, internally considered as a potential successor to GPT-4, will not be released this year, despite looming competition from Google Gemini 2.0.

Similarly, Anthropic is rumored to have put a previously announced version 3.5 of its flagship Opus model on hold due to a lack of significant progress, instead focusing on an improved version of Sonnet 3.5 that emphasizes agent-based AI.

"There is some chance that HW3 does not achieve the safety level that allows for unsupervised FSD," he added.

Translation: all the times Tesla has vowed that all of its vehicles would soon be capable of fully driving themselves may have been a convenient act of salesmanship that ultimately turned out not to be true.