Archive for the 'Rise of the Machines' Category
Elon Musk Becomes the World’s First Trillionaire with SpaceX’s IPO
June 12th, 2026Via: CBS: Elon Musk has become the first person to cross the trillionaire threshold, at least on paper, after SpaceX priced its blockbuster initial public offering at $135 a share and its stock soared in its stock market debut.
Pokémon Go Scans Quietly Trained the Navigation Tech Now Headed Into Military Drones
June 11th, 2026Via: DroneXL: Hundreds of millions of Pokémon Go players spent years filming the streets, parks, and buildings around them to earn in-game rewards. Those roughly 30 billion environmental scans are now owned by Niantic Spatial, and they helped train a camera-based navigation model that a U.S. defense contractor is preparing to put into drones and […]
SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI IPO Bag Holders – You Might Become One of Them
June 11th, 2026Hint: Retirement funds. Via: Andrei Jikh: Focus on SpaceX:
AI Price Wars Begin: OpenAI Considers “Drastic Price Cuts” In Pursuit Of Anthropic Customers
June 10th, 2026Via: ZeroHedge: In short, we now have a classical deflationary race to the bottom, precisely the opposite of what the profit-strapped industry desperately needs to grow into its gargantuan balance sheets (and massive SPVs); Instead, the AI world is about to get hit with a collapse in both revenues and profit margins, while cash burn […]
SpaceX AI Satellites
June 9th, 2026As I was listening to Elon Musk talking about AI satellites, I started thinking about a video I clipped from a livestream recently in Los Angeles. As the bums shuffle around the filth in Skid Row, the thinking machines are being readied to launch into space. *shrug shoulders* So it goes… SpaceX AI Satellites pic.twitter.com/e87XMW2tXb […]
Failing Grades Soar as Professors See Greater AI Usage, Dwindling Math Skills in UC Berkeley Computer Science Classes
June 4th, 2026Via: The Daily Californian: UC Berkeley teaching professor Dan Garcia taught both CS 10, “The Beauty and Joy of Computing,” and CS 61A, “The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs,” in spring 2026. Garcia believes the “primary driver” of these abnormally high failing rates is due to a “vast increase in academic dishonesty” due to […]
AI Companies Are LYING to You
May 29th, 2026Via: FUTO:
Why Tesla’s AI Trainers Don’t Trust Its Self-driving Tech – Or Its Safety Stats
May 28th, 2026Via: Reuters: Tesla says its Full Self-Driving software is up to 10 times safer than human drivers. But the figures the company uses to support its claims don’t withstand scrutiny – and staffers who trained the technology say it isn’t close to safely delivering autonomous vehicles at scale. … Inside Tesla, as these events approached, […]
DuckDuckGo’s AI-Free Search Gains 28% More Visits Following Google’s Insistence That People Love AI Mode
May 27th, 2026Via: PC Gamer: These days, a typical Google Search feels like an obstacle course. Type out ‘upcoming PC games 2026’ and your gaze has to swerve around a chunky AI overview which recycles the work of human writers in a bid to kneecap efforts to click away from Google. It’s a bleak state of affairs […]
We’re Being Held Hostage in a Technology Bubble
May 26th, 2026Via: Truthstream Media:
