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Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ has already gotten under Elon Musk’s skin. It goes nationwide this week
VENICE, Italy | Elon Musk has called filmmaker Alex Gibney a lot of names leading up to the theatrical release of the documentary “Musk,” which is playing in select theaters in New York and Los Angeles and expands nationwide on Friday. Over the past few weeks, Musk has posted on X that Gibney is an […]
Elon Musk quietly becomes biggest known donor in midterm contests as he tries to save Republicans
NEW YORK | Elon Musk, the world’s only trillionaire, has quietly become the biggest known donor in this year’s midterm elections, doling out more than $276 million since July to try to save Republican majorities in Congress. The numbers, first reported by the New York Times ahead of this week’s federal filing deadline, were confirmed […]
Trump says top tech firms have signed accord to ‘self-police’ AI development
WASHINGTON | President Donald Trump on Tuesday said that he and a large group of leaders of artificial intelligence companies had signed a voluntary accord that will include internal and external reviews during a meeting at the White House aimed at addressing Americans’ fears about the technology. “I think I’m seeing tremendous self-policing. And they […]
SpaceX’s supersized Starship launches into orbit for the first time but flight ends early
SpaceX launched its enormous Starship into orbit for the first time Monday and successfully delivered the most advanced Starlink satellites yet, but cut the flight short to ensure safety. The spacecraft reentered over the Pacific and splashed down north of Hawaii three hours after blasting off from Texas. The company had been aiming for a […]
Trump’s state dinner for Xi features sea bass and a long list of tech titans
WASHINGTON | A tech-heavy guest list, the fashion choices of those on it, who sat where and what was on the menu marked the softer — often and glitzier — details of diplomacy as Donald Trump threw a Thursday night state dinner honoring China’s leader Xi Jinping. The event featured a cavalcade of billionaires, Washington […]
Anthropic says its model Claude is helping to build the next version of itself
Anthropic’s Claude is helping the company develop the next, more intelligent version of the model, the artificial intelligence lab said in an announcement Thursday. Claude is leading 26% of Anthropic’s model research and development, which the company said means it can complete most of a given task “end-to-end from a high-level prompt” while still being […]
Ashley St. Clair and Alex Gibney on AI and the dangers of Elon Musk
VENICE, Italy | A new documentary about Elon Musk uses an Artificial Intelligence avatar to simulate an interview with the SpaceX and Tesla CEO using things he’s really said in interviews. The choice, filmmaker Alex Gibney said Tuesday in Venice before the film’s world premiere, was intentionally ironic. It both references Musk’s proposition that we’re […]
An Elon Musk documentary and a Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem thriller premiere at Venice
VENICE, Italy | A slew of high-profile films are debuting Tuesday at the Venice Film Festival, including Alex Gibney’s Elon Musk documentary, a psychological thriller with Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem, and a drama from Casey Affleck. With a runtime of nearly four hours, including an intermission, “Musk” is a portrait of the world’s richest […]
ARMSTRONG: Phil Weiser’s ‘blueprint’ for Colorado is a mass of contradictions
“Democrats lay out plan to win supermajority in Colorado Legislature,” reads a recent headline from the left-leaning Colorado Newsline. So how might Governor Phil Weiser interact with the legislature, whether or not Democrats reach their goals for legislative seats? For that we can turn to his Unsurprisingly, Weiser wants to be all things to all people. He […]
Russian barrage in Ukraine’s capital region kills 17 as air defenses fall short
KYIV, Ukraine | Russian attacks on Kyiv and its surrounding region killed 17 people and wounded dozens, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Wednesday, as Ukraine’s depleted air defenses failed to stop any of Moscow’s incoming missiles overnight. The barrage, which lasted about two hours, was the latest in a series of large-scale Russian missile strikes that […]