Author: IQ TIMES MEDIA
Tesla’s sales in Europe are plummeting — and now Elon Musk has a warning for employees at the company’s German megafactory ahead of crucial union elections.In an interview with Giga Berlin senior director Andre Thierig posted on X on Thursday, Musk said Tesla would “ideally” expand its only European gigafactory and start production of its battery cells, Cybercab robotaxi, and Optimus robot at the site.Asked if he had any advice for the team at Giga Berlin to work toward that vision, Musk said any expansion was contingent on Tesla being free from interference from “outside organizations.””Things certainly get harder if…
Jayla Cole never experienced what most would consider the carefree teenage years. She could not get a driver’s license because of epilepsy and frequent seizures. She didn’t want to take photos or selfies because Bell’s Palsy left her with permanent facial paralysis – a twisted smile that led to bullying by classmates.Her father, who was a heavy drinker, brought additional trauma. He dipped in and out of her life when it was convenient, while introducing her to other children he’d fathered along the way. Papa was a rolling stone, but he rarely rolled to her when she needed him most.…
The voices on the emergency calls sound calm. Matter-of-fact. Routine.“Frio County 911. What is your emergency?”“I’m calling from the Dilley immigration center in Dilley, Texas. I’m calling for a little kid going through respiratory distress.”The callers — medical staff inside the remote facility that houses hundreds of immigrant children and their parents in South Texas — tick through the clinical details: symptoms, vital signs, ages.“He’s a 6-year-old male.”“Sixty?”“Six-year-old.”On the calls, staff at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center request ambulances for children struggling to breathe, burning with fever or appearing lethargic — emergencies unfolding inside a detention center that lawyers, immigration…
ATLANTA (AP) — The father of accused school shooter Colt Gray has taken the stand in one of the latest cases in which parents are being put on trial after their children are accused in fatal shootings.Defense lawyers called Colin Gray to testify shortly after court began early Friday as they begin presenting their case. Prosecutors say he should be held accountable for giving his son the weapon used in the shooting as a Christmas gift despite alleged threats and warning signs that the boy was mentally unstable.Colt, who was 14 years old at the time of the shooting, faces…
The AI coding timeline is accelerating, according to the guy who coined “vibe coding.”Andrej Karpathy has a long list of AI bona fides. He was a founding member of OpenAI, left to lead AI at Tesla, then returned to the ChatGPT-maker and eventually started his own lab. In early 2025, he introduced the term vibe coding into the zeitgeist.In his latest X post, Karpathy described a speed-up in agentic coding, one that has taken place in just a few months. “Coding agents basically didn’t work before December and basically work since,” he wrote.These agents are “extremely disruptive to the default…
Luckey, who founded and runs the weapons and defense software startup Anduril, pointed to a previous White House decision to compel private companies to work with the US government.Posting on X several hours before Amodei’s statement, he referenced a 1948 statement by then-President Harry S. Truman that ordered railway companies to allow the US military to run their operations amid a workers’ strike.”The President can’t make private companies work with the military, it would be unprecedented!”May 10, 1948I HAVE today by Executive order taken over the country’s railroads and directed the Secretary of the Army to operate them in the…
Want to make big bucks in AI without a technical background? There still might be room for you.OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wrote in a Thursday post on X that “people who are not technical” can work on developing artificial general intelligence — in research recruiting.”We believe the best research teams are built through context, taste and a real feel for where the field is headed next; research recruiting is about finding people who will move the frontier forward, not just filling roles,” Altman wrote.He added that Tifa Chen, OpenAI’s head of research recruiting, is “looking for exceptional recruiters from non-traditional…
Investors didn’t want Netflix to buy Warner Bros. Discovery.Republicans didn’t want the deal to happen, either.So now it’s dead.That’s the cleanest and most likely explanation for Netflix walking away from the $83 billion transaction it agreed to a few months ago.Netflix’s move means that, barring something very surprising, Larry and David Ellison’s Paramount will end up owning all of WBD: not just the movie/TV studio and HBO, which Netflix wanted to buy, but its collection of TV networks as well, including CNN. We may hear other explanations for the Netflix move in coming days. But my educated guess is that…
LOS ANGELES — In a highly-anticipated testimony Thursday, the plaintiff in a landmark social media addiction trial said using apps like Instagram and YouTube when she was a child fueled her depression and anxiety, leading her to withdraw from her family.Now 20 years old, the plaintiff — identified in court documents by her initials, K.G.M. — detailed how her almost nonstop use of social media “really affected my self-worth.”“They made me give up a lot of hobbies and old interests, and they prevented me from making friends … [and] caused me to compare myself to other people,” she told jurors…
Jack Dorsey has long been an open admirer of Elon Musk. Now, it seems, he may have been taking notes. On Thursday, Dorsey announced that Block, the payments company he founded that operates Square, Cash App, and Tidal, is cutting more than 4,000 employees, nearly half its global workforce, taking it from over 10,000 workers down to just under 6,000. Investors responded enthusiastically, sending the stock up more than 24% in after-hours trading. It isn’t the first time a major tech company has done something of the sort. In November 2022, Musk slashed roughly 50% of Twitter’s staff in a…