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After Tesla shareholders approved a new compensation package that could be worth $1 trillion, CEO Elon Musk appears to be celebrating with a normal weekend on his social media platform X. In an early Saturday morning post with the surely coincidental timestamp of 4:20am EST, Musk posted a video generated by Grok Imagine, the new photo and video tool from his company xAI. As Musk described it, the video was generated by his prompt, “She smiles and says, ‘I will always love you.’”And the video does, in fact, show an animated woman on a rainy street, saying those words in…
A Meta product leader said that employees are turning to the company’s internal AI assistant for performance reviews.Joseph Spisak, a product director in Meta Superintelligence Labs, said that the company’s internal ChatGPT-style tool, Metamate, can search through employees’ documents and generate summaries of their accomplishments.”When at the end of the year we do our performance, and I want to summarize my performance or whatever, I call Metamate and it goes and searches all my docs and what I’ve done and summarizes what I’ve done for the year and my accomplishments and feedback on me,” Spisak said onstage at the TechEquity…
2025-11-09T09:51:01Z Share Facebook Email X LinkedIn Reddit Bluesky WhatsApp Copy link lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. KPMG has opened a new 450,000 sq. ft office in Manhattan to promote in-person work. Employee input guided the design. CEO Tim Walsh said the new office is a “strong recommitment” to the firm’s presence in New York. Across KPMG’s offices nationwide, employees say they prefer round tables.So with…
Elon Musk could soon be a trillion-dollar man.On Thursday, 75% of Tesla shareholders voted to approve his proposed $1 trillion pay package as the company’s CEO, contingent on a set of performance metrics he would need to meet over the next decade.And based on the standing ovation and exuberant cheering Musk received at the shareholder meeting, Tesla superfans in attendance seemed to love it.”Howdy, Elon,” said one attendee during the Q&A portion of the meeting. “Congrats on not having to show up to work for free anymore.”The massive compensation package is in hopes that Musk could increase Tesla’s market cap…
In the aftermath of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas two years ago, high school teacher Josh Hirsch posted comments on social media in support of Israel. It was unrealistic for Hamas to expect a ceasefire, he wrote, as long as they were holding hostages.Soon afterward, a former student called for his firing. A note taped outside the door of his Adams County, Colorado, classroom contained his wife’s name and their home address. And a sticker that appeared on his chair read: “Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.” The reaction startled Hirsch, the only Jewish teacher in his…
AI and its implications on society are top of mind for a lot of people, including Pope Leo XIV.The first-ever American pope addressed AI leaders in an X post on Friday, about a week after he wrote a message to those attending the Builders AI Forum 2025. The forum is dedicated to fostering a community that supports the development of AI products aligned with the Catholic Church’s mission.”Technological innovation can be a form of participation in the divine act of creation. It carries an ethical and spiritual weight, for every design choice expresses a vision of humanity,” Pope Leo XIV…
A rough week for tech stocks might signal a loss of investor confidence in artificial intelligence. The Wall Street Journal reports that the Nasdaq Composite Index was down 3% — making this its worst week since President Donald Trump announced his sweeping tariff plan in April. Tech companies that have otherwise performed well this year were among those hardest hit, with Palantir’s stock price falling 11% this week, Oracle declining by 9%, and Nvidia losing 7%. These drops also come after earnings reports in which Meta and Microsoft indicated that they plan to continue spending heavily on AI (both companies…
If you watched all the way to the end of the new Apple TV show “Pluribus,” you may have noticed an unusual disclaimer in the credits: “This show was made by humans.” That terse message — placed right below a note that “animal wranglers were on set to ensure animal safety” — could potentially provide a model for other filmmakers seeking to highlight that their work was made without the use of generative AI. And just in case the disclaimer wasn’t clear enough, creator Vince Gilligan (best known for “Breaking Bad”) was even more emphatic in a Variety feature story…
It’s like F1 but on water.Seventy-five years ago, race drivers ripped across the asphalt in Formula 1’s first Grand Prix, marking the beginning of a lavish global competition.Now, a Rolodex of celebrities and renowned athletes is helping usher in a new version, this time featuring eco-conscious electric speed boats.It’s called E1.If you happened to be in Jeddah in January or Lagos last month, you may have seen the brightly colored boats — called RaceBirds — slicing through open water at almost 60 mph.”When you step in these boats, you feel like you’re in a spaceship,” Dani Clos, a pilot for…
A recent letter from OpenAI reveals more details about how the company is hoping the federal government can support the company’s ambitious plans for data center construction. The letter — from OpenAI’s chief global affairs officer Chris Lehane and addressed to the White House’s director of science and technology policy Michael Kratsios — argued that the government should consider expanding the Advanced Manufacturing Investment Credit (AMIC) beyond semiconductor fabrication to cover electrical grid components, AI servers, and AI data centers. The AMIC is a 35% tax credit that was included in the Biden administration’s Chips Act. “Broadening coverage of the…