Musk, Tech Bros & AI Fascism

The ‘Shock Doctrine’ author explains the dark logic of Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s path of destruction and why billionaire oligarchs are so angry.

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Perhaps never before in US history has the revolving door between business and government been more pronounced - or the line between business and public interests more blurred.

The battle for control of the internet begins with correctly identifying the sides that are at war.

Director of "The Dark Money Game" Alex Gibney details why it's so difficult to track down the origins of dark money, and how nonprofits and other seemingly b...

What does it mean when one of the richest men on Earth gets unprecedented access to government data—and then quietly walks away?In this video, I break down E...

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It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.

What if cruelty no longer needed a conscience—just code, a platform, and an audience to applaud it?

(Reuters) -Microsoft is getting ready to host Elon Musk's Grok AI model, The Verge reported on Thursday citing a source familiar with the plans. The tech giant has been in discussions with Musk's AI startup xAI in recent weeks to host the Grok model and make it available to customers, as well as Microsoft's own product teams through its Azure cloud service, the report said. Grok will be

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced that the firm's non-profit will continue overseeing the for-profit arm.

TECH NEWS : Microsoft possesses significant leverage to potentially obstruct OpenAI's plan to transition into an independent for-profit entity, impacting its fina

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In three consolidated suits, publishers allege that OpenAI broke copyright law by copying millions of articles without permission or payment. OpenAI counters that the fair use doctrine protects them.

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The Pentagon has its eye on the leading AI company, which this week softened its ban on military use.

Elon Musk’s latest legal filing against OpenAI marks his fourth attempt in less than a year to reframe his claims. However, his own words and actions speak for themselves—in 2017, Elon not only wanted, but actually created, a for-profit as OpenAI’s proposed new structure.

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Some people think machine intelligence will transform humanity for the better. Others fear it may destroy us. Who will decide our fate?

AI could even out the playing field in recruitment – except that it’s trained by humans.

And also takes the opportunity to bad-mouth Tesla’s self-driving AI.

Transparency, or the appearance of it, is the technology’s new norm.

Not every thing the company says is completely candid.

Elon Musk's lawsuit against Sam Altman's company has sparked a moral debate in Silicon Valley about closed-source versus open-source AI models.

FTC says it's fighting in the public's corner