Elon Musk

Professor Shelly Palmer, a tech expert and the Professor of Advanced Media in Residence at Syracuse University’s Newhouse School, discusses the latest developments surrounding TikTok. With TikTok at the center of political and technological debates, Shelly shares his perspective on whether U.S.-based tech giants, like Elon Musk, might make a move to acquire TikTok and what that could mean for the platform's future. Continue Reading →

There are two stories in the news today that caught my attention: 1) News Corp is suing Perplexity.ai for aggregating and surfacing WSJ and NYPost content without permission or payment. 2) xAI launched its API, which reminded me that X changed its terms of services last week, informing users that it can (and most likely will) use any content posted on X (formerly Twitter) to train its AI models. Continue Reading →

I've known Linda Yaccarino, CEO of X, for a long time. She is a dear friend. Yesterday, she posted an open letter to advertisers on X. I've appended it (unedited) below. In support of Linda's post, Elon posted, "We tried peace for 2 years, now it is war." As declarations of war go, this one is clear. Continue Reading →

I'm not sure if George Lucas was prescient (or just lucky) when he wrote C-3PO's famous self-introduction: "I am C-3PO, human/cyborg relations." It always announced itself as a purpose-built artificial life form. Ethics? Protocol? Law? Truth in labeling? Requirement? We won't need to recognize the future; it's already here. Continue Reading →

Elon Musk's xAI has officially open-sourced its AI chatbot Grok, which is now available on GitHub. The release includes the base model weights and network architecture of Grok-1. Continue Reading →

Foreshadowing CES shows yet to come, Google's DeepMind has introduced three new robotic training tools: AutoRT, SARA-RT, and RT-Trajectory. Continue Reading →

Join Shelly Palmer as he dives into Elon Musk's latest venture into artificial intelligence: the chatbot Grok. As a co-founder of OpenAI and a pioneer in AI technology, Musk's new company, X AI, is set to release Grok, a direct competitor to the renowned Chat GPT. Currently in private beta, Grok promises a unique personality with a sense of humor inspired by Musk himself, potentially reshaping our interactions with AI. Continue Reading →

Elon Musk has introduced Grok, an AI chatbot developed by his new company xAI, poised to challenge existing AI services. Named after an alien word from Robert A. Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land," Grok is designed to respond with wit to queries that might stump other bots. Continue Reading →

The only good news about Elon Musk renaming Twitter "X" is that everyone who might care about it (and a few people who don't) will talk about it for a few days. Continue Reading →

The blue check apocalypse has hit Twitter, and it has (once again) pushed users to seek out other options. Can anything compete with Twitter? Shelly Palmer speaks with Dan Bowens and Tashanea Whitlow on Fox 5's Good Day New York about whether you should seek out options like Bluesky or Mastodon. Continue Reading →