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Voters leave after casting their ballot at a polling station in the final phase of voting in India’s general election, in Kolkata on June 1, 2024. Artificial intelligence tools were used to create memes and images about political rivals in India and elsewhere around the world.
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How AI deepfakes polluted elections in 2024 – NPR
Elon Musk listens as President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with US House Republicans in Washington.Allison Robbert/CNP/Zuma
Elon Musk appears to be leaning even further into a full neo-Nazi embrace. Following his social media assault to block a congressional spending bill meant to avoid a government shutdown, the tech billionaire took to X and described the racist, far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party as Germany’s last, best hope.
“Only the AfD can save […]
Elon Musk Applauds the German Neo-Nazi Party – Mother Jones
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Broadcom’s (NASDAQ: AVGO) shares surged by nearly 25% after the company posted an impressive financial performance for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2024 (ended Nov. 3). This leading custom chip designer and infrastructure software maker has emerged as a major beneficiary of the ongoing artificial intelligence (AI) trend, especially since hyperscalers seek […]
Could This Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stock Be the Next Nvidia? – Nasdaq
Billionaire Elon Musk, set to join US President-elect Donald Trump’s administration as an outside adviser, on Friday called on German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to resign in response to a deadly attack at a German Christmas market.
“Scholz should resign immediately,” Musk posted on X, adding: “Incompetent fool.”
Musk was responding in a thread about reports of the incident, in which a car rammed into a crowd of revellers in the German city of Magdeburg. At least two people were killed and dozens […]
"Incompetent Fool": Elon Musk Slams German Chancellor Over Market Attack – NDTV
America is hours away from a holiday season government shutdown courtesy of Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
Everyone knew the president-elect and his new super-disrupter buddy were going to cause havoc in Washington. But no one thought they’d manage it even before the 47th president is sworn in.
Barring a pre-Christmas legislative miracle, the US government will plunge into a partial shutdown at midnight Friday after Musk tanked a year-end spending […]
A farce before Christmas could send the government into a Trump-Musk shutdown – CNN
A funny thing happened on the way to a bipartisan agreement to fund US government operations and avoid a partial shutdown this week.
Conservatives in Congress – encouraged by tech multi-billionaire Elon Musk – balked.
Republicans tried to regroup on Thursday afternoon, offering a new, slimmed-down package to fund the government. That vote failed, as 38 Republicans joined most Democrats in voting no.
All this political drama provides just a taste of the chaos and unpredictability that […]
Musk flexes influence over Congress in shutdown drama – BBC
The jealousy bone might appeared to have bitten Elon Musk Wednesday, as he reportedly crashed the widely publicized dinner between President-elect Donald Trump and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.
Trump’s Mar-a-Lago hosted the dinner dinner for the politician and billionaire, but the two didn’t have privacy for long before Musk appeared. According to the New York Times, the X CEO “was not initially expected to be part of the dinner but joined as it was underway.”
Reactions online to the apparent […]
Elon Musk Crashing Trump's Jeff Bezos Dinner at Mar-a-Lago Mocked as 'Deranged'
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren is pushing back against Republican pressure to weaken or even abolish the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — an agency she helped create that has returned billions of dollars to Americans.
The CFPB long has been a prime target of […]
Sen. Warren fights back on Elon Musk's call to 'delete' watchdog agency | WBUR News
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Committee on House Administration Releases Final 2024 Artificial Intelligence Flash Report
Elon Musk torpedoed a bipartisan deal to avoid a government shutdown. Trump one-upped him by demanding that the bill hike the debt ceiling. A new bill failed. Who’s in charge here?
Happy holidays! Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa are right around the corner—cultures all around the world celebrate festivals of light at this time of year. But the Republican Party seems to have opted for the darkly funny, Seinfeld-invented holiday of “Festivus,” best known for “the airing of the […]
The Billionaire Who Stole Christmas | The Nation