In 2018, Shia LaBeouf was feeling heartbroken, adrift, in a state of what he called “spiritual sickness.” So the actor did what a lot of us were doing back then when we found ourselves in serious need of help: He went on Twitter. In the video that LaBeouf posted on …
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Elon Musk calls the current version of Grok, a large language model developed by his company xAI, “the smartest AI on Earth.” But lately, the chatbot has struggled with even the most basic questions from users on X, which was acquired by xAI in March and has long included Grok …
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The internet. Some have called it humankind’s greatest folly. A boundless ocean of vitriol, depravity, scams, misinformation, and meaningless competitions for clout. If this technology is what brought us to our present, how can it be any good? But now and then, we are reminded of the true potential encoded …
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Elon Musk, who owns one of the world’s biggest social media platforms, has spent many millions of dollars on politics as he helps Donald Trump slash the federal government and continue the administration’s attack on immigrants. Now, Musk is saying that he is losing the “propaganda war,” potentially through his …
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Since buying Twitter and rebranding it as X, tech oligarch Elon Musk has sought to bring the social media platform into alignment with xAI, his artificial intelligence venture. Now, he says, that company has acquired the app, signaling that users’ content and behavior will be core to the AI business. …
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When Ally Louks finally completed her PhD in English Literature from the University of Cambridge in November, she posted a quick photo of herself on X (formerly Twitter) —mainly to let people know she had completed her thesis defense and was open for work as a post-doctoral researcher. “Thrilled to …
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While Elon Musk may be the star of the political drama unfolding in Washington of late, his personal life has come to resemble a soap opera. On Thursday afternoon, the Canadian musician Claire Boucher, better known as Grimes, replied to Musk on his social platform, X, in evident desperation. “Plz …
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The new boss at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau had a jarring message for staffers Monday morning, in an internal memo leaked to Rolling Stone: “Stand down from performing any work task.” The message came from Russell Vought — a Project 2025 architect who was confirmed by the Senate last …
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The reply-now-to-resign program that the Trump administration is offering federal employees, known as a “Fork in the Road,” is raising a lot of questions. Incorrectly characterized by many publications as a “buyout” offer, the program is actually an ambiguous enticement to commit to a “deferred resignation,” whereby employees arrange to …
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The mass purge of federal workers under Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) plan is more than just an attack on the government bureaucracy — it’s a direct assault on the veterans who make up nearly 30 percent of the federal workforce. In a decision …
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