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Is Sam Altman gearing up to take on Musk’s Neuralink? Report says...
Tech •Sam Altman, chief executive of OpenAI, is working to co-found a brain-to-computer interface startup called Merge Labs. If Merge Labs moves forward, it would mark Altman’s bid to stake a claim in a field Musk has championed
Faulty math and accounting tricks: How much has DOGE inflated its savings numbers
Fp Staff •Between February and July, DOGE’s verifiable savings from cancelled contracts came to about $1.4 billion, far short of the $32.7 billion the agency claimed for that period. How did the numbers get so inflated?
Musk threatens Apple with lawsuit over alleged App Store bias toward OpenAI
Tech •Musk alleged Apple makes it “impossible” for any AI company besides OpenAI, led by Sam Altman, to secure top billing in the store’s “Must Have” section, calling this “an unequivocal antitrust violation”
Musk’s Grok broke X rules? Reports say AI chatbot briefly suspended by microblogging site
Fp Staff •The chatbot claimed that its answer was mass-reported by pro-Israel users and advocacy groups, leading to the suspension
Grok’s at it again: Elon Musk’s AI accused of generating Taylor swift nudes without any prompts
Fp Staff •Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, is under scrutiny once again after its chatbot, Grok, reportedly created explicit deepfakes of Taylor Swift — without users requesting such content
Magnus Carlsen grills Elon Musk's Grok 4 as OpenAI’s o3 crushes it 4-0: 'Learnt theory, knows nothing else'
Fpsports •Grok 4 was the strongest among eight AI models competing in the exhibition tournament hosted on Google's Kaggle Game Arena, storming into the final only to suffer a 0-4 thrashing at the hands of o3 in the final.
‘Good faith’ payment: Why Elon Musk has been awarded Tesla shares worth $29 billion
Fp Explainers •Tesla’s board has agreed to grant Elon Musk shares worth $29 billion (nearly Rs 2.55 lakh crores), calling it a ‘first step, good faith payment’ to the CEO. The move comes as the company experiences falling global sales and continues its legal battle to reinstate a much larger pay deal that was previously struck down by a judge in Delaware
'Free speech will suffer': Musk's X locks horns with UK over online safety laws
Fp Staff •While X has taken steps to comply, such as introducing age verification systems, it expressed concerns about the law’s broader implications.
Lasers, sabotage and more... How China is planning to challenge Musk’s Starlink in space
Fp Explainers •China is increasing efforts to counter Elon Musk’s Starlink, the world’s largest satellite internet network. From attack satellites and lasers to building its own mega-constellation, Beijing sees Starlink’s dominance and US military links as a major security risk. But with 8,000 satellites already in orbit, can China contain Starlink?
US slams France's criminal investigation into Elon Musk's X amid foreign interference concerns
•Paris cybercrime prosecutors called for the police probe July 11 to investigate suspected crimes -- including manipulating and extracting data from automated systems "as part of a criminal gang."