US auto safety regulators said Tuesday they have opened an investigation into 280,000 new Tesla Model 3 and Model Y vehicles over reports of loss of steering control and power steering. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opened a preliminary evaluation after it received 12 complaints from owners of 2023 Tesla Model 3 and Model Y vehicles. One Model 3 driver reported in May …
Read More »Instagram boss moves back to US days after Threads loses half its users
The head of Instagram has ditched working from London after a highly-publicized move across the Pond last year to return to the US — as Threads struggles to retain users. Adam Mosseri, who oversees the Instagram-linked “Twitter killer” app, said the recent launch of Threads made working from a distant time zone too challenging. “A year is not enough time …
Read More »Elon Musk’s X sign removed from San Francisco HQ after complaints
It is gone. A giant, glowing X no longer marks the spot on the San Francisco high-rise that is headquarters to Elon Musk’s messaging company X, formerly known as Twitter. The city building department logged 24 complaints after a weekend of the big X, which on Friday was erected on the roof of the company’s downtown San Francisco headquarters, on Market …
Read More »Pulsating ‘X’ sign at San Francisco HQ infuriates neighbors
Elon Musk’s publicity stunt to rebrand Twitter with a strobe-lit “X” atop the company’s San Francisco headquarters has drawn the wrath of neighbors — and the city may pull the plug on the installation. The billionaire touted the display in a 19-second video of the pulsating logo lighting up the night sky after the company erected the metal structure on …
Read More »Amazon touts delivery speeds but investors eye sales, cloud growth
Amazon on Monday said it hit record delivery speeds in the US in the second-quarter while continuing to cut costs, as investors look for signs of growth in its e-commerce business when it reports its Q2 financials on Thursday. Investors tuning into the company’s earnings call this week also want updates on the tech giant’s cloud business, ad revenue growth and signals …
Read More »X reorganizes trust and safety team under Elon Musk, Linda Yaccarino
X owner Elon Musk and Chief Executive Linda Yaccarino will both oversee the trust and safety team at the company formerly known as Twitter, the social media concern said Monday. X’s product and engineering team will report to Musk, while Yaccarino will oversee all other divisions, including human resources, legal, finance, sales and operations, X said. The trust and safety team, which is …
Read More »ChatGPT graduated from high school to college level IQ: study
Call it pomp and circuitry. New research out of UCLA finds that ChatGPT “performs about as well as college undergraduates” when it comes to reasoning questions that often show up on standardized testing. The language learning model has proverbially graduated to higher education since late 2022 when its “clean” writing style was described to The Post as that of “a …
Read More »Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg had falling out over the metaverse
Mark Zuckerberg’s longtime lieutenant Sheryl Sandberg “was just done” with the Meta boss after he made the decision to pivot the company away from its bread-and-butter social media-based business and toward the metaverse, according to a report. Sandberg, the “Lean In” author and former Google executive, served as Zuckerberg’s No. 2 at Facebook parent company Meta for 14 years before …
Read More »Elon Musk’s X threatens to sue Center for Countering Digital Hate
X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, has threatened to sue a group of independent researchers whose research documented an increase in hate speech on the site since it was purchased last year by Elon Musk. An attorney representing the social media site wrote to the Center for Countering Digital Hate on July 20 threatening legal action over …
Read More »Mark Zuckerberg seen at Taylor Swift concert wearing face gems
Mark Zuckerberg’s more than just a tech mogul — he’s also a “Bejeweled” Swiftie. The 39-year-old Meta boss was pictured with gemstones in a heart shape around his eye while attending Taylor Swift’s “Eras Tour” in Santa Clara, Calif., over the weekend with his wife, Priscilla Chan, and three daughters. “Life of a girl dad,” Zuckerberg wrote in his Instagram …
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