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The Odyssey’s Box Office Performance Proves Elon Musk Wrong Once Again
With an estimated $257 million world wide in the opening weekend, The Odyssey wasn't phased by the tech mogul's racism tirade. The Odyssey’s Box Office Performance Proves Elon Musk Wrong Once Again Travis Bland

Tate Brothers Arrested In Florida: What We Know About Their Trump Ties
Trump has not publicly denounced or expressed support for the Tates.

Conservatives Admit The Odyssey Was “Really Really Good”
Ben Shapiro, Fox News, and rght-wingers are throwing their support behind Christopher Nolan's latest epic. Conservatives Admit The Odyssey Was “Really Really Good” Alex Young

20 Best Sword-and-Sandal Films, From ‘The Odyssey’ to ‘Gladiator’
It’s been decades since cinemagoers have been treated to a high quality sword-and-sandal film, so leave it to the great Christopher Nolan to reinvigorate the dying genre with his thrilling take on Homer’s classic “The Odyssey.” Needless to say, Elon Musk and …

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Astronauts Marooned On Moon Could Be Abandoned Under Current NASA Plan
NASA’s masterplan for upcoming lunar landings has a massive flaw that could prove fatal to the U.S. astronauts set to touch down on the Moon in 2028, say NASA inspectors.
Bank of America revamps Tesla forecast before earnings
Tesla (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk, whom JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon once called “our Einstein", has had plenty on his plate lately. SpaceX’s (SPCX) latest Starship lau...
Meet Yang Zhilin, the CEO and founder behind China's buzzy new Kimi K3 AI model
Yang Zhilin is the CEO and founder of Moonshot AI, a Chinese startup that developed Kimi K3. The Kimi K3 model raised eyebrows in Silicon Valley.
Meet Yang Zhilin, the CEO and founder behind China's buzzy new Kimi K3 AI model
Yang Zhilin is the CEO and founder of Moonshot AI, a Chinese startup that developed Kimi K3. The Kimi K3 model raised eyebrows in Silicon Valley.

There’s a Reason American Kids Aren’t Better at Soccer. I Saw It for Myself All Too Well.
Youth soccer in America reflects some of our worst national systems.

The Right Spent Months Attacking Two Casting Choices in Nolan’s ‘the Odyssey.’ the Movie Just Opened, and the Whole Thing Was Based on Stuff That Isn’t in It
Elliot Page doesn’t play Achilles in “The Odyssey.” He plays Sinon, Odysseus’ cousin and a key figure in the Trojan Horse ruse, a role no one on the right had confirmed before spending weeks insisting a trans man had no…
Michael Hudson with Radhika Desai: We’re Headed for a Depression Worse Than 2008
Michael Hudson and Radhika Desai discuss how much of supposed US economic performance is illusory, and what happens when it unwinds.
Elon Musk Reacts to Jamie Dimon's ‘Einstein’ Praise With Two-Word Reply as Viral Post Hails His SpaceX and Tesla Legacy
Elon Musk thanked JPMorgan Chase & Co. CEO Jamie Dimon on Wednesday after an X post revived the banker’s comparison of the Tesla Inc. chief to legendary phys...

Democrats dominate fundraising in key Senate races, but GOP still has ample resources
Democrats raised more money than their Republican opponents in key Senate races across the country in the second quarter, according to new campaign finance reports.

Leon Black Says Epstein Introduced Him To Elon Musk
Black’s interview with the House Oversight Committee was cut short after it subpoenaed him for his non-disclosure agreements with women.
Markets may have just experienced their second DeepSeek shock, this time thanks to a Chinese AI lab named after a Pink Floyd album
K3 might undermine the conventional wisdom that U.S. firms can maintain their extended lead by simply outspending Chinese competitors on computing power.

Watchdog Finds Serious Gaps In IRS Contractors' Taxpayer Data Security
The TIGTA findings include 1,375 unauthorized entries into restricted areas, unpatched system vulnerabilities, and failures to follow IRS security requirements.
Our Investigation Found That Shen Yun Used U.S. Voter Rolls to Distribute Flyers to Hundreds of Millions of American Households
“President Trump used a rare prime-time address Thursday night to renew his attacks on the security of U.S. elections…Trump said China had accessed voter data of 220 million people in 18 states, but that information is generally publicly available and does no…
Coffee Break: Health Care Digest
Part the First: Profit in Medicine. In a report that will tug at the heartstrings of everyone, STAT tells us that HCA warns of lower profits in its future as more patients go uninsured because ObamaCare subsidies have gone by the wayside: The country’s bigge…

SpaceX Has Lost $1 Trillion in Value Since Its Post-IPO Peak
Elon Musk's trillionaire status keeps receding into the distance.

‘The Odyssey’ Review: Christopher Nolan’s Epic Is Awesomely Weird, Visually Stunning But Not Without Its Flaws
Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' is a bold, visually stunning and artistically distinct take on Homer's ancient epic, worth seeing despite a few flaw

Tesla Created a $225 Balance Bike for Tots, and It's Already Sold Out
The bike isn't motorized and is completely toddler-powered.

Apple Is Coming for the People Building OpenAI’s Future
The iPhone maker is escalating its legal battle against the AI company.
Tesla's newest set of wheels is a $225 bike for toddlers
Tesla's $225 Balance Bike is the latest gear aimed at young customers. It's priced like other high-end two-wheelers.

Who counts as “working class”?
The Democratic Socialists of America say they are fighting for “a government by, for, and of the working class.” Yet the organization’s membership and candidates consist largely of educated professionals. As of 2021, 80 percent of DSA members over 25 were co…

Elon Musk’s Net Worth Drops Below $800 Billion After Starship Launch Aborted
Another attempt will come “hopefully in a few days,” Musk said.

SpaceX Stock Looks Like a SpaceX Rocket Launch
SpaceX stock is now under its IPO price, and its bonds are trading at junk bond rates.

Elon Musk Trained Grok Users to Expect Sexual Deepfakes, Now He’s Suing Them
Musk's company has helped get at least 244 users arrested for CSAM, according to an xAI court filing.

Trump Just Made It Easier For Your ISP To Rip You Off With Bogus Fees
Here’s a short crash course in U.S. telecom policy. Giant and very unpopular companies like Comcast, AT&T, Verizon, and Charter created regional monopolies that work tirelessly to erode all meaningful competition and oversight, resulting in high prices, spott…
Mark Cuban laid out why he thinks companies should give all employees stock
"Every single employee" should get a financial stake in the company they work for, billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban said.
Mark Cuban laid out why he thinks companies should give all employees stock
"Every single employee" should get a financial stake in the company they work for, billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban said.

Trump's team says 'no children' died from USAID cuts. Consider these 3 cases
Both Marco Rubio and Elon Musk, who led the effort to sunset the foreign aid agency, have said that no deaths have been linked to the cutting of its funding. These parents tell a different story.
More Americans are starting companies. Bobbi Brown and other founders share their advice.
The founders of Olipop, Bobbi Brown, PopSockets, and OpenFarm share their advice to entreprenurs.
We assigned major AI leaders a 'Mean Girls' character. Tell us if we got it right.
If Silicon Valley were "Mean Girls," who would be Regina George? Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Dario Amodei, Jensen Huang, or someone else?
A physicist explains the overlooked problem that could doom Elon Musk’s Mars colonization plans: dust
Astrophysicist and science writer Adam Becker discusses why the dream of life on Mars may be out of reach, maybe for centuries to come.
SpaceX aborts first Starship launch since its massive IPO
SpaceX backed away from the second launch attempt of its upgraded Starship after an engine issue triggered an automatic abort right before liftoff.

SpaceX’s latest Starship launch attempt ends in a scrub
SpaceX’s first attempt to launch its Starship megarocket on its thirteenth flight test ended before it could properly begin, aborting just before liftoff

China and Russia have a secret 'no limit' pact to eliminate Elon Musk's Starlink at all cost, researchers claim
Leaked documents reported by multiple publications have revealed a three-pronged Chinese plan to neuter Elon Musk's Starlink.

Anti-Forbes list ranks wealthy by the wealth their companies generated for others
The Anti-Forbes List ranks the richest humans not by their net worth (illiquid, volatile and unrealizable as it is) but by the value their companies have created for other people, excluding themselves. The list shows the top 28; if the number seems peculiar, …

Peter Bart: Even AI Titans Can’t Predict Future Of Movies About AI Titans
The techie titans who grabbed our attention and our Oscars in The Social Network 25 years ago are ready to capture our screens again. Their forays are omniscient as well as ominous. In upcoming movies like The Social Reckoning and Artificial or in myriad book…

Elon Musk Could Dominate This Year's Oscars—Between 'Musk' Doc, 'Artificial' And 'Odyssey' Discourse
Elon Musk has already inserted himself into awards season by leading an anti-woke crusade against “The Odyssey,” but two Oscar contenders still to come include a documentary about his life and a movie about OpenAI in which he is portrayed as a supporting char…

China beats Elon Musk’s Neuralink to the world’s first commercial brain-computer interface implant — car crash victim given coin-sized chip that turns neural signals into hand movements
Regulatory approval of brain implants in China mean they can now be fixed to the brains of anyone who wants to try them.

The Rolling Stones are for the young
You could look at <em>Foreign Tongues</em>, the Rolling Stones' 25th album, as a tour of the group's musical variations. But it mixes reliable fun and remarkable energy with a generous attitude toward aging.

Ukraine is putting pressure on Russia. So why is the country's defence minister being ousted now?
Mykhailo Fedorov was Ukraine’s fourth defence minister to serve in the role since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of the country, but the first whose ouster has led to public backlash.
Mayor to homeowner losing sleep over data center plant: "Consider selling"
Noise from a Mississippi plant powering Elon Musk's xAI data centers in the area is causing migraines, ringing ears and sleepless nights, residents say.

France’s Far-Right Party Distances Itself From Billionaire Elon Musk’s Endorsement
National Rally advocates for less legal immigration, stricter borders and limiting the influence of the European Union in France.

Why Lone Wolf Business Leaders Can Never Thrive
If you find yourself trying to operate as a lone wolf, it’s time to switch up your thinking. Either find your pack or find your pride.

Elon Musk spent estimated $1 billion on an energy company to power xAI, filings reveal — APR Energy owns a fleet of trailer-mounted gas and diesel turbines capable of generating more than 1 gigawatt
An FTC document revealed that Elon Musk purchased APR Energy, a mobile natural gas and diesel turbine generator provider, for an estimated $1 billion. The deal wasn't announced publicly and was only discovered after the FTC filing.

The Download: OpenAI unveils GPT-Red and heat pumps rise in the US
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Meet GPT-Red: an LLM super-hacker OpenAI built to make its models safer OpenAI has built an LLM super-hacker called GPT-R…
Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes: June 2026: Atrocities 1014-1112
Early in President Trump’s first term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We called this list a collection of Trump’s cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crimes, and it felt urgent to …
xAI Sues Man for Using Grok to Create CSAM Deepfakes
Elon Musk's startup xAI is suing a man for allegedly misusing the company's AI image generator Grok to create child sexual abuse material. [Read More]

Tesla Stock Could Sink In The Last Half Of 2026—Here’s Why
Will Tesla stock rise or fall in the second half of 2026? Come explore the key catalysts, risks, and analyst predictions that help shape Tesla’s future.
The AI burn book: Decoding the cat fights between Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Anthropic
The AI industry's burn book is growing as Sam Altman and Elon Musk publicly rip each other on X, with Altman throwing shade at Anthropic.

I’m a Military Historian. The Odyssey Movie Is About As Historically Accurate As The Lord of the Rings—but It Nails Something Crucial.
I understand why history nerds like me are mad about Christopher Nolan’s adaptation, but they’re missing the point.
Satyajit Das: Déjà Vu All Over Again! Are Stock Markets Repeating Dot.com Mistakes?
AI valuations make the dot.com era look pale. Yet genuine excitement seems to be wanting.

NTSB Confirms Texas Tesla Had 100% Floored Accelerator Pedal During Fatal Crash
In a way, this exonerates Tesla FSD. But it certainly leaves one with questions.

xAI sues a man for using Grok to generate CSAM ‘deepfakes’
The Elon Musk-owned xAI is suing a South Carolina man who allegedly used the company's Grok AI chatbot to generate child sexual abuse material (CSAM). In a lawsuit reported earlier by Reuters, xAI claims Terry Wayne Harwood "knowingly and intentionally used G…

xAI sues user for exploiting AI tool to sexualise minors
Lawsuit accuses Terry Harwood of misusing xAI to bypass safeguards and produce explicit deepfakes involving minors.

JDWare is "WarioWare for the politically disturbed"
Do you remember WarioWare? If any of Nintendo's in-house series can be said to be relatively obscure, these games are: each one is a collection of twitchy, seconds-long "microgames" that you're challenged to ace before being shuffled onto the next. Given that…

Critics Rave About ‘The Odyssey’—And Slam Elon Musk’s Anti-Woke Campaign
A critic for the Arizona Republic gave “The Odyssey” five stars and called Elon Musk’s criticisms of the cast “racist and ugly.”

Elon Musk's legal problems have gone international, so naturally he's doing politics
Elon Musk's mounting legal problems are no longer mere SEC paperwork and shareholder lawsuits. They now include Wisconsin election bribery allegations, French criminal scrutiny of X and Grok, UK online-safety investigations, and a Canadian privacy-law violati…

SpaceX share price drops below stock market debut
Share trading in Elon Musk’s rocket company has been volatile since it went public a month ago.

Larry Page’s Fortune Rises Above $300 Billion Amid Alphabet Rally—After Buffett Takes Credit For Berkshire Hathaway Bet
Berkshire Hathaway disclosed its first investment in the Google parent last year.

Elon Musk Could Soon Be in Big Trouble Over His Phony Election Lottery
Elon Musk may have broken the law when he got involved in the 2025 Wisconsin Supreme Court election. The Wisconsin Elections Commission referred two complaints to the Brown County district attorney’s office last week, saying that Musk’s promise to hand out $1…

My Twitter, not X
As Twitter, then X, marks 20 years since its launch, a journalist journeys through revolutions and wars.

'Move Fast and Break Things' Broke Everything
Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.

If Letterboxd sells out to Netflix, the people lose
The film-logging platform is weighing a sale. Its users are weighing a mutiny.

Welcome to Vibecamp, an IRL Gathering for the Terminally Online
How one writer traveled into the bowels of the internet by spending a weekend at an in-person retreat for its most avid users

Wisconsin Elections Commission Refers Elon Musk for Criminal Prosecution over His $1 Million Check “Giveaways”
The bipartisan election panel concluded that Elon Musk almost certainly broke the law and referred complaints to the DA's office.

Why do people hate the tech industry? (2023)
I’ve been watching the shifting sentiments towards the tech industry for some while now, and it’s funny - they’ve shifted so much, and so quickly, that even people in the startup ends of the tech industry seem to have worked out that, you know, not everyone l…

How the Tech Lords Hacked the Firm
A handful of tech oligarchs have figured out how to tap public markets without submitting to shareholder oversight. The recent SpaceX IPO represents the culmination of this process, granting Elon Musk near-total authority and revealing how thoroughly the mech…

Elon Musk Could Still Face Criminal Charges for Trying to Bribe Voters in Wisconsin
Will the richest person in the world get a slap on the wrist?

SpaceXAI’s Unpermitted Data Center Power Project Impacts Black Communities, Analysis Finds
The NAACP sued to stop the gas turbines powering the data center near Memphis.

Wisconsin Officials Find Probable Cause Elon Musk Violated Election Bribery Laws
Musk handed out $1 million checks to three Wisconsin voters for voting in the state Supreme Court elections in 2025.

Graham Platner Was the Perfect Twitter Candidate
Social media transformed his campaign into a political mirage.
Ramp’s billionaire CEO ignores résumés and Ivy League degrees—he’s more interested in engineers who built Minecraft servers as teens
Eric Glyman looks for "proof of work" over pedigree, an approach that echoes how Elon Musk staffs SpaceX and Tesla.

The Altman-Musk Feud Is Back: Musk Says Altman ‘Takes Scamming to a Whole New Level,’ Altman Mocks His SpaceX IPO
The tech moguls took to X to rip each other apart again, this time over Apple's lawsuit and Musk's SpaceX IPO.

Sam Altman didn’t need another lawsuit
OpenAI has spent the better part of the year involved in lawsuit after lawsuit, including one from the world's richest man. But last Friday, the company was hit with one of the highest-profile legal actions yet - from Apple. OpenAI's expensive hardware bet is…

Musk promises purge after Grok Build caught sending entire repos to the cloud
Researcher confirms the uploads have stopped, but says xAI's privacy command was not what fixed them

Elon Musk Says SpaceX Will Be Worth More Than the Entire Earth Because Musk Will Harvest the Sun
The number he’s chasing is Earth’s entire GDP, roughly $100 trillion. His pitch to investors: capture a sliver of the Sun’s energy from space, and one company clears the whole planet’s economy.
Trump’s Anti-Growth Agenda
When a superpower’s economy lags, hegemony becomes unsustainable.
Michael Dell has nailed his relationship with Donald Trump, and it's paying off
Michael Dell has developed one of the more visible and steady corporate relationships of President Donald Trump's second term in the White House.
Sam Altman, mid-fight with Elon Musk, is stirring the pot with Anthropic too
The OpenAI CEO picked a public fight with Anthropic over its initiative "Inviting hard questions."

SpaceX Starship Flight 13 launch updates: New launch date under review
SpaceX is progressing toward Starship's next big test launch.

Oracle’s Nearly 50% Crash Since June 1 Plunges Larry Ellison From No. 2 To No. 8 In Billionaire Ranks
The Oracle chairman’s fortune has been cut by around $125 billion over the last month.

Apple’s Lawsuit Against OpenAI Sparks Another Musk-Altman Online Spat
The Silicon Valley billionaires are fighting again.

Elon Musk’s Fortune Falls Below $900 Billion As SpaceX Slide Worsens
Wall Street remains overwhelmingly bullish on Musk’s rocket maker, despite its stock pulling back sharply.

DOGE is done. What happened to its records?
Lauren Harper: If the DOGE playbook becomes a blueprint, there’s no telling how many future shadow agencies might follow — and how many government decisions taxpayers could be locked out of.

Even Nvidia’s head of automotive fights with Nvidia for compute
Today, I’m talking with Xinzhou Wu, who is the head of automotive at Nvidia. Nvidia is obviously in the news constantly because of the AI boom — it’s one of the most valuable companies in the world, because the AI industry can’t get enough of the company’s G…

Musk’s Starlink Socks Customers With $1500 ‘High Demand’ Surcharge
For years I’ve noted that while Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite broadband system can be very useful for people with no other options (warzones, RVs, boats, rural Americans), the network has struggled to maintain performance as it grows into more mainstream mar…
Tom Holland (the actor) broke down the difficulty of filming in Imax in an interview with Tom Holland (the historian)
Historian Tom Holland and actor Tom Holland discussed Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey" on "The Rest is History" podcast.
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White Supremacists Love Armie Hammer’s New Movie
Described as the “feel-good movie of white-boy summer” by one extremist, the movie ‘Citizen Vigilante’ has been hailed by the far-right as a way to convert moderates to their cause.

Briefly Noted Book Reviews
“Death of the Soccer God,” by Dimitry Elias Léger; “Nebraska,” by Monica Datta; “Muskism,” by Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff; and “Spawning Season,” by Joseph Osmundson.

Trusting Chatbots With Our Ballots (at the Worst Possible Moment)
Robert Siebelink was staring down the kind of ballot California specializes in: 61 people running for governor, and that’s just the top line. So the 54-year-old Democrat from California did what a growing number of Americans are doing, according to a story Je…
1X's product head says its new humanoid hand has solved one of the toughest problems in robotics
1X says NEO's new hands can pour tea, plug in chargers, and use sign language.
Microsoft's Satya Nadella takes a veiled swipe at Anthropic and other AI model makers
Satya Nadella criticized AI labs for complaining about distillation attacks.