Lifeboat Foundation

Introduction to george hotz and connor leahy.

The debate opens with introductions to the two featured guests — George Hotz and Connor Leahy. Hotz is described as a maverick hacker known for daring technical exploits like jailbreaking the iPhone. His hacker skills are likened to the technical finesse of Elon Musk combined with the wit of Tony Stark. Leahy is introduced as a steadfast defender of AI safety, determined to safeguard humanity from potential threats posed by artificial intelligence. His goal is to “break the damning prophecy and render us super saved.”

George hotz’s opening statement: intelligence and power.

As Meta Platforms Inc.’s META latest social media platform, Threads’ daily active user count continues to drop, Elon Musk has accused Mark Zuckerberg’s forum of committing a “cardinal sin.”

What Happened: Meta’s Threads entered the social media arena with much fanfare, quickly attracting over 100 million sign-ups in just five days.

However, the initial hype didn’t translate into long-term user retention, as the daily active user count witnessed a staggering 82% decline since its peak at 44 million users on launch day, reported CNN, citing data from Sensor Tower.

Will someone please tell us who the hell owns AI.com and what they’re doing with it?

The domain, which used to direct to ChatGPT, now redirects users to xAI, an AI company owned by Elon Musk. Separate from X Corp, xAI claims on its website that it “will work closely with X,” the social media company formerly known as Twitter — including using posts on X as training for its large language model.

The high-value AI.com domain name changed hands in 2021, sat idle for a while, and then suddenly started redirecting to ChatGPT in February. For ChatGPT users, it was a helpful shortcut if they didn’t have the site bookmarked and couldn’t quite remember the precise URL for the chatbot (chat.openai.com, for the record).

Elon Musk took over control of the company at a crucial moment.

TweetDeck has started to be rebranded as “XPro” as Elon Musk’s X app continues its takeover.

Elon Musk says Tesla is now working on the “final piece of the Full Self-Driving (FSD) AI puzzle,” and apparently that is “vehicle control.”

Despite his best efforts to stop making predictions about self-driving, the CEO has recently still predicted that Tesla would achieve full autonomy by the end of the year.

For many of us who use Tesla’s FSD Beta regularly, it is hard to imagine that Tesla can make the jump from the current state to a level 4 or 5 of autonomy where the automaker would take responsibility for the system and enable drivers to use it without monitoring in just a few months.

It’s not yet clear how much the property owner will be billed over the sign.

X and Musk did not immediately respond to requests for comment by Insider on Tuesday, nor did the reps for the landlord of the company’s headquarters, SRI Nine Market Square LLC, an affiliate of real estate investment firm Shorenstein.

Musk, the billionaire owner of the social media company now rebranded as X, had the huge “X” logo put on the roof of the company’s headquarters on Friday, prompting a slew of complaints from angry neighbors.

Meta’s new Twitter competitor, Threads, is looking for ways to keep users interested after more than half of the people who signed up for the text-based platform stopped actively using the app, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg reportedly told employees in a company town hall yesterday. Threads launched on July 5 and signed up over 100 million users in less than five days, buoyed by user frustration with Elon Musk-owned Twitter.

“Obviously, if you have more than 100 million people sign up, ideally it would be awesome if all of them or even half of them stuck around. We’re not there yet,” Zuckerberg told employees yesterday, according to Reuters, which listened to audio of the event.

Third-party data suggests that Threads may have lost many more than half of its active users. Daily active users for Threads on Android dropped from 49 million on July 7 to 23.6 million on July 14, and then to 12.6 million on July 23, web analytics company SimilarWeb reported.

Elon Musk says he’s unsure how his own kids — and the rest of their generation — will navigate a future world dominated by AI. Here’s his top advice for them.