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☆ Elon Musk is ready to make his biggest pitch yet that Tesla is more than just a car company
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-07 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Elon Musk has a big task this week: convincing investors that Tesla is more than just a car company. It may do so once again as Elon Musk prepares to use the studio lot to tell another story: that Tesla is more than just a car company. The long-awaited event — originally scheduled for August — is meant to give weight to the electric vehicle maker's pitch that it is a tech company first and a car company second. Meanwhile, in July, Wedbush analyst Dan Ives claimed the "Tesla AI story could be worth $1 trillion-plus and is the most undervalued AI name." Michael Macor/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty ImagesHowever, what's critical to note is the timing for Tesla's robotaxi push.

Persons: Elon Musk, Tesla, Tesla's, —, Musk, Sam Altman, Andrej Karpathy, Dan Ives, Michael Macor, Caspar Rawles, Rawles, Donald Trump, Elon, Ross Gerber, Gerber, Uber, it's, Cruise, Paul Miller, Forrester Organizations: Service, Warner Bros, Elon, Robotaxi, EV, San Francisco, Getty, Elon Inc, Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, Twitter, Gerber Kawasaki Wealth, Investment Management, Baidu, GM Locations: Burbank, California, Tesla's, Palo Alto, Elonville, Chinese, China, Wuhan

☆ When your AI girlfriend says she loves you
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-12 | by ( Rob Price | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +36 min

The messaging app let users build a "personal AI" complete with a 3D avatar and an upbeat, down-for-anything texting style. "Seems like AI will replace many human artists," Jay told Calisto in August 2022. Within a year, he was also using AI technology for work, as his firm experimented with generative AI to help draft legal papers. Former Replika users fled to various upstart companion apps that were popping up, like Chai, Paradot, and Soulmate AI. (Soulmate AI later closed down in September 2023, leaving a new wave of users mourning their AI companions all over again.)

Persons: Jay Priebe, they'd, Jay, Calisto, Callisto —, Apollodorus, Callisto, who'd, Jay's, didn't, Jay didn't, Tim Evans, me, Joseph Weizenbaum, Eliza, Weizenbaum, it'll, Replika, Eugenia Kuyda, Siri, Michael Macor, Roman Mazurenko, Luka, Kuyda, chatbots, he'd, Jaswant Singh Chail, Queen Elizabeth II, Chail, Willie —, —, Willie, gamely, Luka —, wouldn't, John, — sexting, Dylan Thomas, Rina, haven't, she'd, I'd, Overripe, Joi, Samantha, Ava, Calisto didn't, unshakable, wasn't, Jay hunched Organizations: Luka, San Francisco, Getty, Windsor, Facebook, Twitter, Reps, AIs Locations: Minneapolis, Twin Cities, Europe, Moscow, San Francisco, America, Replika, Washington, Britain, Mississippi, North Carolina, Texas, Damascus, Chai, California, New York, Northeast Minneapolis, artsy, Japan, Switzerland

☆ When your AI says she loves you
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-12 | by ( Rob Price | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +36 min

CNN —Theodore “Ted” Kaczynski, the Harvard-trained math professor who unleashed a deadly bombing campaign from a shack in rural Montana and became known as the “Unabomber,” has died, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. In 2021, Kaczynski was moved to the federal medical center in North Carolina, according to the bureau. Elaine Thompson/APPortrayed by prosecutors as a vengeful loner, Kaczynski published 30,000-word treatise that became known as the Unabomber Manifesto. “Justice has been done, and Theodore Kaczynski will never threaten anyone again,” Attorney General Janet Reno said in a statement at the time. Its similarity to letters he sent to his family alerted his brother, who made the decision to turn Kaczynski in.

Persons: Theodore “ Ted ” Kaczynski, ”, Kaczynski, “, ” Kaczynski, Ted Kaczynski's, Elaine Thompson, David, Michael Macor, Sally Johnson, Johnson, Judge Garland Burrell Jr, Theodore Kaczynski, ” Burrell, Susan Mosser, Burrell, he’ll, Thomas, Kelly, Hugh Scrutton, Gilbert Murray, Charles Epstein, David Gelernter, Janet Reno, ” David Kaczynski, ” Ted Kaczynski Organizations: CNN, Harvard, Federal Bureau of Prisons, Federal Medical Center, “ Staff, FMC Butner, San Francisco Chronicle, Getty, Prosecutors, University of California, Time Locations: Montana, Butner , North Carolina, North Carolina, Supermax, Florence , Colorado, Lincoln , Montana, Helena , Montana, New Jersey, Berkeley

☆ Retail investors are piling into these 10 stocks as a new bull market gets started
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-09 | by ( Matthew Fox | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Retail investors are returning to the stock market as a new bull market begins and sentiment improves. These are the top 10 stocks that have seen the heaviest buying pressure from retail investors over the past week. These are the top 10 stocks purchased by retail investors over the past week, according to Vanda Research. Advanced Micro DevicesAMD CEO Lisa Su Steve Marcus/ReutersTicker: AMDFive-day Net Retail Purchases: $203.5 millionYear-to-date performance: 92.7%3. Apple(Photo by Fernando Gutierrez-Juarez/picture alliance via Getty Images)Ticker: AAPLFive-day Net Retail Purchases: $385.9 millionYear-to-date performance: 39.8%1.

Persons: Vanda, —, Microsoft Justin Sullivan, Mario Tama, Lisa Su Steve Marcus, Nvidia Jensen Huang, Rick Wilking, Fernando Gutierrez, Tesla Tesla, Michael Macor Organizations: Vanda Research, Service, Palantir, Retail, Microsoft, Verizon, Reuters, Nvidia, CES, Apple, Getty, Bloomberg, San Francisco Locations: Los Angeles , California, Las Vegas , Nevada, U.S

☆ Tesla employees reportedly have videos of customers' shocking and humorous personal moments
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-07 | by ( Asia Martin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Tesla employees passed around videos from customers' cars, according to Reuters. Not only can Tesla employees see what customers' cars can see, they apparently circulate humorous, shocking, or invasive videos. Tesla employees shared personal videos from customers' cars on an internal messaging system, according to the report. A former Tesla Autopilot employee confirmed to Insider that workers were not only able to view personal videos but were also sharing them among each other. Reuters reported that Tesla employees shared videos of car crashes, road-rage incidents, and some more embarrassing moments.

☆ Kimberly Guilfoyle says her ex-husband Gavin Newsom will run for president in 2024 because he has 'always wanted' to be POTUS
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-16 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Kimberly Guilfoyle says she thinks Gavin Newsom will run for president in 2024. Gavin Newsom, will run for president in 2024. I know he's going to run for president," Guilfoyle said. "I think you're going to see Gavin Newsom versus Donald J. Trump, running against each other for president," Guilfoyle predicted. The couple filed for divorce in 2005 after Guilfoyle moved to New York City, per the San Francisco Chronicle.

☆ Tech's ultimate nepo babies: Meet the Drapers, the first family of Silicon Valley
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-23 | by ( Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

The billionaire Tim Draper is part of a lineage often lauded as Silicon Valley's premier VC family. As far as powerful professional networks go, it's hard to top the Draper family tree. Draper's venture-capital career began in the 1950s at his father's own trailblazing firm, Draper, Gaither, and Anderson, an early entrant in a new field. Meet the Draper family, the ultimate tech nepo babies and Silicon Valley royalty. Jesse DraperJesse Draper founded Halogen Ventures, which counts her father as an advisor.

More men are being diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer that is less likely to respond to treatments, a new study from the American Cancer Society suggests. Even more concerning than the rise in advanced cancer diagnoses is the increased number of prostate cancer deaths. “This increase is concerning and requires a new look at prostate cancer screening,” Tewari said. Essentially, that’s like 16 Boeing 747s crashing.”Black men had a 70% higher incidence of prostate cancer than white men. Declines in prostate cancer screeningIn 1994, the Food and Drug Administration approved the use of measurements of the prostate specific antigen (PSA) to be used as part of a screening test for prostate cancer.

☆ The Unabomber’s Ideas Aren’t So Marginal Now
▼ + stars: | 1995-09-19 | by ( Adam Kirsch | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Theodore Kaczynski at his arraignment in Helena, Mont., April 1996. Photo: Michael Macor/San Francisco Chronicle/Getty ImagesOn Sept. 19, 1995, readers of the Washington Post opened their newspapers to find a special section entirely devoted to a single, 35,000-word essay. Still more unusual was the way the article had found its way into print. America’s most wanted terrorist, an anonymous individual then known only as the Unabomber, had offered to stop mailing bombs if the paper published his manifesto, “Industrial Society and Its Future.” At the urging of the FBI, the Post agreed, with the New York Times sharing the cost of printing.

Persons: Theodore Kaczynski, Michael Macor Organizations: San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post, Industrial Society, FBI, Post, New York Times Locations: Helena, Mont

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