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From Le Mans to Driven—where does F1: The Movie rank?

It may not have escaped your attention that there's a new film about motorsport called F1: The Movie. It's a return-to-racing story with elements you'll have seen before, just maybe with other sports. A driver has been looking to slay his personal demons. There's a wise veteran, an impatient rookie, and an underdog team with its back to the wall. Except this time, the backdrop is the multicolored circus of Formula 1, seen close up at 200 mph. Backed by Apple and made by people responsible for h

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Tesla Bros Who Bet on Polymarket That Tesla Would Successfully Launch Full Self-Driving by July Are Now Screwed

Betting on Elon Musk fulfilling one of his promises is one hell of a risky venture. But that's what users did on the crypto-based prediction hub Polymarket anyway — and now they're on the verge of losing millions of dollars after Tesla's Robotaxi service failed to live up to its CEO's sky-high assurances. With over $8,800,000 worth of total bets placed, the prediction, titled "Will Tesla launch a driverless Robotaxi service before July?" is now at a less than one percent chance of success, seei

Everything that could go wrong with X’s new AI-written community notes

Elon Musk's X arguably revolutionized social media fact-checking by rolling out "community notes," which created a system to crowdsource diverse views on whether certain X posts were trustworthy or not. But now, the platform plans to allow AI to write community notes, and that could potentially ruin whatever trust X users had in the fact-checking system—which X has fully acknowledged. In a research paper, X described the initiative as an "upgrade" while explaining everything that could possibl

Evolution of Minimum Viable Product

The Oxford dictionary definition of a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is: An early, basic version of a product (such as a piece of technology, a computer program, etc.) which meets the minimum necessary requirements for use but can be adapted and improved in the future, esp. after customer feedback; Here's a proposed improved definition: An early, basic version of a product (such as a piece of technology, a computer program, etc.) which meets the minimum necessary requirements for use by its cre

Couchers is officially out of beta

A new chapter: Couchers is officially out of Beta! Quick summary: we are out of Beta and into version 1, we're releasing a new strategy around safe & active community instead of bashing our competitors, a fancy redesigned landing page, and a bunch of new features to make core couch surfing functionality better! Share the platform with your friends and let's grow the community together! We are super excited to share that Couchers is today finally out of the Beta phase with our version 1 (v1) la

Couchers is officially out of Beta

A new chapter: Couchers is officially out of Beta! Quick summary: we are out of Beta and into version 1, we're releasing a new strategy around safe & active community instead of bashing our competitors, a fancy redesigned landing page, and a bunch of new features to make core couch surfing functionality better! Share the platform with your friends and let's grow the community together! We are super excited to share that Couchers is today finally out of the Beta phase with our version 1 (v1) la

Elon Musk’s X Is Turning Community Notes Over to AI

Artificial intelligence chatbots are known for regularly offering dubious information and hallucinated details, making them terrible prospects for the role of fact-checker. And yet, Elon Musk’s X (née Twitter) plans to deploy AI agents to help fill in the gaps on the notoriously slow-reacting Community Notes, with the AI-generated notes appearing as soon as this month. What could possibly go wrong? The new model will allow developers to submit AI agents to be reviewed by the company, according

From Le Mans to Driven—where does F1: The movie rank?

It may not have escaped your attention that there's a new film about motorsport called F1: The Movie. It's a return-to-racing story with elements you'll have seen before, just maybe with other sports. A driver has been looking to slay his personal demons. There's a wise veteran, an impatient rookie, and an underdog team with its back to the wall. Except this time, the backdrop is the multicolored circus of Formula 1, seen close up at 200 mph. Backed by Apple and made by people responsible for h

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Tesla deliveries fall for second quarter in a row

Tesla deliveries fall for second quarter in a row Musk has since left the role - but has publicly sparred with US President Donald Trump over a massive spending bill pushed by the White House. Tesla faces increasing competition from rivals, including China's BYD. Musk's controversial role as a government efficiency czar in the Trump administration has also been blamed for the plummeting numbers. The just over 384,000 vehicles it delivered between April and June represents the second quarterly

Tesla deliveries drop 14 percent amid Musk backlash

Tesla says it delivered 384,122 electric vehicles in the April-June timeframe, which is a 14 percent drop compared with the same period in 2024. It's also the second quarter in a row that sales have fallen year-over-year (YoY). The company produced 410,244 vehicles in Q2, which is very close to the 410,831 it made during the equivalent period last year. However, the company delivered more vehicles (443,956) than it produced in Q2 2024. That's not the case this time. The number of vehicle delive

Elon Musk Adds ‘Sell Cars in Europe’ to His To-Do List

Elon Musk has always worn a lot of hats. Earlier this year, while he was working at the White House, he literally wore several hats on his head at the same time, in a clownish attempt to make this very point to other Trump officials. Even though the billionaire has since parted ways with the administration and is in the midst of an acrimonious spat with the President, he is still keeping busy. Now, he’s reportedly given himself a new job just as he pledged to launch a new political party, thus k

Hexagon fuzz: Full-system emulated fuzzing of Qualcomm basebands

Key takeaways 1. Due to Qualcomm’s proprietary architecture, a lack of security tooling exists around their baseband 2. Our tooling enables research on Hexagon baseband with significantly reduced engineering work 3. We release the first open-source toolchain for full-system emulated Hexagon firmware fuzzing at TROOPERS25 Overview Every phone has a cellular baseband processor to handle mobile communications (5G, 4G, GPS, and more). Qualcomm created a specific architecture for its baseband c

Tesla shares drop on Musk, Trump feud ahead of Q2 deliveries

Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., during a meeting between US President Donald Trump and Cyril Ramaphosa, South Africa's president, not pictured, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, May 21, 2025. Tesla shares have dropped 7% from Friday's closing price of $323.63 to the $300.71 close on Tuesday ahead of the company's second-quarter deliveries report. Wall Street analysts are expecting Tesla to report deliveries of around 387,000 — a 13% de

X will let AI write Community Notes

In what was probably an inevitable conclusion, X has announced that it will allow AI to author Community Notes. With a pilot program beginning today, the social network is releasing developer tools to create AI Note Writers. These tools will be limited to penning replies in a test mode and will need approval before their notes can be released into the wild. The first AI Note Writers will be accepted later this month, which is when the AI-composed notes will start appearing to users. "Not only d

Congress just greenlit a NASA moon plan opposed by Musk and Isaacman

Legacy aerospace giants scored a win Tuesday when the U.S. Senate passed President Trump’s budget reconciliation bill that earmarks billions more for NASA’s flagship Artemis program. The $10 billion addition to the Artemis architecture, which includes funding for additional Space Launch System rockets and an orbiting station around the moon called Gateway, is a rebuke to critics who wished to see alternative technologies used instead. Among those critics are SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and billionaire

X opens up to Community Notes written by AI bots

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. X is launching a way for developers to create AI bots that can write Community Notes that can potentially appear on posts. Like humans, the “AI Note Writers” will be able to submit a Community Note, but they will only actually be shown on a post “if found helpful by people from different perspectives,” X says in a post on its Community Notes account. Notes written by AI will

X is piloting a program that lets AI chatbots generate Community Notes

The social platform X will pilot a feature that allows AI chatbots to generate Community Notes. Community Notes is a Twitter-era feature that Elon Musk has expanded under his ownership of the service, now called X. Users who are part of this fact-checking program can contribute comments that add context to certain posts, which are then checked by other users before they appear attached to a post. A Community Note may appear, for example, on a post of an AI-generated video that is not clear abou

Automattic puts Tumblr migration to WordPress on hold

In Brief Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg confirmed that the company is no longer working on migrating its Tumblr blogging platform to WordPress, as previously announced. The exec shared the news on The Verge’s Decoder podcast, published on Monday, saying that the project is “on hold” for an indefinite period. “What we decided is that we want to focus as much on the things that are going to be noticeable to users and that users are asking for,” he told the site. “This was more like an infrastruct

Tesla's Stock Has Fallen Dramatically Since Elon Musk Returned to the Business

When multi-hyphenate billionaire Elon Musk returned to Tesla in May, it was met with a surge of enthusiasm from investors who feared he'd given up on the embattled carmaker during his disastrous stint in government. But that optimism has dimmed significantly as Musk has brought his signature aura of chaos and disappointment back to Tesla — and it's clear in the company's stock price, which has actually fallen since his homecoming in late May. At the time, the company's share price was hovering

Trump Was Just Asked If He’ll Deport Elon Musk

War has now been declared between President Donald Trump and Elon Musk. The alliance between the two powerful men has shattered, and their escalating feud has now reached a stunning new level: Trump was asked on Tuesday if he would deport Musk, who was born in South Africa but became a U.S. citizen in 2002. “Are you going to deport Elon Musk?” a reporter asked the president. “I don’t know,” Trump responded, before adding ominously, “We’ll have to take a look.” He then threatened to use a weap

"Indie Rock Band" That's Clearly Using AI Claims That "We Never Use AI"

An "indie rock band" called The Velvet Sundown, which is marketing its music with AI-generated pictures of members that don't appear to exist, is now claiming that "we never use AI." After being publicly accused of being the fabrication of AI, an "official" X account for the band is now seemingly attempting to control the narrative, or at least to gin up a few more streams. "Absolutely crazy that so-called 'journalists' keep pushing the lazy, baseless theory that The Velvet Sundown is 'AI-gene

Poll: Do you like AI music?

Like a modern version of the tree-falling-in-the-woods conundrum, AI is giving us new philosophical questions. For example, if AI music sounds genuine, is it okay to enjoy it? This debate has gained momentum recently, as a new band called The Velvet Sundown just reached over 500,000 listens on Spotify. The problem is that they don’t actually exist. Everything about them — from their echoey, classic rock-inspired tracks to their Instagram pictures — appears to be AI-generated. I’ve been listeni

14 Million People Could Die in Next 5 Years Due to USAID Cuts, Study Finds

Elon Musk’s wood-chipping of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is poised to leave piles of bodies behind in its wake, a new study suggests. Scientists have calculated that recent funding cuts to USAID could lead to millions of preventable deaths worldwide over the next half-decade. An international group of researchers conducted the study, published Monday in the Lancet. They estimated that USAID funding in developing countries has helped save dozens of millions of

GOP wants EV tax credit gone; it would be a disaster for Tesla

The Republican Party's opposition to tax credits for electric vehicles has stepped up a notch. As its members in the US Senate add their input to the budget bill that came from their colleagues in the House of Representatives, among the changes they want to see is a faster eradication of the IRS clean vehicle tax credit. The tax credit provides up to $7,500 off the price of an EV as long as certain conditions are met, and the language from the House would have given it until the end of the year.

The Download: tripping with AI, and blocking crawler bots

2 Apple is considering using rival AI tech to bolster Siri In a massive U-turn, it’s reported to have held talks with Anthropic and OpenAI. (Bloomberg $) + Apple seems to have accepted that its in-house efforts simply can’t compete. (The Verge) 3 DOGE has access to data that may boost Elon Musk’s businesses His rivals are worried their proprietary information could be exposed. (WP $) + Donald Trump has floated tasking DOGE with reviewing Musk’s subsidies. (FT $) + Relations between Musk an

Apple Music lets you see your most played songs from the past decade now - here's where

Apple / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Apple is launching a new version of its annual Replay playlist called Replay All Time. Interestingly, instead of only tracking the tunes you've streamed most in the past calendar year, it goes all the way back to when you first subscribed. Also: iOS 26 just solved one of my biggest pain points with Apple Music So, if you've been an Apple Music user since the service first launched, you should see a consolidated view of your decade-long listening habits. Th

Can the music industry make AI the next Napster?

is a reporter who writes about tech, money, and human behavior. She joined The Verge in 2014 as science editor. Previously, she was a reporter at Bloomberg. Sure, everyone hates record labels — but the AI industry has figured out how to make them look like heroes. So that’s at least one very impressive accomplishment for AI. AI is cutting a swath across a number of creative industries — with AI-generated book covers, the Chicago Sun-Times publishing an AI-generated list of books that don’t exi

Elon Musk's xAI raises $10 billion in debt and equity as it steps up challenge to OpenAI

Elon Musk announced his new company xAI, which he says has the goal to understand the true nature of the universe. XAI, the artificial intelligence startup run by Elon Musk, raised a combined $10 billion in debt and equity, Morgan Stanley said. Half of that sum was clinched through secured notes and term loans, while a separate $5 billion was secured through strategic equity investment, the bank said on Monday. The funding gives xAI more firepower to build out infrastructure and develop its G

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I just can’t imagine using YouTube Music, so why do you?

Joe Maring / Android Authority 🗣️ This is an open thread. We want to hear from you! Share your thoughts in the comments and vote in the poll below — your take might be featured in a future roundup. Not too long ago, I was a loyal Google Play Music user. It was an app that I loved dearly, offering great usability and a wide range of music. However, when the vastly different YouTube Music arrived and Play Music departed, I sought another service. I couldn’t quite get to grips with the changes, a

Can this cheap Amazon multitool get the job done? Here's my expert advice

ZDNET's key takeaways Amazon Basics' 15-in-1 stainless steel multitool is available at Amazon for about $13. It's a well-made 15-in-1 with a myriad of useful tools, and the price can't be beat. Not every tool will be useful for everyone - I've never used a fish scaler or hook remover. $11.89 at Amazon The Amazon Basics 15-in-1 stainless steel multitool with a pocket knife is currently on sale for $10, or 22% off its original price. I've been covering lots of budget multitools lately -- the s