Director Alex Gibney's latest documentary traces Elon Musk's trajectory from dot-com millionaire to a figure wielding outsized influence over US government departments. Spanning nearly four hours, the film chronologically documents Musk's mythmaking around PayPal and Tesla, juxtaposed with footage of an autopilot fatality and interviews including Ashley St Clair calling Musk 'a nuke.' Gibney frames the film around two questions: how Musk amassed such power, and why society allowed it.
Amid an ongoing lawsuit in which Sony argues customers don't actually own their digital game purchases, the Consumer Rights Wiki has compiled 44 documented instances where Sony's own support pages, store listings, and blog posts describe purchased games as something players 'own.' Examples include PS4-to-PS5 upgrade instructions referencing a game 'you already own' and a PlayStation Store ratings policy requiring users to 'own the game' before rating it.
China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun dismissed warnings from US tech leaders like Anthropic's Dario Amodei, OpenAI's Sam Altman and Elon Musk urging a slowdown in AI development, saying such rhetoric disrupts global AI governance. Separately, China's Minister of State Security Chen Yixin called for faster construction of AI security risk controls, framing AI as central to global technological and strategic rivalry.
Micron offered Taiwan employees a one-time cash bonus of up to NT$1 million, plus guaranteed minimum compensation for direct labor staff equivalent to 35-68 months of basic salary, following a record-profit year driven by AI demand. The union at its Taoyuan plant rejected the deal within hours, saying it ignores their core demand: a permanent bonus formula tying 15% of operating profit to quarterly worker payouts instead of one-off checks.
OnPay's analysis of search trends finds small-business owners collectively run over 91,000 searches a year on how to process payroll manually, while employees log 35,000 more searches looking for ways to cash paper checks. The company points to case studies like Max Farnsworth of Farnsworth Industries, who cut hours of monthly manual payroll work down dramatically after switching to an automated platform.
Android Authority highlights an open-source fork of the popular Shizuku app that solves its most persistent problem — failing to stay active in the background and not restarting after a device reboot. Because Shizuku grants other apps access to restricted system APIs, its instability has long forced users to manually relaunch it, breaking tools like uninstallers and adaptive theme switchers. The fork, built by developers working from Shizuku's GitHub repository, adds automatic recovery so dependent apps keep working without manual intervention.
Microsoft released a 37-page 'humanist AI code of conduct' asserting that people matter more than AI and that AI models should not be designed to imitate consciousness. The document explicitly rejects granting AI legal personhood, welfare status, or rights, positioning Microsoft against ideas Anthropic has been exploring about model sentience.
A growing community of hobbyists is using AI chatbots and open-source language models to co-create sprawling fantasy stories and role-plays, often through tools like SillyTavern that run models locally. Users like Brazilian software engineer Petra Ferraz de Novaes describe building elaborate, ever-evolving narratives across fandoms such as Star Wars and Pokémon, valuing the AI's unpredictable, sometimes bizarre outputs. Researchers at the University of Washington found that many participants know the content is AI-generated and see that as part of the appeal, not a drawback.
A Galaxy S25 FE owner reported overheating and rapid battery drain and initially assumed Samsung's One UI software was to blame. Investigation revealed the actual cause was a third-party app running on the device, not the operating system itself.
Global markets sold off in tech shares after Anthropic's chief executive published a weekend essay cautioning against an unchecked race among AI developers to release increasingly powerful models. Nasdaq futures fell and AI-linked stocks dropped worldwide, while oil prices climbed as investors shifted away from riskier tech bets.
Developers have released FRANK 386, a firmware project built on Tiny386 that emulates an i386 (with partial i486/i586 and optional x87 FPU) PC on Raspberry Pi Pico 2-based RP2350 boards. It supports VGA/HDMI video, SD card storage, PS/2 and USB input, NES gamepads, and multiple sound cards including AdLib and Sound Blaster 16, letting it boot DOS, Windows 3.x/95, and Linux.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an open letter warning that AI-driven botnet swarms could seize control of large parts of the internet within six to twelve months, potentially causing hundreds of billions of dollars in damage. He is urging a deliberate slowdown in frontier AI development to buy time for safety and alignment work, a call now echoed publicly by Elon Musk and OpenAI's Sam Altman.
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