Jasper Hamill - Machine (Page 6)

Musk as "Kekius Maximus", complete with a shoulder-borne Pepe the Frog (Image: Grok)

Elon Musk

Is Elon Musk trying to meme Gamergate back into existence?

The Edgelord-in-Chief has waded into yet another controversial issue and slammed the state of today's video games journalism industry.

An Amazon worker meets a robotic colleague that is absolutely not part of a plan to put him out of work

robotics

Amazon prepares for the "next wave" of its robotics revolution

A glimpse of the automated future of e-commerce (and the risk of technological unemployment awaiting humans).

Grok's depiction of a dark web cannabis dealer, who appears to have somehow turned his Bitcoin into physical form

Crypto

Coinbase "clamps down on crypto payments to dark web drug dealers"

Crypto exchange takes steps which appear to be intended to stop people sending funds to criminals' accounts.

Existential Risk

Humanity faces "gradual disempowerment" rather than an AI apocalypse, researchers warn

Academics predict our species won't suffer an "abrupt takeover" by superintelligence but a slow lingering death from a thousand cuts.

Fintech

Money Machine: Satoshi's identity, Open Banking fears, IBM on GenAI and the real DOGE

The first edition of a newsletter sharing the latest news, insights and gossip in crypto, fintech and the financial services ecosystem.

Don't look down: Life is dangerous out on the edge of networks (Photo by Alan Tang on Unsplash)

security

Five Eyes cyber-agencies launch bid to secure edge devices

Global security chiefs warn of a "a relentless wave of intrusions" as they urge organisations to secure the edge.

EU regulators have been very busy - again - building the AI Act

EU

The EU AI Act is beginning to take force: How should organisations respond?

Find out which AI use cases pose a "unacceptable risk" and are now prohibited on the Continent as the controversial Act starts to bite.

security

Huge surge in number of CVEs exploited in the wild blamed on complex ecosystems

Researchers warn that 2024 was a "banner year" for threat actors, who are exploiting vulns at a dizzying speed.

Grok's depiction of OpenAI founder Sam Altman encountering a hungry AI shoggoth

Existential Risk

OpenAI boss Sam Altman confirms AI superintelligence will not "eat humans"

Well, that's one less thing to worry about...

Deepseek performs competitively against rivals like OpenAI's o1 - at a fraction of the cost

GenAI

The dark side of Deepseek R-1? OpenAI o1 rival alleged to be biased, insecure, foulmouthed and unethical

Chinese AI model can be tricked into writing terrorist training manuals and offering advice on developing chemical or biological weapons, analysts claim

On X, Elon Musk responded to the Y Combinator news with one word: "Hmm."

Crypto

"Crypto is dead": Y Combinator's 2025 startup requests spark fears for future of blockchain

"Anyone notice a trend here? "IT’S ALL F***ING OVER."

Telsa's humanoid robot, Optimus, has a tough working life ahead of it (Image: Tesla)

robots

Elon Musk shares "dangerous" Optimus plans, reveals "perverse" Telsa self-driving feature

Billionaire has plans to make Tesla robots' working life even more "hardcore" than his own 100-hour weeks.