Elon Musk denied that Donald Trump sought campaign donations when they met in Florida earlier this month. The X owner told Don Lemon in an interview released on Monday that their meeting on March 3 was a chance encounter. "I was at a breakfast at a friend's place, and Donald Trump came by. That's it," Musk said.Lemon, the former CNN anchor, asked what the two talked about."Let's just say he did most of the talking," replied Musk. "I don't recall him saying anything that he hasn't said...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says he thought his former cofounder Elon Musk would have had "more empathy" for the AI company's huge ambitions."It wasn't that long ago Elon was crazily talking about launching rockets when people were laughing at that thought, so I think he'd have more empathy for this," Altman told podcaster Lex Fridman in the latest episode of his show, which aired on Monday.Altman referenced Musk's spacefaring ambitions with his rocket company SpaceX, while discussing Musk's lawsuit...
In the battle for AI talent, Elon Musk holds considerable sway.Aravind Srinivas, the CEO of the AI company Perplexity, said it can be difficult to compete with the Tesla CEO when recruiting.Musk launched his own AI startup, xAI, last year and Srinivas said it has since become one of the highest-paying companies for AI talent — on par with OpenAI. Last year, The Wall Street Journal reported that OpenAI was offering salary packages as high as $900,000."Whoever has the highest valuation will be...
Nvidia is kicking of its massive AI event at a California sports arena on Monday. The event has been dubbed the "Woodstock of AI" and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is its rockstar headliner.The highly anticipated event is Nvidia's latest installment of its GPU Technology Conference (GTC), the first of which happened almost 15 years ago in San Jose's Fairmont Hotel.The event — hosted for the first time in person since 2019, according to The Wall Street Journal — has since expanded to fill the size of a...
Former "James Bond" actor Pierce Brosnan has been fined $1,500 after pleading guilty to stepping off a trail in a thermal area during a visit to Yellowstone National Park last year.As Business Insider previously reported, federal prosecutors in Wyoming brought criminal charges against Brosnan, 70, after he went into the Mammoth Terraces hot springs area of the historic park in November.According to court documents, those areas in the park are off-limits to tourists due to the dangers of thermal...
A Georgia judge has ruled that District Attorney Fani Willis of Fulton County can continue to oversee former President Donald Trump's historic state election-interference case — but only if her top prosecutor steps aside.Judge Scott McAfee's bombshell ruling Friday in the Superior Court of Fulton County followed a three-day evidentiary hearing earlier this month that centered on misconduct allegations against Willis and Nathan Wade, the Atlanta lawyer she hired to lead the inquiry into Trump and...
"Dateline" correspondent Keith Morrison is still feeling the ripple effects of his stepson Matthew Perry's death five months later."It's as other people have told me hundreds of times. It doesn't go away yet," Morrison said during a new episode of the podcast "Making Space With Hoda Kotb," released on Tuesday. "It's with you every day. It's with you all the time."Morrison has been married to the "Friends" star's mom, Suzanne Perry, since 1981. Perry, who's best known for playing the sarcastic...
Bananarama — who has a song called "Cruel Summer" — says they haven't heard Taylor Swift's hit of the same name.The British-Irish group, which currently consists of members Sara Dallin and Keren Woodward, recently spoke to Billboard about their decadeslong music career.While reflecting on the impact that female artists have on the music scene these days, the duo shared that they haven't listened to Swift's chart-topping hit "Cruel Summer," even though it shares the same name as one of their own...
It's not just the internet — the "Katespiracy" has John Oliver in its clutches, too."I was out. I thought, 'Let's all just ignore this, we've moved on,' until the photoshop thing," Oliver told television host Andy Cohen on Tuesday's episode of "Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen.""That feels, like, you're almost handling it badly in an impressive way at this point," Oliver added.Oliver was referencing the digitally altered photo of Kate that Kensington Palace released on Sunday. The photo...
If you use your pet's name as the password for all your online accounts: stop it, stop it right now.The latest data breach involving Roku should be a reminder to you to always use unique passwords for each of your accounts — even for services like Roku that may seem less important than your online banking app, for example.Roku sent a notice to its customers on Friday informing them that some accounts had been affected by a data breach.Over 15,000 Roku customer accounts were breached, according...
A passenger on a terrifying flight between Sydney and Auckland said that the pilot admitted he momentarily "lost control of the plane," CNN reported.LATAM Airways Flight 800 was subject to a "strong shake" midair on Monday, which is being investigated, the airline said in a statement.Around 50 passengers were injured in the incident, which one passenger said saw the plane, a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner, plunge downwards, The New Zealand Herald reported.The airline said 10 passengers and three cabin...
The Federal Aviation Administration auditors saw mechanics for a Boeing supplier using liquid Dawn soap as a lubricant for fitting a door seal, The New York Times reported.The regulator then observed mechanics at Spirit AeroSystems, which builds the fuselage of Boeing's 737 Max, cleaning up using a wet cheesecloth, per The Times' Mark Walker.These findings were part of a six-week audit documented in a set of FAA presentation slides upon which The Times based its report.The slides said that...