Elon Musk Wants ‘Strong Influence’ Over the ‘Robot Army’ He’s Building

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10.24.25

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GEAR

Elon Musk Wants ‘Strong Influence’ Over the ‘Robot Army’ He’s Building

BY AARIAN MARSHALL | 2-MINUTE READ

In a Tesla earnings call Wednesday, the world’s richest man pondered the future of his company’s Optimus robots—and his control over them.

SECURITY

What the Huge AWS Outage Reveals About the Internet

BY LILY HAY NEWMAN | 2-MINUTE READ

Amazon Web Services experienced DNS resolution issues on Monday morning, taking down wide swaths of the web—and highlighting a long-standing weakness in the internet's infrastructure.

POLITICS

Inside the Trump Adminstration's Bluesky Invasion

BY MAKENA KELLY | 3-MINUTE READ

On Friday, after months of internal discussions, federal agencies began posting on the left-friendly social network. Within days, they dominated a list of the most-blocked accounts.

NEW YORK, NY - MARCH 05: Google's New York office is shown in lower Manhattan on March 5, 2018 in New York City. Published reports say that the tech giant is close to a reaching a $2.4 billion deal to buy the landmark Chelsea Market building. The building, a block-long former Nabisco factory that is named after its ground-floor gourmet food mall, sits directly across from Google's current New York City headquarters in the Meatpacking District. If the sale goes through, it would be one of the most expensive real estate transactions for a single building in New York City history. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

BUSINESS

Google Has a Bedbug Infestation in Its New York Offices

BY ZOË SCHIFFER | 1-MINUTE READ

Employees at Google’s Chelsea office were told to stay home after exterminators found “credible evidence” of an infestation.

GEAR

ChatGPT’s Horny Era Could Be Its Stickiest Yet

BY REECE ROGERS | 4-MINUTE READ

OpenAI will soon let adults create erotic content in ChatGPT. Experts say that could lead to “emotional commodification,” or horniness as a revenue stream.

BUSINESS

People Who Say They’re Experiencing AI Psychosis Beg the FTC for Help

BY CAROLINE HASKINS | 7-MINUTE READ

The Federal Trade Commission received 200 complaints mentioning ChatGPT between November 2022 and August 2025. Several attributed delusions, paranoia, and spiritual crises to the chatbot.

BUSINESS

The FTC Is Disappearing Blog Posts About AI Published During Lina Khan’s Tenure

BY LAUREN GOODE AND MAKENA KELLY | 3-MINUTE READ

The Federal Trade Commission removed several blog posts in recent months about open source and potential risks to consumers from the rapid spread of commercial AI tools.

GEAR

OpenAI’s Atlas Browser Takes Direct Aim at Google Chrome

BY REECE ROGERS | 2-MINUTE READ

The new ChatGPT-powered web browser is OpenAI’s boldest play yet to reinvent how people use the web.

GEAR

The Zipper Is Getting Its First Major Upgrade in 100 Years

BY AMY FRANCOMBE | 3-MINUTE READ

By stripping away the fabric tape that’s held zippers together for a hundred years, Japanese clothing giant YKK is designing the future of seamless clothing.

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