Evan Robinson-Johnson

22 hours ago | theinformation.com | Evan Robinson-Johnson

Source: The InformationThe leader of Tesla’s Optimus humanoid robotics program, Milan Kovac, is leaving the company, a setback for what CEO Elon Musk has said will eventually become a core part of the business. Kovac, who first joined the company in 2016 and took over Optimus in 2022, confirmed his departure on X saying he wanted to spend time with his family. “My support for @elonmusk and the team is ironclad - Tesla team forever,” he wrote.

1 day ago | theinformation.com | Evan Robinson-Johnson

If all goes as planned in August, a startup called Starcloud from Redmond, Wash., will load a rocket bound for space with a refrigerator-sized satellite, the first to contain an Nvidia H100 chip. Normally, that chip is at the heart of the sprawling data centers back on Earth that run the latest artificial intelligence models.

2 days ago | theinformation.com | Evan Robinson-Johnson

Source: The InformationPresident Trump threatened to cancel “billions and billions of dollars” in government contracts held by Elon Musk’s companies, as a simmering feud between the two men broke into open on social media. Musk seemed to endorse Trump’s impeachment in one post, while warning that Trump’s tariffs would cause a recession. Tesla shares fell 14% in response to the drama.

2 days ago | miamiherald.com | Evan Robinson-Johnson

Artificial intelligence is reshaping human beings' relationship with the world around us, with knowledge, with each other and with our very selves. While similar claims could be made about previous disruptive technologies, from the plow to the internal combustion engine to the microchip, each of which altered societies and humans' self-understanding in radical ways, AI offers for the first time the possibility of human obsolescence in the capacity that most defines us: our intelligence.

2 days ago | post-gazette.com | Chloe Jad |Evan Robinson-Johnson

Pennsylvania’s newest data center doesn’t have its computers yet, so on opening day visitors were offered virtual-reality headsets that filled the empty data hall with rows and rows of sleek black cabinets and bundles of blue and green wires running along the black ceiling. The inside of a data center might seem boring to some and mythical to others, often sheltered away in rural areas and not a place most people have gone. But they are, in fact, ubiquitous and growing.