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Stevie Bonifield

Stevie Bonifield

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    Has Elon Musk changed his mind on Mars and the Moon?

    “SpaceX has already shifted focus to building a self-growing city on the Moon,” Musk said on Sunday, just a week after merging SpaceX and xAI. It’s a notable change in plans from a little over a year ago when Musk insisted that, “we’re going straight to Mars. The Moon is a distraction.”

    reuters.com

    [SpaceX prioritizes lunar 'self-growing city' over Mars project, Musk says]

    Stevie Bonifield
    Stevie Bonifield
    An advisor to Prince Andrew tried to pitch Epstein on EV investments.

    David Stern suggested Epstein invest in multiple EV startups, including Lucid Motors, Faraday Future, and Canoo, TechCrunch reports. Stern was also an advisor to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and worked with Epstein for nearly a decade, calling him his “mentor.” He also pitched Epstein on buying farmland in Russia and the news organization Al-Jazeera.

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    Stevie Bonifield
    Gemini becomes an AI interior decorator in Google’s Super Bowl ad.

    The “New Home” commercial features nostalgic piano music and a heartfelt voiceover of a mother and son envisioning their new house with some help from Gemini. Notably, it steers clear of fact-focused prompts like the Gouda cheese stat Gemini got wrong in one of last year’s Super Bowl ads.

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    Stevie Bonifield
    Alexa Plus tries to kill Chris Hemsworth in Amazon’s Super Bowl ad.

    Hemsworth’s latest action scene isn’t in an Avengers movie, but a stand-off with Amazon’s AI assistant, which he fears is planning elaborate ways to kill him. Maybe Ultron is still fresh in the Thor actor’s mind. It’s far from the only ad for AI in this year’s Super Bowl.