On Tuesday, Tesla held its annual shareholder meeting. As expected, none of the controversial shareholder votes passed--there will be no independent CEO replacing Musk, and his brother and the other two candidates were reelected to the board with no drama or fireworks. Even Tesla's chief counsel Todd Maron referred to the opening agenda items as "the boring bits." Things got more interesting once Musk took to the stage for a Q&A session, answering queries submitted in advance via Twitter and then from the audience. It was an odd performance, often feeling more like a Netflix comedy special than a shareholder meeting.

Between Boston Dynamics' headless, door-opening cyborg dogs, Omron Automation's empathy chips for robots, and MIT Media Lab's new'psychopath' AI Norman (named for Norman Bates, the murderer from Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho), it looks like we've got everything we need to cobble together a darker, more violent version of I, Robot, or at least another episode of Black Mirror Season 5. Seriously, listen to this: A team of MIT employees took a normal image-captioning AI (designed to look at pictures and provide a written description of what it sees) and fed it a steady stream of images from an unnamed Reddit board where people exclusively post horrifying, morbid images of murder and death. Afterward, the team showed this AI (now dubbed Norman) a series of Rorschach inkblots, which are used by psychiatrists and psychoanalysts to judge a patient's mental state. The team then compared Norman's captions to a normal AI that had not been traumatized with images of death and found a disturbing pattern. For example, Norman captioned one inkblot "man is murdered by machine gun in broad daylight", while the other AI captioned the same image, "a black and white photo of a baseball glove." Norman's morbidity plays out again and again in the tests.

Spotify is gearing up to launch its own range of hardware products fuelling rumours the company plans to launch its own smart speaker. The music streaming service has registered with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), paving the way for it to sell hardware products for the first time. Without proper certification from the FCC, it is impossible to market or sell wireless products in the United States. Spotify has yet to submit any hardware for certification from the US government agency. The company has long been rumoured to be developing its own hardware, however, its registration with the FCC is the first evidence it is considering bringing products to market.

Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) trained an artificial intelligence algorithm dubbed "Norman" to become a psychopath by only exposing it to macabre Reddit images of gruesome deaths and violence, according to a new study. Nicknamed Norman after Anthony Perkins' character in Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film Psycho, the artificial intelligence was fed only a continuous stream of violent images from various pernicious subreddits before being tested with Rorschach inkblot tests. The imagery detected by Norman produced spooky interpretations of electrocutions and speeding car deaths where a standard AI would only see umbrellas and wedding cakes. Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) trained an AI algorithm, "Norman," to become a psychopath by only exposing it to macabre Reddit images of gruesome deaths and violence. MIT scientists Pinar Yanardag, Manuel Cebrian and Iyad Rahwan specifically trained the AI to perform image captioning, a "deep learning method" for artificial intelligence to cull through images and produce corresponding descriptions in writing.

Smart speaker and home audio company Sonos is holding an event in San Francisco today, and the first bit of news is that AirPlay 2 support is coming in July. As previously announced Apple's latest streaming protocol will work with the Sonos One, Playbase, and Play:5 speakers -- anything older than that won't be supported, unfortunately. The update will come via software update, and it'll let you group together multiple Sonos speakers through Apple's apps. This means you can start up songs in Apple Music and send them directly to Sonos without having to use the dedicated Sonos app. Sonos gave a quick demo showing off what AirPlay 2 can do.

The Bumblebee movie has just been given its first official poster. This comes just after the debut of the spin-off's first teaser trailer arriving online, which appears to be taking quite a few people by surprise. At this point, nobody would blame you for being burnt out on the Transformers movies, but this genuinely looks to be something very different than what's come before it. Case in point, this first poster is relatively minimalistic and kind of sweet. The poster features our titular alien robot and his newfound human companion, Charlie, played by Pitch Perfect star Hailee Steinfeld.

The Sonos Beam is a new $399 soundbar, but to Sonos, it's a heck of a lot more than just a speaker that sits under your television. It's a fabric-wrapped representation of how Sonos sees the future--one in which all the voice assistants from Apple and Google and Amazon can live next to one another. In this future, hip urban millennials parents will use Beam not just for Netflixing and HBOing, but queuing up the soundtracks to their hip, urban lives and for controlling their hip, urban smart home. And they'll do it all with spoken commands instead of an app or a remote. Development on the Beam has been going on for more than two years (during which time the speaker was referred to internally as "El Rey," Spanish for "The King"). And it's being released at a critical time for Sonos: It's been reported that the 16-year-old audio company will soon file to go public.

This article originally appeared in Vulture. Nothing is ever as it seems when it comes to James Franco. The man makes a lot of baffling "artistic" choices, any of which could conceivably be explained away as one of the performance-art pranks he so enjoys pulling on the public, and in a greater sense, on himself. Is he penning a column of film criticism, or engaging in an Adaptation-style interrogation of a self divorced from the self? Is he challenging the pillars of historical thought, or just putting goo on stuff?

Outside of horror movies, music boxes are pretty cool, but their big flaw is that they can only play a few bars of one song. That's why Taiwanese company Tevofy Technology has sought to update the music box for the modern age, in the form of the Music Robot Box, or Muro Box. Traditional music boxes have a cylinder of pins that, as they turn, pluck the tines of a steel comb that, as they vibrate, make a sound. The principles are similar to that of hammers hitting piano strings, although you're limited by the size of the cylinder and the notes the comb has been cut to play. The difference between that and MuRo, is that the cylinder has been replaced with several computer-controlled rings.

Journalist Ashlee Vance travels to Montreal, Canada to meet the founders of Lyrebird, a startup that is using AI to clone human voices with frightening precision. Join journalist and best-selling author Ashlee Vance on a quest to find the freshest, weirdest tech creations and the beautiful freaks behind them. Bloomberg is the First Word in business news, delivering breaking news & analysis, up-to-the-minute market data, features, profiles and more: http://www.bloomberg.com