Technology AI Robot dog with Elon Musk's head poops out AI generated art The dystopian art installation features billionaires and Silicon Valley's elite. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Robot dogs are already a bit creepy. But slap on a hyper-realistic image of a tech billionaire's face and have them literally crap out a piece of AI-generated art and you're left with something that would make producers shudder. In, the event space is crowded with six flesh-toned robotic dogs, each bearing a detached, photorealistic head of Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso, or the installation's creator, digital artist Beeple .

Tech billionaires seem to be doom prepping. Should we all be worried? Mark Zuckerberg is said to have started work on Koolau Ranch, his sprawling 1,400-acre compound on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, as far back as 2014. It is set to include a shelter, complete with its own energy and food supplies, though the carpenters and electricians working on the site were banned from talking about it by non-disclosure agreements, according to a report by Wired magazine. A six-foot wall blocked the project from view of a nearby road.

While there's a sprawling patchwork of ideas and philosophies powering these visions, three features play a central role, says Adam Becker, a science writer and astrophysicist: an unshakable certainty that technology can solve any problem, a belief in the necessity of perpetual growth, and a quasi-religious obsession with transcending our physical and biological limits. In his timely new book, More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity, Becker calls this triumvirate of beliefs the "ideology of technological salvation" and warns that tech titans are using it to steer humanity in a dangerous direction. "In most of these isms you'll find the idea of escape and transcendence, as well as the promise of an amazing future, full of unimaginable wonders--so long as we don't get in the way of technological progress." "The credence that tech billionaires give to these specific science-fictional futures validates their pursuit of more--to portray the growth of their businesses as a moral imperative, to reduce the complex problems of the world to simple questions of technology, [and] to justify nearly any action they might want to take," he writes. Becker argues that the only way to break free of these visions is to see them for what they are: a convenient excuse to continue destroying the environment, skirt regulations, amass more power and control, and dismiss the very real problems of today to focus on the imagined ones of tomorrow.

DeepSeek's cut-price challenge to US AI dominance, which wiped 600bn in Nvidia's market value on Monday and caused the tech-weighted Nasdaq index to drop 3%, also took a bite out of the fortunes of some of the world's wealthiest men. Nvidia's record stock plunge, judged to be the biggest market value drop in US stock market history, according to Bloomberg, took with it 20.7bn of its CEO and biggest individual shareholder, Jensen Huang. The share-price drop left Huang, the company co-founder, with a net worth of 103.7bn late on Monday, down from 124.4bn. According to Forbes' real-time billionaires ranking, that pushes the 61-year-old tech tycoon from 10th to 17th place in global wealth rankings, behind Zara fashion mogul Amancio Ortega; Walmart heirs Rob, Jim and Alice Walton; Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates; Dell CEO Michael Dell; and former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg. Exceeding Huang's paper losses from Monday's trading is cat rancher and Oracle chair Larry Ellison, who recorded a 27.6bn loss after shares in Oracle stock dropped 14%, knocking him down from third wealthiest man to fifth, behind Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and LVMH luxury tycoon Bernard Arnault.

Less than a month before Donald Trump returns to office, two of his most ardent allies have plunged into a fierce online debate over immigration, specifically the government's visa program that allows American companies to hire so-called "highly skilled" foreign workers. The clash started on Monday with Laura Loomer, the far-right social media character known for her virulent racism, condemning Trump's decision to name Sriram Krishnan, a tech investor who was born in India, as a senior adviser on artificial intelligence. Tech leaders, including Elon Musk, weighed in to defend the practice of hiring foreign workers, specifically through the government's H-1B visa program. The debate has since devolved into a relentless string of petty insults--Loomer likened tech billionaires to "termites" at Mar-a-Lago; Musk called Loomer a troll--as well as accusations of censorship on X as retaliation. At a different point, Vivek Ramaswamy chimed in to register his support for hiring foreign workers.

The world's richest tech billionaires increased their fortunes by 750 billion last year - with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Facebook tsar Mark Zuckerberg topping the list. Forbes has released its annual roster of the world's wealthiest technology tycoons - and the profit increases they saw in 2023 are eye-watering. Bezos, 60, added 80 billion to his net worth, while Zuckerberg, 39, enjoyed a whopping 113 billion increase to his net value. Of the planet's 342 billionaires who made their fortune in the tech industry - earning a combined income of 2.6 trillion last year - Bezos tops the list. Bezos' net worth surged 80 billion to 194 billion in 2023, according to Forbes.

Elon Musk is set to roll out the first model of his AI-powered system, xAI, on Saturday, one day after he proclaimed the tech is the biggest risk to humanity. The billionaire said Friday that he is opening up early access to a select group, but details of who has not been shared. 'In some important respects, it (xAI's new model) is the best that currently exists,' the Tesla CEO said on Friday. Musk, who has been critical of Big Tech's AI efforts and censorship, said earlier this year that he would launch a maximum truth-seeking AI that tries to understand the nature of the universe to rival Google's Bard and Microsoft's Bing AI. Elon Musk is set to roll out the first model of his AI-powered system, xAI, on Saturday, which he claims could help avoid humanity's destruction at the hands of the tech Musk revealed his startup on July 12, 2023 by launching a dedicated X account for the AI company and spares website.

Do you support sustainability, social responsibility, tech ethics, or trust and safety? In his new self-published Techno-Optimist Manifesto, Andreessen presents his case for the advancement of technology under capitalism as "virtuous" and capable of creating "abundance that lifts all humans". Along the way he champions trickle-down economics (famously effective at increasing inequality), claims technology can solve any problem and suggests that slowing AI development is akin to murder. If you think such proposals sound divorced from reality, you're right. The harms of the state of technology are many: rampant surveillance, consolidation of power, bias and discrimination in automated decision-making systems, worsening power dynamics and labour conditions as a result of automation, and threats to creative workers from generative AI.

Johnson spends millions every year in order to find a way to make his organs similar to that of an 18-year-old male. 'IT'S HUMANS I FEAR': Tech billionaire on journey to immortality welcomes AI as a solution. NO PRESSURE: IG report calls on VA to fix automated system that led to faulty claims decisions. Radiologist Bhavik Patel, M.D. (pictured here) has been named chief AI officer at Mayo Clinic Arizona. Businessman chatting through chatbot Online customer service with chat bots for support.

Johnson spends millions every year in order to find a way to make his organs similar to that of an 18-year-old male. A tech billionaire on a quest to reverse the aging process believes that it is unlikely humanity will survive without the assistance of artificial intelligence (AI). Bryan Johnson, a 46-year-old tech entrepreneur, spends millions yearly on a team of experts monitoring his health and conducting experiments. The goal: Get his organs to look and act like that of an 18-year-old. Some of his regiments include a strict bedtime of 8:30 p.m., taking 111 pills daily, collecting his stool samples, and having a small device attached to his penis to monitor nighttime erections.