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Hollywood Boycotts Elon Musk: Disney, Other Major Studios Pull Ads from X Following Antisemitism Controversy

Studios that have halted or paused advertising on X include: the Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros. Discovery, Paramount, and NBC Universal, according to multiple reports. In addition, Lionsgate, the studio behind The Hunger Games movies, has also yanked it ads.

Tech giants are also headed for the exits, with Apple and Amazon joining the boycott.

Elon Musk recently expressed agreement with a recent post that promoted the so-called  “great replacement” theory, claiming that Jewish communities “have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them.”

Musk replied: “You have said the actual truth.”

The growing advertiser boycott is due in large part to a media offensive from the left-wing , pro-censorship group Media Matters for America, which has launched one of its familiar pressure campaigns designed to intimidate advertisers into acquiescing to its agenda.

Musk announced Saturday that he intends to file a “thermonuclear” lawsuit against Media Matters as early as next week.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Rocket Self-Destructs During Second Test Flight

In a social media post, SpaceX shared video footage of the launch with a caption that read, “Liftoff of Starship!”

During the countdown, people were heard cheering in the background as the rocket barreled toward space.

“The uncrewed Starship made it into space after a successful launch from SpaceX’s private Starbase site in Boca Chica, Texas, at about 8 a.m. Eastern time,” the Today article said.

When flight controllers lost contact with it and were unable to maintain the craft’s course a few minutes later, the order went out to have the rocket self-destruct.

“While the two stages separated as planned, the first-stage booster soon began to tumble and exploded in mid-air instead of falling into the Gulf of Mexico as planned,” the outlet noted.

Despite the craft self-destructing, SpaceX later congratulated its team on the second integrated flight test.

“Starship successfully lifted off under the power of all 33 Raptor engines on the Super Heavy Booster and made it through stage separation,” the manufacturer said.

Amazon Slashing Hundreds of Jobs in Alexa Unit to Focus on Artificial Intelligence

Amazon’s Vice President of Alexa and Fire TV Daniel Rausch said the job cuts are because the company is not moving forward with certain initiatives, the Associated Press (AP) reported.

“As we continue to invent, we’re shifting some of our efforts to better align with our business priorities, and what we know matters most to customers — which includes maximizing our resources and efforts focused on generative AI,” he said.

The job cuts will affect workers in America, Canada, and India, the AP article noted.

The announcement comes as Amazon is reportedly building its own AI system called Olympus, Breitbart News reported November 8, noting it will compete with other AI platforms.
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The Olympus model is reportedly designed to have two trillion parameters, making it twice as large as OpenAI’s GPT-4 model. An increase in parameter size is hoped to produce a more accurate AI model, leading to AI companies to engage in an arms race of offering larger and faster executing systems.

Pentagon Office in Charge of AI Strategy Plagued with Incompetence and Mismanagement

Earlier this year, a federal workplace climate survey showed that the office, known as the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO), ranked the lowest of all the offices in the Pentagon on “leadership” — scoring -17 on a scale of -100 to 100.

At a Pentagon briefing this month, Breitbart News asked Dr. Craig Martell, the leader of the CDAO, what steps have been taken since the survey to improve things. Martell responded, “We hired an organization called Gapingvoid. They’re helping us think through and work through our department, and they’re doing surveys throughout the whole department.”

He added, “Gapingvoid is going through all of our leadership and all of the teams and figuring out where they feel things are frustrating, where they feel things are working, and then they work with us and the leadership teams to figure out the kinds of changes we can make to address those issues.”

However, five sources who wished to remain anonymous told Breitbart News that things are still as bad as ever since the survey.

“There is still a gaping void and nothing’s changed,” one source quipped.

Sources recently told Breitbart News that Martell admitted on a Zoom call with staff last week that he is actively looking for a new job.

The sources said Martell began the call by insisting he was not looking for a new job, but then later talked about his transition plan, and then during a Q and A admitted he was already in serious enough talks with private companies that he had to consult the Pentagon’s ethics office to see if it created conflicts of interest with his current job. According to the sources, he reassured staff that it would take a year before anything became a reality.