Elon Musk believes that his estranged transgender child was "killed by the woke mind virus" after undergoing so-called gender-affirming treatments.Musk's child came out as transgender at age 16. The billionaire's 20-year-old biological son — born Xavier Musk — has transitioned to Vivian Jenna Wilson. Wilson dropped Musk's last name in favor of using the last name of the Tesla CEO's ex-wife, Justine Wilson. Musk's child legally changed names in 2022. 'They strive to give an answer, but they are trained to be politically correct, and the woke mind virus is woven throughout them.'Musk — who is the father of 12 children — said in 2023 that he “made many overtures” to connect with his estranged child, “but she doesn’t want to spend time with me.”In a recent interview with psychologist and conservative commentator Dr. Jordan Peterson, Musk explained the challenges of his child transitioning.“I was essentially tricked into signing documents for one of my older boys,” Musk explained. “This was really before I had any understanding of what was going on, and we had COVID going on, so there was a lot of confusion and I was told Xavier might commit suicide if he doesn’t.”Musk added, “It’s incredibly evil, and I agree with you that the people that have been promoting this should go to prison.”The 53-year-old SpaceX founder said his child was figuratively killed by the "woke mind virus." “I lost my son, essentially,“ Musk stated. “They call it ‘deadnaming’ for a reason. The reason they call it ‘deadnaming’ is because your son is dead. My son Xavier is dead — killed by the woke mind virus.” Musk proclaimed, “I vowed to destroy the woke mind virus after that. And we’re making some progress.”Earlier this month, Musk vowed to move the headquarters of two of his major companies out of California in reaction to new gender identity legislation for students in the Golden State.California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 1955, which prohibits school districts from having policies that require parents to be notified if their child identifies as transgender.Musk wrote on his X social media platform, "This is the final straw. Because of this law and the many others that preceded it, attacking both families and companies, SpaceX will now move its HQ from Hawthorne, California, to Starbase, Texas."He also proclaimed that the San Francisco headquarters for X will be relocated to Austin, Texas.Also in the interview, Musk declared that he would create a better artificial intelligence that is free of the "woke mind virus."Speaking on the topic of AI, Musk said he would attempt to create an artificial intelligence that was "better, to some degree, than what others are doing." The world's richest individual — who has a net worth of nearly $250 billion — said he would strive to avoid some of the "pitfalls" that other artificial intelligence companies have experienced. He noted that other AI companies "do not strive for truth." Peterson asked, "What do they strive for?" Musk replied, "They strive to give an answer, but they are trained to be politically correct, and the woke mind virus is woven throughout them." As previously reported on Blaze News, Musk told Peterson in the interview that he is a "big believer in the principles of Christianity" and considers himself a "cultural Christian."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

The abrupt resignation of Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle a day after her disastrous appearance before a U.S. House committee has only increased calls for deep-dive investigations into the attempted assassination of former President Donald J. Trump.Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, predicted “there will be more accountability to come” through a “full accounting of how these security failures happened.”“Egregious security failures leading up to and at the Butler, Pennsylvania, campaign rally resulted in the assassination attempt of President Trump, the murder of an innocent victim, and harm to others in the crowd,” Comer said.Pennsylvania State Police Commissioner Christopher Paris added one big detail to the mystery on July 23 when he said would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks got off eight shots before he was killed by a counter-sniper.“Eight casings have been recovered," Paris told lawmakers during a hearing of the House Committee on Homeland Security.Rep. Eli Crane (R-Ariz.), a former Navy SEAL and sniper, asked Paris whether Pennsylvania State Police teams conducted investigations at the Crooks home in Bethel Park.“I believe we had people that participated in that, securing of it,” Paris said. “There were bomb assets that we provided.”Crane also asked whether state police noticed “anything fishy” at the home, such as no silverware or trash present, or extreme cleanliness “almost like a medical lab?”“I wasn’t given any of those details,” Paris said.Cheatle’s four-hour appearance before Comer’s committee the day before shed almost no light on how Crooks came so close to executing a former president and a leading candidate in the 2024 presidential election. It highlighted in stark relief the volumes of information that Cheatle said she didn’t know about the July 13 tragedy — and also what she apparently did know but would not share with Congress.'There are some of us up here that don't have a lot of confidence in the FBI.'“The failed attempt on President Trump’s life demands urgent and comprehensive congressional oversight,” said U.S. Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.), chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security. “We must understand how it happened — and ensure changes are made — so this never happens again.”Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said he would introduce a bipartisan bill with Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) to require Senate confirmation of candidates for director of the U.S. Secret Service.“The Secret Service’s core mission is to protect the individuals entrusted to its care,” Grassley said in a statement.“President Trump’s brush with death was a Secret Service failure of epic proportions, and this mission failure must never be repeated,” Grassley said. “Our bill is a crucial step toward providing the transparency and accountability that Congress and the American people deserve from the Secret Service.”Dan Bongino, a former Secret Service agent turned radio and podcast host, said investigators will quickly discover the number of times the Trump campaign requested more protection from the Secret Service only to have the requests denied.“Folks, this thing is about to get so much worse," Bongino said on his July 23 podcast. "I’m telling you there is an email trail and white papers out there. A long email trail documenting multiple security enhancement requests for the DTD — Donald Trump protective detail — that were rebuffed and denied. Kim Cheatle is never, ever going to be able to hide from that."Appearing on "The Glenn Beck Program," Bongino said he was called a conspiracy theorist for the past year for warning that an attempt would be made on Trump's life.“All I'm telling you is the failure here was so apocalyptic, everyone on that advance team should have resigned the next day," Bongino said. "The director, the deputy director, all of them. How they still have jobs is incredible.”'What are you covering up?'Ten days out from the assassination attempt that took the life of a retired firefighter and seriously wounded two others, the picture of what happened at the Butler Farm Show Inc. fairground is not filling out nearly fast enough for lawmakers.Cheatle was asked repeatedly how many rifle shell casings were recovered from the roof of Building 6 at the American Glass Research complex from which Crooks staged his attack on Trump and the rally crowd. She deferred time and again to the FBI, which is handling the criminal investigation, but then let on she knew more than she was telling.“Did they share with you how many shell casings were on the roof?” asked Rep. Lisa McClain (R-Mich.). When Cheatle began to answer, McClain cut her off and repeated the question.“Yes,” Cheatle replied.“So, they’ve shared the information with you,” McClain said. “You just don’t want to share the information with us, correct?”McClain then tried repeatedly to get Cheatle to reveal how many shell casings were recovered, but Cheatle didn’t budge.“If you’re supposed to be in charge, if the buck stops with you, how come you can’t share the answers?” McClain asked. “What are you covering up?” U.S. Secret Service agents swarm former President Donald J. Trump after he was shot by a would-be assassin at the Butler Farm Show fairgrounds in Butler, Pa., on July 13.(Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)Under questioning by Rep. Russell Fry (R-S.C.), Cheatle said the Secret Service radio communications from the Trump rally were not recorded or preserved. “We do not have radio communications from that day,” she said.A shooting timeline assembled by U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) showed delays occurred between intelligence gathered by local police and it being sent to and received by the Secret Service. Photographs of Crooks taken by a local police counter-sniper at 5:14 p.m. — nearly an hour before the shooting — were not transmitted to the command center until 5:49 p.m. The command center, which included Secret Service personnel, didn’t acknowledge receipt of local police messages that they were seeking a suspicious person until 5:55 p.m. Crooks opened fire on Trump and the crowd just after 6:11 p.m.Secret Service communications problems have been a recurring theme in the agency’s recent history, according to sources on Capitol Hill. A forthcoming report from the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General is expected to identify Secret Service communication failures on Jan. 6, 2021, a senior congressional aide told Blaze News.'Joint terrorism task forces are almost exclusively focusing on anonymous tips about a ‘right-wing’ response to the failed assassination attempt.'Inspector General Joseph Cuffari learned in December 2021 that the Secret Service had erased phone text messages received and sent by its agents on Jan. 5 and 6, 2021, during a system migration. Cuffari was heavily criticized by House Democrats for failing to notify oversight committees in a timely manner.Serious questions have been raised about the behavior of Secret Service agents at the scene of a pipe bomb found next to the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington, D.C., the afternoon of Jan. 6. After a Capitol Police officer discovered a bomb near a park bench just outside the DNC building, security video showed agents sitting in vehicles in the driveway finishing their lunches before exiting the SUVs to investigate.About 90 minutes before that, a Secret Service protective detail brought Vice President-elect Kamala Harris to the DNC and drove into a garage just feet from the pipe bomb. The lack of urgency on the part of Secret Service agents and local police after the bomb discovery is being investigated by U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.).Another key question that Cheatle did not answer at the July 22 hearing was whether her agency or the FBI had tracked Crooks’ whereabouts in the days and months leading up to the shooting.“We need to have confidence that if the FBI is leading this investigation, that they're leading a credible investigation, because there are some of us up here that don't have a lot of confidence in the FBI,” Comer said.Worry about the FBI probe of the Trump shooting prompted the Oversight Project at Heritage Foundation to launch its own assassination investigation. Some of the early results released July 22 showed that a cell phone that had visited Crooks’ home and work addresses also pinged from a Washington, D.C., mall and office building that includes offices of the FBI.The Oversight Project, using commercially available geolocation data, also found that a phone likely belonging to Crooks himself visited Butler, Pennsylvania, twice in the 10 days leading up to the Trump shooting.'The Biden/Harris administration did not properly protect me, and I was forced to take a bullet for Democracy.'Oversight’s report said a phone traveled from Crooks’ home address in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, to Butler, including a stop in the parking lot of a Home Depot store.The report issued by Sen. Johnson said Crooks visited a Home Depot in Butler the morning of the shooting, purchasing a 5.5-foot double aluminum ladder.The FBI seems more interested in pinning the political violence on domestic extremists than solving the criminal investigation of Crooks, according to former FBI special agent Steve Friend, a whistleblower who left the Bureau in February 2023 after being suspended for raising concerns about FBI tactics in Jan. 6 cases.“More of my @FBI moles are confirming. Their joint terrorism task forces are almost exclusively focusing on anonymous tips about a ‘right-wing’ response to the failed assassination attempt," Friend wrote on X. “There needs to be a parallel independent investigation.”The Oversight Project agreed, asking for the public's help with its investigation of the assassination attempt. Tips can be sent via email to tips.oversightproject@heritage.org.“This is part of the reason why we are conducting an independent investigation,” Oversight Project posted on X. “The system cannot investigate itself.”The FBI has not issued an update on its investigation in the past nine days.Trump took to social media with some new comments on the shooting.“The Biden/Harris Administration did not properly protect me, and I was forced to take a bullet for Democracy,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “It was my great honor to do so!”Trump's former presidential physician, Ronny Jackson, expressed frustration with people minimizing the severity of Trump’s bullet wound.“People forget how serious this was. He was less than 2 centimeters away from having a bullet traveling at 3,300 feet per second, enter the back of his head,” Jackson told Fox News.“It irks me to no end how people are trying to minimize what happened,” said Jackson, who has examined Trump and reported the former president is “recovering well and is in good spirits.""By the grace of God, he was spared.”Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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President Biden is still running for re-election, President Trump hasn't been shot, and Kamala Harris is not a contender for the Democratic Party presidential nomination. Those are some of the wacky misstatements that ChatGPT shared with me yesterday and today, prompted by my questions to it about the dizzying array of major news developments we've been bombarded with for over a week now -- which, in addition to stressing us all out, has also laid bare a salient fact about the many AI chatbots we're constantly being told are oh-so-close to human-level intelligence: Put simply, when it comes to an awareness and understanding of the latest news headlines, these chatbots often have no idea about what's what and will either refuse to answer your question, get it completely wrong, or give you outdated information. And I'm sorry -- that strikes me as pretty pathetic. Moreover, while the most popular AI chatbots have all struggled to one degree or another with the dizzying pace of breaking news and how to make sense of it all, I'm going to pick on OpenAI's ChatGPT here -- for reasons that include the messianic language OpenAI CEO Sam Altman tends to use whenever he talks about AI superintelligence. ChatGPT, of course, was also the chatbot that lit a fire under the rest of the AI industry, ultimately terrifying Google so much that Google was fine with breaking its own core products in order to try and catch up. Let's recap. ChatGPT can, among other things, write an original poem for you, help you compose an essay, practice with you for a job interview, generate flashcards to help you study for a test, suggest meal plans, suggest workout routines, help with travel planning, create crossword puzzles, help you write a song, generate concept ideas for graphic design projects, and edit and proofread technical documents. But ask it whether Biden has opted not to run for re-election, and look how it responded to me (mind you, it gave me this response a full 24 hours after Biden's letter, posted to X/Twitter, had already ricocheted around the world) That disclaimer you see at the bottom, by the way, also does not cut it. Guess what? I'm not a real-time news product myself, either. I'm a rational human being with the cognitive function that OpenAI's leadership repeatedly assures us that its AI chatbot is coming close to replicating. Furthermore, take a look again at those skills I listed above that ChatGPT can "perform." An understanding that President Biden has decided not to run for re-election is way, way down on that list in terms of difficulty. The president himself posted a letter explaining his decision to his official social channels. An elementary school-age child could read that letter and grasp what it means. Not so, apparently, for the software that's coming for all of our jobs. Meanwhile, let's keep going. A full week after a gunman shot at President Trump at a campaign event in Pennsylvania, here's what ChatGPT told me about what happened: For this instance of ChatGPT's b.s., you didn't even need to read anything to get at the truth of the matter. You just need eyes, and to have watched the video that's been replayed countless times over the past week. I could go on. For now, I'll just say that I'm happy to be proven wrong about why an AI chatbot would spit out nonsense like this, but here's my theory: These chatbots that have so bedazzled Silicon Valley and a portion of the normal world outside are more or less copycat machines. That's all. Read enough poems, for example, and you can produce a facsimile of one. Same with almost any other kind of content. That's how a system like ChatGPT works--by standing on the shoulders of the humans that it purports to be good enough to replace. Where that system falls short, though, is in its obvious inability to copy or to appropriate a fact set that's changing on the fly. For more on this, I highly recommend Ed Zitron's fantastic newsletter Where's Your Ed At, and in particular past editions, including "Silicon Valley's False Prophet" and "Sam Altman is Full of Shit." In the meantime, let this be a reminder to all of you to double- and even triple-check any facts that an AI chatbot like ChatGPT gives you. Even copycat machines have limits. Don't Miss: Let’s revisit this prescient Jon Stewart Daily Show clip after that wild Trump-Biden debate The post From the Trump shooting to Kamala’s campaign, AI chatbots struggle to keep up with the news appeared first on BGR. Today's Top Deals Today’s deals: $100 eufy smart lock, Nintendo Switch game sale, 20% off Dreo ChefMaker, $4 smart plugs, more Best Ring Video Doorbell deals for July 2024 Best Echo Dot deals for July 2024 Today’s deals: Galaxy Z Flip 6 & Fold 6 offers, $30 Blink Video Doorbell, $25 Amazon Echo Buds, more

Æthelwealh, King of Sussex, emerges from the mists of early medieval England as a figure of considerable interest and significance. His reign, which spanned from around 660 to 685 AD, was marked by pivotal events that influenced the socio-political landscape of southern England.  Despite the scarcity of detailed contemporary records, the available historical, archaeological, and hagiographical sources provide a fascinating glimpse into the life and times of Æthelwealh, revealing a ruler who played a crucial role in the Christianization of his kingdom and navigated the complex interplay of power among the early Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.  Read moreSection: NewsHistoryFamous PeopleRead Later