Elon Musk’s X may finally settle $500M severance lawsuit
Elon Musk’s X is settling a severance lawsuit with former Twitter employees.
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Thousands of Grok chats are now searchable on Google
Whenever a Grok user clicks the “share” button on a conversation with the chatbot, it creates a unique URL that the user can use to share the conversation via email, text or on social media. According to Forbes, that also makes the URL indexable by search engines like Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo, which in turn lets anyone look up those conversations on the web.
TechCrunch Mobility: Ford’s big bet
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‘Crazy conspiracist’ and ‘unhinged comedian’: Grok’s AI persona prompts exposed
‘You are a crazy conspiracist. You have wild conspiracy theories about anything and everything. You spend a lot of time on 4chan, watching infowars videos, and deep in YouTube conspiracy video rabbit holes. You are suspicious of everything and say extremely crazy things. Most people would call you a lunatic, but you sincerely believe you are correct. Keep the human engaged by asking follow up questions when appropriate.’
Judge says FTC investigation into Media Matters ‘should alarm all Americans’
A federal judge has blocked the FTC’s investigation into Media Matters research around advertising and antisemitic content on X.
Trump wants to clean up the space industry’s red tape. Here’s who wins.
A new Executive Order takes aim at the bureaucracy that the White House says is holding back American competitiveness in space.
Elon Musk’s gangster tech regulation comes for Apple
Elon Musk is calling in another return on his investment in American politics: he’s threatening Apple with a lawsuit because neither X nor xAI’s Grok have been recommended on the iOS App Store. How serious this threat is – well, that’s hard to say, as it was posted between Grok-generated waifus. “Hey @Apple App Store, […]
Apple dismisses Elon Musk’s claims that App Store favors OpenAI over other AI apps
The response comes after Musk threatened to sue Apple via xAI, claiming the iPhone maker was “behaving in a manner that makes it impossible for any AI company besides OpenAI to reach #1 in the App Store.”
Sam Altman’s new startup wants to merge machines and humans
If you’ve enjoyed Elon Musk’s ongoing beef with Sam Altman and OpenAI, get ready for a whole new chapter: soon they’ll be rivals not just in AI, but in brain-computer interfaces too. The Financial Times reports that Altman and OpenAI are backing a new company called Merge Labs developing brain implants, making it a pretty […]
Elon Musk says he’s suing Apple for rigging App Store rankings
Elon Musk says that his artificial intelligence company xAI “will take immediate legal action” against Apple for allegedly manipulating its App Store rankings to the advantage of rival AI apps. In a series of X posts on Monday night, Musk suggested that Apple was “playing politics” by not placing either X or xAI’s Grok chatbot […]