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  1. Elon Musk’s Grok keeps making up fake news based on X users’ jokes

    X's chatbot Grok is supposed to be an AI engine crunching the platform's posts to surface and summarize breaking news, but this week, Grok's flaws were once again exposed when the chatbot got confused and falsely accused an NBA star of criminal...

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  2. So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post

    Elon Musk confirmed Monday that X (formerly Twitter) plans to start charging new users to post on the platform, TechCrunch reported.

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  3. Judge halts Texas probe into Media Matters’ reporting on X

    A judge has preliminarily blocked what Media Matters for America (MMFA) described as Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's attempt to "rifle through" confidential documents to prove that MMFA fraudulently manipulated X (formerly Twitter) data to ruin...

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  4. Elon Musk’s X to stop allowing users to hide their blue checks

    X will soon stop allowing users to hide their blue checkmarks, and some users are not happy.

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  5. Elon Musk: AI will be smarter than any human around the end of next year

    On Monday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk predicted the imminent rise in AI superintelligence during a live interview streamed on the social media platform X. "My guess is we'll have AI smarter than any one human probably around the end of next year," Musk said...

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  6. Elon Musk threatens to disobey court order over banned profiles

    Brazil’s attorney general has demanded “urgent regulation” of social media sites after Elon Musk threatened to disobey a court order banning certain profiles on his X platform and after he called for a Supreme Court justice to “resign or be...

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  7. Elon Musk shares “extremely false” allegation of voting fraud by “illegals”

    Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson yesterday issued a statement debunking claims of widespread voter fraud that were amplified by X owner Elon Musk on the social network formerly named Twitter. Election officials in two other states also disputed...

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  8. X’s new head of safety must toe Elon Musk’s line where others failed

    X has named a new head of safety about nine months after Ella Irwin resigned last June, following Elon Musk's criticism of Irwin's team's decision to restrict a transphobic documentary. Shortly after Irwin left, former head of brand safety AJ Brown...

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  9. X filing “thermonuclear lawsuit” in Texas should be “fatal,” Media Matters says

    Ever since Elon Musk's X Corp sued Media Matters for America (MMFA) over a pair of reports that X (formerly Twitter) claims caused an advertiser exodus in 2023, one big question has remained for onlookers: Why is this fight happening in Texas?

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  10. Elon Musk’s improbable path to making X an “everything app”

    X used to be called Twitter, but soon it will become "the Everything App," and that day is "closer than everyone thinks," X CEO Linda Yaccarino promised in one of her first X posts of 2024.

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  11. After appeal to Musk, X suspends accounts that outed neo-Nazi cartoonist

    X has locked and suspended the accounts of journalists and researchers who shared the alleged identity of a neo-Nazi cartoonist known as Stonetoss after the cartoonist appealed to site owner Elon Musk.

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  12. Elon Musk’s xAI releases Grok source and weights, taunting OpenAI

    On Sunday, Elon Musk's AI firm xAI released the base model weights and network architecture of Grok-1, a large language model designed to compete with the models that power OpenAI's ChatGPT. The open-weights release through GitHub and BitTorrent...

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  1. SpaceX celebrates major progress on the third flight of Starship

    SpaceX's new-generation Starship rocket, the most powerful and largest launcher ever built, flew halfway around the world following liftoff from South Texas on Thursday, accomplishing a key demonstration of its ability to carry heavyweight payloads...

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  2. OpenAI responds to Elon Musk lawsuit by clarifying its “open“ nature

    On Tuesday, OpenAI published a blog post titled "OpenAI and Elon Musk" in response to a lawsuit Musk filed last week. The ChatGPT maker shared several archived emails from Musk that suggest he once supported a pivot away from open source practices in...

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  3. Judge mocks X for “vapid” argument in Musk’s hate speech lawsuit

    It looks like Elon Musk may lose X's lawsuit against hate speech researchers who encouraged a major brand boycott after flagging ads appearing next to extremist content on X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter.

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  4. Elon Musk sues OpenAI and Sam Altman, accusing them of chasing profits

    Elon Musk has sued OpenAI and its chief executive Sam Altman for breach of contract, alleging they have compromised the start-up’s original mission of building artificial intelligence systems for the benefit of humanity.

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  5. Google’s hidden AI diversity prompts lead to outcry over historically inaccurate images

    On Thursday morning, Google announced it was pausing its Gemini AI image-synthesis feature in response to criticism that the tool was inserting diversity into its images in a historically inaccurate way, such as depicting multi-racial Nazis and...

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  6. Elon Musk’s X allows China-based propaganda banned on other platforms

    Lax content moderation on X (aka Twitter) has disrupted coordinated efforts between social media companies and law enforcement to tamp down on "propaganda accounts controlled by foreign entities aiming to influence US politics," The Washington Post...

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  7. Court orders Elon Musk to testify for SEC, rejects his claim of “harassment”

    A federal court ordered Elon Musk to comply with a subpoena issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission, rejecting Musk's claims that the SEC is "harassing" him and exceeding its authority to investigate.

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  8. Russian forces now using Musk’s Starlink on Ukraine front line

    Russian forces are using Starlink terminals on the front line in Ukraine, according to the Ukrainian military, which said the adoption of Elon Musk’s satellite Internet service by Moscow’s troops was becoming “systemic.”

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  9. Bluesky finally gets rid of invite codes, lets everyone join

    After more than a year as an exclusive invite-only social media platform, Bluesky is now open to the public, so anyone can join without needing a once-coveted invite code.

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  10. Elon Musk claims Neuralink has implanted a brain chip in its first human

    Billionaire Elon Musk posted on social media late Monday that his brain-computer interface company, Neuralink, implanted an experimental device into the brain of a human for the first time Sunday.

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  11. Drastic moves by X, Microsoft may not stop spread of fake Taylor Swift porn

    After explicit, fake AI images of Taylor Swift began spreading on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter has attempted to block all searches for the pop star.

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  12. Rocket Report: A new estimate of Starship costs; Japan launches spy satellite

    Welcome to Edition 6.27 of the Rocket Report! This week, we discuss an intriguing new report looking at Starship. Most fascinating, the report covers SpaceX's costs to build a Starship and how these costs will come down as the company ramps up its...

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  1. Elon Musk gives Tesla ultimatum: Another 12% of shares or no AI, robotics

    Elon Musk says his ambitions to make Tesla more than just an automaker depend on him gaining far more control over the company. The controversial CEO took to his social media platform X to say that unless he is awarded another 12 percent of the...

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  2. Elon Musk’s recent all-hands meeting at SpaceX was full of interesting news

    Last year was unquestionably the best year in SpaceX's history, CEO Elon Musk told his employees during an all-hands meeting in South Texas last week.

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  3. Elon Musk’s X loses fight to disclose federal surveillance of users

    On Monday, the Supreme Court declined to review an appeal from X (formerly Twitter), alleging that the US government's censorship of X transparency reports served as a prior restraint on the platform's speech and was unconstitutional.

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  4. Elon Musk drops price of X gold checks amid rampant crypto scams

    There's currently a surge in cryptocurrency and phishing scams proliferating on X (formerly Twitter)—hiding under the guise of gold and gray checkmarks intended to mark "Verified Organizations," reports have warned this week.

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  5. Elon Musk: SpaceX needs to build Starships as often as Boeing builds 737s

    It's no secret that Elon Musk has big ambitions for SpaceX's Starship mega-rocket. This is the vehicle that, with plenty of permutations and upgrades, Musk says will ferry cargo and people across the Solar System to build a settlement on Mars, making...

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  6. Since Elon Musk’s Twitter purchase, firm reportedly lost 72% of its value

    Fidelity's latest valuation of its stake in X implies that Elon Musk's social network is worth about 71.5 percent less than when Musk bought the company in October 2022.

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  7. Elon Musk will see you in court: The top Twitter and X Corp. lawsuits of 2023

    Elon Musk's ownership of Twitter, now called X, began with a lawsuit. When Musk tried to break a $44 billion merger agreement, Twitter filed a lawsuit that gave Musk no choice but to complete the deal.

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  8. Musk’s X hit with EU’s first investigation of Digital Services Act violations

    The European Union has opened a formal investigation into whether Elon Musk's X platform (formerly Twitter) violated the Digital Services Act (DSA), which could result in fines of up to 6 percent of global revenue. A European Commission announcement...

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  9. Judge rejects Elon Musk’s attempt to avoid testifying in Twitter stock probe

    Elon Musk can't avoid testifying in an investigation into whether he violated federal securities laws, a magistrate judge said during a court hearing yesterday.

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  10. Elon Musk told bankers they wouldn’t lose any money on Twitter purchase

    Elon Musk privately told some of the bankers who lent him $13 billion to fund his leveraged buyout of Twitter that they would not lose any money on the deal, according to five people familiar with the matter.

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  11. Elon Musk’s X ad revenue reportedly fell $1.5B this year amid boycotts

    It's hard to know exactly how dire the financial situation is at Elon Musk's X (formerly Twitter). However, insider sources recently revealed to Bloomberg that the social media platform expects to end 2023 with "roughly" $2.5 billion in advertising...

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  12. Tesla unveils its latest humanoid robot, Optimus Gen 2, in demo video

    On Tuesday, Tesla released a demo video showing the latest version of its prototype humanoid robot, Optimus Gen 2. Over one year after Tesla's first public Optimus robot demonstration, which showcased shaky robots that waved and slumped over, things...

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