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X Says It’s Closing Operations In Brazil

X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, said today that it’s ending operations in Brazil, although the service will remain available to users in the country, TechCrunch reported. The announcement comes amidst a legal battle with Brazil’s Supreme…

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Elon Musk’s AI Image Chatbot Runs Amok

The latest edition of Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok debuted a new image generation tool on Wednesday that lacked most of the safety guardrails that have become standard within the artificial intelligence industry, The Guardian reported. Grok’s new feature, which…

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Irish Watchdog ‘Surprised’ Over X Move On User Data

The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has expressed “surprise” over social media company X’s decision to use user posts to train an AI chatbot, The Independent reported. Users of X, formerly known as Twitter, expressed outrage after discovering that the…

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Elon Musk Is Secretly Training Grok On Your X Data By Default

Earlier this week, Billionaire Elon Musk took to his X (formerly Twitter) platform to announce that his xAI company has started training it’s Grok LLM using “the most powerful AI training cluster in the world.” Musk indicated the AI model…

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X Is Making Likes Private For Everyone

Thanks to X showing what its users “like” on its platform, politicians and public personalities have been caught looking at salacious and unsavory tweets in the past. Now, the platform formerly known as Twitter is making likes mostly private, and…

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Elon Musk’s X Loses Lawsuit Against Bright Data Over Scraping

A federal judge in California dismissed a lawsuit filed by Elon Musk’s X against Israel’s Bright Data, in a case that involved the scraping of public online data and its appropriate uses, CNBC reported. X, formerly Twitter, sued Bright Data,…

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