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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 Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who sought to block certain accounts on X as part of an investigation into election

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.

How Elon Musk Is Diverting Talent, Data, And GPUs From His Other Businesses

Elon Musk has big plans for his startup xAI. A key part: using other companies, according to The Wall Street Journal.  The billionaire’s year-old artificial-intelligence bet is relying on talent, data, and hardware from his other businesses to help it develop what he has said will become the most powerful AI in the world by December. So far, xAI has

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 company had enabled a system where their posts could be used to train its Grok AI chatbot. Grok, which is

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 would be “the world’s most powerful AI by every metric by December this year.” Window’s Central reported. But as it

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 according to company chief Elon Musk, it’s an important change so that people can “like posts without getting attacked for

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, alleging the company “scrapes data from X” and sells it “using elaborate technical measures to evade X Corp.’s anti-scraping technology.”