Source: OpenAI disbanded its mission alignment team in recent weeks and transferred its employees; team lead Joshua Achiam will take on a “chief futurist” role
Casey Newton /Platformer:
On top of nonconsensual porn images, X users seem to be using Grok to alter images to depict real women being sexually abused, humiliated, hurt, and even killed
and critics say it's harassment by AI Kevin Raposo / KnowTechie : Grok chatbot's safety fails, releases explicit images of minors Selin Hacialioglu / Türkiye Today : Pressure grows in Türkiye as Grok ...
India orders X to stop Grok from generating obscene content, giving it 72 hours to submit an action-taken report or risk losing its “safe harbor” protections
And what happened to Minister Patrick O'Donovan's plans to protect children on the internet, now X dot com is generating actual CSAM of real children? — Is he only interested in surveillance? [embed...
Sources: xAI created an enterprise AI sales group six months ago, but xAI's lack of experience in selling to big businesses is holding potential customers back
for AI girlfriends and porn, among other things — than from big enterprise deals. [image] Bluesky: Corey Quinn / @quinnypig.com : Enterprise can't wait to sign contracts with company who famously view...
Amazon Prime Video pulls its AI recaps, which it began testing in November, for Fallout, Bosch, and other shows after users noticed errors in the Fallout recaps
Amazon Pulls AI-Powered Fallout Recap After Getting Key Story Details Wrong Erik Kain / Forbes : Amazon Pulls AI-Generated ‘Fallout’ Recap Ahead Of Season 2 Amidst Backlash Casey Loving / The Wrap : A...
An interview with Nikita Bier, who wants to lure journalists back to X with a rebuilt recommendation algorithm with no keyword suppression or manual downranking
Product chief Nikita Bier on journalists who left: “We have to earn their trust.” Also: Fidji Simo on OpenAI's Code Red, and a new episode of ACCESS. X: @ashleymayer . Bluesky: @fahadhumayun.com , @t...
Marques Brownlee plans to shut down wallpaper app Panels on December 31; Appfigures: Panels reached 900K downloads and users spent $95K since its 2024 launch
Hey everyone, It's been over a year since we launched Panels. Marques Brownlee / Marques Brownlee on YouTube : Panels update Chandan Pandit / Android Headlines : MKBHD Announces Panels App Shutting Do...
Sources: Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab is in early talks to raise funding at a ~$50B valuation, more than quadruple from July and could rise to $55B-$60B
Yeah, okay. — This bubble is running on fumes. Tim Kellogg / @timkellogg.me : i wish my blog posts paid that well [embedded post] Casey Newton / @caseynewton : If they hadn't released a product I th...
Snap announces a deal to incorporate Perplexity's search engine into Snapchat from 2026; Perplexity will pay Snap $400M through a combination of cash and equity
https://lnkd.in/... Bluesky: Ed Zitron / @edzitron.com : You gotta spend money to lose money [embedded post] Mark Riedl / @markriedl : I thought people were supposed to pay AI companies for their serv...
Memo: California's AG says OpenAI's restructuring has “no impact” on other cases, likely referring to Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI over its restructuring
and struck a new deal with Microsoft Frank Landymore / Futurism : OpenAI Successfully Sheds Its Roots as an Ethical Non-Profit Ashley King / Digital Music News : OpenAI Restructures Into a For-Profit ...