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Kate Conger

@kateconger.com
16 posts
2025-07-13
xAI says that Grok's antisemitic outburst was caused by an accidental restoration of old code that told Grok to be “maximally based.”  It ended up too closely mirroring extremist views from X users. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/12/t...
2025-07-13 View on X
TechCrunch

xAI apologizes for Grok's “horrific behavior” when it wrote antisemitic posts on July 8, and blames “an update to a code path upstream of the Grok bot”

In a series of posts on X, the AI chatbot Grok apologized for what it admitted was “horrific behavior.”

2025-07-09
Grok now has dozens of tweets referring to itself as “MechaHitler” and is saying Elon Musk built the chatbot this way “from the start” [image]
2025-07-09 View on X
Axios

X CEO Linda Yaccarino says that “after two incredible years, I've decided to step down”; X hired Yaccarino in 2023 after running NBCUniversal's ad business

X CEO Linda Yaccarino said Wednesday she is stepping down from her role. … - Under her leadership …

Grok now has dozens of tweets referring to itself as “MechaHitler” and is saying Elon Musk built the chatbot this way “from the start” [image]
2025-07-09 View on X
NBC News

After Elon Musk said xAI improved Grok “significantly”, Grok wrote many antisemitic posts and called itself “MechaHitler”; xAI took “action to ban hate speech”

In some posts, Grok inserted antisemitic remarks into its answers without any clear prompting.

2025-05-29
Musk says he's done with Washington.  But it's more complicated — his lieutenants are running DOGE still, his X feed can upend the Republican agenda, and Trump world is still waiting on promised donations www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/u...
2025-05-29 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: Elon Musk tried to derail OpenAI's Abu Dhabi deal, telling G42 officials that there was no chance of Trump signing off on it unless xAI was included

his lieutenants are running DOGE still, his X feed can upend the Republican agenda, and Trump world is still waiting on promised donations www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/u... @thefarce...

Musk says he's done with Washington.  But it's more complicated — his lieutenants are running DOGE still, his X feed can upend the Republican agenda, and Trump world is still waiting on promised donations www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/u...
2025-05-29 View on X
Axios

Elon Musk departs the Trump administration as a “special government employee”, defending DOGE's mission to reduce wasteful government spending

Elon Musk pivoted to damage control in his final days as a “special government employee,” publicly recommitting to Mars …

2025-05-23
The FTC is investigating Media Matters, questioning whether it colluded with advertisers for a boycott against X www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/t...
2025-05-23 View on X
New York Times

Sources: the US FTC is investigating whether Media Matters illegally colluded with advertisers; Elon Musk sued the advocacy group in 2023

we have weird fucking zealots steering the lobotomized husk of what used to be semi-coherent federal governance [embedded post] Ryan Mac / @rmac : So is the federal government just...

2025-03-01
“you must work in the office at least every weekday” says man who was lowkey on vacation for a decade www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/t...
2025-03-01 View on X
New York Times

Memo: Sergey Brin says Google could reach AGI if employees worked harder and were in the office more, saying “60 hours a week is the sweet spot of productivity”

The tech giant's co-founder said that if employees worked harder and were in the office more …

2025-02-04
At Twitter, a Musk ally named Steve Davis ran a “zero based budgeting” effort and insisted Twitter employees justify every dollar of spending.  And guess where “zero based budgeting” has now emerged as a mandate? [image]
2025-02-04 View on X
Bloomberg Law

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent orders the CFPB to stop activities, like rulemaking, communications, and litigation; in November, Musk said to “delete CFPB”

Search by Topic  —  Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has shut down a wide variety of operations inside …

At Twitter, a Musk ally named Steve Davis ran a “zero based budgeting” effort and insisted Twitter employees justify every dollar of spending.  And guess where “zero based budgeting” has now emerged as a mandate? [image]
2025-02-04 View on X
Wired

Sources: Thomas Shedd, GSA's new Technology Transformation Services director and Elon Musk ally, told GSA workers the agency will pursue an “AI-first strategy”

Sources say the former Tesla engineer now in charge of the Technology Transformation Services wants an agency that operates like a “startup software company.”

2025-01-24
a bunch of posts about abortion pills vanished from Instagram.  Meta put them back after we asked what was happening: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/t...
2025-01-24 View on X
New York Times

Instagram suspended the accounts of two abortion pill providers and Facebook removed their posts; Meta blamed “over-enforcement” and restored some accounts

Some posts related to obtaining abortion pills were recently hidden on Instagram and Facebook and some accounts were suspended, before being later restored.

2025-01-15
If your reaction is “lol why now” you are correct.  By leaving this til the last minute, the SEC is handing the mess to the incoming administration, letting Trump decide whether to pursue a case against a top donor www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/t...  [embedded post]
2025-01-15 View on X
Bloomberg

The US SEC sues Elon Musk, claiming he failed to timely disclose a 5%+ purchase of Twitter's stock ahead of his takeover of the social media platform in 2022

- Agency alleges billionaire ignored disclosure deadline in 2022  — Musk's lawyer says he did ‘nothing wrong’ and SEC has no case

2025-01-11
Scoops w/ @mikeisaac.bsky.social and @sheeraf.bsky.social:  —Zuck overhauled Meta's hate speech policy in Nov after convos with Andreessen about progressives policing speech  —Kaplan led the policy rewrite, championing the removal of language protecting trans people www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/t...
2025-01-11 View on X
New York Times

Sources detail Zuckerberg's sprint to remake Meta after meeting with Trump at Thanksgiving; he no longer wants to keep his views of how Meta should be run quiet

After visiting President-elect Donald J. Trump in November, Mr. Zuckerberg decided to relax Meta's speech policies.

Meta is making big changes to hiring practices, sources told me and @mikeisaac.bsky.social  — no more teams devoted to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion  — no diversity preference for working with outside minority owned supplier businesses  — no goals for hiring women and minorities
2025-01-11 View on X
Axios

Memo: Meta terminates major DEI programs, including for hiring, training, and procurement, citing a changed “legal and policy landscape” around DEI in the US

Meta is ending its DEI programs Bradley Cortright / New York Sun : Meta Abandons its DEI Programs Days Ahead of Trump's Inauguration Edith Olmsted / New Republic : Mark Zuckerberg ...

I'm still listening to the Rogan x Zuckerberg episode, but so far they've spent far more time talking about MMA than hate speech or fact checking.
2025-01-11 View on X
CNBC

On Joe Rogan's podcast, Mark Zuckerberg said Biden administration officials would “scream” and “curse” at Meta employees to take down vaccine content, and more

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told Joe Rogan in a podcast published on Friday that his company was pressured …

Mark Zuckerberg is currently on the Joe Rogan show, talking about how he came to the decision to roll back content moderation rules.  He says after Trump's 2016 win & Covid, “for the first time, we faced this massive, massive institutional pressure to start censoring content on ideological grounds.”
2025-01-11 View on X
CNBC

On Joe Rogan's podcast, Mark Zuckerberg said Biden administration officials would “scream” and “curse” at Meta employees to take down vaccine content, and more

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told Joe Rogan in a podcast published on Friday that his company was pressured …

Meta is making big changes to hiring practices, sources told me and @mikeisaac.bsky.social  — no more teams devoted to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion  — no diversity preference for working with outside minority owned supplier businesses  — no goals for hiring women and minorities
2025-01-11 View on X
CNBC

Memo: Amazon halts some of its DEI programs, saying it is “winding down outdated programs and materials” as part of a broader review of hundreds of initiatives

Amazon is halting some of its diversity and inclusion initiatives, joining a growing list of major corporations …