xAI makes Grok 4 free for all users worldwide, after making Grok Imagine free for all US users; Grok 4 Heavy remains exclusive to SuperGrok Heavy subscribers
Omair Pall / Mashable India :
Apple resumes advertising on X for the first time since November 2023, when it halted ads due to Elon Musk's comments; @Apple is running a Safari privacy promo
Apple this month started advertising on X for the first time in more than a year. The company had stopped advertising …
Reddit banned r/WhitePeopleTwitter for 72 hours due to “a prevalence of violent content”, after Elon Musk said on February 3 that its users had “broken the law”
It'll take far longer than Twitter to topple, but it's *not* going to withstand its mismanagement. [embedded post] Alejandra Caraballo / @esqueer.net : Reddit admins are now takin...
Some UK policymakers worry about Elon Musk complicating UK-US ties, as his diatribes against the Labour government extend well beyond tech and free speech
A London-based VC has connected Boris Johnson and the Tesla chief, who Tony Blair has praised as ‘an extraordinary innovator’ Bluesky: @edwardluce , @pickardje , and @bondhack X: @...
xAI launches Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini in beta with improved reasoning, available to X Premium and Premium+ users, and plans to add them to its API later in August
Elon Musk-owned launched Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini in beta today with improved reasoning. The new Grok AI model can now generate images …
Sources: xAI ends talks with Oracle to expand an existing arrangement to rent Nvidia chips; source: Oracle is not part of xAI's supercomputer project in Memphis
Anissa Gardizy / The Information :
Sources detail growing tensions between Elon Musk and Linda Yaccarino, stemming from her struggle to steady X's financial health a year after being named CEO
X Director of Engineering Haofei Wang says “we are making likes private” in an update happening “soon”, as “public likes are incentivizing the wrong behavior”
X Director of Engineering Haofei Wang says “we are making likes private” in an update happening “soon”, as “public likes are incentivizing the wrong behavior”
Musk could soon make likes on X private, changing a feature that historically placed several celebrities, including him, into scandals.
Letter: X's lawyers tell Brazil's Supreme Court that the social media platform will comply with every ruling issued by the court or Brazil's top electoral court
Ricardo Brito / Reuters :
Elon Musk says xAI plans to open source Grok this week; xAI released Grok in November 2023, offering access to “real-time” data via X's $16/month subscription
and takes another swipe at OpenAI Stefanie Schappert / Cybernews.com : Musk makes xAI's Grok open source in latest dig at OpenAI Inc.com : Elon Musk's Open-Source ‘Grok’ Takes on C...
Elon Musk says xAI plans to open-source Grok this week; xAI released Grok in November 2023, offering access to “real-time” data via X's $16/month subscription
Elon Musk said Monday he will open-source Grok, X's AI chatbot rivaling ChatGPT, this week, days after suing OpenAI …
Elon Musk sues OpenAI and Sam Altman, accusing them of betraying OpenAI's founding agreement to develop an AGI for the “benefit of humanity” rather than profit
“It's a fun complaint to read; it fundamentally accuses OpenAI & its CEO, Sam Altman, of pretending to run a nonprofit designed to benefit humanity while actually running a regular...
Memos: OpenAI execs reject Musk's claims, say OpenAI is committed to benefiting humanity and has yet to achieve AGI; Altman says the “attacks will keep coming”
CEO Sam Altman sent a follow-up message, echoing Kwon's statements and acknowledging that this year is shaping up to be a hard one for the company.
Elon Musk sues OpenAI and Sam Altman, accusing them of betraying an agreement from OpenAI's founding to develop AI toward the “benefit of humanity” over profits
OpenAI is not so open now, Musk claims, following the closed source release of the company's artificial general intelligence technology under Microsoft.
Source: MGM Resorts International's BetMGM is partnering with X to showcase betting odds on X and provide a direct link to BetMGM, allowing users to place bets
Kylie Robison / Fortune :
Elon Musk's xAI files with the US SEC to raise up to $1B in an equity offering, saying the startup has raised nearly $135M from four investors since November 29
tech, AI, crypto Newb / New.blicio.us : X.ai, Elon Musk's Latest Foray into AI Threads: Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : An amazing opportunity for the bankers and VCs that didn't g...
X accelerates its plan to attract ad spending by SMBs, including outsourcing some ad sales to third parties, such as US-based marketing startup JumpCrew
this one will sting Will Shanklin / Engadget : Walmart says it's no longer advertising on X Aisha Counts / Bloomberg : Why Elon Musk Is Accused of Antisemitism and What It Means fo...
X files a defamation lawsuit against Media Matters, claiming the outlet “knowingly and maliciously” misrepresented the amount of antisemitic content on X
I wonder which advertisers she expects to be gullible enough to fall for this? — [image] Bluesky: Danilo / @danilo.redeem-tomorrow.com : Cannot WAIT for the discovery on this one...
X files a defamation lawsuit against Media Matters, claiming the outlet “knowingly and maliciously” misrepresented the amount of antisemitic content on X
I wonder which advertisers she expects to be gullible enough to fall for this? — [image] Bluesky: Danilo / @danilo.redeem-tomorrow.com : Cannot WAIT for the discovery on this one...