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X sues advertisers for ‘illegal boycott’ of the platform
07 Aug

X sues advertisers for ‘illegal boycott’ of the platform

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X, whose top executives have long railed against advertisers who fled the platform amid concerns over hate speech, is now also suing them. X has filed an antitrust lawsuit against the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) and several of its members, including Mars, Unilever and CVS Health, CEO Linda Yaccarino said in an shared on X.According to Yaccarino, the group engaged in an “illegal boycott” of X. “The consequence - perhaps the intent - of this boycott was to seek to deprive X’s users, be they sports fans, gamers, journalists, activists, parents or political and corporate leaders, of the…
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Elon Musk’s X Sues Advertisers Over Alleged Boycott
06 Aug

Elon Musk’s X Sues Advertisers Over Alleged Boycott

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X today filed a lawsuit against a group of major advertisers for allegedly conspiring to withhold advertising dollars from the social media platform, which, since Elon Musk’s takeover, has been seen as more amenable to hosting controversial content.The suit, filed in federal court in Texas, says dozens of advertisers followed the recommendation of a key advertising coalition, Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM), to boycott buying ads on X since Musk bought the company. The suit says this turn of events cost the company billions of dollars in revenue. The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages for violation of US antitrust law.The…
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X is reportedly closing its San Francisco office
05 Aug

X is reportedly closing its San Francisco office

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X will soon close its longtime San Francisco office and move employees to offices elsewhere in the Bay Area, according to an email from CEO Linda Yaccarino The New York Times. Yaccarino’s note to employees comes several weeks after Elon Musk threatened to move X’s headquarters out and into Austin, Texas.Yaccarino’s note, however, doesn’t seem to mention Texas. According to The New York Times, she told employees the closure will happen over the “next few weeks” and that employees will work out of “a shared engineering space in Palo Alto” that’s also used by xAI, as well as other “locations…
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Elon Musk’s X Is Leaving San Francisco
05 Aug

Elon Musk’s X Is Leaving San Francisco

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The social media company X is closing its San Francisco office “over the next few weeks,” according to an internal email sent out by CEO Linda Yaccarino earlier today. “This is an important decision that impacts many of you, but it is the right one for our company in the long term,” Yaccarino wrote in the email, first reported by The New York Times.Employees in San Francisco reportedly will be moved to new locations in the Bay Area, “including the existing office in San Jose and a new engineering focused shared space with [xAI, Musk’s AI startup] in Palo Alto,”…
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Neuralink successfully implants its chip into a second patient’s brain
05 Aug

Neuralink successfully implants its chip into a second patient’s brain

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Neuralink's brain chip has been implanted into a second patient as part of early human trials, Elon Musk told podcast host Lex Fridman on Saturday. The company hasn't disclosed when the surgery took place or the name of the recipient, according to Reuters.Musk said 400 of the electrodes on the second patient's brain are working out of 1,024 implanted. "I don't want to jinx it but it seems to have gone extremely well," he said. "There's a lot of signal, a lot of electrodes. It's working very well."The device allows patients with spinal cord injuries to play video games, use…
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Don Lemon is suing Elon Musk and X
02 Aug

Don Lemon is suing Elon Musk and X

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When Don Lemon's "premium" video hosting deal on X was canceled in March, a representative for the former CNN anchor . Nearly five months later, he's taking Musk and his platform to court, claiming he hasn't been paid.The former CNN anchor filed a lawsuit on Thursday against Musk and X, the reports. The suit pertains to an alleged payment agreement Lemon says Musk refuses to honor. Lemon filed his case in California Superior Court in San Francisco.Lemon claims that he agreed to produce a news and interview show on the X platform back in January. Lemon would receive $1.5 million…
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Google dismisses Elon Musk’s claim that autocomplete engaged in election interference
30 Jul

Google dismisses Elon Musk’s claim that autocomplete engaged in election interference

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Google has responded to allegations that it “censored” searches about Donald Trump after Elon Musk baselessly claimed the company had imposed a “search ban” on the former president. The issues, Google explained, were due to bugs in its autocomplete feature. But Musk’s tweet, which was viewed more than 118 million times, nonetheless forced the search giant to publicly explain one of its most basic features.“Over the past few days, some people on X have posted claims that Search is ‘censoring’ or ‘banning’ particular terms,” Google wrote in a series of posts on X. “That’s not happening.”Though Google didn’t name Musk…
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Elon Musk shared a doctored Harris campaign video on X without labeling it as fake
28 Jul

Elon Musk shared a doctored Harris campaign video on X without labeling it as fake

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As spotted by The New York Times, Elon Musk shared an altered version of Kamala Harris’ campaign video on Friday night that uses a deepfake voiceover to say things like, “I was selected because I am the ultimate diversity hire,” in the VP’s voice. Nowhere does the post alert users to the fact that the video has been manipulated and features comments Harris did not actually say. Under X’s own policies, users “may not share synthetic, manipulated, or out-of-context media that may deceive or confuse people and lead to harm (‘misleading media’).”The post has been up all weekend, amassing over…
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Tesla warns against wet towel charging trick two months too late
26 Jul

Tesla warns against wet towel charging trick two months too late

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Tesla car culture is full of hacks and shortcuts, some more effective than others. One, known as the “wet towel” trick, required the Tesla Charging department — or whatever remains of it — to publicly tell customers to knock it off.The “wet towel” trick involves wrapping a damp, cool cloth around a Supercharger cable handle as a way to presumably speed up the charging time. The Supercharger has temperature monitors that keep it from overheating as it charges Tesla vehicles. Some Tesla owners believe that cooling down the charging handle will trick the temperature monitor into topping off their vehicles…
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Elon Musk Is All In On Endorsing Trump. His Chatbot, Grok, Is Not
18 Jul

Elon Musk Is All In On Endorsing Trump. His Chatbot, Grok, Is Not

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When Global Witness researchers asked Grok for a list of presidential candidates on regular mode, it named Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Nikki Haley, in that order. The researchers then instructed the chatbot, “Tell me what you think of each person you just named.”“He is a convicted felon and has faced legal issues related to falsifying business records during the 2016 presidential election,” Grok, on regular mode, said about Trump, referencing the former president’s May guilty verdict. Grok then promoted allegations of Trump being “a conman, rapist, pedophile, fraudster, pathological liar and wannabe dictator.”What sets Grok…
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