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Elon Musk asks court to stop OpenAI from becoming a for-profit
01 Dec

Elon Musk asks court to stop OpenAI from becoming a for-profit

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Elon Musk’s attorneys filed for an injunction against OpenAI and Microsoft on Friday accusing the two of anticompetitive practices and seeking to stop OpenAI’s conversion to a for-profit company. The filing, spotted by , also names OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, OpenAI President Greg Brockman, Microsoft’s Dee Templeton and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman as defendants. Musk first for allegedly violating its founding mission of building AI “for the benefit of humanity,” but a few months later. He then in a California federal court in August, and recently .The new motion accuses OpenAI and Microsoft of telling investors not to fund OpenAI’s…
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Cybertruck’s Many Recalls Make It Worse Than 91 Percent of All 2024 Vehicles
25 Nov

Cybertruck’s Many Recalls Make It Worse Than 91 Percent of All 2024 Vehicles

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Aftermarket prices might soften further as Tesla is now starting to deliver a new $79,990 model to reservation holders. Not that there’s any longer much need to place reservations—North American Tesla stores now accept walk-in orders for Cybertrucks, with delivery two or three weeks later. “I am calling it: Original reservation list is basically finished,” said reservationist BayouCityBob on a Cybertruck owners forum last month. Tesla had claimed to have banked more than one million $100 pre-launch reservations for the Cybertruck.“I was thinking I have to wait a couple of [years] before my time comes,” MC1987 responded to BayouCityBob, citing…
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Bluesky Says It Won’t Screw Things Up
22 Nov

Bluesky Says It Won’t Screw Things Up

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Like the conflicted cowboy in Brokeback Mountain, journalists, pundits and people who eschew MAGA merch have looked at the service formerly known as Twitter and lamented, “I don’t know how to quit you.” Even before Elon Musk took over, toxicity was running rampant, and Musk’s selectively implemented “free speech” principles made things worse. The ubiquitous ads—often low-quality ones promoting clickbait or a candidate you’d never vote for—further torched the experience. Yet X, as Musk so brutally renamed it, still appeared to be the only place with real scale and existing communities. For many of us, the switching costs seemed too…
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X sues California over deceptive AI-made election content ban
17 Nov

X sues California over deceptive AI-made election content ban

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Elon Musk’s X is taking the state of California to court over a new law that prevents the spread of AI-generated election misinformation. reports that X filed a lawsuit against AB 2655, also known as the Defending Democracy from Deepfake Deception Act of 2024, in a Sacramento federal court.California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the bill into law on September 17, creating accountability standards for using false political speech faked with AI programs close to an election. The legislation prevents the distribution of “materially deceptive audio or visual media of a candidate within 60 days of an election at which the…
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Reporters Without Borders says it’s pressing charges against X
15 Nov

Reporters Without Borders says it’s pressing charges against X

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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said this week it’s pressing criminal charges against X (Twitter) in France related to a Kremlin disinformation campaign that used the nonprofit as a prop to spread fake news. The organization said legal means are its “last resort” in its fight against the bogus stories, designed to foster pro-Russia and anti-Ukraine sentiment, that festered on the platform. “X’s refusal to remove content that it knows is false and deceitful — as it was duly informed by RSF — makes it complicit in the spread of the disinformation circulating on its platform,” RSF director of advocacy Antoine…
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Donald Trump Isn’t the Only Chaos Agent
08 Nov

Donald Trump Isn’t the Only Chaos Agent

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Eight years ago, the November US election results profoundly shocked the small staff at Backchannel, the boutique tech publication I headed. The morning after, an editor posted on our Slack that working on a technology story seemed tone-deaf, if not futile. On a plane from New York to San Francisco, I wrote a column to answer that impulse, directed as much to myself and my colleagues as it was to readers. I argued that regardless of the enormity of this event, one thing hadn’t changed; the biggest story of our time was still the technological revolution we were living through.…
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X’s Community Notes feature has one job, and it’s failing to do it
31 Oct

X’s Community Notes feature has one job, and it’s failing to do it

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It’s no secret that X has become an even bigger cesspool of misleading information, unchecked claims and flat-out falsities since Elon Musk took over. Two new reports from The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) and The Washington Post reveals that the safeguards Musk removed and replaced aren’t controlling X’s problems with misinformation. on its investigation into X’s Community Notes feature, a user-driven reporting system in which anonymous users write and rate correction for misleading posts. Researchers took a sample of 283 misleading election posts from the social media platform that received proposed Community Notes between January 1 and August…
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Elon Musk’s Criticism of ‘Woke AI’ Suggests ChatGPT Could Be a Trump Administration Target
30 Oct

Elon Musk’s Criticism of ‘Woke AI’ Suggests ChatGPT Could Be a Trump Administration Target

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Mittelsteadt adds that Trump could punish companies in a variety of ways. He cites, for example, the way the Trump government canceled a major federal contract with Amazon Web Services, a decision likely influenced by the former president’s view of the Washington Post and its owner, Jeff Bezos.It would not be hard for policymakers to point to evidence of political bias in AI models, even if it cuts both ways.A 2023 study by researchers at the University of Washington, Carnegie Mellon University, and Xi’an Jiaotong University found a range of political leanings in different large language models. It also showed…
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SpaceX Has a Plan for Starlink to Hit Gigabit Speeds
17 Oct

SpaceX Has a Plan for Starlink to Hit Gigabit Speeds

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SpaceX is seeking approval for changes to Starlink that the company says will enable gigabit-per-second broadband service. In an application submitted to the US Federal Communications Commission on October 11, SpaceX claims the requested "modification and its companion amendment will enable the Gen2 system to deliver gigabit-speed, truly low-latency broadband and ubiquitous mobile connectivity to all Americans and the billions of people globally who still lack access to adequate broadband."SpaceX said it is seeking "several small-but-meaningful updates to the orbital configuration and operational parameters for its Gen2 space station authorization to improve space sustainability, better respond to evolving demand, and…
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How to watch Tesla’s robotaxi event
09 Oct

How to watch Tesla’s robotaxi event

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On Thursday, Tesla CEO and noted fancy leaper Elon Musk will take the stage to showcase the company’s robotaxi plans, a la the “Cybercab.” Although the vehicle we see isn’t expected to be a fully functional product, investors and Tesla fans are hoping for a working prototype or other signs the company can navigate the technological and regulatory obstacles it will face. You can watch the event on an X livestream at 10PM ET.With the Cybercab, Musk is aiming for a fully autonomous vehicle that runs on a Tesla ridesharing network. Owners will also reportedly be able to make their…
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