nexuist · TEXXR

Meaning that any country that tries to take down X posts or shut down Grok loses access to Starlink. National security monopoly as a feature

2026-02-03 View on X

Bloomberg

SpaceX acquires xAI; sources say the all-stock deal values the combined company at $1.25T, with SpaceX valued at $1T and xAI at $250B; xAI burns ~$1B per month

Elon Musk's SpaceX has acquired xAI, in a deal that encompasses the billionaire's increasingly costly ambitions to dominate artificial intelligence and space exploration.

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One thing I wish I could beat into the heads of all the CS majors that follow me is that the Silicon Valley old guard stayed up late coding on weekends not so they could get rich enough to never code again but to buy more time staying up late coding on weekends in their 50s

2025-07-08 View on X

CNBC

Jack Dorsey shares TestFlight and GitHub links to his “weekend project”, Bitchat, a decentralized P2P messaging app that only works over Bluetooth mesh networks

Yes, Seriously PYMNTS.com : Jack Dorsey Unveils ‘Personal Experiment’ Bluetooth-Based Messaging App Vignesh Karunanidhi / The Coin Republic : Jack Dorsey's New Bitchat App Lets You...

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@joannejang Thanks for this. I think the best precedent to promote going forward, which has loosely but freely been endorsed in the replies of controversial posts in the past, is to administer the blame onto the user prompting the offensive imagery, rather than blaming the model

2025-03-28 View on X

Reservoir Samples

OpenAI's model behavior lead says OpenAI is “shifting from blanket refusals in sensitive areas to a more precise approach focused on preventing real-world harm”

Navigating responsibility and user freedom, and how that influenced setting the Day 1 policy for 4o image generation in ChatGPT X: @altryne , @nexuist , @sterlingcrispin , @borismp...

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The YC factory panopticon company needs to rebrand to a defense contractor, sell it as prisoner of war management software and if a POW operates at above 100% efficiency for a whole month they get one 30 minute facetime with their family or something

2025-02-26 View on X

TechCrunch

After backlash, YC deletes a demo video from X and LinkedIn of Optifye.AI, a startup it backs that is building AI performance monitoring for factory workers

A demo from Optifye.AI, a member of Y Combinator's current cohort, sparked a social media backlash that ended up with YC deleting it off its socials.

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Amazing how much trouble Microsoft got themselves in by not shipping a toggle. I can think of plenty of great use cases for Recall - browsing developer docs, reading news articles, shopping, etc. I can also think of many bad cases. Just put in a menu switch so I can choose

2024-06-07 View on X

Windows Central

After Microsoft eroded Windows users' trust with bad practices for years, Recall is a PR disaster, as users remain skeptical despite the company's assurances

inside the Copilot+ Recall disaster. Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica : Windows Recall demands an extraordinary level of trust that Microsoft hasn't earned Alex / xaitax on GitHub ...

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buried in the new OpenAI model spec: “We're exploring whether we can responsibly provide the ability to generate NSFW content in age-appropriate contexts through the API and ChatGPT” aka the “how do we eat Character AI” play 😉 [image]

2024-05-10 View on X

The Guardian

As part of its Model Spec release, OpenAI says it is considering letting developers and users “responsibly” generate “NSFW content in age-appropriate contexts”

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i like the idea of elon posting a news link on his own and being like “well this looks stupid as fuck” [image]

2023-11-23 View on X

TechCrunch

Elon Musk says X plans to start showing preview headlines for links again, but did not offer details on a timeline or give an example of how the cards will look

Elon Musk said that X, formerly Twitter, will start showing headlines in preview cards with URLs on the platform again after removing titles last month.

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