Some former employees blame xAI's staff exodus on xAI's focus on NSFW Grok and disregard for safety, constantly playing catch up to OpenAI, infighting, and more
Some former employees blame xAI's staff exodus on xAI's focus on NSFW Grok and disregard for safety, constantly playing catch up to OpenAI, infighting, and more
Former employees say the restructuring followed tensions over safety and being “stuck in the catch-up phase.”
Some former employees blame xAI's staff exodus on xAI's focus on NSFW Grok and disregard for safety, constantly playing catch up to OpenAI, infighting, and more
Former employees say the restructuring followed tensions over safety and being “stuck in the catch-up phase.”
A court filing in the iyO-OpenAI trademark case reveals that OpenAI won't use the name “io” for its AI device, which won't ship before the end of February 2027
A court filing in a trademark lawsuit reveals OpenAI won't use the name “io” for its AI hardware device, which isn't expected to ship until 2027.
France threatens to ban Shein and refers it to the Paris prosecutor after an investigation found that the site sold lifelike sex dolls “resembling children”
still no action. Stop Shein in Markham. Enforce the Modern Slavery Act. #BanSheinCanada #HumanRights #Markham @VincentVerier [image] @brusselssignal : France's High Commissioner fo...
Amazon's Ring partners with Flock to let law enforcement agencies request footage from Ring doorbell users for “evidence collection and investigative work”
Amazon's surveillance camera maker Ring announced a partnership on Thursday with Flock, a maker of AI-powered surveillance cameras …
Young people in China are turning to AI chatbots like DeepSeek and ByteDance's Doubao for therapy to save time and money and avoid stigma around mental health
why young people are turning to AI for mental health care & the risks of sycophancy. 👉 https://restofworld.org/... Bluesky: @vegandroid : We get ostracized for this in America [emb...
EA's Battlefield 6, coming October 10, is a pivotal moment for the series and for EA, set to go private in a $55B deal, as EA competes with Activision and COD
does what could be the biggest FPS of the year live up to everyone's sky-high expectations? Morgan Park / PC Gamer : Battlefield 6 review-in-progress: A salve for an FPS scene that...
As the lyricist behind AI artist Xania Monet signs a $3M record deal, experts say current copyright law may only protect the human-made expressive elements
Two weeks ago, record company Hallwood Media signed a deal with Telisha “Nikki” Jones after negotiations that purportedly included an offer of $3 million, Billboard reported.
Research: low productivity gains from AI may stem from employees using AI to produce “workslop”, or low-effort, passable work that creates more work for others
A confusing contradiction is unfolding in companies embracing generative AI tools: while workers are largely following mandates …
Microsoft plans to raise Xbox Series X price by $50 to $649.99 and Series S by $20 to $399.99 starting Oct. 3, citing “changes in the macroeconomic environment”
second price increase of 2025 comes as shifting tariffs continue to plague tech prices Vikki Blake / Eurogamer.net : U.S. Xbox fans hit with another hardware price hike just four m...
Perplexity struggles to scale its shopping and ad businesses nearly a year after launching ad sales and in-app purchasing, frustrating marketers and merchants
Perplexity has drawn plenty of its headlines for its relentless fundraising—which recently valued the artificial intelligence search firm …
Disney, Universal, and WBD sue China-based MiniMax, alleging that its image- and video-generating service Hailuo AI was built from stolen intellectual property
Walt Disney (DIS.N), Comcast's (CMCSA.O) Universal and Warner Bros Discovery (WBD.O) have jointly filed a copyright lawsuit …
Source: Nvidia is scaling back DGX Cloud to primarily internal R&D use; DGX Cloud was initially envisioned to compete with major cloud providers like AWS
Nvidia is stepping back from its nascent cloud computing business, which had put it in quasi-competition with Amazon Web Services.
Researchers say videos of Charlie Kirk's shooting fall into a policy gap on social media platforms, between allowable “graphic content” and “glorified violence”
Videos of the shooting spread across TikTok, Instagram, and X. Researchers say that in some cases …
An interview with Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd on AI being the “most emotionally intelligent matchmaker”, planning an AI-powered matchmaking app, and more
Her userbase is going to eat her alive — Bumble is supposed to be “woke” and they've decided that AI is very much “not-woke”, so I'm sure this is going to play out great — That...
An interview with Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd on AI being the “most emotionally intelligent matchmaker”, planning an AI-powered matchmaking app, and more
She's spent nearly all of her working life atop the dating-app business, and believes artificial intelligence could be the matchmaker we all need X: @ghadjia . LinkedIn: Sally Wood...
Two House Republicans open a probe into alleged organized efforts to inject bias into Wikipedia, citing an ADL report about anti-Israel bias on the site
Republicans on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee opened a probe into alleged organized efforts to inject bias …
In response to Elon Musk's claims that the App Store favors ChatGPT, Apple says that it “is designed to be fair and free of bias” and has “objective criteria”
Apple on @elonmusk's claims: “The App Store is designed to be fair and free of bias. We feature thousands of apps through charts, algorithmic recommendations, and curated lists sel...
Elon Musk says that Apple “makes it impossible for any AI company besides OpenAI” to top its App Store, an “antitrust violation”, and xAI will take legal action
This is a column about AI. My boyfriend works at Anthropic. Becca Monaghan / indy100 : Elon Musk has dropped the Trump feud for now - he's falling out with another CEO instead For...