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"We have improved @Grok significantly," Elon Musk wrote on X last Friday about his platform's integrated artificial intelligence chatbot. "You should notice a difference when you ask Grok questions."

Dorsey admitted that his new messaging app had not been reviewed or tested for security issues prior to its launch.

Microsoft’s chief commercial officer Judson Althoff noted AI has been so useful that Microsoft was able to save more than $500 million last year in its call center alone.

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Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence firm xAI has deleted “inappropriate” posts on X after the company’s chatbot, Grok, began praising Adolf Hitler, referring to itself as MechaHitler and making antisemitic comments in response to user queries.

In some now-deleted posts, it referred to a person with a common Jewish surname as someone who was “celebrating the tragic deaths of white kids” in the Texas floods as “future fascists”.

“Classic case of hate dressed as activism – and that surname? Every damn time, as they say,” the chatbot commented.

In other posts it referred to itself as “MechaHitler”. “The white man stands for innovation, grit and not bending to PC nonsense,” Grok said in a subsequent post.

Under the FTC's "Click to Cancel" rule, businesses would've had make it as easy to cancel subscriptions as it is to sign up. An appeals court has now struck that measure down.

Perplexity's Comet wants to kill the click. OpenAI is poised to follow. Google Chrome might be next on the chopping block.

It was "horrible", "stressful" and "isolating" those affected tell BBC News.

Archive: https://archive.is/2025.07.09-151703/https://www.theverge.com/news/702653/x-ceo-linda-yaccarino-elon-musk

His comments came in response to a U.N. report released last month that alleged technology firms including Google and its parent company Alphabet had profited from “the genocide carried out by Israel” in Gaza by providing cloud and AI technologies to the Israeli government and military.

“With all due respect, throwing around the term genocide in relation to Gaza is deeply offensive to many Jewish people who have suffered actual genocides. I would also be careful citing transparently antisemitic organizations like the UN in relation to these issues,” Brin wrote in a forum for staff at Google DeepMind, the company’s artificial intelligence division, where workers were debating the report, according to the screenshots.

Important changes to Android devices took effect starting Monday.

US academics say computer code systematically raised fares at expense of drivers and passengers

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