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X Stops Using Some EU User Posts for AI Training
artificial intelligence // August 08, 2024

Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) said Thursday (Aug. 8) that X has agreed to suspend the use of personal data from some users’ public posts on the social media platform to train the artificial intelligence (AI) model, Grok.  This agreement applies to public posts that...

AI Regulations: EU Probes, Unilever Prepares, Utah Innovates
artificial intelligence // July 30, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) regulation takes center stage as the EU investigates X’s (formerly Twitter) data practices, Unilever adopts a proactive stance and Utah targets mental health chatbots. These moves signal a shifting landscape in AI governance across the tech, business and healthcare sectors. EU Regulator...

Musk’s xAI Aims to Launch Supercomputer by 2025
artificial intelligence // May 26, 2024

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence (AI) startup xAI is hoping to build its own supercomputer. The tech billionaire aims to launch the project — which would run the next iteration of xAI’s chatbot Grok — as early as next year, The Information reported Saturday (May 26), citing an investor presentation....

New Backing Helps Elon Musk’s xAI Raise Nearly $6 Billion
Investments // May 23, 2024

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup, xAI, reportedly secured new backing that puts it close to a $6 billion funding round. The round would value xAI at $18 billion, the Financial Times (FT) reported Thursday (May 23). The new backing came from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital and Tribe Capital, per the...

Quick Reads
Musk Offers Free Access to Grok-2 AI Chatbot to X Users

December 15, 2024
Elon Musk is offering users of his social media platform free access to his artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot. “Over the past few weeks we have been quietly testing a new version of the Grok-2 model, which is three times faster and offers improved accuracy, instruction-following, and multilingual capabilities,” Musk’s xAI wrote in a recent company […]

X Stops Using Some EU User Posts for AI Training

August 08, 2024
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) said Thursday (Aug. 8) that X has agreed to suspend the use of personal data from some users’ public posts on the social media platform...

Musk’s xAI Aims to Launch Supercomputer by 2025

May 26, 2024
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence (AI) startup xAI is hoping to build its own supercomputer. The tech billionaire aims to launch the project — which would run the next iteration of xAI’s chatbot Grok —...

New Backing Helps Elon Musk’s xAI Raise Nearly $6 Billion

May 23, 2024
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup, xAI, reportedly secured new backing that puts it close to a $6 billion funding round. The round would value xAI at $18 billion, the Financial Times...