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  • Elon Musk teams with El Salvador to bring Grok chatbot to public schools

    President Nayib Bukele entrusting chatbot known for calling itself ‘MechaHitler’ to create ‘AI-powered’ curricula Elon Musk is partnering with the government of El Salvador to bring his artificial intelligence company’s chatbot, Grok, to more than 1 million students across the country, according to a Thursday announcement by xAI. Over the next two years, the plan…

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  • ‘Don’t pander to the tech giants!’ How a youth movement for digital justice is spreading across Europe

    Gen Z are the first generation to have grown up with social media, they were the earliest adopters, and therefore the first to suffer its harms. Now they are fighting back Late one night in April 2020, towards the start of the Covid lockdowns, Shanley Clémot McLaren was scrolling on her phone when she noticed…

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  • Elon Musk’s X fined €120m by EU in first clash under new digital laws

    Ruling likely to put European Commission on collision course with billionaire, and possibly Donald Trump Elon Musk’s social media platform, X, has been fined €120m (£105m) after it was found in breach of new EU digital laws, in a high-stakes ruling likely to put the European Commission on a collision course with the US billionaire…

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  • Small changes to ‘for you’ feed on X can rapidly increase political polarisation

    Study finds that a week of political content can bring about a shift in views that previously would have taken three years Small changes to the tone of posts fed to users of X can increase feelings of political polarisation as much in a week as would have historically taken at least three years, research…

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  • Elon Musk’s Grok AI tells users he is fitter than LeBron James and smarter than Leonardo da Vinci

    Users noted that in a raft of now-deleted posts, the chatbot would frequently rank Musk top in any given field Elon Musk’s AI, Grok, has been telling users the world’s richest person is smarter and more fit than anyone in the world, in a raft of recently deleted posts that have called into question the…

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  • Elon Musk’s Grok AI briefly says Trump won 2020 presidential election

    Chatbot in the past made claims of a ‘white genocide’, pushed antisemitism and referred to itself as ‘MechaHitler’ Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot generated false claims this week that Donald Trump won the 2020 presidential election, posting election conspiracy theories and misleading information on X to justify its answer. The AI chatbot, which was created by…

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  • ChatGPT violated copyright law by ‘learning’ from song lyrics, German court rules

    OpenAI ordered to pay undisclosed damages for training its language models on artists’ work without permission A court in Munich has ruled that OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT violated German copyright laws by using hits from top-selling musicians to train its language models in what creative industry advocates described as a landmark European ruling. The Munich regional…

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  • Tesla shareholders approve $1tn pay package for Elon Musk

    Chants of ‘Elon’ erupt after compensation plan approved despite opposition from several high-profile investors Tesla shareholders approved a $1tn compensation plan for CEO Elon Musk on Thursday, awarding the world’s richest person what would be the largest corporate payout in history if he meets the goals necessary to receive it. The pay package, which several…

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  • How Tesla shareholders could make Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire

    Shareholder votes on a pay package worth $1tn to be tallied 6 November – but it contains milestones beyond growing the company’s market cap If Elon Musk can grow Tesla to over $8tn in value for stockholders over the next decade, he will be well on his way to becoming the world’s first trillionaire. That…

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  • Google plans to put datacentres in space to meet demand for AI

    US technology company’s engineers want to exploit solar power and the falling cost of rocket launches Google is hatching plans to put artificial intelligence datacentres into space, with its first trial equipment sent into orbit in early 2027. Its scientists and engineers believe tightly packed constellations of about 80 solar-powered satellites could be arranged in…

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