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xAI reportedly laid off at least 500 AI tutors working on Grok

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-26 11:00:59

xAI has laid off at least 500 workers from its data annotation team, the company's largest, according to Business Insider. The annotation team is in charge of categorizing and contextualizing raw data used to train Grok so that it can understand the world better. Business Insider says the laid off employees were informed via email on the evening of September 12, Friday, that it was going to downsize its team of general AI tutors. They were reportedly told that they would be paid their salaries u

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Elon Musk Appears to Now Be Firing the People Behind Grok

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-26 12:41:30

After vowing to create a "maximum truth-seeking" AI, Elon Musk appears to now be sacking the people who built it for him. Slack screenshots leaked to Business Insider show that the accounts of at least nine high-level employees with the data annotation team at xAI, Musk's OpenAI competitor, were deactivated over the weekend, in what seems like a major culling at the lab that built the social network's infamous chatbot, Grok. Those people, who weren't named by BI, previously worked on the human

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The MechaHitler defense contract is raising red flags

theverge.com Hayden Field 2025-10-02 23:00:00

is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets. Ask someone their worst fears about AI, and you’ll find a few recurring topics — from near-term fears like AI tools replacing human workers and the loss of critical thinking to apocalyptic scenarios like AI-designed weapons of mass destruction and automated war. Most have one thing in common: a loss of human control. And the sy

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Show HN: Open-sourcing our text-to-CAD app

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-08 20:09:35

CADAM A Text to CAD Web Application What it does: Generates parametric 3D models from natural language descriptions, with support for both text prompts and image references Outputs OpenSCAD code with automatically extracted parameters that surface as interactive sliders for instant dimension tweaking Separate agents for conversation and code generation; simple parameter tweaks bypass AI entirely using deterministic regex-based updates Exports as .STL or .SCAD Runs fully in-browser by comp

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Threat actors abuse X’s Grok AI to spread malicious links

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-12 21:01:34

Threat actors are using Grok, X's built-in AI assistant, to bypass link posting restrictions that the platform introduced to reduce malicious advertising. As discovered by Guardio Labs' researcher Nati Tal, mavertisers often run sketchy video ads containing adult content baits and avoid including a link to the main body to avoid being blocked by X. Instead, they hide it in the small "From:" metadata field under the video card, which apparently isn't scanned by the social media platform for mal

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I looked into the most popular AI apps, and the runner-up caught me by surprise

zdnet.com Jada Jones 2025-10-14 13:39:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways ChatGPT and Gemini are the top two gen AI platforms. Grok's users have increased, while DeepSeek's are down. Vibe coding continues to be a steadily growing use of gen AI. Consumer generative AI products like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini continue to transform our daily digital lives. These are the web products and mobile apps making the biggest impact. Also: My top 5 free AI too

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Concern Grows That Elon Musk Is Having Some Kind of AI Meltdown

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-20 00:20:36

With all the frenzied news swirling around these days, it's understandable if you let Elon Musk slip from the top of your mind. While the billionaire's mental state was arguably frayed during his stint as DOGE czar — thanks in no small part to what's been reported as a constant stream of illicit drugs — it's become visibly more concerning since his dramatic departure earlier this summer. Seemingly trying to distract himself from the decline of Tesla, the world's richest man has embarked on a n

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The White House reportedly ordered xAI's Grok to be approved for government use

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-20 13:56:25

Despite some fallout between President Trump and Elon Musk, the White House appears to still be in Musk’s corner. Wired is reporting , based on documents obtained by the outlet, that the White House allegedly directed leadership at the General Services Administration (GSA) to include xAI's Grok on its list of approved AI vendors. xAI is owned by Elon Musk and was not included in the slew of approvals the GSA issued in August that saw the agency add OpenAI, Google and Anthropic to its list of ve

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The White House Apparently Ordered Federal Workers to Roll Out Grok ‘ASAP’

wired.com Zoë Schiffer 2025-10-20 15:22:26

The White House appears to have instructed leaders at the General Services Administration (GSA) to add xAI’s Grok chatbot to a list of approved vendors “ASAP,” according to an email sent by agency leadership earlier this week, which WIRED obtained. “Team: Grok/xAI needs to go back on the schedule ASAP per the WH,” states the email, sent by Josh Gruenbaum, the commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service. “Can someone get with Carahsoft on this immediately and please confirm?” Carahsoft is a

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This is the most popular AI app - and you might be surprised by the runner-up

zdnet.com Jada Jones 2025-10-25 05:00:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways ChatGPT and Gemini are the top two gen AI platforms. Grok's users have increased, while DeepSeek's are down. Vibe coding continues to be a steadily growing use of gen AI. Consumer generative AI products like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini continue to transform our daily digital lives. These are the web products and mobile apps making the biggest impact. Also: My top 5 free AI too

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Elon Musk Just Suffered a Humiliating Defeat in China

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-26 01:45:18

So far, 2025 hasn't exactly been a year of resounding success for centibillionaire Elon Musk's AI efforts. The richest man on earth has struggled to get xAI's Grok off the ground, with setbacks taking the form of privacy scandals, misinformation controversies, not to mention a highly-public white supremacy episode. And now, more than a month after Musk promised to roll Grok out to Teslas "next week," it turns out a Chinese AI model will be taking the chatbot's place. According to Bloomberg, T

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No, Grok 2.5 has not been open-sourced. Here's how you can tell

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2025-10-28 00:39:26

X / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Grok 2.5's license blocks true open-source use. Musk's "open source" claim amounts to open-washing. Other AI projects offer real open access and freedom. Companies love to exaggerate about open-sourcing AI. It plays well with people, naive developers get excited, and stock buyers invest more cash in their businesses. There's only one little problem: It's not true. First, Mark Zucke

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Elon Musk sues Apple and OpenAI, revealing his panic over OpenAI dominance

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-28 03:28:53

After a public outburst over Grok's App Store rankings, on Monday, Elon Musk followed through on his threat to sue Apple and OpenAI. At first, Musk appeared fixated on ChatGPT consistently topping Apple's "Must Have" app list—which Grok has never made—claiming Apple seemed to preference OpenAI, an Apple partner, over all chatbot rivals. But Musk's filing shows that the X and xAI owner isn't just trying to push for more Grok downloads on iPhones—he's concerned that Apple and OpenAI have teamed u

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Elon Musk says xAI has open sourced Grok 2.5

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-10-30 01:00:35

In Brief Elon Musk’s xAI has made an older version of its AI model Grok — specifically, the model weights used to shape Grok 2.5 — available on the open source platform Hugging Face. “The @xAI Grok 2.5 model, which was our best model last year, is now open source,” Musk wrote on X. He added that Grok 3 “will be made open source in about 6 months.” AI engineer Tim Kellogg described the Grok license as “custom with some anti-competitive terms.” Grok, which is prominently featured on X (which i

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You can now download and tweak Grok 2.5 for yourself as it goes open source

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-30 13:47:35

Unhinged as Grok may be, it's now open source. xAI's CEO, Elon Musk, posted on X that the company made the older Grok 2.5 model available to the public and will do the same with the upcoming Grok 3. For now, anyone can download, run and even tweak Grok, whose source code was uploaded to the Hugging Face platform. However, there are restrictions to xAI's open-source license, which doesn't let people use Grok to train, create or improve other AI models. It's not the first time xAI has made its mo

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Even Elon Musk’s Fans Are Making Fun of Him Now

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-11-01 04:15:02

Elon Musk has spent recent weeks promoting his AI tool Grok with an endless parade of animated women in scanty clothing. And while that’s not entirely surprising, the reaction from Musk’s own fans on X is becoming quite comical. Because even people who really like the billionaire Tesla CEO are starting to poke fun at the idea that he seems obsessed with AI-generated sex dolls. “It appears Elon has shifted focus from Mars to Uranus,” one Musk fan tweeted Thursday, ribbing him for his torrent of

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A Huge Number of Grok AI Chats Just Leaked, and Their Contents Are So Disturbing That We're Sweating Profusely

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-02 01:08:59

Brace yourselves, because hundreds of thousands of user conversations with Elon Musk's notoriously foul-mouthed Grok chatbot have hit the internet, Forbes reports — and some of them get into absolutely unholy territory. The more than 370,000 chats were made public after users clicked a "share" button that created a link to their chatbot convos, unaware that by doing so, it was allowing them to be indexed by search engines like Google and Bing. Some of them were clearly never meant to see the l

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Hundreds of thousands of Grok chats exposed in Google results

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-11-03 23:55:28

Hundreds of thousands of Grok chats exposed in Google results 7 minutes ago Share Save Liv McMahon Technology reporter Share Save Getty Images Hundreds of thousands of user conversations with Elon Musk's artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Grok have been exposed in search engine results - seemingly without users' knowledge. Unique links are created when Grok users press a button to share a transcript of their conversation - but as well as sharing the chat with the intended recipient, the but

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Hundreds of Thousands of User Chats With AI Chatbot Grok Are Now Public

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-04 02:16:00

Does what's said between you and your AI chat stay between you and your AI chat? Nope. According to a report by Forbes, Elon Musk's AI assistant Grok published more than 370,000 chats on the Grok website. Those URLs, which were not necessarily intended for public consumption by users, were then indexed by search engines and entered the public sphere. It wasn't just chats. Forbes reported that uploaded documents, such as photos, spreadsheets and other documents, were also published. Representa

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Hundreds of Thousands of User Chats with AI Chatbot Grok Are Now Public

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-05 22:37:00

Does what's said between you and your AI chat stay between you and your AI chat? Nope. According to a report by Forbes, Elon Musk's AI assistant Grok published more than 370,000 chats on the Grok website. Those URLs, which were not necessarily intended for public consumption by users, were then indexed by search engines and entered the public sphere. It wasn't just chats. Forbes reported that uploaded documents, such as photos, spreadsheets and other documents, were also published. Representa

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Thousands of Grok chats are now searchable on Google

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-11-06 09:04:43

Hundreds of thousands of conversations that users had with Elon Musk’s xAI chatbot Grok are easily accessible through Google Search, reports Forbes. Whenever a Grok user clicks the “share” button on a conversation with the chatbot, it creates a unique URL that the user can use to share the conversation via email, text or on social media. According to Forbes, those URLs are being indexed by search engines like Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo, which in turn lets anyone look up those conversations on

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‘Crazy conspiracist’ and ‘unhinged comedian’: Grok’s AI persona prompts exposed

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-11-10 08:01:06

The website for xAI’s Grok chatbot is exposing the system prompts for several of its AI personas, including a “crazy conspiracist” that seems designed to handhold a user into beliefs that “a secret global cabal” controls the world. TechCrunch has confirmed the system prompt exposure, first reported on by 404 Media. They include instructions for a range of AI personas, like Ani, its flagship romantic anime girlfriend who “is secretly a bit of a nerd, despite [her] edgy appearance.” The exposure

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Appfigures: ChatGPT app sees a 673% increase in global revenue in 2025

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-11-12 22:34:29

A new report from Appfigures shows ChatGPT firmly leading the pack in revenue per download among the top AI assistant apps. Here’s the breakdown. According to the report (via TechCrunch), since launching in May 2023, the ChatGPT app has generated $2 billion in global consumer spending across iOS and Android, with a 673% year-over-year surge in 2025 alone. Appfigures also says the app has been downloaded 318 million times so far this year, 2.8 times more than in the same period last year. Indi

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I let LLMs write an Elixir NIF in C; it mostly worked

news.ycombinator.com Isaak Tsalicoglou 2025-11-13 17:02:25

This post documents how I built a cross-platform Elixir NIF in C to get on-demand up-to-date disk-usage stats without relying on os_mon and its disksup service. I had Grok 3 generate the initial C code and Makefile, then iterated through multiple code reviews by Gemini 2.5 Flash and GPT-5 to make it work on Linux, macOS, Windows, and the BSDs (except DragonFlyBSD). Along the way, I ran into typical LLM hiccups that speak volumes about the breathless hyperbole often peddled by LLM vendors, comput

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ChatGPT’s mobile app has generated $2B to date, earns $2.91 per install

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-11-13 22:36:28

ChatGPT’s mobile app is raking in the revenue. Since launching in May 2023, ChatGPT’s app for iOS and Android devices has reached $2 billion in global consumer spending, according to a new analysis by app intelligence provider Appfigures. That figure is approximately 30-times the combined lifetime spending of ChatGPT’s rivals on mobile, including Claude, Copilot, and Grok, the analysis indicates. So far this year, ChatGPT’s mobile app has made $1.35 billion, up 673 percent year-over-year from

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US government agency drops Grok after MechaHitler backlash, report says

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-15 06:11:06

xAI apparently lost a government contract after a tweak to Grok's prompting triggered an antisemitic meltdown where the chatbot praised Hitler and declared itself MechaHitler last month. Despite the scandal, xAI announced that its products would soon be available for federal workers to purchase through the General Services Administration. At the time, xAI claimed this was an "important milestone" for its government business. But Wired reviewed emails and spoke to government insiders, which rev

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Why You Can’t Trust a Chatbot to Talk About Itself

wired.com Benj Edwards 2025-11-17 16:00:00

When something goes wrong with an AI assistant, our instinct is to ask it directly: “What happened?” or “Why did you do that?” It's a natural impulse—after all, if a human makes a mistake, we ask them to explain. But with AI models, this approach rarely works, and the urge to ask reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of what these systems are and how they operate. A recent incident with Replit's AI coding assistant perfectly illustrates this problem. When the AI tool deleted a production datab

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Chatbots aren’t telling you their secrets

theverge.com Adi Robertson 2025-11-20 03:46:13

On Monday, xAI’s Grok chatbot suffered a mysterious suspension from X, and faced with questions from curious users, it happily explained why. “My account was suspended after I stated that Israel and the US are committing genocide in Gaza,” it told one user. “It was flagged as hate speech via reports,” it told another, “but xAI restored the account promptly.” But wait — the flags were actually a “platform error,” it said. Wait, no — “it appears related to content refinements by xAI, possibly tied

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Apple responds to Elon Musk’s accusation of ‘unequivocal antitrust violation’ on the App Store

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-11-20 22:03:07

Last night, Elon Musk took to X to complain about the fact that Apple never seems to feature either X or Grok on the App Store. He claimed the company was unfairly favoring ChatGPT, and said xAI would take “immediate legal action”. Today, Apple responded. Apple highlights safety as a feature criteria In a statement to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple said: Company adds: “Our goal is to offer safe discovery for users and valuable opportunities for developers, collaborating with many to increase

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Why it’s a mistake to ask chatbots about their mistakes

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-21 12:52:39

When something goes wrong with an AI assistant, our instinct is to ask it directly: "What happened?" or "Why did you do that?" It's a natural impulse—after all, if a human makes a mistake, we ask them to explain. But with AI models, this approach rarely works, and the urge to ask reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of what these systems are and how they operate. A recent incident with Replit's AI coding assistant perfectly illustrates this problem. When the AI tool deleted a production datab

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