Is safety ‘dead’ at xAI?

Is safety ‘dead’ at xAI?

Elon Musk is “actively” working to make xAI’s Grok chatbot “more unhinged,” according to a former employee who spoke to The Verge about recent departures from Musk’s AI company. This week, following the announcement that Musk’s SpaceX is acquiring xAI (which previously acquired his social media company X), at least 11 engineers and two co-founders…

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Homeland Security reportedly sent hundreds of subpoenas seeking to unmask anti-ICE accounts

Homeland Security reportedly sent hundreds of subpoenas seeking to unmask anti-ICE accounts

The Department of Homeland Security has been increasing pressure on tech companies to identify the owners of social media accounts that criticize Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), according to The New York Times. This echoes other recent reporting, with Bloomberg pointing to five cases in which Homeland Security sought to identify the owners of anonymous…

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Tech titans Elon Musk and Reid Hoffman attack each other over latest Epstein emails

Tech titans Elon Musk and Reid Hoffman attack each other over latest Epstein emails

Rep. Jim Jordan discusses the Clintons’ agreement to testify in the House’s Epstein probe. An ongoing dispute between Elon Musk and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman has erupted on social media, renewing scrutiny of the tech titans’ past associations with the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The public spat intensified following renewed attention…

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