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Elon Musks Meinungsmaschine: X-Algorithmus beeinflusst politische Einstellungen
Ein europäisches Forschungsteam konnte erstmals zeigen, wie der Empfehlungsalgorithmus von X politische Meinungen beeinflusst: ein bisschen.

Similarweb: Threads had 141.5M DAUs on iOS and Android as of January 7, driven by Instagram promotions, while X had 125M DAUs; X continues to lead on the web (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/18/threads-edges-out-x-in-daily-mo…

Threads edges out X in daily mobile users, new data shows | TechCrunch
Threads’ daily mobile usage has quietly surpassed X as Meta leans on cross-promotion, creator tools and fast feature rollouts — even as X faces fresh controversies

X says it has open sourced its "core recommendation system" on GitHub and that the system "ranks everything using a Grok-based transformer model" (Lucas Ropek/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/20/x-op

X open sources its algorithm while facing a transparency fine and Grok controversies | TechCrunch
In a post to GitHub on Tuesday, the social media giant purported to share its secret sauce.

To Elon Musk's xAI: Draw a plot of effective visual resolution as a function of penetrating electrode count using the Neuralink Blindsight brain implant approach for up to 16,000 penetrating wire electrodes in V1. At 16,000: N x N = 36.5 x 36.5 https://x.com/i/grok/share/72bac4fcff5

I've been playing a lot of Ball x Pit - psyched to learn its first free update ('The Regal Update') will be available January 26 with new balls, passives, and other features: https://www.gematsu.com/2026/01/ball-x-pit-the-regal-update-launches-january-26…

BALL x PIT ‘The Regal Update’ launches January 26
BALL x PIT’s first free major update, “The Regal Update,” will launch on January 26, publisher Devolver Digital and developer Kenny Sun announced. It will add new characters, ball…

Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Elon Musks Meinungsmaschine: X-Algorithmus beeinflusst politische Einstellungen

Humans&, founded by ex-Anthropic, xAI, and Google staff to build interactive AI, raised a $480M seed from Nvidia, Jeff Bezos, and others at a $4.48B valuation (Cade Metz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/technology/humans-ai-anthropic-xai.html<…

An A.I. Start-Up Says It Wants to Empower Workers, Not Replace Them
Founded by researchers from Anthropic, Google and xAI, the new company, Humans&, is already valued at $4.48 billion.

Etwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Wo ist die gesellschaftliche Relevanz? Threads auf Mobilgeräten deutlich vor X

Alphabet's X spins out Anori, which seeks to streamline building approvals through a unified platform for developers and city regulators, with $26M in funding (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/19/alph

Anori, Alphabet's new X spinout, is tackling one of the world's most expensive bureaucratic nightmares | TechCrunch
Anori aims to shrink down the pre-development process by getting all parties, including the city, on to a unified platform from the start so that compliance conflicts are surfaced in weeks instead of months or years.

Moonshot says Kimi K2.5 provides "the foundation" for Cursor's Composer 2 model and that Cursor accesses Kimi K2.5 via Fireworks AI (@kimi_moonshot)
https://x.com/kimi_moonshot/status/2035074972943831491

Kimi.ai (@Kimi_Moonshot) on X
Congrats to the @cursor_ai team on the launch of Composer 2! We are proud to see Kimi-k2.5 provide the foundation. Seeing our model integrated effectively through Cursor's continued pretraining & high-compute RL training is the open model ecosystem we love to support.