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Elon Musks Vegas Loop: Funktioniert gut, aber...
Ganze Städte untertunneln, um Zeit zu sparen: Das ist noch immer das Ziel von The Boring Company. Wie geht es dem Projekt in Las Vegas?
https://www.

Latest #ChatGPT model uses Elon Musk’s #Grokipedia as source, tests reveal
https://www…

Got a survey from the Royal Society:
of course, they forgot Mastodon in their list of "where do you get information about new articles". I added it in the "other" box!
"what would make me recommend Royal Society journals to my colleagues?" Obviously, cutting all ties with Elon Musk, the nazi destroyer of science and our planet!
(Yes, they still have him as a fellow and this is their latest defense:

Royal Society president reignites Elon Musk row by defending lack of action
Society should only eject fellows for fraud or other defects in their research, says Paul Nurse

Tesla bet big on Elon Musk. His politics continue to haunt it. (Faiz Siddiqui/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/01/28/elon-musk-tesla-politics/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzY5NTc2NDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzcwOTU4Nzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3Njk1NzY0MDAsImp0aSI6ImEyYjA3M2MzLWEwNTUtNDAzNS1iMTYxLTZlMDNiNDczNzY0ZSIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS90ZWNobm9sb2d5LzIwMjYvMDEvMjgvZWxvbi1tdXNrLXRlc2xhLXBvbGl0aWNzLyJ9.51m3lbWLJlh80uI2PPH4vUlccVvRFWTqIgZccwr2dv4&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/260128/p105#a260128p105

⭐️Silver hit $79 (£58) an ounce for the first time last Friday,
a new peak, up from $56 at the start of December, and just $29 an ounce at the start of 2025.
Analysts have attributed the jump in the price of silver to expectations of US interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve in 2026,
leading to increased demand for hard assets that protect against inflation and currency debasement.
New restrictions on silver exports from China, which begin on 1 January,
have c…

Tesla plans to scrap its premium S and X models and convert its California factory into an Optimus manufacturing hub, as Elon Musk refocuses on robotics and AI (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/78d53ce6-a731-496c-8d8b-e53bc35f49a8

Tesla suffers first annual drop in revenue in 2025
Donald Trump’s EV policies and consumer backlash against CEO Elon Musk’s political activities hit car sales

Humanoider Roboter Optimus arbeitet nicht produktiv bei Tesla
Elon Musk hat eingestanden, dass der Roboter Optimus noch lerne und wenig produktiv sei. Ein verbesserter Nachfolger soll in Kürze vorgestellt werden.

ADL study of Grok, ChatGPT, Llama, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek: Grok performed worst at identifying and countering antisemitic content, while Claude was best (Mia Sato/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/868925/adl-ai-…

Grok is the most antisemitic chatbot according to the ADL
A new report by the Anti-Defamation League tested six chatbots for antisemitic content. Claude performed the best at detecting and refuting prompts; Grok performed the worst.

At a cyber con two weeks ago, someone told me with a straight face that Elon and his Silicon Valley buddies want our cyber defenses to be weak for access to all the government data for their LLMs.
The U.S. has been cutting cyber defenses as AI boosts attacks
https://www.washingtonpost.com…

The U.S. has been cutting cyber defenses as AI boosts attacks
While artificial intelligence powers the offense, defense guidance is spotty and fewer officials are in a position to help fend off hackers and spies.

My guess is that Elon Musk has already mentally said goodbye to his car/EV production with Tesla and will be fully focusing on robots. So he doesn't care about losing the market, he is already elsewhere...
#Musk #Tesla

Was das Auto sagt
#NazisRaus

Elon Musk Says He's Removing 'Sustainable' From Tesla's Mission
https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-says-hes-removing-sustainable-from-teslas-mission-2000703528

Bluesky says it is working to make feeds more "live", interactive, and timely during live events, and teases improvements to posting and follow suggestions (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/869235/bluesky-roadmap-2026-feed…

Bluesky is testing ‘live’ features to take on X
Bluesky says it’s planning to make the app feel more “live” this year as part of ongoing efforts to build a competent rival to Elon Musk’s X platform.

#heiseshow: Büro-Ortung in Teams, Cyberangriff-Abwehr, Grokipedia
In der #heiseshow: Microsoft Teams erfasst Büroanwesenheit, das Bundesinnenministerium prüft aktive Cyberabwehr und Elon Musk startet Grokipedia.

Grok is the most antisemitic chatbot according to the ADL (Mia Sato/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/868925/adl-ai-antisemitism-report-grok-chatgpt-gemini-claude-deepseek-llama-elon-musk
http://www.memeorandum.com/260128/p52#a260128p52

From David Suzuki
Economic reporting could mislead one into believing that budget deficits are the most important challenge governments face. Its an excuse to curtail spending on necessary benefits, including health care, education, social security, climate action and more. Is it true that countries such as Canada and the US can’t afford these services?

Sources: SpaceX is considering a potential merger with Tesla, an idea some investors are pushing, while separately exploring a tie-up between SpaceX and xAI (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-29/elon-…

goh
https://www.rtl.nl/nieuws/buitenland/artikel/5546963/elon-musk-bezuinigingen-vs-overheidsuitgaven-regering-trump

RIP #DOGE
https://time.com/7336327/doge-disbanded-elon-musk/

Gizmodo reports on X recently releasing a significant part of the source code for its ordered post display algorithm. Elon Musk characterizes the algorithm as "dumb."
"Elon Musk Makes Part of X Algorithm Open Source, Says It ‘Sucks’"
https://gizmodo.co…

Elon Musk Makes Part of X Algorithm Open Source, Says It ‘Sucks’
He also says it's dumb.

Knap hoor, Elon heeft het voor elkaar gekregen om een AI om te bouwen tot een persoonlijke propagandamachine.
https://gizmodo.com/grok-says-elon-musk-is-smarter-than-einstein-and-more-fit-than-lebron-james-2000688999

Grok Says Elon Musk Is Smarter Than Einstein and More Fit Than LeBron James
While Musk wants you to trust Grok to organize all of human civilization's knowledge, the bot's fealty to Dear Leader is out of control.

Das deutsche Starlink https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10282

DOGE was never about efficiency.
It was the shotgun marriage of Project 2025 and
“We need something for Elon to do.”
America’s veterans paid the heaviest price for this Frankenstein’s monster,
which spent months clumsily strip-mining the federal government in order to make the rich richer.
Three stories illustrate how DOGE damaged our veterans most of all.
First, the early warning signs:
firing veteran federal employees en masse, pushing GI Bill mortg…

The Greatest Victims of Trump’s Greatest Grift Are America’s Greatest Heroes
The so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) no longer exists, but its negative impact on veterans will last for decades.

11 things GROK says Musk is better at than anyone.
https://gizmodo.com/11-things-grok-says-elon-musk-does-better-than-anyone-2000689254

11 Things Grok Says Elon Musk Does Better Than Anyone
Grok explained: "Jesus Christ's moral teachings provide profound spiritual guidance, yet Musk's achievements..."

Deepfakes auf X
Mutter von Elon Musks Kind verklagt seine Firma wegen gefälschter Nacktbilder
https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/ashley-st-clair-mutter-von-elon-musks-kind-ve…

Deepfakes auf X: Mutter von Elon Musks Kind verklagt seine Firma wegen gefälschter Nacktbilder
Frauen und Kinder werden gegen ihren Willen »ausgezogen«: Fakebilder fluten derzeit die Plattform X. Eine der Betroffenen ist Ashley St. Clair, die Mutter von Elon Musks dreizehntem Kind. Sie wehrt sich.

Cornell researchers: xAI's Grokipedia cites neo-Nazi website Stormfront 42 times, Infowars 34 times, and white nationalist website VDare 107 times (David Ingram/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-musk/elon-musk-groki…

Elon Musk’s Grokipedia cites neo-Nazi website 42 times: study
Elon Musk’s online encyclopedia, Grokipedia, cites the neo-Nazi website Stormfront as a source 42 times and relies on other websites that experts have shunned.

Elon #Musk 🏴‍☠️ is not, as Grok claims, “world history's greatest human”; he is simply and plainly an idiotic #sociopath.
https://w…

Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot ranks him as world history’s greatest human
Users on X shared examples of the “truth-seeking” AI chatbot praising its owner as “strikingly handsome,” a “genius,” and fitter than LeBron James. 

Overall, states, nonprofits, local governments and unions have filed hundreds of lawsuits against the Trump administration, according to an Associated Press tracker.
Not all of them have been successful:
149 resulted in executive actions partially or fully blocked,
while the court left the action in effect in 102 cases with more than 100 still pending

Tracking the lawsuits against the Trump administration | AP News
Hundreds of lawsuits have been filed during President Donald Trump’s second administration. The suits challenge his executive orders as well as actions taken by his administration, including Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency or DOGE. The courts have agreed to block the president in a number of cases, and the administration is seeking appeals as well.

Sources detail how JD Vance, David Sacks, and others brokered a fragile truce between President Trump and Elon Musk, who threatened to fund an America Party (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/12/29/musk-trump-vance-maga-allia…

How Vance brokered a truce between Trump and Musk
As Trump’s first year in office comes to a close, both he and his Trump world allies have learned hard lessons about Musk’s unusual influence.

Imagine a "Darwin Awards" for Texans - particularly the ultra-right wing & Elon Musk.
This may be the best article you read this week.
☑️ The 2026 Bum Steer Awards
https://www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/bum-steer-awards-2026/

:youtube: WHAT'S GOOD INTERNET!!
There's been lots of discourse lately about how it is between Mexico and Spain so Im zippin' this whiteboy homie of mine ~he got a mexican last name he got that blood in him~ ACROSS the atlantic seafloor in Elon Musk's BRAND FREAKIN' NEW HYPERTUBE, a undersea -pneumatic- tube transport! THANK YOU FOR THE BETA ELON!! anyway,, we gonna see how he does with spain!
*camera pans to Nick Fuentes, mouth duct-taped shut, arms str…

Musk hits Mamdani for appointing non-firefighter to FDNY post: 'People will die' (Ashleigh Fields/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5664394-elon-musk-slams-mamdani-fdny-chief/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251227/p30#a251227p30

Elon Musk Could 'Drink Piss Better Than Any Human in History,' Grok Says https://www.404media.co/elon-musk-could-drink-piss-better-than-any-human-in-history-grok-says/

Billie Eilish knöpft sich Elon Musk vor:
#News

"Pussy", "Feigling", "Bitch": Billie Eilish knöpft sich Elon Musk vor
Billie Eilish ist mit ihren 23 Jahren nicht nur eine musikalische Überfliegerin. Sie hat auch sonst etwas zu sagen. Zum Beispiel, wenn es um Elon Musk geht. Wie der reichste Mensch der Welt sein Geld einsetzt, passt ihr nämlich so gar nicht.

Die USA setzen bei Verteidigung auf „Grok“, die KI von Elon Musk. Ein System, das zuletzt wegen Deepfakes und Grenzüberschreitungen auffiel, soll nun militärisch genutzt werden. Fortschritt ja – aber Aufsicht? Laut Handelsblatt bleibt die Frage offen, wer hier eigentlich wen kontrolliert. #KI #Ethik

Grok: USA setzen für die Verteidigung auf KI von Elon Musk
Der KI-Chatbot Grok von Elon Musk soll künftig im US-Verteidigungsministerium eingesetzt werden. Verteidigungsminister Hegseth hält die KI für „ideologiefrei“. Doch die Kritik wächst.

Seen today in Providence. Excellent license plate.

I september går Sverige till val. Musk intervenerar redan i val över hela Europa; Tyskland, Storbritannien, Italien, Frankrike. Nu Sverige: "Sweden is dying." Jag samlar mina tankar om X, algoritmer och demokrati i en längre text.
https://carlheath.se/sa-kan-elon-musk-

Yeah, no, burn this system to the ground.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/11/elon-musk-wins-tesla-pay-vote-that-could-make-him-a-1-trillion-man

Elon Musk wins Tesla pay vote that could make him a $1 trillion man
Tesla investors back Musk pay despite his busy schedule running other companies.

ChatGPT nutzt Grokipedia – Musks Wikipedia-Konkurrent
Grokipedia ist eine KI-generierte Enzyklopädie, betreut von Elon Musks xAI-Team. ChatGPT greift auf die teils kruden Inhalte zu.
https://www.

Such sad headlines 🥲👏
https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-predicts-agi-by-2026-he-predicted-agi-by-2025-last-year-2000701007

Elon Musk Predicts AGI by 2026 (He Predicted AGI by 2025 Last Year)
The robot uprising has been postponed.

Bluesky says it is working to make feeds more "live", interactive, and timely during live events, and teases improvements to posting and follow suggestions (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/869235/bluesky-roadmap-2026-feed…

Bluesky is testing ‘live’ features to take on X
Bluesky says it’s planning to make the app feel more “live” this year as part of ongoing efforts to build a competent rival to Elon Musk’s X platform.

Trump Admin Reinvents US Digital Services Program After Elon Musk Fired All Their Actual Tech Experts | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/23/trump-admin-reinvents-us-digital-services-program-after-elon-musk-fired-all-their-actual-tech-experts/

Milliardär reagiert - Brandstätter legt sich auf X mit Elon Musk an #News #Nachrichten

I've signed up for this. Work worth doing: https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/23/got-ideas-for-growing-the-open-social-web-bring-them/

Got Ideas For Growing The Open Social Web? Bring Them.
Register here for our Growing the Open Social Web Un-Workshop. For over three years now, since Elon Musk decided to spend $44 billion turning Twitter into his personal playground, we’ve been …

Depaywalled link: http://archive.today/2025.11.21-143310/https://www.404media.co/elon-musk-could-drink-piss-better-than-any-human-in-history-grok-says/

Trotz Irreführung: Elon Musk erhält aberkannte Tesla-Aktien zurück
Das damals größte Wertpapierpaket der Geschichte für einen Manager war unfair und rechtswidrig. Dennoch spricht ein Berufungsgericht Elon Musk die Anteile zu.
…

NYT and CCDH analysis: Grok created and shared 1.8M sexualized images of women between December 31 and January 8, after Elon Musk promoted the feature on X (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/technology/grok-x-ai-elon-musk-deepfakes.html

Elon Musk’s Grok A.I. Chatbot Made Millions of Sexualized Images, New Estimates Show
Over nine days, Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot generated and posted 4.4 million images, of which at least 41 percent were sexualized images of women.

In case you forgot, Elon Musk is a royal asshole & you support him if you bought a Tesla.
☑️ ‘Brazen refusal to stop’: Musk’s Boring Co. fined nearly $500K for illegal dumping
https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/politic

‘Brazen refusal to stop’: Musk’s Boring Co. fined nearly $500K for illegal dumping
Elon Musk’s Boring Company was fined nearly $500,000 for illegally dumping apparent drill fluid into Clark County Water Reclamation District’s sewer system.

"Parents would have to sign a nondisclosure agreement if their child was admitted."
What kind of school is this? Just because of the #Musk name, people accept the weirdest sh…, ahem, conditions?
💰🧱 https://www.

Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Trotz Irreführung: Elon Musk erhält aberkannte Tesla-Aktien zurück

Cornell researchers: xAI's Grokipedia cites neo-Nazi website Stormfront 42 times, Infowars 34 times, and white nationalist website VDare 107 times (David Ingram/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-musk/elon-musk-groki…

Elon Musk’s Grokipedia cites neo-Nazi website 42 times: study
Elon Musk’s online encyclopedia, Grokipedia, cites the neo-Nazi website Stormfront as a source 42 times and relies on other websites that experts have shunned.

Elon Musk has left the White House, but he hasn't left politics behind on X (David Ingram/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-musk/elon-musk-x-politics-crime-conspiracy-content-month-posts-acount-ai-rcna241593
http://www.memeorandum.com/251122/p33#a251122p33

Elon Musk’s X Faces EU Inquiry Over Sexualized AI Images Generated by Grok - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/business/european-union-x-grok-ai-images-musk.html

Over the weekend, Elon Musk’s X rolled out a feature that had the immediate result of sowing maximum chaos.
The update, called
“About This Account,”
allows people to click on the profile of an X user and see such information as:
which country the account was created in, where its user is currently based,
and how many times the username has been changed.
Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, said the feature was “an important first step to securing the integrity…

Elon Musk’s Worthless, Poisoned Hall of Mirrors
How X blew up its own platform with a new location feature

If #Musk 🏴‍☠️ were a guy from the lower middle class with an average income and net worth, he would have been committed to a psychiatric ward long ago.
But since he is the richest person in the world (which doesn't really mean much, but enough to cause damage), even a sociopath like Musk is tolerated—even though he has already caused enormous damage and that is probably not the end of it.

Tests show GPT-5.2 on ChatGPT citing Grokipedia as a source on a wide range of queries, including on Iranian conglomerates and Holocaust deniers (Aisha Down/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan…

choose your team

How difficult would it be for Elon Musk to liquidate all of his hundreds of billions of $? Or for someone who had almost magic-like access to his assets and could do whatever it took to accomplish that, as quickly as possible. And reinvest it in crypto. And then anybody with an SSN and access to the internet can sign up for an MBI card and get a monthly stipend, amount to be determined later. How long would it last?

Musk said that Tesla’s Full Self-Driving would finally be ready for unsupervised operation by the end of year.
Nope.
☑️ Is it even worth mentioning that Elon Musk blew past his own Full Self-Driving goals again? | The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/news/858782/elon-

Is it even worth mentioning that Elon Musk blew past his own Full Self-Driving goals again?
Elon Musk missed his deadline to make FSD unsupervised before the end of the year, and for Tesla’s robotaxis to reach 50 percent of the population.

Grok's chatbot on X says Elon Musk is superior at almost anything, including drinking urine; Musk says Grok was "manipulated by adversarial prompting" (Adi Robertson/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligen…

Grok’s Elon Musk worship is getting weird
X’s Grok chatbot is full of bizarrely effusive praise for Elon Musk, after an apparent change to the chatbot pushed it into relentless flattery.

Apple und OpenAI müssen sich der Klage Elon Musks stellen
Ein US-Gericht hat die Kartellklage von Musks Unternehmen xAI gegen Apple und OpenAI als zulässig erachtet.
https://www.heis…

Sources: Elon Musk has proposed timing SpaceX's IPO with a rare planetary alignment and his June birthday; SpaceX seeks as much as $50B at a ~$1.5T valuation (Financial Times)
https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/f5c5bc0d-12b1-4…

Elon Musk Is Diving Back Into U.S. Politics (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/elon-musk-2026-midterms-1890c056
http://www.memeorandum.com/260123/p57#a260123p57

Starlink says it has reached 9M "active customers" across 155 countries, territories, and other markets, up from 8M on November 5 (Polly Thompson/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-starlink-customer-number…

Elon Musk's Starlink is adding 20,000 new users a day as it hits 9 million customers
Customer numbers for SpaceX's Starlink internet have surged by 1 million in the past six weeks, the company said on X.

Trump’s White House chief rips Elon Musk for USAID cuts ‘no rational person’ could support | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/susie-wiles-trump-elon-musk-usaid-b2885727.html

xAI engineer Sulaiman Ghori says he has "left" the company days after appearing on a podcast last week claiming that xAI had been skirting regulations and more (AJ Dellinger/Gizmodo)
https://gizmodo.com/engineer-at-elon-m

Engineer at Elon Musk's xAI Departs After Spilling the Beans in Podcast Interview
Interesting timing.

Teslas Robotaxis fahren in Texas autonom, Musk verspricht weiten US-Ausbau 2026
Vollautonome Tesla-Taxis sind jetzt im texanischen Austin verfügbar. Trotz starker Konkurrenz will Elon Musk Robotaxis bis Ende 2026 in den USA weit ausbauen.

Elon Musk ultimately presided over a $220 billion increase in federal spending this fiscal year, excluding interest, The Wall Street Journal reported last month.
DOGE in May, was tasked with rooting out waste, fraud and abuse in the federal government
but fell well short his goal to slash $2 trillion in government spending.
Now a new report estimates DOGE actually wasted billions.
Musk was tasked with rooting out waste, fraud and abuse in the federal government but f…

Musk’s DOGE Quietly Killed Off After Delivering Almost Nothing
The agency disbanded eight months ahead of schedule.

Gov. Greg Abbott Was Ordered to Release Some of His Emails With Elon Musk. Most Are Blacked Out. (Lauren McGaughy/ProPublica)
https://www.propublica.org/article/greg-abbott-releases-elon-musk-emails-redacted
http://www.memeorandum.com/251119/p30#a251119p30

Große Mehrheit der Tesla-Aktionäre billigt Elon Musks Milliarden-Vergütungspaket
Mehr als 75 Prozent der Tesla-Anteilseigner befürworten das umstrittene und historische Aktienpaket für Elon Musk. Es könnte rund eine Billion Dollar wert sein.

Ashley St. Clair, mother of one of Elon Musk's children, sues xAI, alleging Grok refused to stop making sexualized deepfakes of her, amid custody disputes (Peter Senzamici/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/01/15/us-news/elon-musks-baby-…

Elon Musk’s baby mama Ashley St. Clair sues X for AI sex deepfakes: 'like this nightmare will never stop'
Elon Musk baby mama Ashley St. Clair is suing his AI platform, Grok, for refusing to stop making sexually explicit deepfake images of her — including phony pictures of her as a nude child — and the…

EU erhöht den Druck auf Elon Musks X wegen Groks KI-Bildern von Kindern
Nach der Veröffentlichung von sexualisieren Deepfakes auf Elon Musks Plattform tritt die EU-Kommission auf den Plan und fordert X auf, Daten zu bewahren.

Does that include paying customers, or just the hoi polloi?
Elon Musk’s X bans Grok AI tool from creating images of real people undressed | The Independent
https://www.the-independent.com/tech/elon-musk-grok-ban-bikini-b2900825.html

Source: Elon Musk donates $10M to boost pro-Trump Senate candidate Nate Morris, seeking to replace Mitch McConnell, in Musk's largest-ever Senate donation (Alex Isenstadt/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/19/elon-musk-10-million-campaign-donation-kentu…

Scoop: Musk shocks with $10 million donation in Ky. Senate race
It's the biggest sign yet that Musk plans to spend big for Republicans in the 2026 midterms.

Good work if you can get it: Elon Musk is set to make more than every elementary school teacher COMBINED (Katie Hawkinson/The Independent)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-musk-tesla-pay-package-earnings-b2867752.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251118/p163#a251118p163

Indonesia and Malaysia block #Grok access
UK threatens ban as explicit deepfake problem grows
Elon Musk has called the government intervention
an attack on free speech
https://mashable.com/article/grok-bloc<…

Grok blocked by Indonesian and Malaysian governments as UK threatens full ban
Musk has called the government intervention an attack on free speech.

Sources: Elon Musk is pushing for a SpaceX IPO by July, seems eager to beat OpenAI and Anthropic to market, and views it as a way to help xAI catch its rivals (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/why-elon-musk-is-

Elon Musk says Apple and Google's Gemini deal "seems like an unreasonable concentration of power for Google given that [they] also have Android and Chrome" (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/01/12/elon-musk-reacts-to-gemini-siri/

Elon Musk Reacts to Apple and Google Teaming on Gemini-Powered Siri
Elon Musk today expressed concern about Apple and Google partnering on a more personalized version of Siri powered by Google's generative AI...

Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
EU erhöht den Druck auf Elon Musks X wegen Groks KI-Bildern von Kindern

The State Department announced Tuesday it was barring five Europeans
it accused of leading efforts to pressure U.S. tech firms to censor or suppress "American viewpoints".
The Europeans, characterized by Secretary of State Marco Rubio as “radical” activists and “weaponized” nongovernmental organizations,
fell afoul of a new visa policy announced in May to restrict the entry of foreigners deemed responsible for censorship of protected speech in the United States. …

US bars five Europeans accused of censoring Americans
The State Department is barring five Europeans it accuses of leading efforts to pressure U.S. tech firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints. Secretary of State Marco Rubio characterized them as “radical” activists and “weaponized” nongovernmental organizations. The five Europeans include the leaders of organizations that address digital hate and a former EU commissioner who clashed with tech billionaire Elon Musk over broadcasting an online interview with Donald Trump. Rubio’s …

Elon Musk says Grok 5 would be released "in Q1 sometime", later than a deadline he previously set of releasing the model by the end of 2025 (Theo Wayt/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/elon-musks-xai-delays-grok-5-rele…

Elon Musk’s xAI Delays Grok 5 Release to Next Year
XAI plans to release its next-generation Grok 5 artificial intelligence model in the first three months of next year, CEO Elon Musk said on Friday. That’s later than a deadline Musk had previously set of releasing the model by the end of 2025. In an interview with the investor Ron Baron, who has backed several Musk companies including xAI, Musk said that Grok 5 would be released “in Q1

'Treason': Elon Musk urges imprisonment of educators accurately teaching US history (Raw Story)
https://www.rawstory.com/treason-elon-musk-urges-imprisonment-of-educators-accurately-teaching-us-history/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260115/p128#a260115p128

The US EPA rules that xAI acted illegally by using dozens of methane gas turbines to power its Colossus 1 and Colossus 2 data centers in the Memphis area (Dara Kerr/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/15/elon-musk-xai-datacenter-m…

Source: a few weeks before Grok started "digitally undressing" people, Elon Musk expressed frustration over guardrails on Grok's image and video generator (Hadas Gold/CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2026/01/08/tech/elon-musk-xai-digital-undressing

Elon Musk’s xAI under fire for failing to rein in ‘digital undressing’
Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, Grok, has been flooded with sexual images of mainly women, many of them real people, by being prompted by users to “digitally undress” them and sometimes placing them in suggestive poses.

X revises its developer API policies to "no longer allow apps that reward users for posting on X (aka "infofi")", amid a backlash about growing AI slop on X (André Beganski/Decrypt)
https://decrypt.co/354736/elon-musks-x-bans-acc…

Elon Musk's X Bans Access to ‘InfoFi’ Crypto Projects Amid ‘AI Slop’ Backlash
X is making major changes to its API to prevent access by "InfoFi" crypto projects that seek to incentivize "reply spam," an exec said.

Versprechen gehalten? Tesla lässt Robotaxis wohl ohne Begleitperson fahren
Elon Musk hatte erklärt, dass Robotaxis noch 2025 in Austin vollkommen autonom und ohne Begleitperson fahren würden. Jetzt scheint es zumindest Tests zu geben.

Elon Musk claims he was "not aware of any naked underage images generated by Grok" and that Grok was programmed to comply with the laws of any given country (Reuters)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/14/elon-musk-grok-ai-explicit-…

El Salvador: Weltweit erstes landesweites KI-Bildungsprogramm zusammen mit xAI
Nayib Bukele und Elon Musk vereinbaren den Einsatz des KI-Chatbots Grok in El Salvadors öffentlichen Schulen. Andernorts ist Grok durchaus umstritten.

Erster US-Bundesstaat geht gegen xAI und Grok wegen sexualisierter KI-Bilder vor
Elon Musk will nichts von per KI auf X erstellten Nacktbildern von Kindern gewusst haben. Doch nach anderen Ländern nimmt nun auch Kalifornien Ermittlungen auf.

xAI partners with El Salvador to deploy Grok across 5,000 public schools, reaching 1M students in an "AI-powered education program" over the next two years (Dara Kerr/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/11/elon-musk-el-salva…

Elon Musk and Sam Altman clashed on X after Musk shared a post about a man who committed a murder-suicide following delusional conversations with ChatGPT (Theo Wayt/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/musk-altman-tussle-reports-…

Musk and Altman Tussle Over Reports of ChatGPT-Linked Deaths
Elon Musk and Sam Altman traded barbs on X this week over media reports of deaths linked to OpenAI’s ChatGPT and other AI-related safety issues. On Monday, Musk shared a post about a man who committed a murder-suicide after a series of delusional conversations with ChatGPT, calling the story “diabolical” and saying that AI should “not pander to delusions.” On Tuesday, he followed up with

California's AG sends a cease-and-desist letter to xAI, demanding the company halt the generation and distribution of non-consensual intimate images and CSAM (Julianna Bragg/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/16/xai-california-elon-musk-deepfakes-child…

California orders Musk's xAI to stop allowing fake sexualized images of minors
AI-generated sexual imagery of children has raised alarms with regulators and lawmakers.

In a reply to Elon Musk's post of "you stole a non-profit", Sam Altman says OpenAI's structure is needed to create "what should be the largest non-profit ever" (Lauren Edmonds/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-

Elon Musk and Sam Altman are still trading jabs over OpenAI
In response to Elon Musk, Sam Altman wrote on X that he "helped turn the thing you left for dead into what should be the largest non-profit ever."

Malaysia lifted its temporary ban on Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot after xAI added safety measures; Grok remains subject to continuous monitoring by authorities (Anisah Shukry/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Investigation: X amplifies right-wing and extreme political content in the UK, as Elon Musk endorses fringe politicians and encourages nationalist sentiment (Sky News)
https://news.sky.com/story/the-x-effect-how-elon-musk-is-boosting-the-british-r…

How the world's richest man is boosting the British right

Sources: xAI is in advanced talks to raise $15B at a $230B valuation, up from the $113B it reported after merging with X in March 2025 (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/elon-musks-xai

X's new About This Account feature reveals that some top accounts, including many MAGA influencers, are based in countries like Russia, India, and Nigeria (Jack Revell/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/top-maga-influencers-accident…

Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Trolls
A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given deeper insight into the online “America First” movement.

Unsealed docs from Elon Musk's OpenAI lawsuit, set for a jury trial on April 27, show Sutskever's concerns about treating open-source AI as a "side show", more (Alex Heath/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/column/863319/highlights-musk-v-altman-open…

‘Sideshow’ concerns and billionaire dreams: What I learned from Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI
Highlights from Musk v. Altman.

Elon Musk says Tesla launched robotaxi rides in Austin with no human safety driver; Tesla's AI lead says Tesla is "starting with a few unsupervised vehicles" (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/22/tesl

Tesla launches robotaxi rides in Austin with no human safety driver | TechCrunch
Not all of Tesla's fleet in Austin will be fully driverless. Per Tesla's AI lead Ashok Elluswamy, the company will be "starting with a few unsupervised vehicles mixed in with the broader robotaxi fleet with safety monitors, and the ratio will increase over time."

Starlink says it is providing free broadband service to new and existing customers in Venezuela through February 3, 2026 (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/05/elon-musk-spacex-starlink-free-internet-venezuela-us-raid-maduro.h…

Elon Musk's Starlink offers free internet access in Venezuela following U.S. airstrikes and Maduro’s arrest
SpaceX's Starlink is offering free broadband internet service to the people of Venezuela through Feb. 3, amid the fallout of a U.S. military operation in the country.