@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-10-09 03:05:00
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-10-09 03:05:00
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-10-08 15:31:08
Filing: Musk and X agree to settle a lawsuit by Twitter's ex-CEO Parag Agrawal, chief legal officer Vijaya Gadde, and others over $128M in unpaid severance (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/796239/elon-musk-x-128-milli…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-07-09 16:25:57
Elon Musk addresses Grok's antisemitic posts, says it was "too compliant to user prompts" and "too eager to please and be manipulated, essentially" (Herb Scribner/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/08/elon-musk-grok-x-twitter-hitler…
@jensilber@mastodon.social2025-08-09 18:29:15
If only people could have realized the truth of this before catapulting us all into the morass...
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-musk-popular-gallup-poll-b2802463.html
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-07-09 01:55:48
Elon Musk's Grok praises Hitler, shares antisemitic tropes in new posts (Herb Scribner/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/08/elon-musk-grok-x-twitter-hitler-posts
http://www.memeorandum.com/250708/p155#a250708p155
@kubikpixel@chaos.social2025-07-09 06:25:12
»Wieder Probleme mit Grok – X-KI verbreitet Antisemitismus - und wird deaktiviert:
Der KI-Account Grok des Kurznachrichtendiensts X war Elon Musk zu links, jetzt gab es eine Überarbeitung. In der Folge verbreitete er antisemitische Inhalte.«
Wenn jetzt nicht endlich mal Presse, Politiker & Co. sich dort verabschieden und nein ein Widerspruch auf Xitter unterstützt sogar den Elon.
👉
@servelan@newsie.social2025-08-08 22:30:28
Brawls, racism and cocaine: Lawsuit reveals life inside Tesla plant where Musk was directly involved with HR decisions | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/tesla-lawsuit-elon-musk-california-b2804549.html
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-07-09 05:16:00
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-07-09 16:51:11
Turkey blocks Grok over offensive responses about President Erdogan and Ataturk; Poland plans to report Grok to the EU for offensive posts about Donald Tusk (Elçin Poyrazlar/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/turkey-ban-elon-musk-grok-…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-07-09 16:15:54
Sources: Linda Yaccarino had discussed her plans to leave with X employees earlier this week, before Grok's antisemitic posts (Mike Isaac/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/technology/linda-yaccarino-x-steps-down.html
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-07-09 16:45:55
Elon Musk Consulted Curtis Yarvin, Right-Wing Thinker, on Third Party (Theodore Schleifer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/us/politics/elon-musk-curtis-yarvin-third-party.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250709/p79#a250709p79
@karlauerbach@sfba.social2025-09-05 22:15:53
What is assinine about this is that Tesla's gift to Musk is based on increase in stock price, not on an increase in profits, market share, or any other metric of actual improved value within the company.
Tesla's board has got its head so far up musk's tailpipe that I fully expect that the rah-rah-sis-boom-bah Tesla Board of Directors will let musk bankrupt the company.
As far as I can see the only parts of Tesla that have any actual value are the supercharger and batt…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-08-04 21:31:14
Tesla’s board has approved the award of
💥29 Billion Dollars worth of shares
to its chief executive, Elon Musk,
after a US court ruled against a previous pay deal for the world’s richest person.
Musk will pay $2 billion
to buy 96 million shares in the electric carmaker
at the same price per share as a 10-year pay package agreed in 2018, which is stuck in legal limbo awaiting a court date for an appeal.
The award was based on a recommendation from a “sp…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-08-08 15:06:00
Tesla stellt hauseigenes KI-Projekt Dojo ein
Dojo sollte Videodaten verarbeiten und die Fahrassistenten in Tesla-Fahrzeugen verbessern. Jetzt verkündete CEO Elon Musk einen Strategiewechsel.
https://www.
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2025-08-06 10:48:11
One of the country’s strictest bans on election deepfakes was defeated by a challenge from Elon Musk
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/05/elon-musk-x-court-win-california-deepfake-law-00494936
@jorgecandeias@mastodon.social2025-08-07 14:52:19
Here's something that can't be enshitified, as it started out as shit already, yet they still try to do it.
https://mstdn.social/@TechCrunch/114988000017885467
@seeingwithsound@mas.to2025-09-09 08:13:00
I can only guess about the encroaching panic among Neuralink Blindsight engineers as they are running out of time (i.e. Elon Musk's patience), with the first brain implant in a human scheduled for 2026, and still not even a monkey movie showing decent progress.
ChatGPT: https://chatgpt.com/share/68bfe0…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-10-07 15:51:14
Sources: Tesla abandoned Elon Musk's goal to make thousands of Optimus robots in 2025 due to significant technical challenges, especially with the robots' hands (Theo Wayt/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/el…
@timfoster@mastodon.social2025-09-05 12:28:31
@cobordism@berlin.social2025-07-09 10:24:01
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-08-05 07:03:00
Laut Elon Musk: X hat das Vine-Archiv wiedergefunden
Die bei der Video-App Vine geposteten Inhalte sind seit Jahren nicht mehr verfügbar. Nun will Elon Musk das Archiv wiederentdeckt haben.
https://www.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-08-05 16:25:41
Linda Yaccarino is named CEO of digital health platform eMed Population Health less than a month after stepping down as CEO of X (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/linda-yaccarino-ceo-emed-elon-musk-x-1236478616/
@Billybobbell@twit.social2025-10-05 10:59:17
Suddenly all these fucking bullshit Zionist groups are finding out what it means to get into bed with fucking white supremacists like fucking Musk. You can't negotiate with these people.
#freepalestine #fuckmusk
@cdarwin@c.im2025-07-09 18:45:32
Federal workers fear Trump will fire them after court ruling: ‘We are toast’
After the Supreme Court allowed President Donald Trump on Tuesday to resume firing government workers, federal employees rushed to Signal group chats and anxious phone calls, trying to figure out what it meant for them.
Some federal workers cried. Some shook their heads and began updating their resumes. Others — including union leaders — vowed to fight, determined to hang on to the government jobs that …
@detondev@social.linux.pizza2025-08-07 18:12:22
people under the age of 40 who use 🤣 or 😂 like they're my mom's facebook friends or elon musk's twitter account terrify me
@jerome@jasette.facil.services2025-08-07 14:32:41
Meet the 24-year-old Ottawa software engineer who runs a MAGA bot
Yep that's what corporate social media is becoming, that's why the fediverse is important, makes it easier to detect and block those attempts to have all our conversations AI generated.
And yeah that person is a piece of shit
https://
@vform@openbiblio.social2025-08-06 20:43:17
Watching you – Die Welt von Palantir und Alex Karp - hier anschauen
https://www.ardmediathek.de/film/watching-you-die-welt-von-palantir-und-alex-karp/NzBiODA4OWItZGZmZS00NGY0LWIxZDUtNWU0NDYxMTUzOWVm…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-08-04 18:35:41
Elon Musk says Vine's video archive is being brought back, and xAI's newly launched Grok Imagine, available to X Premium subscribers, is "AI Vine" (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/04/elon-musk-says-hes-bringing-back-…
@juer@juergenklute@digitalcourage.social2025-10-07 13:23:43
Wie viel zahlt Elon Musk dem deutschen Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz eigentlich dafür, dass der die deutsche Automobilindustrie so zielgerichtet und nachhaltig zu zerstören versucht?
https://www.fr.de/wirtschaft/falsches-verb
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-10-07 01:45:42
Jane Goodall said she would launch Trump and Musk on one-way trip into space (Richard Luscombe/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/oct/06/jane-goodall-trump-elon-musk-putin
http://www.memeorandum.com/251006/p166#a251006p166
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-07-09 16:10:58
Sources: Linda Yaccarino had discussed her plans to leave with X employees earlier this week, before Grok's antisemitic posts (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/technology/linda-yaccarino-x-steps-down.html
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-08-01 14:43:13
Why do these people never have any inkling to look beyond their immediate fields of study?
Why do they find it good and proper if one of their members behaves in an absolutely unacceptable fashion, antithetical to your organization, repeatedly?
I'm not even talking Hitler salutes here. Musk was leading an organization that actively worked on dismantling scientific research and space exploration.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/aug/01/royal-society-elon-musk-astronomer-royal-michele-dougherty
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-08-05 04:18:00
@roelgrif@mstdn.social2025-08-04 16:12:45
Maybe Musk saw how easily democracy can be destroyed in a federation of 50 states?
@DieGesellschafterinLang@swiss.social2025-08-07 05:04:47
SEHENSWERT!
Watching You - Die Welt von Palantir und Alex Karp.
Dokumentarfilm über Alex Karp und seine abgeschottete Firma #palantir .
#ElonMusk #PeterThiel
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy2025-08-02 10:19:44
Europe urgently needs to find and shut down all the ways by which foreign billionaires - like Trump's billionaire brigade - can influence elections here.
https://
@macandi@social.heise.de2025-10-02 13:39:00
Konkurrenz in den Charts oben: Apple will Klage von xAI abweisen lassen
Elon Musk glaubt, dass Apple andere KI-Firmen bevorzugt, darunter OpenAI. Apples Anwälte weisen das zurück
https://www.
@karlauerbach@sfba.social2025-09-05 17:10:35
Is Tesla's directors dumb or the dumbest board of directors?
Tesla's board has to realize that musk is a boat anchor bringing the company down with hyperbolic bad choice piled on top of hyperbolic bad choice.
If Tesla wants to improve its position - whether measured by sales, balance sheet, income statement, or reputation it needs to drop that boat anchor and make its cars competitive against the increasingly large number of alternative, and often better, EVs from other m…
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social2025-10-02 16:28:42
«“We are seeing in real time how a government can melt in front of our eyes,” Alejandro Bercovich, a leading Argentine TV and radio journalist told me this week. “I never thought they would collapse this quickly.” […] It’s not only Milei’s administration melting away; so too are his once-packed international throng of cheerleaders and wolf-whistlers. Farage, Badenoch, Musk and all the rest are maintaining a red-faced silence. Curious, that..»
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/02/javier-milei-argentina-nigel-farage-donald-trump-elon-musk
@cdarwin@c.im2025-08-06 00:55:19
The White House has apparently decided that some of the administration’s DOGE-directed firings were a mistake.
The National Weather Service has received permission to hire hundreds of employees, CNN reported Tuesday.
That includes 450 meteorologists, hydrologists, and radar technicians to replace the ones that were let go from the agency at the behest of former DOGE chief Elon Musk.
The order also includes 126 openings for “front-line mission critical” personnel that had b…
@comex@mas.to2025-08-24 03:14:13
With Elon Musk news at a low ebb, here’s a blast from the past.
Remember last year when Elon Musk set up a $1m daily sweepstakes for swing state voters who signed a petition, creating a controversy over vote-buying?
Do you remember the part where the sweepstakes turned out to be a scam with handpicked winners, as freely admitted by his own lawyers?
Promptly leading to a class action for fraud?
Well, that class action has now survived a motion to dismiss.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-08-07 15:15:54
In a live discussion on X, Elon Musk tells advertisers that X plans to introduce advertising into Grok's answers (Hannah Murphy/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/3bc3a76a-8639-4dbe-8754-3053270e4605
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-07-16 08:15:44
“Grok will no longer call itself Hitler or base its opinions on Elon Musk’s, promises xAI”
https://www.theverge.com/x-ai/707442/grok-antisemitic-hitler-elon-musk-opinion-reprogrammed
Anyone remember the days when we actually had a …
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-07-09 02:55:47
Elon Musk's Grok Chatbot Shares Antisemitic Posts on X (Kate Conger/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/technology/grok-antisemitism-ai-x.html?unlocked_article_code=1.VE8.3-P4.-kU0gkq5vieP&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
http://www.memeorandum.com/250708/p163#a250708p163
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-08-04 15:33:39
Elon Musk says Vine's video archive is being brought back, and xAI's newly launched Grok Imagine, available to X Premium subscribers, is "AI Vine" (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/04/elon-musk-says-hes-bringing-back-…
@gadgetboy@gadgetboy.social2025-08-25 11:27:57
This is what you get when you give someone with the humor of a 15-year old boy control over branding. Of course, only a journalist who is a Musk fanboy would think it's cool.
Elon Musk takes aim at Bill Gates' Microsoft with new AI venture “Macrohard”
https://www.te…
@elduvelle@neuromatch.social2025-07-17 18:44:47
"Royal Society suggested to Elon Musk he consider resigning science fellowship"
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jul/17/royal-society-elon-musk-resign-science-fellowship-tesla
... but when he ignored that they just…
@seeingwithsound@mas.to2025-09-04 20:12:07
Elon Musk is "Aiming to restore (limited) sight to the completely blind next year" (2026) with a Neuralink Blindsight brain implant (X) #BCI…
@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scot2025-09-15 11:31:33
@kurtsh@mastodon.social2025-09-23 04:25:54
xAI workers said they've encountered NSFW content, including AI-generated child sexual abuse material from Grok.
☑️ Musk's AI Tutors Describe 'Disgusting' Content Moderation Job - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-08-04 15:40:00
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-10-07 21:45:48
Sources: Elon Musk has appointed former Morgan Stanley banker Anthony Armstrong as CFO of xAI; he will also take over financial management for X (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/79b53db3-3411-454c-814d-d86f3c800abd
@servelan@newsie.social2025-08-02 03:07:50
'Never seen this': Records buried on why Elon Musk sicced cops on his neighbors - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/elon-musk-texas-2673799985/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-07-09 14:46:25
X CEO Linda Yaccarino says that "after two incredible years, I've decided to step down"; X hired Yaccarino in 2023 after running NBCUniversal's ad business (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/09/x-ceo-linda-yaccarino-resigns…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-09-07 14:45:35
Musk holds hostage history's biggest meme stock delusion (Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/09/06/elon-musk-1-trillion-compensation-pay-package-tesla-shareholders-governance/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250907/p31#a250907p31
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-10-01 05:24:00
Elon Musk will Wikipedia Konkurrenz machen
Die Online-Enzyklopädie Wikipedia ist Elon Musk ein Dorn im Auge. Jetzt will der Tech-Milliardär bei seiner KI-Firma eine Alternative entwickeln lassen.
https://www.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-07-09 14:45:40
X CEO Linda Yaccarino says that "after two incredible years, I've decided to step down"; X hired Yaccarino in 2023 after running NBCUniversal's ad business (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/09/x-ceo-linda-yaccarino-resigns…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-10-06 16:30:38
Elon Musk Gambles Billions in Memphis to Catch Up on AI (Alexander Saeedy/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/elon-musk-xai-memphis-tennessee-power-dec4c70d?st=jRLE8S&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.memeorandum.com/251006/p83#a251006p83
@jorgecandeias@mastodon.social2025-08-02 17:48:03
Não é que eu esteja contra isto, que não estou, bem pelo contršrio.
Mas sinceramente não estou a ver como se consegue garantir a aplicabilidade destas coisas.
Provavelmente é falta de imaginação minha.
https://jornaleconomico.sapo.p…
@kubikpixel@chaos.social2025-08-02 07:00:06
Alex Karp: Watching you - Die Welt von Palantir und Alex Karp
Erstmals schaut ein Dokumentarfilm auf den US-Milliardär Alex Karp und seine so mysteriöse wie abgeschottete Firma Palantir. Neben Elon Musk, seinem Mitgründer Peter Thiel und #SamAltman gilt der CEO von #Palantir als einer der bedeute…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-10-06 10:06:08
Source: xAI is set to spend $18B to acquire ~300K more Nvidia chips for its Colossus 2 project in Memphis; Elon Musk said in July it would have 550K chips (Alexander Saeedy/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/elon-musk-xai-mem
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-10-02 17:21:01
In three days, Elon Musk has posted or reposted criticisms and calls to cancel Netflix at least 26 times on X, over transgender references in kids' shows (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/elon-mu…
@seeingwithsound@mas.to2025-08-28 17:59:15
(Spanish) El ojo biónico de Elon Musk: ver mšs allš de la tecnología https://cincodias.elpais.com/opinion/2025-08-28/el-ojo-bionico-de-elon-musk-ver-mas-alla-de-la-tecnologia.html
(translated from Spanish) "The su…
@servelan@newsie.social2025-10-05 20:20:50
Notice how much space is given to a Black visa overstayer, and how little to Elon Musk, who worked on a student visa, allegedly, which is against the law.
Ian Roberts, Des Moines Superintendent, Had a Story Too Good to Be True - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/us/des-moines-iowa-superintendent-ian-roberts-immigration-ice.html
@karlauerbach@sfba.social2025-08-06 19:34:16
Although this story focuses on el-presidente it should be noted that this is also the work of Elon Musk.
Personally I am skeptical of the claims that "big balls" was defending a woman. My guess is that he is an incel who may have only the most distant conception (pun intended) of women.
"Trump threatens to ‘federalize’ DC after attack on Doge staffer"
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-10-02 02:50:59
Elon Musk became the first person with a net worth of $500B after Tesla shares climbed on October 1; Musk is $150B ahead of runner-up Larry Ellison (Matt Durot/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdurot/2025/10/01/elon-musk…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-03 03:22:43
Elon Musk’s SpaceX
has taken money directly from Chinese investors,
according to previously sealed testimony,
raising new questions about foreign ownership interests in one of the United States’ most important military contractors.
The recent testimony,
coming from a SpaceX insider during a court case,
marks the first time direct Chinese investment in the privately held company has been disclosed.
While there is no prohibition on Chinese ownership i…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-09-02 10:35:41
An analysis of Grok's responses to 41 political questions in May and July shows it shifted to the right on 50% of them, often aligning with Elon Musk's views (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/technology/elon-musk-grok-conserva…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-09-04 17:40:52
Elon Musk snubbed from invite list for Trump's Rose Garden event with CEOs (Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-not-invited-trump-rose-garden-ceo-event-2025-9
http://www.memeorandum.com/250904/p75#a250904p75
@cdarwin@c.im2025-08-06 00:41:52
Trump threatens federal takeover of D.C. after attack on DOGE worker "Big Balls"
A protégé of Elon Musk and former DOGE staffer was injured in an attempted carjacking early Sunday morning in D.C.,
two people familiar with the incident said,
in an attack that captured the attention of Donald Trump and reinspired his threats to take over the nation’s capital.
“If D.C. doesn’t get its act together, and quickly, we will have no choice but to take Federal control…
@servelan@newsie.social2025-07-31 16:33:51
'We Are... in My District.': Volunteer Caught Lying About Reason for Barring Black Democrat Lawmaker from Meeting on Elon Musk Airport Project While White Republicans Walk Right In
https://atlantablackstar.com/2025/07/31/tennessee-state-lawmaker-furious-after-being-blocked-from-a-meeting-on-elon-musk-airport-project-in-his-own-district/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-09-05 03:16:04
A revamped Inside the NFL, produced by NFL Films, will debut September 8 on Elon Musk's X, with at least 10 short episodes airing weekly on the platform (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-09-05 14:21:07
Tesla Offers Unprecedented $1 Trillion Pay Package to Musk (Dana Hull/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-05/tsla-tesla-offers-unprecedented-1-trillion-pay-package-to-elon-musk
http://www.memeorandum.com/250905/p48#a250905p48
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-09-02 16:20:46
OpenAI sent subpoenas to AI governance nonprofits Encode and CANI, alleging they are part of a conspiracy involving Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and others (Emily Shugerman/The San Francisco Standard)
https://sfstandard.com/2025/09/02/openai-sam-altman-elon-musk-a…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-08-06 01:50:41
A federal judge struck down a California law blocking large platforms from hosting deceptive AI-generated content related to elections, citing Section 230 (Chase DiFeliciantonio/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/05/elon-musk-x-cou…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-10-02 05:34:00
@seeingwithsound@mas.to2025-09-05 18:32:18
In the context of making America grounded again, always check what sources other than Elon Musk say about Neuralink Blindsight https://artificialvision.com/neuralink.htm When something sounds too good to be true...
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-08-05 18:20:50
Exclusive: Trump administration to formally axe Elon Musk's 'five things' email (Alexandra Alper/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/trump-administration-formally-axe-elon-musks-five-things-email-2025-08-05/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250805/p80#a250805p80
@servelan@newsie.social2025-07-29 16:04:19
“When you have an extended period of prosperity with no existential war, there’s no cleansing function..."
Elon Musk Keeps Suggesting War Is a Good Thing for Society
https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-keeps-suggesting-war-is-a-good-thing-for-society-2000635780
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-08-27 10:01:37
Elon Musk now regularly posts AI images and videos of scantily clad women generated by Grok's Imagine tool on X, including avatar Ani dancing in her underwear (Miles Klee/Rolling Stone)
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/elon-musk-gr…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-08-06 03:30:52
A federal judge struck down a California law blocking large platforms from hosting deceptive AI-generated content related to elections, citing Section 230 (Chase DiFeliciantonio/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/05/elon-musk-x-cou…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-09-16 05:20:00
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-09-02 11:30:33
How Elon Musk Is Remaking Grok in His Image (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/technology/elon-musk-grok-conservative-chatbot.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250902/p5#a250902p5
@servelan@newsie.social2025-10-01 15:45:58
ADL deletes ‘glossary of extremism’ over backlash after Charlie Kirk’s death | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/adl-delete-extremism-glossary-elon-musk-b2837359.html
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-10-02 20:16:01
Elon Musk Leads Campaign To Force Netflix To Remove Shows With Trans Characters (Erin Reed/Erin In The Morning)
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/elon-musk-leads-campaign-to-force
http://www.memeorandum.com/251002/p104#a251002p104
@cdarwin@c.im2025-07-14 17:55:37
We asked Abbott for his and his staff’s emails with Elon Musk and Musk’s companies.
The governor’s office won’t turn them over, saying some contain
“intimate and embarrassing” information that is “not of legitimate concern to the public.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-07-30 05:30:52
The judge in Elon Musk's OpenAI lawsuit strikes down 16 of OpenAI's 55 affirmative defenses, accuses both sides of "gamesmanship" and over-litigating the case (Laura Italiano/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/musk-v-alt
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-07-31 23:15:56
Elon Musk gives millions to Republican super PACs ahead of the midterms (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/elon-musk-gives-millions-republican-super-pacs-ahead-midterms-rcna222114
http://www.memeorandum.com/250731/p132#a250731p132
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-08-25 13:15:40
Docs: xAI terminated its status as a public benefit corporation as of May 9, 2024; XAI Holdings, which houses xAI and X, also doesn't have a PBC designation (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/25/elon-musk-xai-dropp…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-08-29 14:11:02
Sources: the US government restored xAI to its vendors list after removing it for Grok's antisemitic content; email: the White House asked GSA to add xAI "ASAP" (Zoë Schiffer/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/white-house-elon-musk-xai-grok/
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-07-30 10:55:52
Musk's "America Party" is failing to launch (Brittany Gibson/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/30/elon-musk-america-party-trump-tesla-spacex
http://www.memeorandum.com/250730/p8#a250730p8
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-07-31 20:35:58
The Boy Genius Who Killed 14 Million Poor People (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-boy-genius-who-killed-14-million-luke-farritor-doge-elon-musk-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/250731/p105#a250731p105
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-07-11 00:40:46
Further tests reveal Grok 4 appears to consult Elon Musk's views on a range of sensitive topics, and its answers tend to align with Musk's personal opinions (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/10/grok
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-10-01 02:50:48
ADL deletes Glossary of Extremism under pressure from conservatives over Charlie Kirk entry (Jewish Insider)
https://jewishinsider.com/2025/09/adl-glossary-of-extremism-charlie-kirk-turning-point-usa-elon-musk/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250930/p178#a250930p178
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-09-19 00:50:48
Inside xAI's chaotic summer: Musk reorganized xAI on the fly, researchers left over concerns it abandoned science in favor of attention-grabbing products, more (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/t…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-07-10 17:10:41
A judge rules Don Lemon's lawsuit against Elon Musk and X can proceed to trial, after Musk canceled a $1.5M/year exclusive X content deal with Lemon in 2024 (Alex Welch/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/don-lemon-elon-musk-x-lawsuit-moving-to-tria…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-08-24 04:35:51
Elon Musk says xAI has open sourced Grok 2.5 and plans to do the same for Grok 3 in about six months, with Grok 2's weights now available on Hugging Face (Elon Musk/@elonmusk)
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1959379349322313920
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-09-30 10:40:50
Sources: Elon Musk's Tesla and xAI have had a wave of senior departures over the past year, driven by burnout, disillusionment with Musk's politics, and more (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/21ec5a5f-0e9a-49b9-b64d-9ebc88e70aa7
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-09-19 00:55:49
Report: at an xAI meeting, Elon Musk and his executives said the Grok chatbot has 64M monthly users; OpenAI said in August that ChatGPT had 700M weekly users (Theo Wayt/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/elon-musks-xai-says-gr…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-08-12 18:50:47
Despite Musk's claim Apple "makes it impossible" for non-OpenAI AI apps to top its App Store, DeepSeek was #1 in January and Perplexity was #1 in July in India (Henry Chandonnet/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-
