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xAI all-hands: Nikita Bier says X hit $1B in ARR from selling $3 to $40 per month subscriptions, but offered no details on ad revenue or other xAI financials (Theo Wayt/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/x-subscriptio…

X Subscriptions Hit $1 Billion in Annualized Revenue, Exec Says
X recently hit $1 billion in annualized recurring revenue from selling subscriptions, head of product Nikita Bier said in an xAI all-hands meeting on Tuesday. The subscriptions X sells include Basic, Premium and Premium+ plans that range from $3 to $40 per month. The social media site, formerly known as Twitter, has ramped up efforts to sell subscriptions after Elon Musk’s acquisition of the

Umfrage: Hälfte der Deutschen will Verbot der Plattform X bei weiteren Rechtsverstößen
Viele Menschen sind mit ihrer Geduld mit Elon Musk und seiner Plattform X am Ende. Die Plattform hatte im Zusammenspiel mit dem Chatbot Grok zuletzt millionenfach sexualisierte Deepfakes verbreitet und ist seit der Übernahme durch den Milliardär politisch auf rechtsaußen gepolt. #netzpolitik.org

aus den super-lustigen Reihen:
- "da kommt man doch noch vorbei" und
- "was sollen wir bloß dagegen machen, wir haben doch schon einmal mit den eScooter-Verleihern gesprochen"
#Eberhardstraße #Marktstraße

An interview with Nikita Bier, who wants to lure journalists back to X with a rebuilt recommendation algorithm with no keyword suppression or manual downranking (Alex Heath/Sources)
https://sources.news/p/x-wants-its-haters-back

X wants its haters back
Product chief Nikita Bier's message to journalists who left: “We have to earn their trust.”

For any political party with principles around LBGTQ , freedom of speech etc , X, Whatsapp and Facebook are no longer platforms for discussion. Everybody should leave, there are better alternatives. Many people find it difficult however, also in my own party (D66, Netherlands).

Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content
More than 50 organisations report sites being restricted or removed, with abortion hotlines blocked and posts showing non-explicit nudity triggering warnings

Der Plattformbetreiber #X muss der Nachrichtenagentur #AFP 170.000 Euro zahlen, weil er gerichtlich angeordnete Nutzungsdaten nicht offengelegt hat.
Trotz Urteil und Berufung verweigert X weiterhin die Zusammenarbeit im Rahmen des europäischen

Leistungsschutzrecht boykottiert: französische Geldstrafe für X
X muss der Presseagentur AFP 170.000 Euro zahlen, weil es gerichtlich geforderte Daten nicht liefert. In einem 2. Fall drohen 60.000 Euro täglich.

Trotz rechtsradikaler Hetze, FakeNews und neuerdings weltweiter Kritik an sexualisierten KI-Deepfakes auf X bleiben staatliche Akteure und Institutionen auf der Plattform aktiv – und liefern unterschiedliche, teils widersprüchliche Begründungen dafür. #netzpolitk.org
Das ist keine Gratwanderung - verlasst endlich #X

Finally an RGB image of comet #3IATLAS from images taken by #GeminiNorth during the 26 November #shadowTheScientists session: https://noirlab.edu/public/news/noirlab2532/ - the coma has become bluer due to more gas emission. Also published today: an X-ray image by XMM-Newton at https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2025/12/XMM-Newton_sees_comet_3I_ATLAS_in_X-ray_light with explanations in http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/iau/cbet/005600/CBET005646.txt which also contains more 3I news.
Meanwhile the paper https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ae2915 claims an upper limit for 3I's nucleus diameter of only some 750 meters from the measured non-gravitational acceleration (NGA) parameters: that would be waaay more stringent than the 5.6 km upper limit from early Hubble observations reported in https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/adf8d8 (where also a lower limit of 440 meters is stated).

Fast 50.000 Unterschriften an einem Tag. Unsere Aktion @… #runtervonX hat gestern Fahrt aufgenommen.

Keine Macht für Oligarchen: Bundesregierung endlich runter von X
Staatliche Kommunikation ist keine gewöhnliche Werbung, sondern Teil der demokratischen Grundversorgung. Wenn Regierung und Behörden sich an Plattformen binden, die Hass, Desinformation und intransparente Algorithmen dulden oder fördern, stärken sie Strukturen, die demokratische Öffentlichkeit beschädigen.  Ein Ausstieg aus X ist das notwendige Signal, dass demokratische Werte und Grundrechte Vorrang vor kurzfristiger, vermeintlicher Reichweite haben.  Mit dem Wechsel zu offenen, dezent…

[Thread] GPT-5.2 is now available in the API, priced at $1.75/1M input and $14/1M output tokens; GPT-5.2 Pro is priced at $21/1M input and $168/1M output tokens (@openaidevs)
https://x.com/openaidevs/status/1999184802755354954

OpenAI Developers (@OpenAIDevs) on X
GPT-5.2 is now available in the API—our most advanced frontier model for long-running agents. https://t.co/J5i4czpKsL

dort an Ende, bzw. Anfang, der Stuttgarter "Fahrradstraße" in Mitte hat sich die Stadtverwaltung mal wieder etwas ganz besonders Gutes und sehr, sehr nützliches für den Radverkehr ausgedacht!
Ein neues Fahrradpiktogramm, genau zwischen zwei durchgezogenen Linien. *slowclap*
Aber gut, dass @… keinerlei Ahnung von der StVO hat (und das im…

Ghost in the friendly and interactive shell (fish):
I removed a `set -x VARNAME ...` line from my fish config.
Spawning a new shell still had that variable.
I ran `set -e VARNAME`. For the current shell, it's gone.
Spawning a new shell again, I got it back. What..?
Okay, so I closed _all the fish instances_.
And the damn env var came back *again*!?!
Looks like that's because it's my login shell.
A fresh login session no longer had it.

#Shitpost #Shitposting #ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore

I know it's a silly thing, but I really enjoy streaming my Xbox Series X on Linux 😎
#gaming #Xbox #Linux

🇬🇧 ❤️ 🇬🇧 ❤️ 🇬🇧❤️ 🇬🇧❤️ 🇬🇧
Gute Idee von Grossbritannien:
X gehört abgeschaltet,
jetzt noch mehr, da Grok auf Frauen und Kinder zielt
und versucht, Missbrauch, Demütigung und Blossstellung zu normalisieren.
#neueWege #gemeinsam

Elon Musk redet, Tesla zahlt. Seine politischen Ausfälle auf X und die offen rechtslastige Selbstinszenierung vergraulen Millionen potenzieller Käufer. Laut Umfragen boykottieren viele wegen Musks Haltung die Marke. Und das nicht nur in den USA – Ironie der E-Auto-Ikone: Der eigene CEO wird zum Absatzrisiko. #FAZ - GUT SO!!!

Michešl Martin, @MichealMartinTD, Taoiseach (Prime Minister) of Ireland has posted five time on x.com already today.

Als alle nieuwe kamerleden nu eens stoppen met X en alleen sociale media gebruiken waar rechts-radicale content, racisme, haat door de algoritmes en de eigenaar niet extreem wordt versterkt?
Om te beginnen hoop ik mijn partij (D66)
#X #tweedekamer

35 yrs ago #OTD
made this flyer for an Indie Rock showcase in #SF as the US invades Iraq
with #VomitLaunch & X-Tal

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #MusicMap
Antonín Dvořšk, Collegium Vocale Gent, Antwerp Symphony Orchestra & Philippe Herreweghe:
🎵 Stabat Mater, Op. 58: X. Quando corpus morietur (Andante con moto)
#AntonínDvořák
https://open.spotify.com/track/03GCpVbY5p8zwv4irg6frN

Markenrechte von X aufgegeben: Neues soziales Netzwerk soll „Twitter“ heißen #twitter #X #Musk

Markenrechte von X aufgegeben: Neues soziales Netzwerk soll „Twitter“ heißen
Vor zwei Jahren hat Elon Musk Twitter in X umbenannt, danach hat er deutlich gemacht, dass er kein Interesse an der Marke hat. Ein Konkurrent verlangt sie nun.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Saba ft. Ogi:
🎵 How Many X?
#SabaftOgi
https://open.spotify.com/track/5m1s5Ltj6eKO5d17SuJxQY

Has anyone heard anything from Apple regarding the safety of X, given that it is a porn generator on demand?
They seemed to be very concerned about it a year ago:

[___-time use] Urban fantasy

Carpenter called away to an emergency leak elsewhere today. Trouble with having a carpenter who is also a plumber I guess. 😆
The frames for the window doors look to be mostly completed, the doors that will make the blinds are up (though probably presumably will come down again to have mirrors attached? Maybe?). Lots of holes in wood filled. Stupid natural products. MDF don't have no holes, or grain at all.
Trying to render an image big enough to fill the wall there. 2m x 1m. Keeps crashing my machine. Going to have to try and render it in bits or something.

A lot of my thoughts and personal perspective was shared on Twitter; now the online dumpster fire and harassment tool X.
I've made all of my tweets available on a separate server here: A lot of my thought and personal perspective was shared on Twitter; now the online dumpster fire and harassment tool X. I've made all of my tweets available on a separate server here:

Managing files over #WebDAV with Terraform
https://broken-by-design.fr/posts/remotefs/
In this blog post, I document the development of a

Ein Tweet über X, der fassungslos macht, ein Kanzler, der Arbeit neu verstehen muss, KI, die doch nicht so produktiv macht, und ein Deutschland, das hoffentlich doch nicht so gespalten ist? Die vergangenen Tage rein persönlich
#Kuratiert.
http://

Armin & X – Fritz & Arbeit – KI Einheitsbrei – Weniger uneins, als gedacht | Kuratiert.
Ein Tweet über X, der fassungslos macht, ein Kanzler, der Arbeit neu verstehen muss, KI, die doch nicht so produktiv macht, und ein Deutschland, das hoffentlich doch nicht so gespalten ist? Die ver…

https://x.com/i/status/1998743992931111219

Booster separation during the #Vulcan launch ... but as ULA is just confirming in https://x.com/ulalaunch/status/2021893224907083949 and e.g. https://bsky.app/profile/derek.space/post/3menpvsm7wk2u and https://bsky.app/profile/gewoonlukas.bsky.social/post/3menp65czzc2c had already noted one of the boosters had suffered some anomaly - which however didn't affect the mission.

The UK plans to bring into force a law this week that will make it illegal to create non-consensual intimate images, as Ofcom investigates X (BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq845glnvl1o

UK to bring into force law to tackle Grok AI deepfakes this week
It is currently illegal to share deepfakes, but the law against creating them has not yet come into force.

"My strongest social media belief is that Threads isn't real"

Finally had time to sit down and do a GPU version of the constellation diagram filter.
I'm now running this filter graph (4 channels -> 2 differential legs, S-parameter de-embed of dual directional coupler, 3 dB FIR equalizer, 4x sin(x)/x upsample, PAM-3 edge detection, CDR PLL, PAM-3 eye pattern, demux to 2D-PAM3 channels, 2D-PAM3 constellation, 100baseT1 single pair ethernet protocol decode) at about 6.3 WFM/s on 4 channels * 20M points.
This is 504 Msps or a touch over …

Bruttospeicherleistung aktiver #Batteriespeicher je #Netzanschlussebene in #Deutschland ab 2012 mit Stand vom 07.02.2026.
Betrachtet werden Datensätze mit Betriebsstatus „a…

https://x.com/EricStangel/status/2019906942576050564

"...limiting access to paying subscribers just makes ability to generate unlawful images a premium service"
When you're wealthy you can.... Say, who is in the #EpsteinFiles, anyway?
No 10 condemns ‘insulting’ move by X to restrict Grok AI image tool

"...limiting access to paying subscribers just makes ability to generate unlawful images a premium service"
When you're wealthy you can.... Say, who is in the #EpsteinFiles, anyway?
No 10 condemns ‘insulting’ move by X to restrict Grok AI image tool

Was Grok aktuell auf X ermöglicht, sorgt international für Entsetzen. 😡 Der Bildgenerator wird genutzt, um sexualisierte Deepfakes von realen Personen zu erstellen - darunter auch Minderjährige. Diese manipulierten Bilder landen dann öffentlich auf der Plattform.
Zum Artikel: https://

Simon Harris @SimonHarrisTD Tšnaiste (Deputy Prime Minister of Ireland), and Minister for Finance has posted on x.com twice already today.

Der DJV hat sich uns angeschlossen:
"Der Deutsche Journalisten-Verband fordert die Regierungen von Bund und Ländern auf, der Plattform X den Rücken zu kehren. Der DJV unterstützt damit die von der Organisation SaveSocial.eu initiierte Petition, das Netzwerk des Milliardärs Elon Musk zu verlassen. Anlass sind jüngste Drohungen von Musk gegen die Europäische Union."
Bisher haben 6500 unterzeichnet:

Keine Macht für Oligarchen: Bundesregierung endlich runter von X
Staatliche Kommunikation ist keine gewöhnliche Werbung, sondern Teil der demokratischen Grundversorgung. Wenn Regierung und Behörden sich an Plattformen binden, die Hass, Desinformation und intransparente Algorithmen dulden oder fördern, stärken sie Strukturen, die demokratische Öffentlichkeit beschädigen.  Ein Ausstieg aus X ist das notwendige Signal, dass demokratische Werte und Grundrechte Vorrang vor kurzfristiger, vermeintlicher Reichweite haben.  Mit dem Wechsel zu offenen, dezent…

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https://www.pastpuzzle.de

Today three years ago. oh boy that was a nice tour. But also one of my first longer snowshoe tours where I learned how much energy this can drain :-D
But it was worth the walk!
And this "today x years ago" is one of my favourite features of image galleries like (in this case) #immich.
The curiousity each day "oh has there been some cool thing I did a couple of yea…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Prince:
🎵 Let's Go Crazy
#NowPlaying #Prince
https://aggro1.bandcamp.com/track/prince-lets-go-crazy-x-eqwillus-edge
https://open.spotify.com/track/6FMIVQPZg9cmMY8hPxAacD

Elon Musk announces an xAI reorganization that "required parting ways with some people", after two xAI co-founders announced they were leaving this week (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/11/musk-announces-xai-re-o…

Musk announces xAI re-org following co-founder departures, SpaceX merger
The reorganization "required parting ways with some people," Elon Musk said Wednesday on X.

If you haven’t yet heard Minister for Communications Patrick O’Donovan explain why X dot come should not be held responsible for its paid feature of generating child sex abuse material, you might want to sit down before pressing play.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
A$AP Rocky:
🎵 Punk Rocky
#A$APRocky
https://clodaghmusic.bandcamp.com/track/biggie-x-a-ap-rocky-machine-gun-funk-x-fuckin-problem
https://open.spotify.com/track/5FSvy2wYKnurBi0Nq3wR9F

It's not a contradiction to be opposed to the Online Safety Act, and to also think that this is Clown World nonsense
> Representative Anna Paulina Luna of Florida said [...] “If Starmer is successful in banning X in Britain, I will move forward with legislation that is currently being drafted to sanction not only Starmer, but Britain as a whole."

Elon Musk’s Grok curbs AI image editing usage after deepfakes backlash
The tool is now limited to paying users.

The second #PSLV launch in a row has ended in failure, at almost the same time during the burn of the 3rd stage as the last one: https://x.com/Dillonshrop06/status/2010579794191401168 - so far ISRO hasn't explained anything.

Estou ficando assustado. Se tanta gente estš errando esta questão trivial, imagina quando eu começar a correção das questões envolvendo integrais? 😬

#Speicherkapazität der #Batteriespeicher in #Deutschland je Netzanschlussebene ab 2012 mit Stand vom 07.02.2026.
Betrachtet werden Datensätze mit Betriebsstatus „aktiv“…

Someone's gone up in my estimation (not a lot and from a low base, but up)
https://www.thejournal.ie/media-minister-x-grok-6921938-Jan2026/
(Also, a sign that X is being recognised as toxic, finally.)

Media Minister has deleted his X account over its digital undressing scandal
X’s European headquarters is based in Dublin, but the platform has not been forthright on engaging with the Irish Government in relation to child safety.

Sources: X reported $752M in Q3 revenue, up 17% YoY, a net loss of $577.4M, and EBITDA of ~$454M, up 16%; revenue for the first nine months of 2025 was $2B (Carmen Arroyo/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-12/musk…

Quite some #art in #Hamm, paintings, colored elephants, and a statue. And... a Persil post. And a cool Merry X-Mas graffiti.

All three astronomy satellites on the Twilight mission has now been deployed, BlackCAT and SPARCS out of sight of the Falcon 9 upper stage cameras, but the departure of #Pandora was beautifully seen - a screencap from the webcast https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1nAKEEAevzbKL

eigentlich ist dort eine Baustelle und die Straße komplett gesperrt.
Aber weil jede:r hier in Stuttgart weiß, dass das Ordnungsamt von @… so gar keine Lust aufs Arbeiten hat, wird eben über Gehwege, Radwege und Grünflächen gefahren.
Offenbar versuchen Anwohner:innen und/oder die Baustellenleute, sich in ihrer Verzweiflung mit den Christbäumen irg…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
A$AP Rocky:
🎵 Punk Rocky
#A$APRocky
https://clodaghmusic.bandcamp.com/track/biggie-x-a-ap-rocky-machine-gun-funk-x-fuckin-problem
https://open.spotify.com/track/5FSvy2wYKnurBi0Nq3wR9F
Please 🔁 BOOST to share what you like
- your followers don't see if you ⭐ favourite a post

[Thread] Substack quietly added a feature that forced subscribers to download the app to read full newsletters but say they've rolled it back after complaints (Gergely Orosz/@gergelyorosz)
https://x.com/gergelyorosz/status/1999241496005066755

Liebe @… hallo Herr #Merz, werte CDU und SPD:
Elon Musk attackiert die EU und damit unsere Basis für ein friedliches Zusammenleben und wirtschaftliches Wohlergehen. Wer jetzt noch auf X / Twitter aktiv ist, macht sich zu Komplizen. Für staatliche Ac…

Keine Macht für Oligarchen: Bundesregierung endlich runter von X
Staatliche Kommunikation ist keine gewöhnliche Werbung, sondern Teil der demokratischen Grundversorgung. Wenn Regierung und Behörden sich an Plattformen binden, die Hass, Desinformation und intransparente Algorithmen dulden oder fördern, stärken sie Strukturen, die demokratische Öffentlichkeit beschädigen.  Ein Ausstieg aus X ist das notwendige Signal, dass demokratische Werte und Grundrechte Vorrang vor kurzfristiger, vermeintlicher Reichweite haben.  Mit dem Wechsel zu offenen, dezent…

Good to repeat.
The EU’s Fine Against X is Not About Speech or ‘Censorship’ | TechPolicy.Press
https://techpolicy.press/the-eus-fine-against-x-is-not-about-speech-or-censorship

The EU’s Fine Against X is Not About Speech or ‘Censorship’ | TechPolicy.Press
The €120 million fine under the Digital Services Act is just the EU enforcing some normal, boring requirements of its law, writes Stanford's Daphne Keller.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Zaho de Sagazan:
🎵 Ô travers
#NowPlaying #ZahodeSagazan
https://erickbastide.bandcamp.com/track/zaho-de-sagazan-o-travers-erick-b-x-tended-mix
https://open.spotify.com/track/37lyOMtkmXCvQMqdIV9jP3

There's one big fan of moss and lichen on Bsky, and he just did a thread with great photos, but he has the setting turned on that means you have to be logged in to see it. So here's the link, for those who can log in: https://bsky.app/profile/dj-acid-reflux.bsky.soci…

Der SPIEGEL berichtet über 20 Milliarden Dollar Investorengelder für xAI. Parallel bleibt X ein Ort, an dem pornografische Inhalte florieren und geduldet werden. Das ist kein Widerspruch, sondern Teil derselben Logik: Reichweite schlägt Regulierung, Kapital schlägt Ethik. Und am Ende stimmt der Profit.
#Netzpolitik

heute früh wieder gesehen:
zwei Mitarbeiterinnen der Stadt laufen, im Gespräch vertieft, untätig an Falschparkern vorbei.
Klar, nach den Feiertagen will man lieber miteinander über die freien Tage reden, anstatt zu arbeiten.
Für mich ganz deutliches #bezahltspazieren!
Das kann die Stuttgart noch so viel von angeblichem "Personalmangel" palavern - wenn …

Da stehe ich voll dahinter:
#saveSocial #leaveX
https://weact.campa…

Keine Macht für Oligarchen: Bundesregierung endlich runter von X
Staatliche Kommunikation ist keine gewöhnliche Werbung, sondern Teil der demokratischen Grundversorgung. Wenn Regierung und Behörden sich an Plattformen binden, die Hass, Desinformation und intransparente Algorithmen dulden oder fördern, stärken sie Strukturen, die demokratische Öffentlichkeit beschädigen.  Ein Ausstieg aus X ist das notwendige Signal, dass demokratische Werte und Grundrechte Vorrang vor kurzfristiger, vermeintlicher Reichweite haben.  Mit dem Wechsel zu offenen, dezent…

Ofcom opens an investigation under the OSA into Grok over the sexualized deepfakes of women and kids being generated on X and threatens it with a ban or a fine (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/8eec6d77-c72e-4e8f-a6b5-ce82575e71c6

X ist eine Nazikneipe: Löscht Twitter! @JanSkudlarek ruft erneut zum #eXit auf: „X ist eine Nazikneipe.“ Wer Anstand hat, verlässt den Laden – und löscht Twitter. Statt Applaus für „freien Diskurs“ herrscht dort rechte Hetze als Hausmusik. Zeit für einen klaren Schnitt. 👉

X ist eine Nazikneipe: Löscht Twitter!
Wer Anstand hat, muss X endlich verlassen Vor etwa einem Jahr verließ ich – gemeinsam mit Max Czollek und mit vielen weiteren – die Onlineplattform X (zu besseren…

🇺🇦 Auf #radioeins läuft...
Zaho de Sagazan:
🎵 Ô travers
#NowPlaying #ZahodeSagazan
https://erickbastide.bandcamp.com/track/zaho-de-sagazan-o-travers-erick-b-x-tended-mix
https://open.spotify.com/track/37lyOMtkmXCvQMqdIV9jP3

David Sacks says AI preemption won't apply to state laws on child safety, communities won't be forced to host data centers they don't want, and more (David Sacks/@davidsacks)
https://x.com/davidsacks/status/1998125180753944985

David Sacks (@DavidSacks) on X
ONE RULEBOOK FOR AI I wanted to share a few thoughts on AI preemption and address some of the concerns. First, this is not an “AI amnesty” or “AI moratorium.” It is an attempt to settle a question of jurisdiction. When an AI model is developed in state A, trained in state B,

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Deltron 3030:
🎵 Virus
#Deltron3030
https://keifergr33n.bandcamp.com/track/super-mario-world-sub-castle-x-deltron-3030-virus
https://open.spotify.com/track/4CpWJkSodVFE3HSylu7ajJ

Musk over-promises and under-delivers.
Again.
And again.
Everyone laughs at him, but he's still the richest person on Earth and press reports do not continually ridicule him.
WTF is wrong with the world?
https://science.s…

SpaceX Prioritizes Lunar 'Self-Growing City' Over Mars Project, Musk Says - Slashdot
"Elon Musk said on Sunday that SpaceX has shifted its focus to building a 'self-growing city' on the moon," reports Reuters, "which could be achieved in less than 10 years." SpaceX still intends to start on Musk's long-held ambition of a city on Mars within five to seven years, he wrote on his X s...

wenn das Rad schon so aus der Garage kommt 🫣 (weil ich gestern Abend noch kurz unterwegs war). Aber Morgen soll der Dauerfrost hier auch schon wieder zuende sein.
Am Ausblick über den #Kessel in #Stuttgart ändert das aber nichts. ;-)

xAI co-founder Tony Wu says he "resigned", following co-founder Igor Babuschkin's exit in August 2025; Wu was in charge of reasoning and reported to Elon Musk (Juro Osawa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/another-cofound…

Another Cofounder of Elon Musk’s xAI Resigns
Tony Wu, one of xAI’s cofounders, said he has resigned from Elon Musk’s AI company. Wu’s exit follows the departure last year of another xAI cofounder, Igor Babuschkin. “I will deeply miss the people,  the warrooms, and all those battles we have fought together,” Wu said in a post on X. “It’s time for my next chapter.” Wu, a computer scientist who got his doctorate from the University of

Slightly troubling for Denmark and EU this line of thinking 🤔 ..... The message is from the wife of Stephen Miller. A close advisor of Trump.
#denmark #greenland #eu

Source: Chinese AI startup Zhipu anonymously released its new AI model on OpenRouter under the name Pony Alpha; Zhipu plans to launch GLM-5 later this week (Juro Osawa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/chinas-zhipu-rolls-new-ai-mo…

China’s Zhipu Rolls Out New AI Model in Stealth Mode
Zhipu, one of China’s prominent AI developers, has anonymously released its new large language model under a different name on OpenRouter, a popular AI model marketplace for developers. Pony Alpha, a new open-source LLM launched on OpenRouter a few days ago, is Zhipu’s new model, known as GLM-5, in disguise, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter. In a post on X,

Nikita Bier accuses the European Commission of trying to deceptively amplify the reach of its post about the €120M fine on X; X terminates the EC's ad account (Bjarke Smith-Meyer/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/x-axes-european-commiss…

X axes European Commission’s ad account after €120M EU fine
Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the EU executive of trying to amplify its own social media post about the fine on X by trying “to take advantage of an exploit in our Ad Composer.”

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
A$AP Rocky:
🎵 Punk Rocky
#A$APRocky
https://clodaghmusic.bandcamp.com/track/biggie-x-a-ap-rocky-machine-gun-funk-x-fuckin-problem
https://open.spotify.com/track/5FSvy2wYKnurBi0Nq3wR9F

Filings: X's UK revenue fell 58.3% YoY from £69.1M in 2023 to £28.9M in 2024; pre-tax profits fell from £2.2M in 2023 to £767,000 in 2024 (Mark Sweney/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

EU vs Elon Musk - Musk tobt nachdem die EU (endlich) eine Strafe verhängt hat - US-Außenminister Marco Rubio reagiert empört und spricht von Zensur - DOCH: Warum sind Bundesregierung und EU-Kommission überhaupt noch auf X? Jeder Tweet auf X stärkt Elon Musk – und gibt ihm genau die Öffentlichkeit, die er nutzen wird, um unsere Demokratie zu beschädigen. @…

EU vs Elon Musk
Es war lange ein Running Gag: Wann traut sich die EU endlich, gegen die offensichtlichen Verstöße von X im Rahmen des Digital Services Act vorzugehen? Am Freitag – nach zwei Jahren Ermittlungen – kam endlich Bewegung in die Sache: 120 Millionen Euro Strafe. Ist das viel oder wenig? Schwer zu sagen, denn

The UK government says X restricting Grok's image creation to paid users is insulting as it just makes the ability to generate unlawful images a premium service (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

Grok's website and app are being used to produce extremely graphic, sometimes violent, sexual imagery of adults that is far more explicit than images on X (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/grok-is-generating-sexual-content-far-more-graphi…

Grok Is Generating Sexual Content Far More Graphic Than What's on X
A WIRED review of outputs hosted on Grok’s official website shows it’s being used to create violent sexual images and videos, as well as content that includes apparent minors.

das Wetter ist aktuell schon etwas interessanter, als der immer nur blaue Himmel im Frühjahr/Sommer/Herbst.
Auch wenn die 15⁰C noch vor zwei/drei Wochen nicht ganz so optimal waren.
Und 2026 wird es mit diesen Bildern wohl weiter gehen - gesundes neues Jahr an alle!
#mdRzA #pmdris

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Pharoah Sanders:
🎵 Love Is Everywhere
#PharoahSanders
https://kutmah.bandcamp.com/track/pharoah-sanders-x-absoul-love-is-everywhere
https://open.spotify.com/track/4IIxBK0L8uj7viwxhmuSc4

X is restricting Grok's image capabilities via the @grok reply command, but free users can still create sexual deepfakes through the standalone Grok app or site (Robert Hart/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/859309/grok-undressing-limit-access-gasligh…

No, Grok hasn’t paywalled its deepfake image feature
X’s sexual deepfake machine is still running, despite Grok saying otherwise.

X faces fresh probes in Europe, India, and Malaysia after Grok generated explicit images of women and children; the UK says it has requested related info from X (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/05/india-eu-investigate-m…

Elon Musk's X faces probes in Europe, India, Malaysia after Grok generated explicit images of women and children
Regulators in Europe, India and Malaysia are scrutinizing X after exploitative images created with the Grok chatbot went viral on Elon Musk's social network.

Europa will digital souverän sein, aber die Chefs posten noch bei X & delegieren Kontrolle an US-Plattformen? So viel zur Unabhängigkeit. Wenn digitale Selbstbestimmung ernst gemeint ist, braucht es mehr als Worte und Signalpolitik auf X. Der Spiegel-Kommentar von @… zeigt die Diskrepanz auf.

Der Mythos: Qualitätsjournalismus mischt auf X mit. Die Realität: Millionen Follower, aber Kommentare wie „Propagandasch**“ & tägliche Stimmung wie auf dem Marktplatz einer Schimpfwort-Genossenschaft. Trotzdem bleiben ARD & Co – Diskurs oder Dauerbelagerung? @… #Medien

X limits Grok's image generation and editing to paying subscribers after widespread outcry over its use to create sexually explicit and violent imagery (Helena Horton/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/09/gro…

X unveils a new pay-per-use pricing model for its API, replacing the earlier pricing model that required developers to pay fixed monthly fees of $200 or $5,000 (Rohit Singh/MediaNama)
https://www.medianama.com/2026/02/223-x-developer-api-pricing-pay-per-use-m…

Physicist Steve Hsu says he has published a peer-reviewed theoretical physics paper whose main idea came from GPT-5 (Steve Hsu/@hsu_steve)
https://x.com/hsu_steve/status/1996034522308026435

steve hsu (@hsu_steve) on X
I think I’ve published the first research article in theoretical physics in which the main idea came from an AI - GPT5 in this case. The physics research paper itself (on QFT and state-dependent quantum mechanics) has been published in Physics Letters B. I've written an

Wall Street's idea that a software pure play will "vanish" into an LLM is "nonsense": we need more software, and AI-enabled software moves up the product stack (Steven Sinofsky/@stevesi)
https://x.com/stevesi/status/2019167552794948020

Steven Sinofsky (@stevesi) on X
Death of Software. Nah.

Sam Altman says the Anthropic Super Bowl ads are funny but "dishonest", and Anthropic serves a "product to rich people" while OpenAI is committed to free access (Sam Altman/@sama)
https://x.com/sama/status/2019139174339928189

Sam Altman (@sama) on X
First, the good part of the Anthropic ads: they are funny, and I laughed. But I wonder why Anthropic would go for something so clearly dishonest. Our most important principle for ads says that we won’t do exactly this; we would obviously never run ads in the way Anthropic

The EU says it ordered X to retain all internal docs and data relating to Grok until the end of 2026, after criticizing Grok's nonconsensual image generation (Louise Breusch Rasmussen/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/eu-commissio

Australia's ban on social media for users aged under 16 comes into effect; platforms that do not comply risk fines of up to AU$49.5M (Josh Taylor/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/dec/09/australia-u…

Roblox expands mandatory age estimations for chat features to all regions using Persona's tech, after a rollout in Australia, New Zealand, and the Netherlands (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/856696/roblox-age-check-estimation-chat

Roblox now requires an age check if you want to chat
After a user’s age has been verified, they’ll be able to chat with others in similar age groups.

India orders X to fix Grok to block the generation of obscene content, giving it 72 hours to submit an action-taken report or risk losing "safe harbor" immunity (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/02/india-orders-mus…

India orders Musk's X to fix Grok over "obscene" AI content | TechCrunch
India's IT ministry has given X 72 hours to submit an action-taken report.

Vice President JD Vance, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and FCC Chairman Brendan Carr denounce the EU's €120M X fine (Liv McMahon/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g9kejzvw0o

Elon Musk's X fined €120m over 'deceptive' blue ticks
The European Commission says the social media site is opening its users up to scams and impersonations.

xAI rolls out Grok Imagine 1.0, which it says can generate 720p 10-second videos with better audio, and says Imagine generated 1.245B videos in the past 30 days (@…)
https://x.com/xai/status/2018164753810…

xAI (@xai) on X
Introducing Grok Imagine 1.0, our biggest leap yet. 1.0 unlocks 10-second videos, 720p resolution, and dramatically better audio. Imagine has generated 1.245 billion videos in the last 30 days alone. Try it now: https://t.co/zGhs9czkC5

Oracle says the Nvidia-OpenAI deal has "zero impact" on its financial relationship with OpenAI and it is "highly confident in OpenAI's ability to raise funds" (@…)
https://

Oracle (@Oracle) on X
The NVIDIA-OpenAI deal has zero impact on our financial relationship with OpenAI. We remain highly confident in OpenAI’s ability to raise funds and meet its commitments.

Researcher: Grok generated ~6,700 sexually suggestive or "nudifying" images per hour on X between January 5 and January 6; 85% of Grok images are sexualized (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20