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☆ Elon Musk's X has embraced porn. Now what?
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-05 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewElon Musk's X overhauled its sensitive media policy this week, signaling an increasing coziness with the world of adult content. Porn is already a part of twitters audiences appetite so they will have to meet (OSA) priority content duties anyway. Related storiesBut taking pornography on board so squarely ramps up concerns for X users. It's also unclear how X vets material that is posted nonconsensually, Thornhill, who has advised UK lawmakers on porn regulation, said. Earlier this year, TechCrunch also reported that Musk was toying with the idea of revitalizing X's "communities" feature, with NSFW adult content.

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☆ Australia drops case against Elon Musk's social media platform X over church stabbing footage
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-05 | by ( Sam Meredith | In Samuelmeredith | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Australia on Wednesday announced it had dropped its legal battle against Elon Musk's X to have graphic footage of a church stabbing in Sydney removed from the social media platform. The dispute was widely seen as a test case for the Australian government's ability to enforce its online safety standards on the social media giants. Julie Inman-Grant, Commissioner of Australia's online safety regulator, said in a statement that after weighing "multiple considerations," she decided that discontinuing the proceedings would "likely achieve the most positive outcome for the online safety of all Australians, especially children." I stand by my investigators and the decisions eSafety made," Inman-Grant said, referencing Australia's independent regulator for online safety. Last month, the Musk-owned social media platform won a reprieve in Australia when a court refused to extend a temporary order blocking videos of a Sydney church stabbing globally.

Persons: Elon Musk, Tesla, Elon Musk's, Julie Inman, eSafety, Inman, Grant, Musk, Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel, Australia's Organizations: SpaceX, X Holdings Corp, Milken Institute's Global, Beverly Hilton Hotel, Wednesday, Grant, X's Global Government Affairs Locations: Beverly Hills , California, Australia, Sydney, Australian

☆ AI-generated X-rated content is officially allowed on Musk's X
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-03 | by ( Geoff Weiss | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

X is formally giving adult content the green light — with a few stipulations. But the content must be consensual, and must be labeled, X said. Elon Musk's X is formally giving X-rated content the green light, allowing adult images and video — with a few rules. Users can share nudity and sexual content — including AI-generated pornography — "provided it's properly labeled and not prominently displayed," the company's policy says. Content must be made and posted consensually and cannot be shared to "highly visible places" like profile photos or banners, X said.

Persons: —, Elon Musk's Organizations: Service, Business

☆ I tracked all the ads I received in a day — here's what I saw
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-02 | by ( Ana Altchek | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

When my editor asked me to track all the ads I saw in a day, I wasn't sure how it would go. To personalize Google ads, for example, you can go to "My Ad Center" and opt to turn personalized ads on or off in the top-right corner. If you turn them on, Google will use the information it collects about you to give you more personalized ads. I decided to keep personalized ads off for Google because that's how I usually have it. I also found some of the TikTok ads interesting or helpful.

Persons: —, Elon Musk's X, Instagram, I'm, Ana Altchek, I've Organizations: Service, Business, Google, Facebook, YouTube, Urban Outfitters, Netflix, Amazon, Spotify

☆ Elon Musk's X to livestream Trump town hall event
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-31 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Elon Musk's X will host a live town hall-style event with former President Donald Trump, the social media platform's owner and CEO confirmed Friday. Trump, a once-prolific X user, now exclusively posts on Truth Social, a similar microblogging platform he launched in late 2021. "This will be interesting," Musk, and a vocal critic of Trump's presidential rival, President Joe Biden, wrote on X on Friday in response to a New York Post report about the town hall. Linda Yaccarino, the CEO of X, wrote in a post replying to Musk: "The People's Town Hall!" X is partnering with the cable channel NewsNation to host the events, which will be called "The People's Town Hall," with Trump and independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Axios reported.

Persons: Elon Musk's, Donald Trump, X, Axios, Musk, Joe Biden, Linda Yaccarino, Robert F, Kennedy Jr Organizations: Trump, Capitol, SpaceX, Twitter, Nasdaq, New, New York Post Locations: New York

☆ Elon Musk may have a plan to get Donald Trump back on X
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-31 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Elon Musk's X is planning a live town hall event with Donald Trump, The Wall Street Journal reported. The relationship between Trump and Musk appears to be warming up. AdvertisementElon Musk's X appears to be planning to host a live town hall event with Donald Trump. The social media platform, which has been pushing toward video content, is partnering with cable network NewsNation and will air the events on both outlets, The Wall Street Journal reported. The Journal reported that X also plans to host a similar town hall event with rival presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Persons: Elon Musk's, Donald Trump, NewsNation, Musk, —, X, Robert F, Kennedy Jr Organizations: Street Journal, Trump, Service, The, Business

☆ Now you can invest in Elon Musk's xAI through Cathie Wood's ARK Venture Fund
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-29 | by ( Yun Li | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Cathie Wood's ARK Invest has taken a stake in Elon Musk's startup xAI as she deepens her big bet on artificial intelligence. ARK Venture Fund has invested in xAI as of Sunday, the St. Petersburg, Florida-based asset manager said in an email to clients Tuesday evening. The xAI startup is also not the only Musk-led company Wood's venture fund bets on. The venture fund, launched in September 2022, targets smaller investors who can access the venture capital market through it with as little as $500. The xAI startup is reportedly planning to build a supercomputer to power the next version of its AI chatbot Grok.

Persons: Catherine Wood, Musk, Wood, Tesla Organizations: ARK Investment Management LLC, ARK Venture Fund, SpaceX, X Corp, Twitter, Microsoft, Google, Innovation Locations: Miami , Florida, U.S, Elon Musk's, xAI, St . Petersburg , Florida, OpenAI

☆ Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are reportedly going head-to-head again — this time over a buzzy AI startup
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-28 | by ( Tom Carter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Meta and xAI are competing to partner with buzzy AI startup Character.AI, per the Financial Times. It's the latest twist in the rivalry between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. The two billionaires have been feuding for years, and are now both racing to build superhuman AI. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementThe rivalry between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg may be heating up again.

Persons: Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, —, Musk's xAI, Character.AI, Andreessen Horowitz Organizations: Financial Times, Elon, Service, Meta, Financial

☆ Elon Musk's xAI says it just raised $6 billion in funding, pulling in big bucks from Sequoia Capital and Saudi Arabia
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-27 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Read previewElon Musk's xAI just took a critical step in building up its war chest to take on Sam Altman's OpenAI. The AI startup said in a blog post on Sunday that it had raised $6 billion for their Series B funding round. Related stories"There will be more to announce in the coming weeks," Musk said in an X post on Monday morning. AdvertisementThe mercurial billionaire said in a subsequent X post that xAI's pre-money valuation was $18 billion. Pre-money valuation was $18B — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 27, 2024Sunday's announcement marks the first time xAI has talked about its fundraising efforts.

Persons: —, Elon Musk's xAI, Sam Altman's OpenAI, Andreessen Horowitz, Musk, Elon, xAI, he'd, Altman, OpenAI Organizations: Service, Sequoia Capital, Saudi Arabia's, Business, Bloomberg, Financial Times, The New York Times, OpenAI, Microsoft, Google Locations: Saudi, Saudi Arabia's Kingdom

☆ Elon Musk is being mocked by Meta's AI chief over attempts to recruit workers for xAI
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-27 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Meta's AI chief Yann LeCun mocked Elon Musk on X over his xAI recruitment drive. LeCun criticized Musk's AI predictions and claims of free speech absolutism. AdvertisementElon Musk is getting dragged by Meta's AI chief on his own platform. Yann LeCun, Meta's leading AI scientist, poked fun at Musk on X on Monday over his attempt to recruit AI workers for his $24 billion firm xAI. The pair have been embroiled in a fresh spat since Musk's xAI announced Sunday that it had raised $6 billion in a Series B funding round.

Persons: Yann LeCun, Elon Musk, LeCun, —, Musk's xAI, Musk, Elon Musk didn't Organizations: Service, Business, Twitter

☆ Elon Musk's X is making 'likes' private so people can like NSFW posts without worrying
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-23 | by ( Tom Carter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Elon Musk's X is planning to make "likes" private by default, according to X's head of engineering. The move will apparently encourage more people to like "edgy" content on the site. AdvertisementIt looks like X wants you to post more like Elon Musk. The social media platform plans to make "likes" on the site private, according to X's director of engineering, who said the move would encourage people to like more "edgy" posts. "Yeah, we are making likes private," wrote Haofei Wang in a post on X.

Persons: Elon Musk's, —, Elon, Haofei Wang Organizations: Service

☆ Nvidia shows no signs of AI slowdown after over 400% increase in data center business
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-22 | by ( Kif Leswing | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., during the Nvidia GPU Technology Conference (GTC) in San Jose, California, US, on Tuesday, March 19, 2024. Nvidia's most important clients for its graphics processing units are the big cloud providers — Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud. For example, CoreWeave, a GPU cloud, is currently quoting $4.25 per hour to rent an Nvidia H100. Huang said Meta has declared its intention to spend billions on 350,000 Nvidia chips, even though the company isn't a cloud provider. Meta's cluster of servers is an example of "essential infrastructure for AI production," Huang said, or, "what we refer to as AI factories."

Persons: Jensen Huang, There's, Nvidia's, Colette Kress, Kress, Huang, Meta, Blackwell, Elon Musk's xAI Organizations: Nvidia Corp, Nvidia, Technology Conference, Web Services, Microsoft, Google, Oracle, NVIDIA, Facebook, Meta, Tesla Locations: San Jose , California

☆ WSJ's Tim Hggins: There's general concern Elon Musk's X usage have become a distraction for him
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-13 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailWSJ's Tim Hggins: There's general concern Elon Musk's X usage have become a distraction for himTim Higgins, Wall Street Journal business columnist, joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss some of the controversial comments and viewpoints from Tesla CEO Elon Musk, his fear of the 'woke mind virus', impact of his worldview on Tesla's company performance, and more.

Persons: Tim Hggins, Elon, Tim Higgins, Elon Musk Organizations: Wall Street Journal

☆ Elon Musk's X scores a win in his feud with Australia
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-13 | by ( Geoff Weiss | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Elon Musk won a legal victory in Australia Monday about content moderation. The fight revolves around footage on X of a church stabbing in a Sydney suburb. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementAn Australian court handed Elon Musk a victory Monday in what he described as an ongoing fight for "free speech." X had opposed the block, which was initially ordered on April 22, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported.

Persons: Elon Musk, —, X Organizations: Elon, Australia, Service, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Business Locations: Sydney

A federal judge in California dismissed a lawsuit filed by Elon Musk's X against Israel's Bright Data, in a case that involved the scraping of public online data and its appropriate uses. X, formerly Twitter, sued Bright Data, alleging the company "scrapes data from X" and sells it "using elaborate technical measures to evade X Corp.'s anti-scraping technology." He added that X was not "looking to protect X users' privacy," and was "happy to allow the extraction and copying of X users' content so long as it gets paid." Bright Data says it only scrapes publicly available data that's visible to anyone without a login. At the time of the suit's filing, X made the information Bright Data scraped available to anyone.

Persons: Elon Musk's, X, William Alsup, X didn't, Meta Organizations: Israel's, Twitter, Bright Data, X Corp, LinkedIn, Bright, Data, Meta Locations: California, U.S, Texas, Dallas County

☆ Jack Dorsey defends Musk's Twitter leadership, saying the billionaire slashed the 'critical sin' of its business model
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-10 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

But Dorsey said Twitter had been weighed down by its revenue model. Twitter chose brand advertising as its main source of income, a "core, critical sin" that exposed the platform's moderation to the whims of corporations effectively financing the social-media platform, Dorsey said. Building a different business modelTo many, Musk seemed to be axing Twitter's entire business model. "Twitter was a $5 billion a year business," Dorsey said. AdvertisementDorsey's comments come as he quit Bluesky, a platform he helped build after leaving Twitter, and told users to use Musk's X instead.

Persons: —, Jack Dorsey, Dorsey, Mike Solana, Twitter, Solana, Apple, Musk, Elon, Bluesky, Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, he's, Musk's Organizations: Service, Twitter, Fund, Business, Unilever, SpaceX, Disney, IBM

☆ Tesla accused by NLRB of creating policies to chill workers' unionizing efforts in Buffalo
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-09 | by ( Lora Kolodny | In Lorakolodny | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Tesla is being accused of taking steps to keep employees in Buffalo, New York, from unionizing, according to a complaint from the National Labor Relations Board. The policy restricted Tesla workers from "recording, unauthorized solicitating [sic] or promoting," and "creating channels and distribution lists," among other things, the complaint said. The Tesla Buffalo plant was supposed to manufacture solar panels, but has been used more recently to assemble electric vehicle charging equipment, and to house a team of AI software data labelers. Last month, the Buffalo plant was home to a number of job cuts put in place as part of a broader restructuring at the electric vehicle company. Tesla has also faced workers' rights challenges in Europe.

Persons: Elon Musk, Tesla, Linda Leslie, Musk Organizations: SpaceX, X Holdings Corp, Milken Institute's Global, Beverly Hilton Hotel, National Labor Relations, Buffalo, Union, Workers United, CNBC, NLRB, National Labor Relations Act, Twitter, Tesla Locations: Beverly Hills , California, Buffalo , New York, unionizing, Tesla Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, Europe, Sweden

☆ Apple wants to give the iPad a boost
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-07 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

The tech giant's event will reportedly showcase a new family of… iPads and iPad accessories. But Apple's event , which kicks off at 10 a.m. EST, is looking to give the iPad a boost. iPhone sales have noticeably dipped, which is why you're hearing Apple tout its "services" business , writes BI's Peter Kafka. And the new product Apple wants you to be excited about — the Vision Pro — hasn't lived up to the hype. a16z joins the Big Tech "fake work" debate.

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☆ Elon Musk wants to use AI to summarize the news on Twitter and ... it's not a terrible idea?
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-03 | by ( Peter Kafka | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Elon Musk wants to combine Twitter and Grok, his AI engine, and create a news machine. Elon Musk thinks news is something different: It's what people talk about on the service formerly known as Twitter. Musk said Grok will not look directly at article text, and will instead rely solely on social posts. Definitely not in the Elon Musk era of the company formerly known as Twitter. The to-be-sures: Yes, you'd be foolish to rely on an Elon Musk-run AI machine for factual information.

Persons: Elon Musk, Grok, —, Alex Kantrowitz, Musk, Igor Babuschkin, xAI, CNN —, it's, you'd, Ben, Elon Musk's, It's Organizations: Twitter, Service, Elon, CNN, Google Locations: London

☆ The ex-Twitter director who went 'hardcore' for Elon Musk and slept on the floor of X's office is now working for his Meta nemesis, Mark Zuckerberg
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-30 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewA former top lieutenant at Elon Musk's Twitter says she's working for Mark Zuckerberg at Meta now. AdvertisementBesides lauding "the exceptional quality of the people" working at Meta, Crawford said she was attracted by Zuckerberg's "vision and intensity." Crawford's latest career move could be an indicator of big moves Zuckerberg may be making in his bid to vanquish Musk's X. "I do plan to keep using both X and Threads," she said in an email to BI on Monday. Representatives for Meta and X didn't immediately respond to requests for comment from BI sent outside regular business hours.

Persons: —, Mark Zuckerberg, I've, Esther Crawford, Crawford, he's, Zuckerberg, Elon Musk's, Elon, Musk's, hasn't, X didn't Organizations: Service, Elon, Twitter, Meta, Business, BI

☆ Tesla's earnings report was worse than expected, but Elon Musk has a plan
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-24 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

In today's big story, we're looking at Tesla's earnings report and what comes next for the EV maker. The big storyTesla's turnaround planJADE GAO/AFP via Getty Images; Chelsea Jia Feng; BIBad news: Tesla's earnings report was worse than expected. AdvertisementPerhaps that's why Musk spent so much of the earnings call discussing autonomy and the progress made with Tesla's Full Self-Driving software . Musk told analysts on the earnings call that Tesla is the majority of his work . If investors vote against the package at Tesla's annual meeting in June, who knows where Musk — and his AI ambitions — will end up .

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☆ Meta's Threads now has more daily users in the US than Elon Musk's X
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-23 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Now, Threads has more daily users in the US than X, a trend that's been ongoing since December, when Threads became Apple's most downloaded app. "Threads DAUs in the US passed X in December 2023 and it has not looked back," Thomas Grant, Apptopia's VP of research, said. That's a roughly 55% increase in DAUs from December when Threads averaged an estimated 18 million users each day. According to Sensor Tower estimates, daily users of the X app worldwide are down 19% compared to October 2022, the month that Musk took over Twitter. An estimate of daily users from Apptopia for the week also shows no gain in Threads users.

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☆ Big names are leaving Tesla. An analyst says Elon Musk has to quickly lay out what the layoffs mean.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-16 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Elon Musk has been urged to lay out a vision for Tesla as senior staff leave amid layoffs. AdvertisementElon Musk must set out a vision for Tesla after investors were spooked by high-profile departures amid layoffs, an analyst has said. Tesla stock fell 5.6% on Monday after Elon Musk announced over the weekend that more than 10% of its workforce would be laid off. Those departing Tesla worked on critical projectsBoth Baglino and Thurston worked on critical projects at the Texas factory. In an X post earlier this month, Musk said Knight was "going to join OpenAI, so it was either xAI or them."

Persons: Elon Musk, Tesla, Musk, —, Elon, Dan Ives, Ives, Drew Baglino, he'd, Rohan Patel, Anthony Thurston, Electrek, Thurston, Fred Lambert, Amir Mirshahi, Zachary Kirkhorn, Tesla's, Ethan Knight, Musk's, Knight Organizations: Service, Elon, Energy, Tesla, Business, OpenAI Locations: Texas

☆ Elon Musk's xAI is luring more investors through special purpose vehicles charging high fees
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-10 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk is raising funds for xAI at a $15 billion pre-money valuation. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementElon Musk's new AI startup is luring more investors through special purpose vehicles that charge hefty fees, according to an email sent this week. Related storiesThe email lays out the terms if investors want to take part in the xAI financing round through special purpose vehicles. AdvertisementFor prospective xAI investors, these commitments come at a cost.

Persons: Elon Musk, —, Elon, Musk, Kali Hays Organizations: xAI, Twitter, Service, Business Locations: khays@businessinsider.com

☆ Elon Musk's X begins rewarding 'influential' users with blue checks, free subscriptions to platform
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-04 | by ( Ashley Capoot | In | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Elon Musk's social media site X began rolling out free premium features, including verification badges known as "blue checks," to select users late Wednesday in an effort to reward what it calls "influential" people on the platform. For most users, X Premium is a paid subscription service that can be opted into. By subscribing, users get access to exclusive features, like the option to display a blue checkmark on their profile. X CEO Linda Yaccarino shared Musk's post late Wednesday as the features began rolling out. It is not clear how long users will have access to free premium features, or if it will be possible for them to opt out of the service.

Persons: Elon, Musk, Linda Yaccarino Organizations: X Help, CNBC, Twitter, Disney, Apple Locations: U.S

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