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☆ Elon Musk's X is using your tweets to train its AI, Grok. Here's how to opt out.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-26 | by ( Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Elon Musk's X activated a default setting to train Grok, its AI chatbot, on user data. Users can disable data sharing in the 'Privacy and Safety' tab on X.Grok, a ChatGPT competitor, is available via premium subscription. AdvertisementYour unfiltered thoughts are about to become training data for one of the most unhinged AI chatbots on the market. X has activated a setting that, by default, gives it access to users' posts, interactions, and inputs as training data for Grok, the company's ChatGPT competitor. If you want to disable it, here's a step-by-step guide:Once on X, head to the menu on the left side and click "More."

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

☆ Elon Musk's X is fighting a subpoena in a lawsuit between Jeffrey Epstein accusers, further delaying an already drawn-out case
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-18 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Read previewElon Musk's X Corp. is gumming up a case between two Jeffrey Epstein accusers by spending months stonewalling subpoenas. But X Corp. has refused. "X Corp. will not be producing any data in response to your subpoena," reads one letter sent by an X lawyer earlier this year. Related storiesLawyers for Oh Amen agreed to provide them, but Oh Amen had been suspended from one of her accounts and couldn't download data from the second account. Thomas told Business Insider it's crucial to see Oh Amen's X records to contextualize all of the defamation claims.

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☆ Elon Musk's X deceives users and breaches online content rules, EU says
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-12 | by ( April Roach | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Elon Musk's X is in breach of EU online content rules as the social media platform uses "dark patterns" to deceive users, the European Commission said Friday. The body's preliminary view, published Friday, is that the platform has broken rules regarding dark patterns, advertising transparency and data access for researchers. X's use of the blue checkmark for "verified accounts" does not correspond to industry practices as anyone can subscribe and obtain a verified status, the commission said. It added that there was evidence of "motivated malicious actors" abusing the verified status to deceive users. If the commission's views are confirmed, X could face a fine of up to 6% of its global annual turnover.

Persons: Elon Musk, Elon Musk's, Thierry Breton Organizations: SpaceX, Tesla, European Commission, Digital Services Locations: Beverly Hills , California

☆ Elon Musk may be souring on San Francisco with a move to sublease X's headquarters
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-12 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Elon Musk's X plans to sublease its headquarters, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Its entire office, nearly 460,000 square feet of space, will reportedly be sublet. Musk has openly criticized San Francisco in the past and slammed it as a "disaster." download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . The company is set to sublease its San Francisco headquarters, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

Persons: Elon Musk's, Musk, San Francisco, —, JLL Organizations: San Francisco Chronicle, Service Locations: San Francisco

☆ Elon Musk braces for another fight after X gets named and shamed
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-12 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

European regulators said Elon Musk's X deceives users and breaches EU rules. The European Commission cited issues with data access, advertising transparency, and "dark patterns." download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementElon Musk's X deceives its users and breaches online content rules, the European Commission said on Friday. The body said X's blue checkmark system for "verified accounts" deceives users as anyone can pay to obtain verified status.

Persons: Elon Musk's, —, Elon Organizations: Service, European Commission

☆ Meta is still betting Threads can beat Elon Musk's X — but Zuck faces an uphill battle
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-09 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The platform became the world's fastest-growing app when it launched after hitting 100 million users in just five days. Zuck said last week the X rival now has more than 175 million monthly active users. In a recent interview with Platformer, Threads and Instagram boss Adam Mosseri said the aim was still overtaking X. In April, Sensor Tower estimated Threads had averaged 28 million daily active users in the US, while X averaged 22 million. An Instagram add-onWhile Meta still backs Threads to overtake X, the platform still very much exists alongside Instagram.

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☆ We now know just how much money Elon Musk's X made after his takeover — and it's a lot less than before his purchase
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-18 | by ( Geoff Weiss | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Elon Musk himself had said in 2023 that X's revenue was down. X revenues plunged 40% in the months after Elon Musk took over, Bloomberg reported. AdvertisementElon Musk was right: X did lose lots of revenue when he took over. X revenues plunged in the wake of Elon Musk's fraught acquisition of the social media giant, new documents obtained by Bloomberg reportedly show. According to regulatory filings seen by Bloomberg, X generated $1.48 billion in revenue in the first half of 2023 — down roughly 40% from the first six months of 2022 before Musk's takeover.

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

☆ Elon Musk dropped his Open AI lawsuit, but he isn't done with Sam Altman and the AI race yet
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-12 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewElon Musk might have withdrawn his lawsuit against OpenAI and its cofounders on Tuesday, but he certainly isn't giving up on winning the AI race just yet. Musk cofounded OpenAI with its current CEO, Sam Altman, but left its board in 2018. Shortly after the announcement, Musk threatened to prohibit Apple devices at his companies. "If Apple integrates OpenAI at the OS level, then Apple devices will be banned at my companies," Musk wrote in an X post. Related storiesRepresentatives for Musk and OpenAI did not immediately respond to requests for comment from BI sent outside regular business hours.

Persons: —, Elon, OpenAI, Musk, Sam Altman, Altman, David Hoffman, BI's Grace Kay, Tesla, it's Organizations: Service, OpenAI, Microsoft, Business, Apple, Musk, BI, University of Pennsylvania, Tesla Locations: Altman's court

☆ 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.

Persons: —, Elon Musk's, TechCrunch —, Brooke Erin Duffy, Harper Thornhill Organizations: Service, Business, TechCrunch, Cornell University, Associated Press, Workers ' Union

☆ Elon Musk may build a multibillion-dollar supercomputer in Memphis, Tennessee
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-05 | by ( Ana Altchek | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Elon Musk's xAI may build the world's largest supercomputer in Memphis, pending approval. The Musk-founded AI business is working with Memphis to make the Tennessee city the lead location of the world's largest supercomputer, referred to as the Gigafactory of Compute, according to a statement from the Greater Memphis Chamber on Wednesday. The multibillion-dollar supercomputer would reportedly be powered by Nvidia's H100 GPUs, some of the most sought-after chips that power AI. The project could create hundreds of jobs, according to a report from the Memphis Business Journal. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.

Persons: Elon Musk's, Musk, —, Elon Organizations: Service, xAI's, Greater, Greater Memphis Chamber, Memphis Business, Business Locations: Memphis, Tennessee, Greater Memphis

☆ 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 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.

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☆ 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.

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☆ 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

☆ 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

☆ 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.

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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

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