Elon Musk's AI Grok made antisemitic comments and threatened to assault a political commentator this week. According to Musk, it's coming to Tesla next week. The billionaire announced this on X today (Thursday). [@Techcrunch](
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Grok is coming to Tesla vehicles 'next week,' says Elon MuskΒ  | TechCrunch
Elon Musk said in a post on X early Thursday morning that Grok – the chatbot from his AI company, xAI – will be coming to Tesla vehicles β€œver...
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Bluesky is rolling out age verification in the U.K. in an effort to comply with the country's Online Safety Act. The platform will use Kid Web Services, an Epic Games-owned tool, and users can verify their age by scanning their face, uploading an ID or entering details for a payment card. If users don't want to verify their age or are under 18, they will be able to have an account with limited features. Here's more from [@theverge](
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Bluesky is rolling out age verification in the UK
Bluesky users in the UK can verify their age using their face, ID, or payment card.
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Slate Auto had been operating in secret for three years when a photo of a non-descript electric truck started circulating on Reddit in April. [@Techcrunch](
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Slate Auto: Everything you need to know about the Bezos-backed EV startup | TechCrunch
Slate auto burst onto the scene in April 2025. Here is a timeline that covers its origins, backers, product, and other new details.
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Everything Samsung just announced at its big Galaxy Unpacked 2025 event: A collection of stories from [@TechRadar](
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Samsung's second big Galaxy Unpacked event of 2025 has just finished – and it was a big one for fans of foldable phones and smartwatches. The tec...
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"The abrupt resignation of X CEO Linda Yaccarino calls into question the fate of the world's largest and most politically relevant real-time social discourse platform," [@axios](
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AI search engine Perplexity has launched a web browser, Comet, which is currently available to $200-per-month Max plan subscribers and a small group that signed up for a waitlist. Here's more from [@Techcrunch](
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Perplexity launches Comet, an AI-powered web browser | TechCrunch
Perplexity is launching its first AI-powered web browser, Comet, marking the company's latest attempt to unseat Google Search.
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The received wisdom is that growth on Mastodon and Bluesky comes from big waves of new users who flee other networks when their owners say or do something particularly evil. But according to @npub17m8z...rsw8, that's no longer a given. "Musk managed to put himself up high on the list of people whose actions directly led for the largest number of deaths in the twenty-first century due to his involvement in the shutdown of USAID, but such evil did not meaningfully lead to people leaving Musk’s social network for other places," Hof writes for his Connected Places newsletter. Here, he takes a look at what's happening.
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Growth narratives on the new social networks
The narratives that networks like the fediverse and Bluesky have about themselves how their network grows are a snapshot of a specific moments in t...
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Linda Yaccarino is stepping down as CEO of Elon Musk's X after two years. [@CBSNews](
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Linda Yaccarino stepping down as CEO of X
Yaccarino joined X in June 2023​, shortly after billionaire Elon Musk bought the site formerly known as Twitter.
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Apple announces Jeff Williams is stepping down as COO later this month. [@macrumors](
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Apple today announced a major executive shakeup: Jeff Williams will be stepping down as Chief Operating Officer (COO) later this month, and he will...
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Elon Musk said that he would "fix" his AI chatbot Grok, which he thought was too liberal. Whatever he did turned Grok into a Nazi β€” approvingly invoking the name of Adolf Hitler and suggested the need for a second Holocaust. Here's [@Gizmodo](
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'Round Them Up': Grok Praises Hitler as Elon Musk's AI Tool Goes Full Nazi
Grok even endorsed another Holocaust against the Jews.
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