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Elon Musk’s false and misleading election claims have been viewed 2 billion times on X

Media & Entertainment / Sasandara Dilmina

The world’s richest man buys out one of the most popular social media platforms and uses it as a propaganda and disinformation machine in support of a presidential candidate. What could go wrong? An analysis from the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a nonprofit that tracks misinformation, found that Elon Musk posted at least […]

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X updates block feature, letting blocked users see your public posts

Social / Sasandara Dilmina

X is rolling out its controversial update to the block feature, allowing people to view your public posts even if you have blocked them. People have protested this change, arguing that they don’t want blocked users to see their posts for reasons of safety. Blocked users still can’t follow the person who has blocked them,

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Elon Musk skipped a hearing in Philly about his super PAC’s payouts to voters

Government & Policy / Sasandara Dilmina

A Philadelphia judge ordered X CEO Elon Musk to appear in a hearing Thursday morning over his super PAC’s plan to award $1 million a day to voters in key battleground states. But Musk skipped his courthouse appointment after the same judge granted a request to transfer the case from Pennsylvania state to federal jurisdiction.

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X makes its basic API tier more costly, launches annual subscriptions

Social / Sasandara Dilmina

Elon Musk-owned social network X made changes to its API pricing and limits today and also announced annual plans with a discounted rate. The company raised the prices of the basic API tier from $100 to $200 and said it would introduce higher limits and new endpoints for this subscription plan. We are changing our

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Elon Musk’s xAI is reportedly trying to raise billions more

AI / Sasandara Dilmina

Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, is in talks to raise new funding at a valuation around $40 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal. xAI hopes to raise several billion dollars in the round, adding to the $6 billion in Series B funding that the company raised in May. The rumored valuation would nearly double

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Vinod Khosla calls out Trump’s ‘depraved values’ and Musk’s role in spreading misinformation

Venture / Sasandara Dilmina

Storied investor Vinod Khosla, founder and partner at Khosla Ventures, and more recently one of the first checks into OpenAI veered off topic during a Monday interview at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 focused on the future of AI. After talking about AI’s future and risks, he took a moment to deliver a stringent warning about the

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xAI adds image understanding capabilities to Grok

AI / Sasandara Dilmina

Elon Musk-owned xAI has added image-understanding capabilities to its Grok AI model. With that, paid users on X social platform can upload an image and ask the AI chatbot questions about it. One of the xAI employees and the official Grok handle posted about this update on X. eyes have been granted image understanding now

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OpenAI denies it’s releasing a model called ‘Orion’ this year

Social / Sasandara Dilmina

Welcome back to Week in Review. This week, we’re looking at OpenAI’s reported plans for its next AI model; a buzzy new messaging app that’s a hit with Gen Z; and Tim Cook discovering that you can name a group chat in iMessage. Let’s get into it. The Verge noted this week that OpenAI is

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Jon McNeill’s lessons on innovation through subtraction

Transportation / Sasandara Dilmina

Before Jon McNeill was CEO at VC firm DVx Ventures, he was the president of Tesla and chief operating officer at Lyft. He helped Tesla grow its revenue run rate from $2 billion to $20 billion in 30 months, and he doubled Lyft’s revenue ahead of its IPO. He’s also on the board of GM’s

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Elon Musk reportedly chats often with Putin

Government & Policy / Sasandara Dilmina

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has been in regular contact with Russian president Vladimir Putin since late 2022. That’s according to The Wall Street Journal, which reports that the conversations have raised national security concerns among some intelligence officials. At one point, Putin reportedly asked Musk to avoid activating Starlink, his satellite-based internet service,

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