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X tests highlighting posts that are liked by users with opposing views

X announced on Thursday that it’s launching an experiment that will recognize posts that are liked by people who normally disagree. The experiment leverages the platform’s crowdsourced Community Notes feature, which is currently used when content has been marked as misleading or incorrect. Starting Thursday, a subset of Community Notes contributors will see callouts to […]

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X changes its terms to bar training of AI models using its content

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Social network X has changed its developer agreement to prevent third parties from using the platform’s content to train large language models. In an update on Wednesday, the company added a line under “Reverse Engineering and other Restrictions,” a subsection of restrictions on use: “You shall not and you shall not attempt to (or allow

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Elon Musk says XChat is rolling out to all, but questions remain about its alleged security

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Elon Musk on Sunday announced that a new version of X’s Direct Messaging (DM) feature, XChat, was rolling out with support for features like vanishing messages, encryption, and the ability to share files, alongside its audio and video calling support. The new features aren’t yet broadly available, as XChat only recently started beta testing among

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US man who hacked SEC’s X account to spike Bitcoin price sentenced to prison

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Eric Council Jr., 26, was sentenced to 14 months in prison and three years of supervised release on Friday for participating in the hack of the official X account of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The U.S. Department of Justice announced the sentencing in a press release. Council and other hackers took over the

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Fake fired Twitter worker ‘Rahul Ligma’ is a real engineer with an AI data startup used by Harvard

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The morning after Elon Musk’s 2022 acquisition of Twitter (now X), reporters encountered two men with boxes outside the company’s headquarters. One introduced himself as recently laid-off Twitter engineer “Rahul Ligma.” His real name is Rahul Sonwalkar but the prank went viral. He piled on his character’s notoriety when he went to the Bahamas to

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OpenAI is reportedly developing its own X-like social media platform

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OpenAI is building its own X-like social media network, according to a new report from The Verge. The project is still in the early stages, but there’s an internal prototype focused on ChatGPT’s image generation that contains a social feed. The report states that it’s unknown if OpenAI plans to launch the social network as a

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