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NAACP calls on Memphis officials to halt operations at xAI’s ‘dirty data center’

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The NAACP is calling on local officials to halt operations at Colossus, the “supercomputer” facility operated by Elon Musk’s xAI in South Memphis. As reported in NBC News, leaders from the civil rights group sent a letter Thursday to the Shelby County Health Department and Memphis Light Gas and Water criticizing the organizations’ “lackadaisical approach […]

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Humain planning $10B VC fund to invest in US, European and Asian startups

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Humain, the state-owned AI company from Saudi Arabia, is on track to launch a $10 billion venture fund, Humain Ventures, that will invest in startups in the U.S., Europe and Asia, The Financial Times reported, quoting Tareq Amin, Humain’s CEO. Humain is in talks with U.S. firms like Andreessen Horowitz, OpenAI and Elon Musk’s xAI

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Amanda Scales, a Musk hire who helped lead DOGE, has returned to xAI

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Amanda Scales, the former xAI HR exec who helped lead billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency initiative while working at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, recently returned to xAI, according to The New York Times. Scales used to work on talent acquisition at xAI. Since April, she’s worked on the talent side of

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Grok says it’s ‘skeptical’ about Holocaust death toll, then blames ‘programming error’

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Grok, the AI-powered chatbot created by xAI and widely deployed across its new corporate sibling X, wasn’t just obsessed with white genocide this week. As first noted in Rolling Stone, Grok also answered a question on Thursday about the number of Jews killed by the Nazis in World War II by saying that “historical records,

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xAI blames Grok’s obsession with white genocide on an ‘unauthorized modification’

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xAI blamed an “unauthorized modification” for a bug in its AI-powered Grok chatbot that caused Grok to repeatedly refer to “white genocide in South Africa” when invoked in certain contexts on X. On Wednesday, Grok began replying to dozens of posts on X with information about white genocide in South Africa, even in response to

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