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Grok AI blocked results saying Musk and Trump “spread misinformation”
Grok, Elon Musk’s ChatGPT competitor, temporarily refused to respond with “sources that mention Elon Musk/Donald Trump spread misinformation,” according to xAI’s head of engineering, Igor Babuschkin. After Grok users noticed that the chatbot had been given instructions to not respond with those results, Babuschkin blamed an unnamed, ex-OpenAI employee at xAI for updating Grok’s system prompt without approval. In response…
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Elon Musk’s Grok AI said he and Donald Trump deserve death penalty
Elon Musk’s OpenAI rival, xAI, says it’s investigating why its Grok AI chatbot suggested that both President Donald Trump and Musk deserve the death penalty. xAI has already patched the issue and Grok will no longer give suggestions for who it thinks should receive capital punishment. People were able to get Grok to say that Trump deserved the death penalty…
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Meta Will Escalate Any Concerns of Unfair E.U. Regulation to Trump
Meta is prepared to escalate its concerns over what it sees as unfair European Union regulations directly to U.S. President Donald Trump, according to its global affairs chief. Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, Joel Kaplan said that the company “won’t hesitate” to seek intervention if it believes E.U. policies discriminate against U.S. tech firms. Meta challenges E.U. oversight “When…
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Trump and EU Commission set course for confrontation on big tech – Computerworld
JD Vance: EU restricts freedom of speech US Vice President J.D. Vance used his appearance at the Munich Security Conference in mid-February for a general reckoning with Europe. He said EU Commissioners were suppressing freedom of expression and restricting access to online platforms and search engines in certain situations with the help of the Digital Services Act. Ribera reacted to…
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Net neutrality under Trump? Not so neutral
Even before President Donald J. Trump returned to office last month, net neutrality took a punch to the jaw. On Jan. 2, the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit struck down the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) net neutrality rules. Oh well, it was nice while it lasted. The latest set of rules, the FCC’s 2024 “Safeguarding and Securing the…
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Trump vs. Twitter: The president takes on social media moderation
For years, Donald Trump’s fight against social media companies has been a one-man boxing match. He calls them out over bias, and they rewrite policies making him the one exception to their rules, taking care never to punch back. But on Tuesday, Twitter slapped back for the first time ever, labeling two tweets as making false and misleading claims about…
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Trump administration illegally allowed DOGE to access workers’ data, lawsuit alleges
The Trump administration breached a federal privacy law by letting workers from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) access information on millions of government workers, privacy advocates including the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) allege in a new lawsuit filed on behalf of two labor unions and a group of current and former federal employees. The groups allege that DOGE…
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Trump Has Paused an Order That Would Have Made Shein and Temu Purchases More Expensive
After a brief scare on February 4, the USPS has lifted the world’s shortest shipping suspension, confirming that it will continue to deliver packages from China and Hong Kong to the U.S., although those packages might still get more expensive soon. The news follows a temporary halt on Chinese parcels resulting from President Trump’s February 1 executive order that applied…
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Shein and Temu depend on a 100-year-old tariff loophole that Trump wants to close
President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariff threats have been touch and go. As it stands currently, the 25 percent tax on goods from Mexico and Canada is on ice for a month, but a 10 percent tariff on Chinese goods is set to take effect on Tuesday, via an executive order of questionable legality. Nestled within the order is a brief…
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Trump imposes sweeping tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China
The US is officially imposing tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China. President Donald Trump announced that goods imported from Mexico and Canada will face a 25 percent tariff, while goods from China will face a 10 percent tariff. There will also be a lower 10 percent tariff on energy resources from Canada. In a series of posts on X announcing…
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