'The group originally met through collaborating on #Nostr, an open, “apolitical” social networking protocol that has been receiving the bulk of #Dorsey’s attention since #Twitter’s sale to Elon #Musk and his stepping down from social network #Bluesky’s board. However, the team will experiment with other tools, too, like #ActivityPub' 👀
From: @joanpla
https://mastodon.social/@joanpla/114869406168784743

Musk grabs contract to put anime lolis in military computers.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/14/us-military-xai-deal-elon-musk

#musk #xai #ai

｢ Germany’s largest automobile club, ADAC, issued a public recommendation that Tesla drivers should carry emergency window hammers. In a statement, ADAC warned that retractable door handles could seriously hinder rescue efforts. Even trained emergency responders, it said, may struggle to reach trapped passengers. Tesla shows no intention of changing the design ｣

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/05/the-vehicle-suddenly-accelerated-with-our-baby-in-it-the-terrifying-truth-about-why-teslas-cars-keep-crashing

#tesla #eu #musk #fsd

💣 Tesla Is in Serious Trouble in China

｢ The company sold 40,000 fewer cars in China in May, a massive 30 percent drop from the same month last year, a familiar story that's been playing out in many other parts of the world ｣

https://futurism.com/tesla-serious-trouble-china

#tesla #china #musk

Meanwhile, at Twitter HQ....

https://youtu.be/kpgRVsjGljI?si=IsLOcJqUBooehBii

#Archer#Twitter#ElonMusk#Musk#XAI

"Hey Losers, don't you wish your waifu pillow* could talk?"

*Look it up, and despair

https://decrypt.co/330097/artificial-gooning-intelligence-elon-musk-xai-waifu-companions-grok

#XAI#Twitter#ElonMusk#Musk

We asked Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for his and his staff’s emails with Elon Musk and Musk’s companies.

The governor’s office won’t turn them over, saying some contain “intimate and embarrassing” information that is “not of legitimate concern to the public.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-governor-greg-abbott-elon-musk-emails-foia?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News#Texas#ElonMusk#Musk#Email #Journalism#FOIA#GregAbbott

🫠 Elon Musk’s xAI seeks up to $200bn valuation in next fundraising • FT

｢ The company this week released the fourth model of its Grok chatbot, which posts on Musk’s social media platform X — days after the bot repeatedly praised Adolf Hitler and shared antisemitic rhetoric on the platform. The company pledged to ban hate speech from its posts ｣

https://www.ft.com/content/25aab987-c2a1-4fca-8883-38a617269b68

#ai #musk#xai

One example widely shared on social media — & which Willison duplicated — asked #Grok to comment on the conflict in the #MiddleEast. The prompted question made no mention of #Musk, but the #chatbot looked for his guidance anyway.

As a so-called reasoning model, much like those made by rivals #OpenAI or #Anthropic, #Grok4 shows its “thinking” as it goes through the steps of processing a question & coming up with an answer.

#tech#MediaLiteracy #bias

The latest version of #ElonMusk’s #AI chatbot #Grok is echoing the views of its billionaire creator, so much so that it will sometimes search online for #Musk’s stance on an issue before offering up an opinion.

The unusual behavior of Grok 4, the AI model that Musk’s company #xAI released late Wednesday, has surprised some experts.

#tech#MediaLiteracy #bias
https://apnews.com/article/grok-4-elon-musk-xai-colossus-14d575fb490c2b679ed3111a1c83f857

🐣 France is investigating X over algorithm enabling ‘foreign interference’ • Semafor

｢ The magistrate said Friday that the probe will examine whether the platform broke French law by manipulating algorithms and illegally harvesting user data. The investigation follows a January complaint accusing X of spreading “massive amounts of hateful, racist, anti-LGBT+, and homophobic political content designed to distort France’s democratic debate.” ｣

https://www.semafor.com/article/07/11/2025/france-is-investigating-x-over-algorithm-enabling-foreign-interference

#france #twitter #musk

😵‍💫 Elon Musk Says He's Installing His Racist Grok AI in Teslas "Next Week"

｢ After backlash forced xAI to remove some — but not all — the offensive Grok posts and promise to crack down on its hate speech, Musk later wrote off the issue as Grok being "too compliant" and said that users had "manipulated" the chatbot ｣

https://futurism.com/elon-musk-says-hes-installing-his-racist-grok-ai-in-teslas-next-week

#tesla #musk #grok #ai

🧑‍⚖️ Judge Finds Tesla Has Failed to Deliver Full Self-Driving, Needs to Issue Refund

｢ Self-Driving, Needs to Issue Refund
A Washington-based Tesla owner and lawyer named Marc Dobin had purchased the FSD package for his wife's third Tesla with the hope of maintaining her "independence as her motor skills declined," he wrote in a blog post ｣

https://futurism.com/judge-tesla-failed-full-self-driving-refund

#tesla #fsd #musk