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Elon Musk’s AI company Xai released its latest flagship AI model, the Grok 4, late Wednesday, and announced SuperGrok Heavy, an AI subscription plan that costs $300 per month. Grok is Xai’s answer to models such as Openai’s ChatGpt and Google’s Gemini, allowing you to analyze images and respond to questions. Over the past few months, Grok has been deeply integrated into Musk’s social network X, and recently acquired by Xai. But it also places Grok’s fraud fronts and centers for millions of users. There are high expectations for the Grok 4. XAI’s latest AI models are stacked against Openai’s…
Cluely has gained fame for its controversial claim that AI startups using hidden browser windows to analyze online conversations, allowing users to “check everything” with their “undetected” feature. The company’s co-founder, Roy Lee, was stopped by Columbia University for “cheating” her coding test when she applied for a developer job on Amazon using Clery, originally called an interview coder. On Tuesday, another Columbia University student, Patrick Shen announced at X that he had built Truely. It sells itself as “anti-spreading,” claiming it can detect fraudulent application use by interviewees and others during online meetings. However, the release of Truely did…
In a presentation this week, Microsoft’s Chief Commercial Officer Judson Althoff said that AI tools are increasing productivity across sales, customer service and software engineering, Bloomberg reports. Althoff said that because AI is so convenient, Microsoft was able to save over $500 million in call centers alone last year. The internal remarks come a week after Microsoft fired more than 9,000 workers. This was the company’s third round layoff this year, bringing the total number of affected employees to about 15,000. For employees who have lost their jobs while working for a company that reports impressive cost savings and records…
California Sen. Scott Wiener introduced a new amendment to his latest bill, SB 53, on Wednesday. If signed into law, California will be the first state to impose meaningful transparency requirements on leading AI developers, including Openai, Google, Humanity, and Xai. Senator Wiener’s previous AI bill, SB 1047, contained similar requirements for AI model developers to publish safety reports. However, Silicon Valley fought fiercely against the bill, and was ultimately rejected by Gov. Gavin Newsom. The California governor then sought a group of AI leaders, including FEI-FEI LI, a leading researcher at Stanford University and co-founder of the World Lab,…
Almost five,000 years ago, the “sacrificing butt,” with heads being amputated and legs tied together, was discovered under Israeli Bronze Age home. The donkey and the other three buried nearby may have been part of a ritual that involved sacrificing young women’s work animals from far away land.The reason why these donkeys were “slayed in the prime minister of their lives” during the early Bronze Age of Canaan (2900-2550 BC), is unknown, but researchers believe that the animal’s unexpected Egyptian origins suggest that its owner.”Sacrificing such important animals is an exaggerated, rich display of wealth, or an exaggerated display of…
Former NBCU Advertising executive Linda Yaccarino’s tenure at X may have been rather short – just two years from start to finish, but she was able to influence the social networks’ advertising business. Yaccarino will leave X in a better position with the advertiser than she found, it says. In the US, AD spending rose 62% year-on-year in the first half of 2025, the guidelines state. Additionally, Yaccarino previously claimed that 96% of X advertisers had returned to X as of May 2025. However, it takes time for X to turn around and remains a turbulent business. Yaccarino’s departure can…
On Sunday, Block CEO and Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey launched an open source chat app called Bitchat, pledged to provide “safe” and “private” messaging without a centralized infrastructure. Unlike traditional messaging apps that rely on the internet, this app relies on Bluetooth and end-to-end encryption. By being decentralized, Bitchat could become a secure app in a high-risk environment where the Internet is incapable of being monitored or accessed. According to Dorsey’s white paper detailing app protocols and privacy mechanisms, Bitchat’s system design “prioritizes” security. However, given that the app and its code have not been reviewed or tested for security…
YouTube is preparing to update its policy to crack down on creators’ ability to generate revenue from “fraud” content, such as mass-produced videos and other types of repetitive content. On July 15th, the company will update its YouTube Partner Program (YPP) monetization policy, using more detailed guidelines on the types of content that can make money for creators and what they cannot. The exact policy language itself has not been released yet, but the YouTube Help Document page explains that authors must always upload “original” and “real” content. According to the update, the new language will help creators better understand…
Earlier this month, Adrian Holovaty, founder of Soundlice, a music teaching platform, solved the mystery that had been worrisome for several weeks. The strange images, which were obviously ChatGpt sessions, continued to be uploaded to the site. Once he solved it, he realized that ChatGpt had become one of his company’s biggest hype men, but it was lying to people about what his app could do. Holovaty is best known as one of the creators of the open source Django project, a popular Python Web Development framework (although he retired from managing the project in 2014). In 2012 he launched…
Despite decades of research focusing on obesity, what happens in the body when you lose weight and why losing weight can improve your health is still not well understood.The new study, currently published naturally on Wednesday (July 9th), provides clues as to what is actually happening. Weight loss suggests that it does more than shave pounds – it can change fat at the cellular level, rewire the way tissue metabolism, and perhaps even “rejuvenate” it.This study also provides insight into why weight loss does not necessarily eliminate all health problems associated with obesity. This study found that poor health markers…