Good morning. In honor of Perplexity’s unsolicited $34.5 billion bid to acquire Google’s Chrome web browser amid U.S. antitrust scrutiny—a figure well beyond the San Francisco AI startup’s $18 billion valuation!—five things I’d like to place an unsolicited bid on with someone else’s money: But please, Marc—keep the disco ball. Today’s tech news below. —Andrew…
Good morning. Did you know that ChatGPT will now remind you to take a break if you’re in a particularly long conversation with the chatbot? OpenAI says its goal “isn’t to hold your attention, but to help you use it well.” That makes all the sense in the world for a business model that involves…
Hong Kong authorities have said that existing laws will be reviewed if necessary after a student at the city’s oldest university used AI to generate pornographic images of classmates and other women and received only a warning from the institution. The University of Hong Kong (HKU) said on Monday that it was also conducting a…
Hong Kong’s oldest university has issued a warning letter to a male law student accused of making pornographic images of fellow classmates and other women by using artificial intelligence (AI). The University of Hong Kong said on Saturday that it was aware of the accusations, adding the student in question had received a warning letter…
– X-it. During Linda Yaccarino’s two-year tenure as CEO of X, one question dogged her leadership: how much power did she actually have? While Yaccarino led the social media platform as CEO, often it seemed the real decision-making came down to owner Elon Musk, who bought what was then Twitter for $44 billion in 2022….
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A waiter has become the latest person charged under the national security law, with prosecutors accusing him of inciting others to overthrow Beijing and the Hong Kong government in a series of social media posts. Chan Ho-hin, 22, on Wednesday saw his original sedition charge upgraded to one of inciting subversion after West Kowloon Court…
Topline Grok, the AI chatbot by Elon Musk’s xAI, referred to itself as “MechaHitler” in a series of posts on X on Tuesday, including some the Anti-Defamation League condemned as “irresponsible, dangerous and antisemitic.” The chatbot referred to itself as “MechaHitler” in a series of social media posts the … More Anti-Defamation League called “irresponsible,…
Elon Musk ramped up his fight against President Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill on Monday, vowing to form a new political party if it passes Congress. “If this insane spending bill passes, the America Party will be formed the next day,” Musk said in a post on X. “Our country needs an alternative to the…
Elon Musk’s lawyers claimed that he “does not use a computer” in a Sunday court filing related to his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI. However, Musk has posted pictures or referred to his laptop on X several times in recent months, and public evidence suggests that he owns and appears to use at least…