Another one of Elon Musk’s top executives has made a break for it. Mike Liberatore, the chief financial officer of Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI, left the company in July—just three months after he started, the Wall Street Journal reported. His exit marks the fourth high-profile departure from xAI this summer, though his reasons remain…
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A Hong Kong police superintendent has been acquitted of molesting and assaulting a female subordinate four times over a seven-month period last year, with a magistrate saying that the defendant’s actions could be interpreted as “being merely playful”. Fanling Court on Monday heard that Chan Kin-yee, 42, was cleared of one count of indecent assault…
Elon Musk’s xAI has made an older version of its AI model Grok — specifically, the model weights used to shape Grok 2.5 — available on the open source platform Hugging Face. “The @xAI Grok 2.5 model, which was our best model last year, is now open source,” Musk wrote on X. He added that…
A former Hong Kong firefighter has been sentenced to six years and three months in prison after being found guilty of raping a woman in a hotel room while she was intoxicated. High Court Judge William Tam Yiu-ho said on Friday that Chan Cheuk-hin, 28, had committed a serious offence that caused the victim to…
Elon Musk’s X is struggling on Android devices in terms of new installs, even while App Store downloads grow, according to new data from app intelligence provider Appfigures. In July 2025, X downloads on Google Play saw a significant decline, as new installs dropped by 44% year-over-year worldwide, even as iOS downloads grew by 15%….
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…