xAI posts Grok’s behind-the-scenes prompts
xAI posts Grok's behind-the-scenes prompts xAI posts Grok’s behind-the-scenes prompts xAI has published the system prompts for its AI chatbot Grok after an “unauthorized” change led to a slew of unprompted responses on X about white genocide. The company says it will publish its Grok system prompts on GitHub from now on, which provide some […]
Grok’s white genocide fixation caused by ‘unauthorized modification’
Grok's white genocide fixation caused by 'unauthorized modification' Grok’s white genocide fixation caused by ‘unauthorized modification’ After xAI’s chatbot Grok spent a few hours on Wednesday telling every X user that would listen that the claim of white genocide in South Africa is highly contentious, the company has blamed the behavior on an “unauthorized modification” […]
Grok really wanted people to know that claims of white genocide in South Africa are highly contentious
Grok really wanted people to know that claims of white genocide in South Africa are highly contentious Grok, the AI model from Elon Musk’s xAI, was sending strange responses to people on X earlier on Wednesday. In responses to a number of people, Grok focused on debunking claims of white genocide in South Africa – […]
X notifications are broken
X notifications are broken Some parts of X’s notification system have been down since Thursday afternoon, making it hard for users to see when accounts they follow have posted something. User reports can be seen across Reddit and X, and my colleagues at The Verge have noticed zero new notifications even with alerts enabled on […]
Elon Musk’s DOGE ties could get his companies out of $2 billion in potential liability
Elon Musk's DOGE ties could get his companies out of $2 billion in potential liability Elon Musk’s DOGE ties could get his companies out of $2 billion in potential liability Elon Musk’s expansive portfolio of companies could avoid more than $2.37 billion in potential legal liability due to his unprecedented influence over the US government, […]
Big Tech’s tax bill is on the table in tariff talks
Big Tech's tax bill is on the table in tariff talks Big Tech’s tax bill is on the table in tariff talks The United Kingdom is preparing to respond to the series of tariffs President Donald Trump has introduced since taking office. New taxes on everything from pure-bred horses to bourbon are on the table, […]
X’s head of engineering is out
X's head of engineering is out X’s head of engineering is out Xâs director of engineering, Haofei Wang, has suddenly left the company, according to sources with knowledge of the matter. Wang first joined Elon Muskâs X in July 2023 and has been an integral part of the companyâs leadership, often serving as a conduit […]
X is having an up and down Monday
X is having an up and down Monday The X social media platform has been up and down all morning, with brief but repeated outages preventing posts from loading across both mobile and desktop. The first widespread issue started at around 5:40AM ET this morning, according to Downdetector, leaving timelines consistently unable to refresh on […]
Elon Musk’s xAI adds ‘Big Brain’ reasoning to Grok-3
Elon Musk's xAI adds 'Big Brain' reasoning to Grok-3 Elon Musk’s xAI adds ‘Big Brain’ reasoning to Grok-3 Elon Musk’s xAI unveiled Grok-3 on Tuesday, announcing that the new artificial intelligence model has “more than 10 times” the compute power of its predecessor. xAI said its latest flagship outperforms OpenAI’s GPT-4o, Google’s Gemini, and DeepSeek’s […]
X is blocking links to Signal
X is blocking links to Signal X users are currently unable to post links to Signal.me, which are used to quickly and securely send direct messages to Signal users. A variety of failure notifications are being reported when X users attempt to post Signal links on the platform, some of which identify the blocked message […]