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Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI has introduced Grok-3, the latest iteration of its chatbot, as it looks to compete with Chinese AI firm DeepSeek, Microsoft-backed OpenAI, and Alphabet's Google. Grok-3 debut comes at a critical moment in the AI arms race, just days after DeepSeek unveiled its powerful open-source model and as Musk moves aggressively to expand xAI's influence. The chatbot is being rolled out immediately to Premium+ subscribers on X, the social media platform owned by Musk. xAI is also launching a new subscription tier, SuperGrok, for users accessing the chatbot via its mobile app and Grok.com website....

DARPA scientist Joshua Elliott, the documents show. He was a DARPA program manager from 2017 to 2023, according to his LinkedIn. Beforehand, he studied things like “socio-technical change,” and worked in academia for 10 years on things like “computational climate economics.” At DARPA, he was allowed to “program” $600 million in federal research and development funding, according to the Federation of American Scientists. Afterward, Elliott worked for the radical group Quadrature Climate Foundation, and more recently, Renaissance

Last week, the Planned Parenthood abortion business scrubbed its Instagram account. Every single post over a number of years just vanished. This action coincides with massive call for DOGE to defend the abortion giant. And some pro-life advocates are speculating that Planned Parenthood wiped clean its Instagram account in a desperate attempt to avoid defunding. The scrubbing of social media presence could be interpreted as a strategic retreat from public engagement amidst a massive push to eliminate taxpayer funding of fraud and waste — both of which describe Planned Parenthood. The abortion company’s decision to purge its Instagram content was...

@RealRossU I got to see the ocean for the first time in over 11 years because @realDonaldTrump released me from prison. On this President's Day, I would like to acknowledge a truly great American President, one who cares about freedom and second chances. Here's to you President Trump.

The Jeff Bezos' owned Washington Post has reportedly backed out of running a $115,000 front page advertisement targeting DOGE head Elon Musk amid the Amazon founder's budding friendship with President Donald Trump. Advocacy group Common Cause announced that it had signed the costly agreement with the newspaper to run an ad that would have covered the entire front and back page of Tuesday's paper as well as a full page advertisement inside the paper. The group said it planned to purchase the ad in collaboration with the Southern Poverty Law Center Action Fund. Copies of the paper with the wrap...

It shouldn’t come as a shock that the best parts of the “Saturday Night Live” 50th anniversary special last night on NBC were seeing iconic stars back in Studio 8H again. Everybody got to watch at least one of their favorites. It was the rare event that was just as nostalgic for 30-year-olds as it was for nonagenarians. After Paul Simon, 83, kicked things off dueting on “Homeward Bound” with Sabrina Carpenter, 25, Steve Martin, who was never a cast member but hosted the program 16 times, began with a terrific opening monologue. “A person born during the first season...

An American life-coach has revealed the top 10 destinations that tourists should avoid due to racist experiences. Khanyisa Mnyaka, a certified trauma-informed relationship and pleasure coach from Seattle, Washington, took to TikTok to share her views on racist attitudes, revealing that residents of one particularly racist nation 'don't even know how to talk to Black people'. Author of memoir 'Travelling While Black and Lesbian', Ms Mnyaka introduced the video by saying: 'I just want to tell you about 10 of the most racist countries that I've ever been to.' South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore and Costa Rica all received the...

The White House slammed Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy as a "moron" on social media after the Connecticut lawmaker posted an expletive-riddled admonishment against a Lara Trump parody account he seemingly believed belonged to the president's daughter-in-law. "You are a moron, Chris. It is obvious this page is not affiliated with President Trump, his family, or the administration. We do, however, support your right to make such a statement, no matter how imbecilic it makes you look," the White House's X account, Rapid Response 47, said in a message posted on Friday. The rapid response account is a new White House...

week. “Washington DC searches soar for “Swiss bank” (yellow), “offshore bank” (green), “wire money” (red) and “IBAN” (blue),” WikiLeaks wrote on X late Thursday. Search terms “Wipe” (blue) and “Erase” (red) also moved higher in recent weeks. Wipe hard drives? And “BleachBit” too!

A recent study conducted by Microsoft in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University has raised concerns about the potential cognitive impacts of overreliance on AI tools such as Microsoft's Copilot and OpenAI's ChatGPT. The research suggests that while these generative AI assistants can enhance productivity by handling routine tasks, excessive dependence on them may lead to a decline in users' critical thinking abilities. The study highlights a key irony of automation: by mechanizing routine tasks and leaving exception-handling to the human user, individuals are deprived of regular opportunities to practice judgment and strengthen cognitive skills. This lack of engagement can result...

For the past couple of days my Facebook newsfeed seems to be stuck on "Your all caught up." Has anyone else had this problem?

A federal judge on Friday indefinitely delayed a final ruling on a request by labor unions to block Elon Musk's government efficiency team from accessing internal system data, telling both parties, "You will hear from me," while declining to promise an exact time or date. The update from U.S. District Judge John Bates, a George W. Bush appointee, comes just one week after he rejected an earlier request from unions representing Labor Department employees for a temporary restraining order to block DOGE access to internal system data. The judge said the plaintiffs lacked standing and failed to show they would...

Key Points * Mark Zuckerberg’s open effort to curry favor with President Donald Trump has rattled employees, and the company is censoring their criticism internally, according to people familiar with the matter. * While Zuckerberg is trying to improve his relationship with Trump after the president’s tumultuous first term, sources say he’s aiming to hurt Apple in the process. * Zuckerberg recently told podcast host Joe Rogan that Meta’s profit would double if Apple stopped applying “random rules” that tax his company. ============================================================================== Mark Zuckerberg kicked off 2025 with an Instagram video that outlined his vision for what he called...

... The problem with that starts with the fact that it's not in a database. It's a wildly heterogeneous collection of different databases, ISAM files, and card images, and I would bet money that a lot of it is on old 7-track tapes. Some of these are probably stored in Iron Mountain or a similar installation. Also, some of the data may still be just on paper, as, apparently, government retirement records are. So what Big Balls and the other wizards are going to need to do to start with is find the data. I'm willing to bet there's no...

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The Washington Post reported Friday that the United Kingdom’s deep state has demanded that Apple create a back door for them to retrieve all the content any Apple user worldwide has uploaded to the cloud—what would be an unprecedented erosion of online privacy and civil liberties. This works because once the UK seizes your data, they can hand that to the Feds in the states, and your Constitutional rights are NOT violated because the US government did not illegally seize it without a warrant. The American Revolution Was Over This Very Issue And Starmer’s Government is Doing What King George...

A group of investors led by Elon Musk is offering about $97.4 billion to buy the nonprofit behind OpenAI, escalating a dispute with the artificial intelligence company that Musk helped found a decade ago. Musk and his own AI startup, xAI, and a consortium of investment firms want to take control of the ChatGPT maker and revert it to its original charitable mission as a nonprofit research lab, according to Musk's attorney Marc Toberoff. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman quickly rejected the unsolicited bid on Musk's social platform X, saying, “no thank you but we will buy Twitter for $9.74 billion...

Elon Musk is leading a group of investors offering to buy OpenAI for nearly $100 billion. The takeover bid was submitted to OpenAI's board of directors on Monday, Musk's attorney Marc Toberoff told the Wall Street Journal. Open AI is currently a non-profit run by Musk's nemesis Sam Altman. The tech entrepreneurs are currently locked in a legal battle about the future of the company, considered a leader in artificial intelligence research. The maker's of ChatGPT have not publicly responded to the unsolicited bid from Musk and his associates. Musk's audacious bid has thrown a spanner in Altman's plans to...

Researchers in artificial intelligence (AI), from Stanford and the University of Washington, have trained a "cutting-edge" reasoning AI model for under $50 in cloud compute credits, according to a research paper published recently. The model, named s1, purportedly rivals industry-leading models like OpenAI's o1 and DeepSeek's R1 in tests of math and coding skills. The s1 model, along with the data and code used for training, is now available on GitHub. The team behind s1 started with an off-the-shelf base model and fine-tuned it through distillation, a process that extracts reasoning abilities from another AI model by training on its...

Dave Portnoy, founder of Barstool Sports, promoted a new meme coin called Jailstool yesterday, making its market cap surge by 119,000% in less than five hours, with its price up by 2.6 million percent in the past twenty-four hours. The token instantly became popular after Dave tweeted and held a late-night X Space with his 3.5 million followers.