A judge on Monday granted a motion to dismiss a lawsuit from X Corp. — the company formerly known as Twitter — against the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), an anti-extremism watchdog. The group had drawn the ire of the company’s owner, Elon Musk, by sharing research that revealed …
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Don Lemon’s interview with Elon Musk for The Don Lemon Show, which marked the beginning and end of his brief deal to start broadcasting on X (formerly Twitter), dropped Monday morning and is pretty much exactly what you’d expect: a lot of ducking, dodging, hypotheticals, gotchas, and reverse gotchas. During …
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An award named after Ruth Bader Ginsburg that was set to be given to Elon Musk and Rubert Murdoch has been canceled. On Monday, the Dwight D. Opperman Foundation announced that it would be canceling its awards gala this year after Barbra Streisand — who was awarded the Ruth Bader …
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In their long-running quest to sow xenophobia among the American populace, some on the far right have accused migrants of every imaginable crime. Donald Trump declared them rapists and falsely claimed that the violent street gang MS-13 was invading the country on a massive scale. GOP legislators have argued, with …
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As Elon Musk repeatedly refuses the SEC‘s bid to interview him as part of its investigation over the handling of his Twitter takeover, a new filing accuses the billionaire of attempting to “misrepresent the scope of the SEC’s investigation.” In the SEC’s response to a motion filed by Elon Musk, …
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Former CNN host Don Lemon revealed on Wednesday that just hours after filming an interview with Elon Musk for the premiere of a show to air exclusively on X (formerly Twitter), the platform’s impulsive owner killed the streaming deal altogether. In a statement shared on X, Lemon said Musk unilaterally …
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Donald Trump met with a group of prospective donors on Sunday, among them Elon Musk, The New York Times reported. The group gathered at Palm Beach, Florida, per the publication. It is unclear if the billionaire has decided to donate to the GOP frontrunner’s campaign, although he claims he will …
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Elon Musk accused Sam Altman and OpenAI of pursuing profit over bettering humanity in a new breach of contract lawsuit filed in San Francisco Superior Court yesterday, Feb. 29. Musk helped Altman found OpenAI as a non-profit in 2015 (Musk left the board of directors in 2018 and no longer …
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As a young aspiring artist of minimal talent, Adolf Hitler had difficulty drawing human figures, according to the professors who rejected his application to Vienna’s fine arts academy. Google‘s AI model Gemini has its own issues with generating images of people, and, curiously, some of those angriest about its shortcomings …
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Elon Musk took over Twitter promising to rid the platform of what he described as its biggest problem: bots. In his characteristic fashion, he not only failed to make good on his word, but the paid verification system he claimed would solve the issue pushed more fake accounts into users’ …
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