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Brazil SC justice to probe Musk over fake news and alleged obstruction

A crusading Brazilian Supreme Court justice included Elon Musk as a target in an ongoing investigation over the dissemination of fake news and opened a separate investigation late Sunday into the executive for alleged obstruction. In his decision, Justice Alexandre de Moraes noted that Musk on Saturday began waging a public disinformation campaign regarding the top court's actions, and that Musk continued the following day most notably with comments that his social media company X would cease to comply with the court's orders to block certain accounts. The flagrant conduct of obstruction of Brazilian justice, incitement of crime, the public threat of disobedience of court orders and future lack of cooperation from the platform are facts that disrespect the sovereignty of Brazil, de Moraes wrote. Musk will be investigated for alleged intentional criminal instrumentalisation of X as part of an investigation into a network of people known as digital militias who allegedly spread ...

Musk-led X changes course, gives away blue ticks to popular users for free

Musk pledged last week to start handing out the free features to people who had more than 2,500 verified followers

Free blue ticks back for some accounts on X leaving some users unhappy

Last year, X began issuing verification checks only to those who paid the starting price of $8 per month for it, and stripping verification badges from many celebrities

Boosting Tesla employees' pay to stop OpenAI from poaching: CEO Musk

Musk was responding to an Information report about Tesla AI scientist Ethan Knight leaving the car company to join Musk's xAI startup

Musk launches X's 'Community Notes' programme in India: Here's how it works

The 'Community Notes' programme will allow contributors to participate in fact-checking tweets in order to create a more informed digital environment

Boosting Tesla employees' pay to stop OpenAI from poaching: CEO Musk

Musk was responding to an Information report about Tesla AI scientist Ethan Knight leaving the car company to join Musk's xAI startup

Elon Musk's X appoints new head of safety to oversee content rules

The company promoted an internal employee, Kylie McRoberts, to take on the high-profile job

Click here: Everything about X trend highlighting image 'Alt Text' feature

Below is an explainer on a recent trend on X (formerly Twitter) where users are posting images with instructions to "Click Here" pointing to the "ALT" text box

Musk's Grok-1.5 AI chatbot to be available on social network X next week

Musk said xAI would open-source Grok, days after the billionaire sued Microsoft-backed OpenAI for allegedly abandoning its original mission in favor of a for-profit model

US Judge dismisses lawsuit by Musk's X against hate speech researchers

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by Elon Musk's X Corp. against the non-profit Center for Countering Digital Hate, which has documented the increase in hate speech on the site since it was acquired by the Tesla owner. X, formerly known as Twitter, had argued the center's researchers violated the site's terms of service by improperly compiling public tweets, and that its subsequent reports on the rise of hate speech cost X millions of dollars when advertisers fled. On Monday, U.S. District Court Judge Charles Breyer dismissed the suit, writing in his order that it was unabashedly and vociferously about one thing" punishing the nonprofit for its speech. X had alleged that the nonprofit scraped its site for data, which is against its terms of service. But the judge found that X failed to allege losses based on technological harms that is, the company didn't show how the scraping led to financial losses for X. X had sought millions of dollars in damages, arguing that the ...

In latest artificial intelligence war escalation, Musk gives chatbot code

'If an AI is programmed to push for diversity at all costs, as Google Gemini was, then it will do whatever it can to cause that outcome, potentially even killing people,' Musk said in a post on Friday

Soon, Elon Musk's AI startup xAI to make Grok chatbot open source: Details

The move would give the public free access to experiment with the code behind the technology powering xAI's Grok chatbot, and aligns xAI with firms such as Meta and Mistral

X could soon receive payment licenses in New York, California: Elon Musk

Since acquiring the company formerly known as Twitter in 2022, the billionaire has sought to turn it into an 'everything app' like Tencent's dominant WeChat app in China

X planning to remove likes and reposts from content, says Elon Musk

Elon Musk talked about decluttering the content on X, formerly Twitter

Elon Musk's X wins lawsuit against music publishers over copyright

Sony Music, Universal Music and other members of the National Music Publishers' Association trade group had sued X last June, seeking more than $250 million of damages

Banks led by Morgan Stanley discuss refinancing $12.5 bn debt with Musk

Fidelity, which received a stake in X after helping Musk complete his $44 billion purchase, has marked down the value of its position by 72% since the takeover

Ex-Twitter execs including Agrawal sue Musk for $128 mn in severance pay

As soon as he took over Twitter, Musk fired several other top-ranking executives in addition to Agrawal: Vijaya Gadde, who was the company's top legal and policy official

Elon Musk's X could face European Union's crackdown on digital dominance

DMA, set to take effect on Thursday, lays out a series of dos and don'ts for likes of Alphabet Inc.'s Google Search, Apple's Safari, Amazon.com Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc.'s Facebook among others

Twitter, now known as 'X', launches audio, video features: How to use them

Earlier in February, 'X' owner Elon Musk had said that in the near future, he would discontinue his phone number and only use 'X' for texts and calls

Media firm Dailyhunt in advanced talks to acquire India's X alternative Koo

The deal could be finalised 'within weeks' and involves a share-swap agreement, a report released on Wednesday suggested