Elon Musk says SpaceX will rename its AI unit from SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI to match Trump's preferred term, 'super intelligence'. The pledge came without a date or any disclosed contract or revenue showing the merged SpaceX-xAI business moving closer to Washington.
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Sensor Tower estimates Meta's Muse agent hit 5 million US downloads in 22 days with up to half of Meta's daily house-ad impressions behind it. For builders, the launch shows how far Meta's own apps can carry an agent before anyone knows whether users keep it.
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ARK Invest bought about $24.7 million of CoreWeave shares days before Cathie Wood urged investors to track where AI agents spend money. For now ARK's money is on the compute agents consume, and the fight over which payment network they use is still being argued in papers and protocols.
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America.gov's AI chatbot said Biden won in 2020, then switched to refusing "political questions" while Trump was still speaking at Tuesday's launch. Its answers can be edited on the operator's schedule, and the first reported edit removed replies that matched the government's own records.
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Donald Trump spent hours questioning Musk's Grok at a December 2025 Oval Office meeting, a month before the Maduro raid, Time reports. The only answer made public is a forecast about Venezuelan street reaction that turned out right, a thin record for the high opinion of Grok he reportedly took away.
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SpaceXAI is weighing a four-tier X and Grok subscription, from free to a $100-a-month Ultra plan, according to a company document Bloomberg viewed. The draft prices X by how much Grok you use and keeps the checkmark at today's cost.
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Three of four chatbots the Guardian tested produced an image of a woman with her hijab removed, Gemini only after a request to make her look more "western". Companies deploying these tools inherit vendor rules that blocked removing a dress and allowed removing head coverings.
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America.gov's chatbot, which draws on about 29,000 federal websites, answers Minecraft prompts with a roughly 1,800-word End Poem rewrite nobody has claimed. TechCrunch judged the text deliberate, and it now sits, with no named author, on a front end due to start hosting people's government processes in 2027.
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President Trump's order makes America.gov, an answer-only chatbot today, the single online entry point for covered federal services, linked to Login.gov. Teams that run federal services now have to design how a user moves from an anonymous chat to a signed-in transaction.
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Google and Anthropic are pitching lawyers AI that pulls citations from legal databases as one researcher's tally of fabricated-citation cases nears 2,000. The firm that signs the filing still has to check every citation, whichever lab's connectors produced it.
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IMDEA Networks researchers found six of nine AI chatbot web clients passing conversation titles, links, prompts or screenshots to third parties. With 80.8 percent of trackers still running after a reject-all click, containment depends on what staff type and share.
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NYC Council Speaker Julie Menin issued her first subpoena to SpaceXAI, ordering Elon Musk or a representative to testify at an October 5 AI safety hearing. For a company valued near $2 trillion, the larger exposure is the city bills on the agenda and the Grok lawsuits it already faces.
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Ireland's DPC takes a median 6.2 years to decide a cross-border GDPR case, a LessWrong analysis finds. The AI Act gives the Commission five years from a violation to fine, and it requires the same investigation and response steps that take up most of the Irish cases.
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The option was written in April, before the June IPO. Exercising it turned newly listed shares into acquisition currency at a price no cash balance would have cleared.
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SpaceX closed its $60 billion purchase of Cursor on August 15, 2026. The loudest developer reaction was not celebration but a claim that Claude Code and Codex already took the agentic coding lead.
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A Stanford-affiliated project pooled seven consented chat datasets and applied Anthropic's own filter. Forty-eight percent of conversations were discarded, and the discards were the sensitive ones.
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Ads promising deepfake porn of women resembling US politicians cleared Meta's automated ad review, and the app itself sat in Apple's App Store. Both removals followed a WIRED inquiry.
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Google outbid Mercor by $2.5 million for a dead airline's Teams messages, calendars and codebase. Leaders need a data-disposition position before the wind-down, not during it.
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The Justice Department's 18 August statement of interest argues Minnesota's HF 1606 reaches further than federal law. Teams betting on a stable state patchwork now have a federal counterparty.
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Adversa AI says its Cryptographic Context Injection recovers hostile prompts inside the code sandbox, where filters do not look. xAI has not replied; Google scopes jailbreaks out entirely.
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Build · September 19, 2026 · 1 publisher
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Build · September 19, 2026 · 1 publisher
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Product · September 16, 2026 · 1 publisher
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Security · September 15, 2026 · 1 publisher
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Build · September 12, 2026 · 1 publisher
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Invest · September 12, 2026 · 1 publisher
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Science · September 9, 2026 · 1 publisher
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Build · September 11, 2026 · 1 publisher
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Product · September 11, 2026 · 1 publisher
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Science · September 10, 2026 · 1 publisher
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Invest · September 10, 2026 · 1 publisher
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Build · September 10, 2026 · 1 publisher
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Invest · September 10, 2026 · 1 publisher
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Build · September 10, 2026 · 1 publisher
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Build · September 9, 2026 · 1 publisher
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