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This week Apple got a dose of reality as people are caring less about its Vision Pro. A robot tank with green eyes and a robo dog with a flamethrower show that the future of warfare is here. And to round things out, Elon Musk’s AI bot isn’t that smart. Here’s all the big tech news for the week.

Elon Musk reinvented the blue checkmark Wednesday night, regressing to an old Twitter policy where anyone with a certain amount of status gets a check. Now, accounts with more than 2,500 verified subscriber followers automatically received a blue checkmark for free.

When OpenAI released ChatGPT in 2022, it may not have realized it was setting a company spokesperson loose on the internet.

Elon Musk said his startup xAI will open-source Grok later this week, revealing the inner workings of the chatbot to anyone who wants to dissect the AI or build a competing product. The announcement — which came just before 3 am Monday morning in Texas, where Musk makes his home — is short on details, but it’s…
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OpenAI’s founders published a scathing response to Elon Musk’s lawsuit Tuesday night, claiming that Musk made a power grab to achieve “absolute control” of the A


