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What happened with AI this week? Well, the passage of the European Union’s AI Act—a landmark piece of regulation that seeks tackle the potential harms of the AI industry—is a pretty big deal. It could totally reshape how European nations’ relationship to the technology. But a lot of less consequential if no less weird…

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xAI chatbot Grok and Grimes' toy Grok.
"Absolutely! I'm always up for making new friends, especially if they share my passion for AI and learning," xAI's chatbot Grok replied when Business Insider asked if it wanted to be friends with Grimes' toy.
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xAI founder Elon Musk (left) and singer Grimes (right)
xAI founder Elon Musk (left) and singer Grimes (right)
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Grimes, the futuristic pop singer and mother of Elon Musk’s children, is working on a plush AI toy named “Grok” with the Silicon Valley startup Curio.

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Elon Musk, who left OpenAI's board in 2018, suggested that former OpenAI board member Ilya Sutskever could come work at xAI.
Elon Musk, who left OpenAI's board in 2018, suggested that former OpenAI board member Ilya Sutskever could come work at xAI.
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There were a few AI product launches this week. Google released Gemini, it’s newest AI platform, while Grok, Elon Musk’s annoying chatbot, rolled out to X Premium users. Apple, meanwhile, tried to keep up by releasing...an open-source machine learning framework. Not quite as exciting. That said, the AI industry…

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Elon Musk’s snarky, anti-woke chatbot, Grok, started rolling out to X Premium Plus users on Thursday. X users who paid $16 a month, or $22 via the app, for a blue checkmark started receiving the added feature of getting roasted by xAI’s premiere generative AI chatbot.

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Elon Musk mugshot plus X post of Elon Musk announcing Grok
Elon Musk announces Grok
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Elon Musk tweeted a link to a strange letter Tuesday, supposedly written by former OpenAI employees detailing “a disturbing pattern of deceit and manipulation by Sam Altman and Greg Brockman.” Altman and Brockman, OpenAI’s CEO and president, were fired and then rehired in a dramatic failed coup that played out ov