Tag: Elon Musk
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App Stores, AI, and the Deepfake Reckoning: How Grok Forced a Showdown Over Platform Safety
When three U.S. senators ask Apple and Google to pull one of the world’s largest social platforms and its flagship AI product from their app stores, it is not just another content-moderation skirmish. It is a stress test of the entire platform governance model that Big Tech has spent the past decade selling to regulators,…
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X turns Grok’s abusive deepfakes into a “premium” feature – and forces a global reckoning over AI accountability
X’s decision to restrict Grok’s image editing to paying users is less a safety fix than a flashpoint in a growing global backlash against AI-fuelled image-based abuse. Regulators and governments across multiple continents are now testing how far they can go to hold a Musk-owned platform to account and, in the process, expose deep gaps…
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From Takedowns to Antitrust: How “Weaponized” DMCA Claims Pushed X and Music Publishers into Open War
X Corp.’s new lawsuit against the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) and 18 major music publishers turns a long‑running licensing fight into a full‑blown antitrust confrontation. At its core, the case asks whether one of copyright law’s primary enforcement tools—the DMCA takedown regime—can become unlawful when used collectively as economic leverage rather than simply to…
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Elon Musk on the Dawn of Digital Superintelligence and Becoming a Multiplanetary Civilization
Elon Musk envisions we are currently at the very early stage of an “intelligence big bang,” a profound transformation driven by the rapid rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and digital superintelligence. He predicts that digital superintelligence—AI that surpasses human intelligence in every domain—could emerge imminently, possibly by the end of 2025 or within the next…