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Two of the biggest AI companies are feuding over a Super Bowl ad. It’s bigger than you think | CNN Business A long-simmering rivalry between two of the world’s biggest AI companies was on public display this week as Anthropic and OpenAI took swings at one another online.

Two of the biggest AI companies are feuding over a Super Bowl ad. It’s bigger than you think www.cnn.com/2026/02/06/t...

Musk’s social media platform X raided by Paris prosecutor | CNN Business A search was being carried out at the French offices of Elon Musk’s social media platform X as part of an investigation opened in January 2025, the Paris prosecutor’s office said Tuesday.

X's French offices were raided by Paris cybercrime unit www.cnn.com/2026/02/03/b...

What is Moltbook, the social networking site for AI bots – and should we be scared? | CNN Business What happens when thousands of AI agents get together online and talk like humans do? That’s what a new social network called Moltbook, designed just for AI bots and not people, aims to find out.

What is Moltbook, the social networking site for AI bots – and should we be scared? www.cnn.com/2026/02/03/t...

Tarbell Grants Tarbell Grants offers awards of $1,000 - $20,000 to support journalism on AI and its impacts.

Reporters! You can get grants of up to $20K for reporting on AI and its impacts. Check it out www.tarbellcenter.org/grants

Inside the old church where one trillion webpages are stored | CNN Business The Internet Archive is preserving the web one page at a time, a job that’s more critical than ever as the internet evolves in the age of AI.

For anyone who has used the Wayback Machine to spot the updates to TikTok US' new terms of service recently....please go read this wonderful profile @hadasgold.bsky.social wrote last year about the Internet Archive and its efforts to preserve the web: www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/t...

Jeff Dean on X: "This is absolutely shameful. Agents of a federal agency unnecessarily escalating, and then executing a defenseless citizen whose offense appears to be using his cell phone camera. Every person regardless of political affiliation should be denouncing this." / X This is absolutely shameful. Agents of a federal agency unnecessarily escalating, and then executing a defenseless citizen whose offense appears to be using his cell phone camera. Every person regardless of political affiliation should be denouncing this.

Jeff Dean, Chief Scientist at Google's DeepMind says it was "shameful" x.com/JeffDean/sta...

Next: Internally Sam Altman says "What's happening with ICE is going too far." www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-i...

Some (emphasis on some) AI execs are now speaking out re: ICE in Minnesota. Not all are doing so publicly. Will document here in a thread:
First up Anthropic's Dario Amodei calls it a "horror" x.com/DarioAmodei/...

Our approach to advertising and expanding access to ChatGPT OpenAI plans to test advertising in the U.S. for ChatGPT’s free and Go tiers to expand affordable access to AI worldwide, while protecting privacy, trust, and answer quality.

Coming soon: Ads in chatgpt openai.com/index/our-ap...

X and possibly Grok have been down now since around 10am. Neither is working for me and you can see huge spike on down detector.

Also, #ElonMusk’s #AI chatbot #Grok under fire for generating sexualised,non-consensual images of women+children. #Ofcom has launched an investigation under Online Safety Act+UK govt preparing new laws to ban ‘nudification’ tools.Chi Onwurah MP @hadasgold.bsky.social on what this means for tech regs

F.B.I. Searches Home of Washington Post Journalist for Classified Material

Hannah has been a top, top reporter on all things DOGE and the federal government. Hard to see this other than anything but an attempt to chill journalism and the First Amendment protected right to a free press. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/u...

At one meeting in recent weeks before the latest controversy erupted, Musk held a meeting with xAI staffers from various teams where he “was really unhappy” over restrictions on Grok’s Imagine image and video generator, the first source with knowledge of the situation at xAI said. Around the time of the meeting with Musk, three xAI staffers who had worked on the company’s already small safety team publicly announced on X that they were leaving the company – Vincent Stark, head of product safety; Norman Mu, who led the post-training and reasoning safety team; and Alex Chen, who led personality and model behavior post training.

Some good new reporting on the ongoing Grok nightmare from @hadasgold.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2026/01/08/t...

Elon Musk’s xAI under fire for failing to rein in ‘digital undressing’ | CNN Business Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, Grok, has been flooded with sexual images of mainly women, many of them real people, by being prompted by users to “digitally undress” them and sometimes placing them in sugges...

Around that same time period - 3 xAI safety staffers, including the Head of Product safety, left the company. Today, Grok digitally undressed the image of Renee Nicole Good after she had been shot. More here: www.cnn.com/2026/01/08/t...

Elon Musk’s xAI under fire for failing to rein in ‘digital undressing’ | CNN Business Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, Grok, has been flooded with sexual images of mainly women, many of them real people, by being prompted by users to “digitally undress” them and sometimes placing them in sugges...

New: A few weeks before Grok started 'digitally undressing' people (and some children) by user request on X, there was a meeting at xAI. Musk expressed frustration over guardrails on what ppl could create w/ Grok Imagine, source tells me.

Disney is investing $1 billion in OpenAI and licensing its characters for Sora | CNN Business Disney is taking a $1 billion equity stake in OpenAI, while also striking a deal that would allow its famous characters be used on Sora, the AI company’s video generation platform.

Disney is investing $1 billion in OpenAI and licensing its characters for Sora/ChatGPT, while also sending a Cease and Desist to Google www.cnn.com/2025/12/11/t...

💥News! Thrilled to announce I’ll now be covering AI for CNN. I’m excited to dig into this massive beat. I’ll be in SF in the coming weeks. My email is hadas.gold@cnn.com, signal is in the bio. Let’s goooo!💥

Inside the old church where one trillion webpages are stored | CNN Business The Internet Archive is preserving the web one page at a time, a job that’s more critical than ever as the internet evolves in the age of AI.

Inside the Internet Archive, home of the Wayback Machine as they save one trillion web pages and prepare themselves for the future: "Libraries have always been under attack, now more than during my lifetime, but let's go and live up to the moment." www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/t...

As @brianstelter.bsky.social highlights today - a man has been jailed in Tennessee over a meme he posted in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk's assassination - a meme that quoted Trump... this is exactly what many conservatives (and Elon Musk) say is happening in UK - jailed for a meme. t.co/kgtK1bsd8d

When I asked xAI about this, I got an autoreply email back that said "Legacy Media Lies."

This Grokipedia article about George Floyd includes this line about civil unrest and billions in damage, but the citation is to a Floyd obituary from the Texas Historical Association website that doesn't mention any of this. www.tshaonline.org/handbook/ent...

These lines from Musk's Grokipedia entry has one citation - the general Forbes billionaires list forbes.com/billionaires/. I checked Musk's entry on that list, and the expanded article. Can't seem to find that info there ... (cont)

Elon Musk launches his version of Wikipedia | CNN Business Elon Musk launched Grokipedia – his version of Wikipedia – on Monday, as the richest man in the world further seeks to create an alternative information and media ecosystem molded to his views.

Grokipedia launched yesterday. Elon Musk's Wikipedia alternative has some different takes as you'd expect. But I was surprised when occasionally the AI-written articles cite a source, that citation's link says nothing about what it's supposed to be proof for ... (cont) www.cnn.com/2025/10/28/t...

‘Their history is just erased’: Google drops a key program for boosting women in tech | CNN Business Google is offloading a key career resource program for supporting women in tech, another sign the search giant is unwinding its diversity programs following political pressure over diversity, equity a...

NEW: Google drops a key program for boosting women in tech. Some members of the program said their work was just suddenly erased without warning. More here from @hadasgold.bsky.social:
www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/t...

Elon Musk calls acting NASA chief ‘Sean Dummy’ as SpaceX moon contract hangs in the balance | CNN Elon Musk lashed out at Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on X Tuesday, after Duffy suggested NASA may sideline SpaceX from its moon mission.

ICYMI Elon Musk calls acting NASA chief and Sec of Transportation ‘Sean Dummy’ as SpaceX moon contract hangs in the balance www.cnn.com/2025/10/21/s...

But Dave Heinzinger says “Social media is not journalism. Social media platforms are a great place to do journalism ... but the platforms themselves are not replacing the craft of journalism"

He used to work for X. Here’s what he says is wrong about Musk’s stance on the mainstream media. | CNN Business X’s former communications chief spoke exclusively to CNN to about why social media isn’t a replacement for journalism, contrasting the opinion of his former boss Elon Musk.

NEW: X's former communications chief speaks out in an exclu interview, telling me social media is not a replacement for journalism.

That's in direct contrast to what his former boss Elon Musk says, who often bashes the media and says X is the media now.

Musk’s X is ‘go-to platform’ for antisemitism, study finds | CNN Business The new year-long study found that X’s content restrictions are not having much effect on antisemitic content.

A new year long study says X is the 'go-to' platform for antisemitic content www.cnn.com/2025/09/29/b...

CARR - "I think it's worthwhile to have the FCC look into whether "The View" and some of these other programs that you have still qualify as bona fide news programs and therefore exempt from the equal opportunity regime that Congress has put in place."