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X continues to roll out updates to its Grok AI chatbot, which it recently made available for free to all users . Grok is the showcase product of Elon Musk’s xAI initiative , which is separate from X, but comes under the X Corp. branding. And it heavily relies on X insights to power its responses, which intertwines both the X app and xAI. And with xAI recently raising an additional $6 billion in funding , and building a huge AI computing cluster in Memphis , X and Musk are keen to get more people using Grok, to show-off what it can do, and how it matches up to other generative AI chatbots on the market. First off, X has further integrated X and web search data to improve Grok’s answers. As you can see in this example, Grok’s responses now include reference links and citations to help clarify and contextualize its outputs. It’s also improved Grok’s image generation model , while it’s also added an updated Grok button on X posts, which will make it easy to get more context on any X post in-steam. You’ll also note the updated Grok icon for the new button. Grok’s switching from the box with a slash through it to a new logo design , further differentiating the function. X is also now testing audio queries for Grok , so you can vocally ask the app questions. That would bring it more into line with Meta AI, which is already available for voice queries in its Ray-Ban Meta glasses . Though Meta AI isn’t the true target of Musk’s gen AI initiative. Musk’s real focus is OpenAI, the organization that he helped to establish in its initial stages, before being ousted from the project due to his demands to be put in control. As the story goes, back in 2016, at the beginning of the OpenAI experiment, Musk pledged $100 million in funding to the OpenAI project , and its goal of developing AI in a safe and open manner. He then sought to be made CEO of the organization, and was rebuffed by the OpenAI board, which prompted Musk to leave the project, and partially withdraw his donation. Years later, OpenAI became a major company, and started making money from the project. And Elon, spurned by both the rejection, and having his initial donation to the project partially fund its for-profit status, became so incensed that he created his own AI project to essentially kill OpenAI. Which is part of the reason why Elon’s ramping up development of his AI projects, which are also linked to Tesla, and its work towards full self-driving technology. And Grok is what xAI currently has to show for this. I’m not convinced that AI chatbots add anything significant to the social media experience, and I don’t know that many X users are going to find much value in the tool, even with it now being made available to all of its 570 million users . But that may not be the key aim, as xAI continues to develop, and seek new use cases for its offerings. But Grok is also improving, and if you’re looking for an AI chatbot, its access to X’s real-time info could be of value.
This case serves as a stark reminder of the grave consequences of betraying one's own country and breaching the trust placed in individuals who have access to sensitive information. The individual's actions not only jeopardized national security but also undermined the credibility and integrity of the educational institution they graduated from.
The accused, who held the position of cashier at the company's subsidiary, was found to have meticulously siphoned off funds over a period of time, amounting to close to 20 million yuan. The embezzlement was carried out through sophisticated means, demonstrating a deliberate and premeditated intent to deceive the company and its stakeholders.Investors’ hopes of future interest rate cuts were buoyed on Friday by weak UK economic data, pushing the FTSE 100 upwards. London’s blue-chip index gained 112.81 points, or 1.38%, to end the day at 8,262.08. It came after a business survey showed activity across the UK’s private sector contracted in the first weeks of November, amid a slump in optimism in the period following the Budget. The S&P Global flash UK composite purchasing managers’ index (PMI) reported activity hit a 13-month low. But the news had a positive effect on UK stocks, which rose on hopes of faster cuts to the base interest rate by the Bank of England. Elliott Jordan-Doak, an analyst at the consultancy Pantheon Macroeconomics, said that rising inflation and risks from Donald Trump’s election in the US “leaves only a low chance of another rate cut in December”. “Signs of weaker growth, however, make a February rate cut a slam dunk, we think. “Accordingly, the market repriced closer to our call after the PMI release, now pricing three rate cuts over the next 12 months.” At the end of the day in Europe Frankfurt’s Dax index rose 0.83%, while the Cac 40 in Paris gained 0.58%. In New York a little while after markets had closed in Europe the S&P 500 had gained 0.27%, while the Dow Jones was 0.76% higher. On currency markets the pound was trading 0.54% lower against the dollar at 1.2516 and had risen 0.14% against the euro at 1.2037. In company news, National World shareholder Media Concierge has said it tabled a £56.2 million takeover approach for the Yorkshire Post owner. Media Concierge, which runs a raft of newspapers in Ireland as well as direct mail and advertising operations, put forward a potential offer of 21p per share for National World on October 31. This represents a 40% premium against the firm’s share price at the close of trading on Thursday November 21. Shares in National World rose 25.67% on Friday. Brent crude futures were up 0.92% to 74.91 US dollars at the close of trading. The biggest risers on the FTSE 100 were Diploma, up 244p to 4466p, Spirax, up 280p to 6790p, Hikma Pharmaceuticals, up 78p to 1950p, AstraZeneca, up 412p to 10474p, and Melrose Industries, up 18.6p to 526.8p. The biggest fallers on the FTSE 100 were NatWest Group, down 9.8p to 390.7p, Barclays, down 5.45p to 257.2p, JD Sports, down 1.98p to 93.46p, Antofagasta, down 25p to 1664.5p, and Standard Chartered, down 13.4p to 945.6p.
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