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If they AI business is failing why did they just do a successful large raise?

Your implication is that investors are in some way infallible? Hilarious.

WeWork or Theranos. Have we forgotten about them?

If the AI business is successful why does it keep changing hands? Where are the profits?

No ai companies have profits yet.

Did you see how this last quarter where BYD sales fell off a cliff?

Europe can’t defend itself without the US. That’s not the Us saying it that is coming from Europe itself.

All this stuff is mostly grandstanding


> Europe can’t defend itself without the US.

It depends on what exactly Europe needs to defend itself against.

And Europe is quite rightly starting to regard this US-dependence as a problem to be solved without further delay, rather than an eternal and immutable fact of the world.


I’ve mostly used the 20 a month cursor plan and I’ve gotten to the point I can code huge things with rarely the need to do anything manually


I’ve mostly used the 20 a month cursor plan and I’ve gotten to the point I can code huge things with rarely the need to do anything manually


I have youtube premium to avoid youtube ads and now I use YouTube Music myself and it's great. Saves me money and I love it


I rage quit Spotify a few years ago because they kept breaking how the app worked with frustrating regularity. This was around when they changed the hue of the spotify icon to a slightly different one.

YTM is arguably a worse product, but also a consistent one with zero UX churn, which I'll take any day of the week.

Youtube Premium is also very nice if you spend any time ever watching youtube videos.


Isn't it a mostly Boeing project that is going to go around the moon next month? I'm really afraid for that crew.


Why would you be afraid for them when the Orion capsule worked so flawlessly...oh right.


Are you talking about Starliner? Starliner's 2 flights have been problematic to say the least, but Orion's single (uncrewed) flight went pretty well.


And Lockheed and Airbus are the prime contractors on Orion, not Boeing.


Yeah, totally borked that one up. Apologies to the Orion team for erroneously tagging them with Boeing's baggage.


I think most of these AI's have this problem though. Not sure why xAI is getting picked on in particular.


First, Twitter has grok integrated directly. Rather than somebody separately creating one of these abuse images and then posting it, they simply comment on somebody's tweet and Twitter does the rest.

Second, Musk himself advocated for looser restrictions on this sort of abusive image generation. Rather than starting from a position of trying to minimize this abuse Musk started from a position of opposing efforts to minimize this abuse.

Third, Musk has joked about the pain and suffering experienced by the people getting harassed on Twitter with this content. I have vastly more patience for somebody who seems to actively care about addressing the problem than somebody who seems to enjoy it when women are abused en masse on his platform.


xAI is getting picked because their company is encouraging and enabling sexual abuse and child porn generation on a massive scale. When called out on it they turned it into a commercial feature, and whined how they are being prosecuted for free speech. Now they are trying to politicize it [1]. Garbage behavior.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/01/elon-musk-can... this/685606/


"We have the problem" and "it's not a problem" aren't the same thing.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/08/tech/elon-musk-xai-digital-un...

> Publicly, Musk has long advocated against “woke” AI models and against what he calls censorship. Internally at xAI, Musk has pushed back against guardrails for Grok, one source with knowledge of the situation at xAI told CNN. Meanwhile, his xAI’s safety team, already small compared to its competitors, lost several staffers in the weeks leading up to the explosion of “digital undressing.”


They integrated into twitter where it was used predictably… and then blamed the users.


All of them are used. And most of the time it’s the users fault. Yes it should prevent it but all of them have this issue. The other AIs are used far more often


I don't know what you mean by "all of them are used" in response to my comment. It's not clear if you understood my comment or not.


They are all used. If by predictably you mean that people would do what they’ve done, they’ve done it on every platform so what difference does it make if it’s integrated with Twitter?


This seems completely believable to me. They have tons of research scientists and chemists who do this for a living, and had access to the best equipment (even back in the day).

It probably didn’t take them terribly long to do it


You have already done that when you sign up for an anthropic account


True. You can turn it off though: https://claude.ai/settings/data-privacy-controls


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