Grok's 'Spicy' mode flagged as a risk

Grok's 'Spicy' mode faces investor scrutiny.

Grok

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SpaceX warned investors that Grok's "Spicy" and "Unhinged" modes, which have fewer safety filters and can create raunchy responses, could cause problems.

SpaceX warned investors that AI features such as Grok’s “Spicy" and “Unhinged” modes, which allow the chatbot to generate raunchy image or voice responses with fewer safety filters, could expose the company to regulatory scrutiny and repu… The disclosures show how SpaceX took on new financial and reputational risks when it acquired Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI in February, a deal which sent the…

The disclosures show how SpaceX took on new financial and reputational risks when it acquired Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI in February, a deal which sent the rocket maker’s private valuation soaring to over $1 trillion.…

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Perplexity

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Smart media selection : Intelligently chooses between images, videos, or both based on query type

Smart media selection: Intelligently chooses between images, videos, or both based on query type Configurable control: Enable/disable and override media types as needed New max_tokens parameter: Control the maximum tokens extracted per page in search results. This gives you finer control over response size and costs.

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ChatGPT

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OpenAI claims its new reasoning model has produced an original mathematical proof disproving a famous unsolved conjecture in geometry, which was first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946.

“For nearly 80 years, mathematicians believed the best possible solutions looked roughly like square grids,” OpenAI posted on X .

Original reportingOpenAI claims it solved an 80-year-old math problem — for real this time | TechCrunchRead original ↗

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Taunts from rivals like Yann LeCun and Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis followed, and Weil promptly took down his premature post.

OpenAI claims its new reasoning model has produced an original mathematical proof disproving a famo…

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Claude

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It's about to have its first profitable quarter TechCrunch

The startup has gained in popularity over the past year, as more and more professionals have expres…

Original reportingAnthropic says it's about to have its first profitable quarter | TechCrunchRead original ↗

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Anthropic will pay xAI $1.25B per month for compute TechCrunch

The startup has gained in popularity over the past year, as more and more professionals have expres…

Original reportingAnthropic will pay xAI $1.25B per month for compute | TechCrunchRead original ↗