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A surprising number of “iPad kids” — aka Generation Alpha’s 7- to 9-year-old demographic — are using X, according to new data from parental control software maker Qustodio. The firm…

Do you know where your children are? Maybe on X

A court order recently forced Elon Musk’s X to reveal its full list of shareholders, as of June 2023, to the public. Many of the recognizable tech industry names had…

X shareholders as of June 2023 included funds tied to Bill Ackman, Binance, and Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs

X, formerly known as Twitter, looks like a pretty bad investment right about now. As readers might recall, Elon Musk borrowed $13 billion from Morgan Stanley, Bank of America and…

The banks that loaned Musk $13B to buy Twitter might be having regrets

X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, said today that it’s ending operations in Brazil, although the service will remain available to users in the country. The announcement…

X says it’s closing operations in Brazil

Elon Musk’s Grok released a new AI image-generation feature on Tuesday night that, just like the AI chatbot, has very few safeguards. That means you can generate fake images of…

Meet Black Forest Labs, the startup powering Elon Musk’s unhinged AI image generator

Elon Musk-owned X launched Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini in beta today with improved reasoning. The new Grok AI model can now generate images on the X social network, though Grok…

xAI releases Grok-2, adds image generation on X

X, the social media platform owned by Elon Musk, has been targeted with a series of privacy complaints after it helped itself to the data of users in the European…

Elon Musk’s X targeted with nine privacy complaints after grabbing EU users’ data for training Grok

X (formerly Twitter) appears to be making progress on its upcoming payments system, bringing it closer to Elon Musk’s vision of turning X into an “everything app.”   According to a…

X is getting closer to launching its payment service

X Ceo Linda Yaccarino claims that GARM’s “illegal behavior of these organizations and their executives cost X billions of dollars.”

X files antitrust suit against advertising groups over ‘systematic illegal boycott’

A day after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg talked about his newest social media experiment Threads reaching “almost” 200 million users on the company’s Q2 2024 earnings call, the platform has…

Meta’s Threads crosses 200 million active users

X (formerly Twitter) can no longer be accessed in the Mac App Store, suggesting that it has been officially delisted.  Searches for both “Twitter” and “X” on Apple’s platform no…

Twitter disappears from Mac App Store

The promise of AI and large language models (LLMs) is the ability to understand increasingly wider amounts of context and make sense of that information easily, so it makes sense…

Bee raises $7M for its wearable AI assistant that learns from your conversations

The good news is that you can switch off the new data-sharing setting and also delete your conversation history with the AI. 

Here’s how to disable X (Twitter) from using your data to train its Grok AI

Since launching xAI last year, Elon Musk has been using X as a sandbox to test some of the Grok model’s AI capabilities. Beyond the basic chatbot, X uses the…

X launches underwhelming Grok-powered ‘More About This Account’ feature

Elon Musk is doubling down on his commitment to Texas by vowing to move SpaceX’s massive headquarters from its long-time Hawthorne, California home to the Lone Star State.  Musk later…

Elon Musk vows to move X, SpaceX headquarters from California to Texas 

If X continues to violate Europe’s data protection rules, the company is on the hook for fines of up to €4,000 per day.

More bad news for Elon Musk after X user’s legal challenge to shadowban prevails

The platform formerly known as Twitter has earned the dubious honor of being the first very large online platform (VLOP) to face a preliminary finding of breaching the European Union’s…

Europe confirms first clutch of DSA grievances on Elon Musk’s X

Elon Musk’s X, formerly Twitter, is continuing to develop a downvoting feature that will be used to improve how replies are ranked. Although the company has not yet officially announced…

X is building a ‘dislike’ button for downvoting replies

Elon Musk faces several lawsuits for firing more than 6,000 Twitter employees, including then-CEO Parag Agrawal, following Musk’s 2022 takeover of the social media platform. On Tuesday, Musk defeated one…

Elon Musk does not owe ex-Twitter staffers $500 million in severance, court rules

Elon Musk’s X is exploring more ways to integrate xAI’s Grok into the social networking app. According to a series of recent discoveries, X is developing new features like the…

X plans to more deeply integrate Grok’s AI, app researcher finds

Threads, Meta’s alternative to Twitter, just celebrated its first birthday. After launching on July 5 last year, the social network has reached 175 million monthly active users — that’s a…

A year later, what Threads could learn from other social networks

Noplace had already gone viral ahead of its public launch because of its feature that allows users to express themselves by customizing the colors of their profile.

noplace, a mashup of Twitter and Myspace for Gen Z, hits No. 1 on the App Store

The new bylines go beyond the typical @username references that often accompany link posts from news publications and those pointing to other written content, like a WordPress blog or Substack

Twitter/X alternative Mastodon appeals to journalists with new ‘byline’ feature

code references found in the X iOS app indicate that the company could be considering adding downvotes for replies only to improve how they’re ranked.

X weighs adding a downvote button to replies — but it doesn’t want to emulate Reddit

X still has a verified bot problem. Also, grass is green.  We knew it would be a bad idea to let anyone pay for a…

TechCrunch Minute: X still can’t handle its bot problem

Really, X should have learned its lesson by now.

X still has a Verified bot problem — this time they came for TechCrunch writers

Elon Musk’s posts seem to misunderstand the relationship Apple announced with OpenAI at WWDC 2024.

Elon Musk threatens to ban Apple devices from his companies over Apple’s ChatGPT integrations

Welcome to Elon Musk’s X. The social network formerly known as Twitter where the rules are made up and the check marks don’t matter. Or do they? The Tesla and…

Elon Musk’s X: A complete timeline of what Twitter has become

X will now allow users to post consensually produced NSFW content as long as it is prominently labeled as such.

X tweaks rules to formally allow adult content