Don Lemon announced on Wednesday that his show on X (formerly Twitter) has been canceled. Lemon, a former CNN anchor, says X owner Elon Musk cancelled the show hours after he interviewed him for the first episode of the show. “Elon Musk has canceled the partnership I had with X, which they announced as part […]
Elon Musk says xAI will open-source Grok this week
Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI will open-source Grok, its chatbot rivaling ChatGPT, this week, he said, days after suing OpenAI and complaining that the Microsoft-backed startup had deviated from its open source roots. xAI released Grok, featuring “real-time access” to information, last year. The service is available to customers paying for X’s subscription. Musk helped co-found […]
Apple terminates Epic’s account, Meta platforms get knocked offline and former Twitter execs sue Elon Musk
Hey, folks, welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s newsletter covering all of — or at least the bulk of! — noteworthy happenings around the tech-o-sphere. This week, Roku played hardball with its customers, requiring them to consent to new dispute resolution terms. This means users can’t use their Roku devices until agreeing to the […]
OpenAI fires back at Musk, and Monzo raises a megaround
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OpenAI says Musk only ever contributed $45 million, wanted to merge with Tesla or take control
OpenAI, the most valuable AI startup, said Wednesday it intends to dismiss all claims made by Elon Musk in a recent lawsuit and suggested that the billionaire entrepreneur, who was involved in the company’s co-founding, didn’t really have that much impact on its development and success. In a blog post authored by the entire OpenAI […]