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Grok, a ChatGPT competitor developed by xAI, Elon Musk’s AI startup, has officially launched on X, the site formerly known as Twitter. Grok began rolling out late this afternoon to X Premium Plus subscribers in the U.S., “Premium Plus” being X’s plan that costs $16 per month for ad-free access to the social network. Longtime subscribers will get priority access to Grok, X said, with the rollout expected to wrap up in the next week. Grok answers questions conversationally, drawing on a knowledge base similar to that used to train the AI models powering ChatGPT and Google’s Bard. It lives…

In a brand-new episode of On A Mission Podcast, host Ellie McKay talks to Dean Forbes, former professional footballer turned multi-millionaire entrepreneur and one of the most successful black CEOs in the UK.  At 17, Dean Forbes faced challenging circumstances as he grappled with homelessness while shouldering the role of the primary caregiver for his mother, who had lost her job. Forbes found himself burdened with significant debts incurred in an attempt to keep pace with his extravagant friends who had found success as footballers at Crystal Palace.  Driven by the urgent need for income, Forbes took on a job…

The below is an excerpt from a recent edition of Bitcoin Magazine Pro, Bitcoin Magazine’s premium markets newsletter. To be among the first to receive these insights and other on-chain bitcoin market analysis straight to your inbox, subscribe now. Despite a few apparent setbacks, like the change of leadership at Binance, Bitcoin’s ongoing upward trend is turning into a runaway success as the price has crossed the $40,000 mark.Things have been going well for Bitcoin as of late. Not only has the general trend in its valuation been a steady increase throughout the entirety of 2023, but September has also…

NASA has selected the following companies for a multiple award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to fabricate ground support equipment at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida: Engraver Metal Fabricators Inc., Merritt Island, Florida J.P. Donovan Construction Inc., Rockledge, Florida Precision Fabricating and Cleaning Co. Inc., Cocoa, Florida The work will support Artemis, including missions to land the first woman and person of color on the Moon. The contractors will provide management, labor, facilities, materials, equipment, and other incidental support to fabricate, mark, package, deliver, clean, assemble, and test ground support equipment, ground systems and other hardware. Work will be performed at…

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Image Credit: Courtesy of ABC/20/20 Vili Fualaau, 40, and the late Mary Kay Letourneau were at the center of the tabloids in the late 1990s and early 2000s for their “illegal relationship.” Now, their story has been resurfaced in Netflix’s film, May December, starring Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore. In the film, Natalie plays the role of Elizabeth Berry, an actress researching a woman named Grace and her relationship with a man named Joe. The plot of the film is based on Mary and Vili, and how Mary sexually abused Vili when he was 12 years old. The duo was married in 2005. However, they…

The problem of alignment is an important one when you’re setting AI models up to make decisions in matters of finance and health. But how can you reduce biases if they’re baked into a model from biases in its training data? Anthropic suggests asking it nicely to please, please not discriminate or someone will sue us. Yes, really. In a self-published paper, Anthropic researchers led by Alex Tamkin looked into how a language model (in this case, the company’s own Claude 2.0) could be prevented from discriminating against protected categories like race and gender in situations like job and loan…

The everywoman Entrepreneur Awards was held on 6th December 2023 at The Londoner Hotel in Leicester Square, where over 400 talented women and supporters of female entrepreneurs united to celebrate the achievements of these extraordinary women and their businesses. For over two decades, everywoman has been at the forefront of the drive to increase the number of female entrepreneurs, working with government, industry bodies and the corporate sector to accelerate the rate of progress and dismantle barriers that remain for women, particularly when it comes to accessing funding, growing, and scaling their businesses. Despite a record-breaking 150,000 women founding new…

The Met Police is investigating an explosion that saw a ULEZ camera blown up in Sidcup last night. The controversial emissions policy sees high-polluting cars hit with a £12.50 charge for crossing the boundary into greater London. Reports of an explosion began circulating early this morning and just after 5pm the Met Police confirmed a criminal investigation was taking place. “The incident is being treated as a deliberate act, which was caused by what appears to be a low-sophistication improvised explosive device (IED),” the Met said. Counter-terror officers are leading the investigation but the Met are not currently treating the…