45 h. ago Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot melts down – and then wins a military contract

It was a week of lows and highs for the tech billionaire after the CEO of X resigned and its AI chatbot declared itself a super-Nazi – followed by scoring a contract of up to $200mHello, and welcome to TechScape. This week, Elon Musk’s X, formerly Twitter, saw its artificial intelligence chatbot Grok go Nazi. Then its CEO resigned. In the past three years of Musk’s ownership of the social network, it feels like X has weathered at least one public crisis per week, more often multiple. Continue reading...

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60 h. ago UK a ‘powder keg’ of social tensions a year on from summer riots, report warns

Research finds a third of people rarely meet anyone from a different backgroundThe UK is a “powder keg” of social tensions, with a third of people rarely meeting anyone from different backgrounds, research has found.A report from the thinktank British Future and the social cohesion group Belong Network found that a year on from last summer’s riots, there was a risk of unrest being reignited unless urgent action was taken to address issues of polarisation and division. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago How children's social worker, 27, led a double life running underground drug and gun network... and made vulnerable kids DELIVER for her

London social worker Chloe Scott, 27, boasted a dazzling CV centred around her experience in family safeguarding, protecting youngsters from harm.

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3 w. ago The Social Network sequel officially in the works after 15 year wait

Aaron Sorkin will base follow up on a Wall Street Journal series about Facebook

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3 w. ago Aaron Sorkin’s The Social Network sequel officially in development

Oscar-winning writer returns to subject of his 2010 hit for follow-up based on Wall Street Journal series on FacebookAaron Sorkin is officially working on a sequel to The Social Network.Last year, the Oscar-winning writer revealed he was working on a film that would revisit the subject of Facebook, and Deadline has now reported that The Social Network Part II is in development at Sony Pictures yet isn’t a “straight sequel”. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Anne Burrell's sad final post as new details about the Food Network star's shock death at 55 emerge

Food Network star Anne Burrell's heartbreaking final social media post has been revealed in wake of her shock death at 55.

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