The inevitability of what's about to happen on X/Grok now that the victim in Minneapolis has been named.

Google and Character.AI settle with families over claims their bots led to suicide. www.cnbc.com/2026/01/07/g...

This is an important point.

FT Alphaville with a second banger in as many days

The lack of meaningful fall-out from Grok's CSAM in the US is proof, I believe, that Musk's furious campaign against nonprofits has had the desired effect. Getting groups responsible for protecting children online to offer anything other than drab, boilerplate statements has been near impossible.

New: 6,700. That's how many sexually suggestive or nudifying images Grok is producing every hour, according to an analysis. X is now a top deepfake site. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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An AI factchecking tool for journalists that: - Doesn't upload my copy to the model - Refers to publicly available data but can also reference notes/transcripts I give it - Presents suggested changes in a Grammarly-like fashion. Someone make it. Preferably in the next hour or so.

If Donald Trump had been president during the Cuban Missile Crisis, none of us would be here today, and Earth would be a glowing orb populated solely by radioactive mutant cockroaches. 25th Amendment, anybody? truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

Any DNS experts following me that wouldn't mind slipping into my DMs? I have a question about a status code

Amending this take. Grace and Rocky is the greatest love story ever told.

This is huge news for California because it also now means Google must be reloca… oh no, wait, nothing changes. As you were.

Also emerging -- X's engagement incentive model means there are currently a lot of pictures of conservatively clothed attractive women being posted clearly as "bait" to get other users to invoke Grok. These are all things Musk could shut off tonight.

CBS tried to use Rubio memes as an "And Finally." In a different era, it might have worked, honestly. It didn't today.

Roll up roll up

I hate "brainchild"

The top responses on X to a post featuring a picture of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

The packaged meat from a Tesco Express -- a store in the same category as 7-Eleven in the US -- is as good as anything you'll get at Whole Foods. US grocery stores suckkkk

This headline is like a weird optical illusion where your brain keeps seeing the words "Jony Ive" but they're not actually there

In the week Grok produces images of child sexual abuse, its creator, xAI, has just announced it has closed a $20 billion funding round.

Pity FT journalists in 2026. No matter what fraud they uncover, what scandals they blow up, what deals they scoop... come December they'll be looking at a "most read of the year" list with this comfortably at the top www.ft.com/content/ad94...

The clip I always think about from Jan 6th was Lindsay Graham's enough-is-enough moment in the Senate that evening. By the next day he acted like he never said a word.

Every woman and gay man in my social circle is demanding I watch this show. One even threatened to come to my house and force it, Clockwork Orange style.

This could be a dream job for one of you. bloomberg.avature.net/careers/JobD...

"Consumer Electronics" Show

Nvidia boss Jensen Huang announces that a self-driving Mercedes using its own opensource software Alpomayo will be on US roads in Q1, Europe Q2

Jensen has a new jacket

What's interesting (infuriating?) about this is that while AI was used to create this deceit, some of the same tools were effective at debunking it. www.theverge.com/news/855328/...

"Yes, stock gains have comfortably exceeded the long-term average for a third straight year. But the result hardly ratifies President Donald Trump’s oft repeated assertion that the US is the world’s 'hottest' country." -- @bobburgess.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Sweet Maple's bacon, like all American bacon, is utterly crap.

There is a deafening silence in the US re: Grok/CSAM. UK, EU, India, France all urgently looking into it. But here....

Amazon takes aim at the Samsung Frame www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

brought his best herbs and spices for the job

I saw Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) last night and it was utterly joyous. Hard recommend for an optimistic start to 2026 theater going

This person went on a buying spree over the past 24 hours. Fresh wallet. Only existed since Dec 27th and has only bet on Venezuela-related markets. polymarket.com/@0x31a56e9E6...

Could you start with your brain

Is Graham the leader the Silicon Valley Left needs? Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky retweeted this…

One thing I wrote about here is how technology has made buses *way* more convenient while techno-futurists were obsessed with flying taxis and self-driving cars.

New York has fallen

Blimey

Anderson Cooper is still sober? Something’s wrong

BBC goes live to Ghana for a bit of local flavour. Reporter finds an Irish lass in the crowd for her thoughts 😂

Happy new year, Britain! x

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Exclusive: U.S. national-security officials said that Ukraine didn’t target Russian President Vladimir Putin or one of his residences in a recent drone strike, challenging Moscow’s assertion that Kyiv sought to kill the Russian leader.

Social media was a mistake

New Yorkers really need to let the metro card go, jeez

I always enjoy this: @davelee.me @parmy.bsky.social and @thorbecke.bsky.social on a couple of books each that say something relevant for tech right now >> Want to understand where AI is heading — and who might win the race to get there? These books can help www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...