Apple quietly threatened to kick Elon Musk's AI app, Grok, from its App Store in January over its failure to curb the surge of nonconsensual sexual deepfakes flooding X, according to NBC News. It was a muted show of force from one of tech's most powerful gatekeepers, made behind closed doors even as the undressing crisis unfolded in full public view and criticism over Apple's cowardice mounted.
In a letter obtained by NBC News, Apple told US senators it "contacted the teams behind both X and Grok after it received complaints and saw news coverage of the scandal" and demanded that the developers "create a plan to improve content moderation." …
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Bitcoin News SpaceX has moved Bitcoin for the first time in six months, on-chain data shows, reviving speculation that Elon Musk’s rocket company may be preparing to sell — though no disposal has been confirmed. Blockchain trackers flagged an $88 test transfer between wallets controlled by the firm, the first outbound Bitcoin activity from its addresses since early this year. Despite the renewed attention, SpaceX’s reported holdings remain unchanged at 18,712 BTC. The small transaction alone does not signal a sale, but it drew immediate market scrutiny given the company’s history of preceding larger wallet reshuffles with modest test sends. The nervousness stems from SpaceX’s track record of large custodial moves. In October 2025, the company relocated 2,495 BTC — worth roughly $257 million at the time — to two newly created wallets after months of dormancy. Earlier, in
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Decentralized finance (DeFi) analytics platform Zapper announced it will shut down next month, becoming the latest crypto platform to fold amid a market downturn. In a post to X on Wednesday, Zapper CEO Seb Audet said Zapper’s website, mobile app and API services would shut down on Aug. 3, marking the end of a seven-year run after receiving backing from the likes of billionaire investor Mark Cuban in 2021. “We evaluated a number of different options, pursued some to the fullest extent possible, and came to the realization that an orderly wind down is the best course of action,” Audet said. While Zapper didn’t share the reasons behind its decision to shut down, Audet hinted in a response that the shutdown was due to falling demand, stating: “At the end of the day, the market decides.” Cointelegraph reached out for comment but didn’t receive an immediate response. Source: Zapper Zapper adds to
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Jul 08, 2026 18:46
SpaceXAI launches Grok 4.5, a 1.5T parameter AI model optimized for coding and enterprise tasks, priced aggressively to challenge rivals like GPT-5.5.
SpaceXAI, the AI arm of Elon Musk’s ventures, has officially launched Grok 4.5, its most advanced large language model to date. Designed specifically for coding, agentic tasks, and enterprise knowledge work, the 1.5 trillion-parameter model is a significant leap over its predecessors and positions SpaceXAI as a serious competitor in the AI-for-enterprise sector. Grok 4.5 builds on SpaceXAI’s V9 foundation model and incorporates training data from Cursor, a coding-focused AI startup acquired by SpaceXAI earlier this year. According to the company, the model delivers “intelligent and efficient reasoning” with notable performance improvements on technical benchmarks like SWE Bench Pro, whe
Musk's xAI advancements could redefine digital content creation, intensifying competition and potentially transforming media consumption dynamics.
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This story is part of Forbes’ coverage of Thailand’s Richest 2026. See the full list here. Amid a gradual recovery in consumer spending, Com7, Thailand’s leading retailer of smartphones with a nearly 25% market share, is thriving. The company booked a 25% increase in net profit to 1.2 billion baht ($37 million) on a 13% rise in revenue to 24 billion baht for the first quarter of 2026 and said it expects to maintain double-digit revenue growth on the back of 100 new store openings this year. The uptick in Com7 shares gave cofounder Sura Khanittaweekul a nearly 40% boost to his wealth to $655 million, though that is still below his net worth of $670 million in 2022 when he first entered the ranks of the country richest. Starting out in 1996 with one store in Bangkok’s popular Pantip Plaza electronics mall, Com7 as of March had a network of 1,323 stores, including Studio7 Th
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In brief SpaceXAI released Grok 4.5 on July 8 at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output, less than half the price of comparable models from Anthropic and OpenAI. Elon Musk posted on X that the model is “roughly comparable to Opus 4.7,” Anthropic’s previous flagship, now superseded by Opus 4.8, while touting speed and cost over benchmark performance. Grok 4.5 is not available in the EU yet; SpaceXAI says European access is expected in mid-July. Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI released Grok 4.5 on Wednesday, its first public model since the SpaceX-xAI merger closed in February and SpaceX’s pending $60 billion deal to acquire Cursor. It targets coders, engineers, and what the company calls “knowledge workers”—a category that apparently covers everyone from software developers to lawyers reviewing contracts to finance teams building Excel models. The company’s
SpaceXAI's new coding model is cheaper and faster than Anthropic and OpenAI's flagships—and by Musk's own account, at least one generation behind them.
Apple's $30B deal with Broadcom underscores a strategic shift towards domestic manufacturing, potentially reshaping US tech supply chains.
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