The feature is designed to help people get real-time context about trends and breaking stories, as well as receive recommendations, all within conversations.
Meta announced on Tuesday that it's testing a Threads feature that lets users tag a Meta AI account to get answers to questions or context about a conversation on the platform. If you've spent any time looking at replies on X as of late, this new feature sounds a lot like Meta's take on people tagging xAI's Grok. But, as reported by Engadget, Threads users quickly discovered that you can't block the new Meta AI account, and they aren't happy about it.
Meta has invested heavily in AI as it works to catch up to rivals like OpenAI and Google, spending billions to hire AI talent. It launched a new AI model called Muse Spark in April, which it s …
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Grok downloads fell from more than 20 million in January to around 8.3 million in April. Only 0.174% of surveyed US AI users said they paid for Grok in Q2 2026. Enterprise adoption of Grok remains weak as Anthropic’s Claude and Google’s Gemini grow. Elon Musk launched Grok in late 2023 with plans to challenge OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google in the AI market. Two years later, the numbers show the gap is widening instead of closing. New market data compiled by the Wall Street Journal points to slowing user growth, weak paid adoption, and limited enterprise traction as rivals rapidly expand across both consumer and business markets. At the same time, Musk’s own companies are now selling critical computing power to competitors instead of using it entirely for Grok’s development. Grok Downloads Collapse After January Spike Grok briefly captured major attention earlier this year after
Grok's 'Skills' feature could revolutionize personalized AI interactions, enhancing automation and efficiency in information processing.
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Journalist Jamie Bartlett on the people trying to get AI to say things it shouldn’t … for the safety of us all
All the major AI chatbots – from ChatGPT to Gemini to Grok to Claude – have things they should and shouldn’t say.
Hate speech, criminal material, exploitation of vulnerable users – all of this is content that the most successful large language models in the world shouldn’t produce, that their safety features should guard against.
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French prosecutors said Wednesday that they have opened an investigation into Elon Musk and social media platform X over the distribution of child sexual abuse images, deepfakes, disinformation and alleged complicity in denying crimes against humanity linked to the platform’s artificial intelligence system, Grok.
Meta AI team has released NeuralBench, a unified open-source framework for benchmarking NeuroAI models, alongside NeuralBench-EEG v1.0 — the largest open EEG benchmark to date, covering 36 tasks, 94 datasets, and 14 deep learning architectures evaluated under a single standardized interface across 9,478 subjects and 13,603 hours of brain recordings.
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