Image Credits: NurPhoto / Contributor / Getty ImagesIt’s no surprise that many prominent left-leaning social media accounts have recently embraced Bluesky — and a new analysis from the Pew Research Center aims to quantify the shift.This analysis updates Pew’s November 2024 news influencer report, which had not accounted for Bluesky at the time. The...
Image Credits:TechCrunchFor more than 24 hours, many X users—including this reporter—have been encountering problems with the site’s basic functions. Some messages fail to load, timelines don’t update, and certain posts only appear after refreshing the webpage multiple times.The issues began Thursday afternoon, according to Downdetector, a crowdsourced platform that tracks web outages. Starting at...
Credit: PixabyElon Musk announced on Friday that his AI startup, xAI, has acquired his social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, in an all-stock transaction."xAI has acquired X in an all-stock transaction," Musk stated, adding that the deal values xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion ($45 billion minus $12 billion...
Image Credits: Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto(opens in a new window)/ Getty ImagesX is actively working to make xAI’s Grok model more accessible to users. Several users reported that they can now tag Grok in replies and ask questions to receive explanations about a post.Previously, Grok was available via a sidebar button, and users could also click...
