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War rooms, group chats, and video games: Inside Elon Musk’s AI startup

At xAI’s Palo Alto headquarters, engineers cheered.It was February 2, and they’d just received a memo from Elon Musk, informing them the AI startup would be acquired by his rocket company, SpaceX. In a Slack channel for the team that trains the company’s chatbot Grok, memes flowed, and a few…

If you assumed your AI chats couldn’t be used against you in court, think again

Thinking about using ChatGPT, Claude, or Perplexity to collect your thoughts for an email to your lawyers? Don’t assume your chat will stay confidential.A federal judge ruled on Tuesday that prosecutors could access Claude chat transcripts generated by Brad Heppner, a finance startup founder accused of defrauding a company out…