Tag: author_name|Karissa Bell
Elon Musk blames ‘adversarial prompting’ after Grok spewed embarrassing, sycophantic praise
Stop me if you've heard this one before: xAI is once again nuking a bunch of posts from Grok on X after the chatbot made a series of outrageous claims. This time, though, the company isn't cleaning up a bunch of pro-Hitler posts, but a bout of cringe-inducing sycophantic praise…
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Threads is getting a ‘communities’ feature for better conversations
Now that Threads has grown to more than 400 million users, Meta is adding more features that could help the platform establish an identity. The company is testing a new “communities” feature that creates dedicated spaces for people to chat about specific topics and interests. Meta describes the feature as…
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Meta Ray-Ban Display hands-on: Discreet and intuitive
I've been testing smart glasses for almost a decade. And in that time, one of the questions I've been asked the most is "oh, but can you see anything in them?" For years, I had to explain that no, glasses like that don't really exist yet. That's no longer the…
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Oakley Meta Vanguard are the smart glasses athletes might actually want
When Meta announced its first pair of Oakley-branded sunglasses, the HSTN frames, earlier this year, it called them “performance AI” glasses even though they only came with modest upgrades compared with Meta’s Ray-Ban lineup. But the new Oakley Meta Vanguard glasses, which were just unveiled at Connect, are much more…
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What to expect at Meta Connect 2025: ‘Hypernova’ smart glasses, AI and the metaverse
Meta Connect, the company's annual event dedicated to all things AR, VR, AI and the metaverse is just days away. And once again, it seems like it will be a big year for smart glasses and AI. This year, the event will take a slightly different format than in the…
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Grok claimed the Charlie Kirk assassination video was a ‘meme edit’
Grok has once again been caught spreading blatant misinformation on X. In several bizarre exchanges, the chatbot repeatedly claimed that Charlie Kirk was "fine" and that gruesome videos of his assassination were a "meme edit." In one exchange shortly after videos of the shooting began to spread on X, one…
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