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Elon Musk Seemingly Admits xAI Has Used OpenAI’s Models to Train Its Own

Elon Musk Seemingly Admits xAI Has Used OpenAI’s Models to Train Its Own

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While testifying on Thursday in federal court, Elon Musk seemed to indicate that his AI lab may have used OpenAI’s models to train xAI’s own. He touched upon the topic while sitting on the witness stand answering cross-examination questions from an OpenAI attorney amid his ongoing legal battle against the ChatGPT-maker. This is the exchange, as best as WIRED could capture it: OpenAI Lawyer William Savitt: Do you know what distillation is? Musk: It means to use one AI model to train another AI model. Savitt: Has xAI done that with OpenAI? Musk: Generally all the AI companies [do that]. Savitt: So that’s a yes. Musk: Partly. Distillation is a technique where a smaller AI model is trained to mimic the behavior of a larger, more capable model, making it cheaper and faster to run while preserving much of its performance. OpenAI’s lawyer, William Savitt, then asked whether OpenAI’s technology had been used in any way to develop xAI. Savitt: Has OpenAI technology been used in any way in to develop xAI? Musk: It is …

OpenAI’s ChatGPT Images 2.0 is here and it does multilingual text, full infographics, slides, maps, even manga — seemingly flawlessly

OpenAI’s ChatGPT Images 2.0 is here and it does multilingual text, full infographics, slides, maps, even manga — seemingly flawlessly

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It’s been only a few months since OpenAI released its last big improvement to AI image generations in ChatGPT and through its application programming interface (API) — namely, a new image generation model known as GPT-Image-1.5, released in December 2025, which brought about improved instruction following, colors, and lighting. Now, after weeks of testing, the company that kicked off the generative AI boom is unveiling a far more dramatic and even more impressive update: ChatGPT Images 2.0, which has been available not-so-secretly for several weeks on LM Arena AI, a third-party testing platform used by OpenAI and other major AI model providers to get early feedback, under the name “duct tape.” Throughout that time, it’s already blown early users’ minds with its capacity to generate long blocks of text or disparate text panels within the same image, its insanely realistic generation of user interfaces and screenshots from popular websites and platforms, its reproduction of real life figures like OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman, and its ability to perform web research and put the results …

Mexico is Seemingly Getting a Third Apple Store

Mexico is Seemingly Getting a Third Apple Store

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Apple plans to open a store at the Mítikah shopping mall in the south of Mexico City, according to a recently-deleted page on real estate company Allux’s website. Apple Vía Santa Fe in Mexico City The page listed Apple as a future tenant in the mall, which is set to expand into an adjacent area previously occupied by the older Centro Coyoacán shopping mall. It is unclear when Apple’s store would open, and the plans could change. It is unclear why the page was deleted, but Apple has a culture of secrecy. Apple has two other stores in Mexico City — one is inside the Vía Santa Fe shopping mall, and the other is at the Antara open-air shopping center. Apple Vía Santa Fe opened in 2016, and Apple Antara followed in 2019. (Thanks, José!) Popular Stories Apple Released Yet Another New Product Today Apple has unveiled a whopping nine new products so far this March, including an iPhone 17e, iPad Air models with the M4 chip, MacBook Air models with the M5 chip, MacBook Pro …

Three Upcoming Apple Products Seemingly Spotted in macOS 26.3 Code

Three Upcoming Apple Products Seemingly Spotted in macOS 26.3 Code

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macOS 26.3 hints at Apple’s rumored lower-cost MacBook, and two new Studio Display models, according to Macworld‘s Filipe Espósito. Espósito found the following codenames within macOS 26.3’s source code, and he revealed the upcoming products that they likely correspond with, based on previous reporting from Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman and others. The codenames: J700: Lower-cost MacBook J427: A new Studio Display J527: A new, higher-end Studio Display This is far from the first time that these codenames have been spotted in Apple’s software updates. According to MacRumors contributor Aaron Perris, the codenames were also present in updates such as macOS 26.2 and iOS 18.5 last year. As more and more hints stack up, it is clear that all three products are inching closer to release. The prevailing assumption is that Apple will unveil the lower-cost MacBook as part of three days of new product announcements in the first week of March. The media would then receive hands-on time with the laptop during the “Apple Experience” in New York, London, and Shanghai on Wednesday, March 4 at …

Brooklyn Beckham feud exposes uncomfortable truth about seemingly close families

Brooklyn Beckham feud exposes uncomfortable truth about seemingly close families

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Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more It is tempting to treat the fallout between Brooklyn Beckham and his A-list parents as mere celebrity gossip. But this story has struck a chord with many families because it disrupts a comforting assumption: that strong bonds, shared history and success protect families from fracture. The breakdown of even highly visible, seemingly close families raises an uncomfortable question. Why do family relationships, often our longest-lasting and most emotionally charged connections, sometimes become so strained that contact is reduced or cut off entirely? Answering that requires a look at the relational dynamics that shape many families. Family rupture is not an anomaly confined to extreme circumstances or public families under scrutiny. It is part of everyday life for many people. Large population surveys suggest that …

Jeffrey Epstein Files Seemingly Reveal Leon Black’s Art Collection

Jeffrey Epstein Files Seemingly Reveal Leon Black’s Art Collection

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The newly released Jeffrey Epstein files contain a 51-page document cataloging a host of masterworks that appear to belong to Leon Black, a major art collector and businessman whose dealings with Epstein are well-documented. The document does not name Black, a trustee and former board chair at the Museum of Modern Art. His connections to Epstein, a convicted sex offender, fully came to light in 2021, resulting in him not seeking reelection as chair. At the time, several high-profile artists called for his removal from the board altogether. Related Articles But the document does state these artworks—by artists ranging from Michelangelo to Picasso—belong to entities labeled Narrows and AP Narrows. The New York Times previously reported that Narrows Holdings and AP Holdings are corporate entities operated by Black. This document is dated to 2017 and contains many artworks listed on another document featuring valuations by Sotheby’s from 2013. The document with the Sotheby’s valuations names institutions stewarding some of them alongside Black. By cross-referencing those museums’ websites, ARTnews was able to establish that the artworks …

OnlyFans Rival Seemingly Succumbs to AI Psychosis, Which We Dare You to Try Explain to Your Parents

OnlyFans Rival Seemingly Succumbs to AI Psychosis, Which We Dare You to Try Explain to Your Parents

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Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Something strange is happening with ManyVids, an OnlyFans-like porn platform with millions of users. For roughly the past half-year, its official account on X and on its own website have been posting bizarre, feverishly spiritual rants on topics ranging from aliens to numerology, along with absurd AI-generated images and videos that depict its CEO Bella French, 404 Media reports, What’s more, many of the adult content creators on the platform suspect that the cryptic posts are a sign that French is suffering from some kind of delusional episode brought on by her addiction to AI, a phenomenon that psychiatrists are labeling AI psychosis. And it’s leaving them feeling pretty uneasy about the site’s future. “If something were to happen to MV (or to my account there) due to what can only be described as AI psychosis, I would lose upwards of 14k per year — a not insignificant amount of income,” one of these creators told 404. “It concerns me that access to my earnings, and …

ICE Reportedly Stole a 10th Grader’s Phone, Then Seemingly Sold It for Cash

ICE Reportedly Stole a 10th Grader’s Phone, Then Seemingly Sold It for Cash

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Stephen Maturen / Getty Images Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents reportedly stole a teenage boy’s phone — and then seemingly pawned it afterwards for cash. That detail comes from alarming new reporting from ProPublica that documents more than forty cases of ICE agents putting civilians in chokeholds and other moves that can block breathing. One of these civilians was tenth grader Arnoldo Bazan, who was getting McDonald’s with his father, Arnulfo Bazan Carrillo, when they were pulled over by masked agents. According to Arnoldo, after several agents violently tackled his father — who is undocumented — to the ground, with one pressing a knee into his neck, another put the 16-year-old in a suffocating chokehold. When he told the agent that he was a citizen and a minor, the agent didn’t stop. “I started screaming with everything I had, because I couldn’t even breathe,” Arnoldo told ProPublica. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die.” Arnoldo took footage of the encounter, but his phone was confiscated after he was taken into …

DoorDash says it banned driver who seemingly faked a delivery using AI

DoorDash says it banned driver who seemingly faked a delivery using AI

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DoorDash seems to have confirmed a viral story about a driver using an AI-generated photo to lie about making a delivery. As reported by Nexstar, Austin resident Byrne Hobart said he experienced this very thing, writing in a post on X: “Amazing. DoorDash driver accepted the drive, immediately marked it as delivered, and submitted an AI-generated image of a DoorDash order (left) at our front door (right).” After his post started getting attention, Hobart offered more details, acknowledging that his story would be “pretty easy” to fake. But he noted, “Someone chimed in downthread to say that the same thing happened to him, also in Austin, with the same driver display name.” Amazing. DoorDash driver accepted the drive, immediately marked it as delivered, and submitted an AI-generated image of a DoorDash order (left) at our front door (right). pic.twitter.com/aGHQx9eexi — Byrne Hobart (@ByrneHobart) December 27, 2025 As for how the driver pulled it off, Hobart speculated they used a hacked account on a jailbroken phone, obtaining an image of his front door through a DoorDash …