🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "Iran has informed Gulf Arab states, including Qatar, that any future Iranian retaliation against US bases will no longer be symbolic and that US soldiers will be killed." - The Washington Post.

🇲🇲 #Myanmar: Footage shows a local PDF group (Falcon Guerrilla Force) firing their own homemade anti-materiel rifle somewhere in the Bago Region.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer:

I have many jobs as leader.. and one is to fight for aid to Israel — all the aid that Israel needs. I will continue to fight for it.

We delivered more security assistance to Israel, our ally, under my leadership than ever, ever before.

We will keep doing that.

🤖🇺🇸—Weeks before Elon Musk officially left his perch in government last spring, employees on the human data team of his artificial intelligence start-up xAI received a startling waiver from their employer, asking them to pledge to work with profane content, including sexual material.

—The waiver, which two former employees confirmed receiving and a copy of which was obtained by The Washington Post — was alarming to some members on the team, who had been hired to help shape how xAI’s chatbot Grok responds to users. To some employees, it signaled a troubling new direction for a company launched “to accelerate human scientific discovery.”

— As part of this push for relevance, xAI embraced making sexualized material, publicly releasing sexy AI companions, rolling back guardrails on sexual material and ignoringinternal warnings about the potentially serious legal and ethical risks of producing such content.

—At X, safety teams repeatedly warned management in meetings and messages that its AI tools could allow users to make sexual AI-images of children or celebrities that might violate the law, according to two of the people.

—Now with major backlash over the past couple of months from both internal workers as wells as organized pushback from the public, xAI has emphasized its need to find more safety moderators to “filter” out unwanted sexual content. Which before when this first started was only two people…