Twitter has agreed to terms with billionaire Elon Musk. With a tender offer of $54.20 per share, the man who controls both Tesla and SpaceX will purchased the social media platform for $44 billion with the intent to take it private. [Read More]
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Elon Musk’s AI company xAI has restricted the image generation and editing functions of its Grok chatbot on X to paying subscribers, following a backlash over the tool’s use to undress women. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2026-01-09 16:30
Elon Musk says that he plans to bring back Vine, the short-form video-based social media platform that was acquired by Twitter in 2012 and then shut down by its parent company in 2017. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2025-07-24 18:18
Elon Musk has shared a post containing a photographer's specialist images and passed them as AI-generated to advertise X's AI image generator Grok. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2025-06-05 19:18
Elon Musk has made a $97.4 billion bid to buy the nonprofit that controls OpenAI, in a move that could shake up the AI industry. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2025-02-11 16:18
Elon Musk says he has not put in a bid for TikTok, the popular social media platform that is facing a divest-or-ban law because of national security concerns in the United States. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2025-02-10 13:45
Elon Musk's X has officially rolled out its latest AI image generator model Aurora after it was released and then disappeared last weekend. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2024-12-11 18:09
The production company behind Blade Runner 2049 has filed a lawsuit against Tesla, Elon Musk, and Warner Bros. Discovery, for allegedly feeding stills from the movie into an AI image generator to create unauthorized promotional content. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2024-10-22 14:48
Elon Musk, the owner of X (the platform formerly known as Twitter), shared a misleading AI-generated video of Vice President Kamala Harris. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2024-07-29 15:11
Elon Musk, Apple's co-founder Steve Wozniak, and a host of other tech experts have signed an open letter calling for a pause on artificial intelligence (AI) development. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2023-03-29 15:24
Elon Musk's ex-girlfriend is auctioning photos of the billionaire from college with some items currently attracting bids of more than $8,700. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-09-14 18:31
If you enjoy following Elon Musk on Twitter, be careful not to call him out on posting photographers’ work without permission or credit. Multiple people just got blocked by the Tesla and SpaceX entrepreneur for doing just that. petapixel.com »
2019-08-07 20:49
A sharp-eyed historian uncovered a long-lost portrait of King Henry VII in the background of a photo posted on social media. [Read More]
We have written plenty about AI-generated images, and today, we are going to illustrate why we have had a problem since its announcement. On October 30, Spain was hit by an unprecedented flood, which killed over 200 people, reported TIME.
Photographer Pete Souza, best known for his role as chief official White House photographer for Presidents Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama, has deleted his X account (formerly Twitter) after making controversial remarks concerning a photo of former President and current Republican nominee, Donald Trump. [Read More]
Threads has started to test out one of its "most requested" features: an in-app camera.
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A Colombo crime family "underboss" sentenced to prison this week for extortion and money laundering has said he doesn't regret the topless poolside photo that led to his arrest. [Read More]
Six months ago, Meta introduced new sharing-focused features on Instagram, including Notes, Group Profiles, and new Stories functionality. As it turns out, Notes have proven very popular with young users, prompting Instagram to add more features to it including the ability to attach a 30-second clip of a song to a status update. [Read More]
About a week after an artificial intelligence (AI) generated image of an explosion outside the Pentagon went viral on Twitter, the social media giant is using its crowdsourced fact-checking program, Community Notes, to fight back against fake or misleading images. [Read More]