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Microsoft’s Paint 3D was once the future of MS Paint, but now it’s going away
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“So tired”: Disney+, Hulu, ESPN+ prices increase by up to 25 percent in October
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Sonos laying off 100 people amid expensive app problems
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X is training Grok AI on your data—here’s how to stop it
Enlarge / An AI-generated image released by xAI during the open-weights launch of Grok-1. Elon Musk-led social media platform X is training Grok, its AI chatbot, on users’ data, and that’s opt-out, not opt-in. If you’re an X user, that means Grok is already being trained on your posts if you haven’t explicitly told it…