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Elon Musk’s Grok is a risky experiment in AI content moderation

A deluge of bizarre computer-generated images swept Elon Musk’s social platform X last week — including violent, offensive and sexually suggestive content. In one, Trump piloted a helicopter as the World Trade Center buildings burned in the background. In others, Kamala Harris wore a bikini, and Donald Duck used heroin. Amidst the online furor, Musk posted, “Grok is the most fun AI in the world!”
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Has the (LUV) run out for Southwest Airlines?

Herb Kelleher, founder of Southwest Airlines once said, “A company is stronger if it is bound by love, not fear.” But is love enough to save Southwest? “No change fees. No cancel fees. No bag fees,” Southwest Airlines CEO Bob Jordan said recently in an email to The Dallas Morning News. “Rapid rewards points don’t expire. Flight credits don’t expire. We have the friendliest, most flexible ...
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Federal labor regulator says delivery drivers are Amazon employees

In a loss for Amazon that could force it to meet the Teamsters union at the bargaining table, a regional National Labor Relations Board director said Thursday that the company is a joint employer of some of the thousands of contractor delivery drivers who deliver its packages.
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Hollywood is slowly getting back to work, but the days of peak TV aren’t coming back

LOS ANGELES — Ever since the actors’ strike ended last year, Hollywood’s workforce has been asking one question: When will the entertainment industry’s production economy start its long-awaited comeback? A full nine months after the debilitating “hot labor summer” and fall concluded, a picture is starting to emerge of an industry in a state of modest recovery. New data indicate that, after a ...