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Now the teen’s family is suing OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman over his death. The lawsuit, filed today in California state court in San Francisco, states that “over the course of just a few months and thousands of chats, ChatGPT became Adam’s closest confidant,” alleging that it provided instructions for how to die by suicide and drew the teen away from real-life support systems.

Public benefit corporations have societal and environmental obligations besides their financial goals and legally have to report on how those obligations are going. But at some point before May 2024, xAI quietly changed its structure so it wouldn’t need to do those things anymore, CNBC reported.

The program, which it first announced in July 2024, now extends to its Comet web browser, allowing publishers and media outlets to share in revenue from AI searches.

He wrote on X, “It’s a tongue-in-cheek name, but the project is very real!” Since software companies don’t build physical hardware, he wrote — name-checking Microsoft as an example — he wants to fully automate such a company using AI. The Verge found a filing suggesting a Macrohard Ventures, LLC, was incorporated in Delaware last Friday, but it’s unclear whether it’s linked to Musk.

That’s according to court filings, which state that Musk asked the Meta CEO about “potential financing arrangements or investments” before sending his letter of intent. Neither Zuckerberg nor Meta signed it.

Whenever a user hit “share” on a Grok conversation, the URL it generated was also searchable on Google, Forbes reported. And xAI isn’t the only company to have reckoned with this — OpenAI recently said it would discontinue its own such feature.

Joelle Pineau, who oversaw Meta’s fundamental AI research (FAIR) lab until she departed in April, wrote that the new executive role at the AI startup would be an “exciting new chapter.”