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X unveils AI-driven ad tools to boost marketing appeal

Elon Musk’s X is rolling out a rebuilt, artificial intelligence-powered advertising platform in a renewed effort to attract marketers, with the new system beginning its phased rollout on Thursday. The move comes after the company faced early challenges in expanding advertising revenue under Musk’s ownership, prompting a strategic pivot toward alternative monetisation streams, including artificial […]

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X launches standalone messaging app, XChat, for iOS users

XChat, X’s standalone messaging app, was launched to the public on Friday. Initially released for iOS devices, the app enables users to message their X contacts, share files, make audio and video calls, and participate in group chats. The company began publicly testing XChat earlier this year with a small group of beta users to […]

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Musk found guilty of misleading Twitter shareholders to acquire company

A federal jury in San Francisco, California, ruled on Friday that tech billionaire Elon Musk provided false information to Twitter shareholders, leading to a drop in the company’s stock price during his preparations to acquire it for $44 billion. The verdict came in a class-action securities lawsuit. It could force Musk, currently the world’s richest […]

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X targets misleading AI videos of armed conflict

X announced plans to take action against creators who share AI-generated videos of armed conflict without clearly disclosing that the content is AI-produced. On Tuesday, X’s head of product, Nikita Bier, said that creators who use AI to deliberately mislead viewers will be suspended from the platform’s Creator Revenue Sharing Program for 90 days. If […]

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X unveils standalone private messaging app

Social media platform X is spinning off its private messaging feature, X Chat, into a standalone application. On Monday, the company announced that an initial beta version of the app had been released to 1,000 users via Apple’s TestFlight platform. The beta slots were filled within two hours of the announcement. In a post on […]

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X returns online after global outage

X, the social media platform previously called Twitter, is back online following a worldwide outage. The outage, which started Monday afternoon, disrupted both X’s mobile app and desktop site, preventing users worldwide from accessing the platform. When trying to visit, users saw only a blank page featuring the X logo, with timelines and posts failing […]

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X outage disrupts users as complaints spike globally

Thousands of social media users on Monday reported difficulties accessing X, formerly known as Twitter, as complaints surged across multiple regions worldwide. Outage-tracking platform Downdetector recorded a sharp increase in reports, with more than 3,000 users flagging problems linked to the social media platform. Data from Downdetector showed that over half of the complaints were […]

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X blocks Grok from creating sexualized images of real people

Elon Musk-owned social media platform X has announced new restrictions on its artificial intelligence model, Grok, barring it from editing images of real people to depict them in revealing clothing in jurisdictions where such content is illegal. The move follows growing global outrage over the proliferation of sexualised AI-generated deepfakes. In a statement shared on […]

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Court adjourns Sowore’s cybercrime case to October 27

The Federal High Court in Abuja has adjourned the arraignment of Omoyele Sowore, publisher of Sahara Reporters, to October 27. Justice Mohammed Umar granted the adjournment to allow Sowore time to prepare his defense. Sowore is facing a five-count charge filed by the Department of State Services on behalf of the Federal Government, alongside X […]

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FG arraigns Sowore over alleged false X, Meta posts against Tinubu

The Federal Government has arraigned human rights activist and publisher, Omoleye Sowore, on a five count for allegedly making false posts against President Bola Tinubu on social media. The suit, filed before the Federal High Court in Abuja, also lists X (formerly Twitter) and Meta (owners of Facebook and Instagram) as co-defendants. According to the […]

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X, Meta silent as Sowore counter-sues DSS over anti-Tinubu post

Social media giants, X(formerly Twitter) and Meta, have kept mute as former presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, Omoyele Sowore, has counter-sued the Department of State Security over a social media post in which he described President Bola Tinubu as a “criminal.” The Federal Government had filed criminal charges against the activist and the […]