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A former engineer at xAI is suing the company and SpaceX, claiming he was fired after raising safety concerns about the Grok AI system — and the timing is striking. The lawsuit alleges the dismissal came just days before SpaceX's high-profile IPO, raising uncomfortable questions about how AI companies handle internal dissent.
That tension between safety and speed is playing out in policy circles too. Canada has introduced legislation that would ban social media access for anyone under sixteen, and the bill goes further than most — it also places new safety obligations on AI chatbot services. It's one of the more sweeping moves by a Western government to regulate how young people interact with the platforms and tools that increasingly define their lives.
On a very different note, OpenAI's Codex is finding an unexpected user in astrophysicist Chi-kwan Chan, who is using the AI coding tool to help build simulations of black holes. The goal is to model extreme physics environments and stress-test Einstein's theory of general relativity — work that would normally take years of painstaking code development now moving considerably faster with an AI collaborator.
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