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Kevin Okemwa

Elon Musk's X might have a mole problem: “How could someone enumerate all Twitter user IDs, unless they were an employee?"

X (formerly Twitter).

Last week, xAI acquired X for $33 billion. Elon Musk was seemingly stoked, indicating "xAI and X's futures are intertwined." The acquisition shows great potential for Grok as xAI can leverage X's vast database to train Grok, potentially giving OpenAI's new ChatGPT-4o image generator tool a run for its money.

While this might be in the pipeline, X was recently hit by a massive data leak featuring 2.8 billion Twitter IDs, potentially impacting over 200 million users (via Safety Detectives).

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