SpaceXAI just announced Grok Bot Galaxy, a three-day event featuring live demos and hands-on sessions with the team behind Grok Bot.
📅 September 15–17
📍 The Howard, 661 Howard Street, San Francisco
🌐 Attend in person or watch the livestream from anywhere
🕒 8:45am–6:00pm
You’ll learn how to:
• Create and customize a Grok Bot
• Teach it your style and give it goals
• Put Bots to work across apps, tools and websites
• Build workflows for different roles and departments
• Connect directly with the Grok Bot team
Full schedule:
Day 1 | Tuesday, Sept. 15
• 9:00–10:00 AM: Grok Bot 101 with Roman Ugarte
• 12:30–2:00 PM: Engineering with Lingxi Li
• 2:30–4:00 PM: Product Managers with Kevin Niparko
• 4:30–5:30 PM: Founders with Shub Gaur
Day 2 | Wednesday, Sept. 16
• 9:00–10:30 AM: Sales Engineering with Amrita Venkatraman
• 12:30–2:00 PM: Sales with the SpaceXAI Sales Team
• 2:30–3:30 PM: SDRs with Simon Lackowski
• 4:00–5:00 PM: Customer Support with David Gan
Day 3 | Thursday, Sept. 17
• 9:00–10:30 AM: Marketing Operations with Matthew Silberman and Teresa Hsu
• 12:30–1:30 PM: Post-Sales with Blake Schuller
• 2:30–4:00 PM: Marketing with Josh Kim
• 4:30–5:30 PM: Livestream Wrap and Final Showcase
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The Diplomat website retracted an article on Friday, saying that a story about a Ukraine firm was fabricated, and the bylined journalist, one “Kim Hwa-pyeong”, may not exist.
“We now know that the journalist fabricated the interview and may not even be who they claimed to be,” the website said.
Brendan Ruberry of Semafor yesterday added on X that “Clarissa Jenkins”, another writer for the same website, also did not exist—and her report was graded by a detection service as “100 per cent AI-generated”.
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ACCELERATING PROBLEM
The problem is likely accelerating. Sophia Gonzales, Ervin B Hoskins, and five other published journalists do not exist, according to a study in September by researchers at OpenAI.
The present writer recently raised the issue of “Maya Wang”, the widely quoted China-hostile voice at Human Rights Watch. Her friends say the name was made-up for the wife of former Hong Kong Free Press columnist “Kong Tsung-gan”—who also did not exist—even though he was quoted in the New York Times, CNN, the Guardian, Time magazine, Washington Post, France24, Deutsch Welle and so on. Kong was unmasked as Brian P Kern, a US anti-China activist.
UK Press Gazette reported on September 18 that the widely quoted art therapist "Dr Eleni Nicolaou", quoted in Forbes, Psychology, Vice and Glamour, appeared to be AI-generated.
While it is not illegal to use a pen name or to add a “name changed to protect the innocent” disclaimer in an upfront manner, any practice that deceives readers is considered unethical in journalism.
This can be a particular issue when there is a clear political purpose, as in the case of Mrs Kern, or an ethnicity-switching aspect, as in the case of her husband’s “yellowface” writings.
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GENERATING FAKE FACES
In the past five or six years, AI-powered scams have made these scams easier, as fake faces can be generated.
In 2020, “Martin Aspen”, a researcher who produced a lengthy report on Hunter Biden’s dealings in China, turned out to be a fake identity with an AI-generated face.
The project was financed by Apple Daily, run by Trump-fanatic publisher Jimmy Lai.
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DS Investment & Securities: SiC & GaN
Market Growth & Opportunities:
> The adoption of 800V architectures creates new growth opportunities for 8inch foundries, challenging traditional Si power semiconductors.
> SiC Power Market: Expected to grow at a CAGR of +20%, scaling from $3.4 billion (2024–2025) to $10.3 billion by 2030F.
> GaN Power Market: Expected to experience even faster growth at a CAGR of +44%, rising from $0.6 billion to $3.0 billion by 2030F.
Role Breakdown & Material Specialization:
> SiC: Excels in high-voltage, high-power, and high-temperature environments, serving as a partial substitute for Si IGBT. Main applications include EV inverters/OBC, 800V EVs, AI datacenters (AI DC), and energy storage systems (ESS).
> GaN: Excels in high-frequency, high-power-density, and high-efficiency power conversion, serving as a partial substitute for Si MOSFETs. Key application areas include chargers, adapters, power supply units (PSU), AI datacenters, robots, and solar power.
Infrastructure & Trends:
> Datacenter Penetration: The penetration rate of SiC/GaN within datacenter power systems is projected to increase from 17% in 2026F to over 30% by 2030F, driven heavily by new high-frequency, high-density conversion needs (such as 800V to 54V/12V transitions in AI datacenters).
> Manufacturing Shifts: SiC is currently transitioning from 6-inch to 8-inch fabrication lines, while GaN relies heavily on 8-inch GaN-on-Si processes. Long-term transitions up to 12-inch wafers are also being evaluated.
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