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Max Knoblauch

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I write articles for @sherwood.news and headlines for clickhole and I have Havana syndrome

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til tariffs are crushing America's great arcade industry by driving up the cost of shitty prizes sherwood.news/business/tar...

Tariffs are game over for the arcade business

As tariffs rock the automotive, aviation, and tech industries, one writer asks: what about the little sticky hands you can win at Dave & Buster’s?...

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December 1, 2025 at 11:02 PM

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Rani Molla

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We mapped out the tangled web of autonomous ride-hailing in the US so you don’t have to sherwood.news/tech/waymo-l... @maxknoblauch.bsky.social

September 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM

Max Knoblauch

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We are trying to figure out who made grok ask every user if they will have a child with elon musk

Kylie Robison @kylierobison.com · May 16

!!!!!!!! xai published a postmortem about what happened with grok yesterday

We want to update you on an incident that happened with our Grok response bot on X yesterday.

What happened:
On May 14 at approximately 3:15 AM PST, an unauthorized modification was made to the Grok response bot's prompt on X. This change, which directed Grok to provide a specific response on a political topic, violated xAI's internal policies and core values. We have conducted a thorough investigation and are implementing measures to enhance Grok's transparency and reliability.

What we’re going to do next:
- Starting now, we are publishing our Grok system prompts openly on GitHub. The public will be able to review them and give feedback to every prompt change that we make to Grok. We hope this can help strengthen your trust in Grok as a truth-seeking AI.
- Our existing code review process for prompt changes was circumvented in this incident. We will put in place additional checks and measures to ensure that xAI employees can't modify the prompt

What we’re going to do next:
- Starting now, we are publishing our Grok system prompts openly on GitHub. The public will be able to review them and give feedback to every prompt change that we make to Grok. We hope this can help strengthen your trust in Grok as a truth-seeking AI.
- Our existing code review process for prompt changes was circumvented in this incident. We will put in place additional checks and measures to ensure that xAI employees can't modify the prompt without review.
- We’re putting in place a 24/7 monitoring team to respond to incidents with Grok’s answers that are not caught by automated systems, so we can respond faster if all other measures fail.

May 16, 2025 at 3:04 PM

Max Knoblauch

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Protestant Reformation level event just hit the Everybody Loves Raymond subreddit

May 14, 2025 at 9:02 PM

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Jon Keegan

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Absolutely love this by @maxknoblauch.bsky.social. What will the Chinese import tariffs do to the carnival prize / claw machine biz? It’s gonna be ugly for Big Little Sticky Hand

Sherwood News @sherwood.news · May 9

As tariffs rock the automotive, aviation, and tech industries, one writer asks: what about the little sticky hands you can win at Dave & Buster’s?
https://sherwood.news/business/tariffs-are-game-over-for-the-arcade-business/

Tariffs are game over for the arcade business

As tariffs rock the automotive, aviation, and tech industries, one writer asks: what about the little sticky hands you can win at Dave & Buster’s?...

sherwood.news

May 9, 2025 at 5:06 PM

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Luke Kawa

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THE RETURN OF “EXCUSEFLATION”?

Sony hikes selling price on PlayStation 5s in Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, citing inflation and exchange rate fluctuations sherwood.news/business/a-u... by @maxknoblauch.bsky.social