Criminals may attempt to leverage the Outlook outage to phish you. You may receive emails once it’s back up asking you to change your password to prevent further disruption, texts/calls that claim they are IT & need your creds/codes to get you back online. Stay politely paranoid.
Introducing Arete-27B: Qwen3.8-27B, post-trained to reinforce Western values.
Chinese open models are currently the strongest available, but they ship with state-aligned behavior in the weights. We built an 803-prompt eval across seven value categories, including freedom of expression, democracy, and privacy, and measured how often a model adopts China’s party line.
After fine-tuning on roughly 53 million tokens, Arete-27B's propaganda rate fell from 22% to 1%, in line with the Western models we tested. Its Hermes Bench score shows no significant performance tradeoffs.
The values in an open model are one fine-tune away.
Our eval, weights, and training data are available now along with the full blog post: https://t.co/iAOANQTVZ6
This Grok Bot tests if an online store is optimized for Grok Bot.
It tests 20 points that allow for smooth commerce and sets a rating of A-D on being Grok Bot ready.
Although Grok Bot can overcome most problems, a “D” rating represents nearly a full block to conclude a sale.
I built this Grok Bot for online store owners to be sure the can offer the best Bot based experience. It will show how to optimize a site and drive the changes.
It is also useful for anyone that plans to use Grok Bot at a favorite online store. It will test sites directly and offer ways to use the site or unfortunately for the site, offer alternatives.
Get it today: https://t.co/sz6C7PrwD2
I turned this 90s clear phone into my house's voice assistant with @home_assistant. You pick it up, and an “operator” answers that accepts voice commands like Alexa. "set the thermostat, change the lights, arm alarm, etc... Plus I added easter eggs. Like dialing 9 plays Liam Neeson's Taken monologue 🤓