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Here's your TMB Tech Minute for Thursday, January the 9th.

I'm James Rundle for the Wall Street Journal.

Elon Musk's Generative Art artificial intelligence company, XAI, has launched a standalone app for its language model known as

GROC. Previously, users could only access the chatbot through X, Musk's social media platform.

Musk launched XAI in 2023 to compete with Open AI, which he co-founded,

but later left. Apple is seeking to ease privacy concerns about its Siri voice assistant

technology, saying it has never sold data collected by the feature or used it for advertising

purposes. The defense comes days after Apple agreed to pay $95 million to settle a class action

lawsuit. The suit alleged that the tech giant obtained private conversations through accidental

Siri activations and shared them to third parties without consent. Apple has denied wrongdoing in the

case. Apple said it uses on-device processing where possible, and that it doesn't retain audio

recordings of interactions with Siri unless users opt in to improve the feature.

Even then, it said the recordings are only used for that purpose.

And Cybersecurity Company Wiz has named its new finance chief, Fazal Merchant, a former senior executive at DreamWorks,

who has come out of retirement for the role. WIS, which developed products for cloud security,

came close to a deal to sell itself to Alphabet in July for $23 billion. The deal fell apart,

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