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Elon Musk's AI, Grok, has been telling users the world's richest person is smarter and more fit than anyone in the world, in a raft of recently deleted posts. Elon Musk's AI, Grok, has been telling users the world's richest person is smarter and more fit than anyone in the world, in a raft of recently deleted posts. Elon Musk's Grok AI tells users he is fitter than LeBron James and smarter than da Vinci Thu 20 Nov 2025 23.25 ESTLast modified on Thu 20 Nov 2025 23.27 EST Elon Musk's AI, Grok, has been telling users the world's richest person is smarter and more fit than anyone in the world, in a raft of recently deleted posts that have called into question the bot's objectivity. Users on X using the artificial intelligence chatbot in the past week have noted that whatever the comparison - from questions of athleticism to intelligence and even divinity - Musk would frequently come out on top. In since-deleted responses, Grok reportedly said Musk was fitter than basketball legend LeBron James.

Paul Pierce explains how LeBron's absence has actually been good for the Lakers. Los Angeles Lakers shooting guard Bronny James has been the center of debate from the moment he was drafted in June. The 20-year-old said he tries to filter it all out, but he sees it all. "My first thought about everything is I always try to just let it go through one ear and out the other, put my head down and come to work and be positive every day. I see everything that people are saying, and people think, like, I'm a f---ing robot, like I don't have any feelings or emotions," James said via The Athletic.

Everyone is talking about the latest AI project, Chat GBT, and the responses have ranged from excitement to terror. In fact, Chat GBT has become such a cultural phenomenon that the site is operating at overcapacity, and you can't even get on right now. Kind of like when you call the airline and they ask for your number and say they will text you when you are next in line. In the meantime, AI is already impacting various industries but none more visible or game changing than the sports business. The reason is that predicting future outcomes are essential to everything in sports.

Admittedly, nobody really had their hopes up on that front until Warner Bros. released the beta version of "MultiVersus" last week, a crossover fighting game that features popular fictional characters from the studio's extensive list of IPs like Batman, Arya Stark and -- yes -- LeBron James, a basketball player so talented he can't be real. In the game, you play as the cartoon version of the Los Angeles Lakers star from "Space Jam: A New Legacy."

Around this time two years ago, David Alston was running around the frigid streets of Chicago attending sneaker release pop-up parties during NBA All-Star Game weekend, trying to get some exposure for his upstart app, Kickstroid. His pre-pandemic objective: letting sneakerheads know how and where to get the latest reissues of various Air Jordans, the newest "Space Jam: A New Legacy"-inspired Nikes from LeBron James, and a relaunched Adidas D Rose 1 from Chicago hoop legend Derrick Rose. The positive feedback Alston got from users in person and on the app left him and his Kickstroid co-founder and college classmate, Nicco Adams, inspired. This weekend on their app, which launched in January 2020, they're tracking to see how the Nike "LeBron 9 Big Bang 2022" reissue will fare as this year's NBA All-Star Game is being held in Cleveland, James' former stomping ground. They say the shoe, with a $210 retail price, has a current "hype rating" of 7.2 (out of 10), a resell value of 4.6, which they also currently estimated at $284 and could price higher.

Thanks to the advent of player-tracking data in the NBA and the use of machine learning software running on powerful servers, we're on the cusp of having some fouls called automatically in professional basketball. But that is just the beginning of what AI can do in the NBA, according to Dwight Lutz, the senior director of basketball strategy and analytics for the Atlanta Hawks. In a virtual talk presented by The Society of HPC Professionals on Friday, Lutz says we're very close to having an AI referee that can call one specific foul: a defensive three-second (D3S) violation. Unless a defensive player is guarding an offensive player, or attempting a rebound, he is not allowed to be in the lane for more than three seconds, which is a rule the NBA instituted in 2001 to speed up game play and bolster offensive excitement. You can thank the maturation of the NBA's player tracking system, which was first implemented for the 2013-2014 season, for the advent of AI refs in the NBA.

The NBA Finals are over. The last of the champagne bottles have been emptied and the confetti has begun to settle. Now that the Golden State Warriors have finished unleashing their otherworldly dominance on the basketball world, I thought it would be a good time to wrap up a hardwood-focused machine learning project. The Warriors are prime exhibitors of a new trend in the sport of basketball, a trend that advocates pass-first, ballet-beautiful movement over dominance through individual greatness. As such, traditional positions like'point guard' and'center' really don't seem to apply to their players anymore.