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How to block Grok from editing your uploaded photos on X 🔒
Nvidia invests in Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab 💰
Gina Acosta
March 10, 2026
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Welcome to another edition of Horizon AI,
In today's issue, we cover a new option X just added that lets you block Grok from editing photos you share on the platform. Useful, but it does come with some limitations...
Let’s jump into it!
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Here's what's new today in the Horizon AI
Mira Murati Locks In Massive Nvidia Compute Deal
Adobe Launches AI Assistant for Photoshop
AI Tutorial: How to prevent Grok from modifying your photos on X
AI Tools to check out
AI Findings/Resources
The Latest in AI and Tech 💡
AI News
THINKING MACHINES LAB
Mira Murati Locks in Massive Nvidia Compute Deal
Thinking Machines Lab, Mira Murati's AI research lab, announced a multi-year strategic partnership with AI semiconductor giant Nvidia
Details:
Thinking Machines will receive at least one gigawatt of compute power through Nvidia's new Vera Rubin systems to train its own AI models, with deployment set to begin early next year.
1 gigawatt of computing power is enough to power roughly 750,000 U.S. homes and can cost around $50 billion.
Nvidia has also taken a financial stake in Thinking Machines, though the exact amount wasn't disclosed.
The partnership also includes a commitment to “design training and serving systems for NVIDIA architectures and broaden access to frontier AI and open models for enterprises, research institutions and the scientific community.”
The startup, valued at more than $12 billion, has raised more than $2 billion since launching in 2025. This new investment will bring it closer to its objective of building "multimodal" systems capable of working with people collaboratively and creating reproducible results.
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ADOBE
Adobe Launches AI Assistant for Photoshop
Adobe has begun rolling out an AI assistant for Photoshop in beta on the web and mobile apps, allowing users to edit images using simple text prompts.
Details:
The assistant lets users perform tasks such as removing objects or people, adjusting lighting, changing colors, or modifying backgrounds through natural language instructions.
Users can also prompt the tool to apply effects like soft glow, crop images to specific formats, enhance shadows, or transform the overall look of an image.
Adobe is also introducing a new feature called AI markup, which lets users draw markers directly on an image and ask the assistant to modify or remove those elements.
New generative editing tools are also coming to Adobe Firefly, including Generative Fill, Generative Remove, Generative Expand, and Generative Upscale.
Paid Photoshop users will be able to generate unlimited AI edits with the assistant until April 9, while free users receive 20 generations to start.
AI Tutorial
How to prevent Grok from modifying your photos on X
When uploading an image to X, tap the paintbrush icon and then select the flag icon at the bottom right of the editing taskbar
Toggle on "Block modifications by Grok."
Once enabled, it will prevent other users from tagging @Grok in replies to the photo and asking the AI to edit it.
However, the small text in the setting indicates that the toggle only prevents Grok from modifying content through direct tagging. It does not stop the chatbot from editing the image if someone uses another method.
So the protection is not as solid as one would want, but it will still prevent people from spamming easy Grok edits in the same post.
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The latest in AI and Tech
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AMI Labs has raised $1.03 billion at a $3.5 billion pre-money valuation. The startup is working on building "world models", systems capable of reasoning and planning in complex real-world settings.
The company announced it is acquiring Promptfoo, a startup focused on protecting large language models from security threats.
Once the deal closes, Promptfoo’s technology will be integrated into OpenAI Frontier, the company’s enterprise platform for building and managing AI agents.
Google is rolling out a new setting in Google Photos that lets users switch between traditional search and the newer AI powered “Ask Photos” experience.
The toggle allows people to choose a classic search mode instead of the AI driven version after the feature’s earlier launch drew mixed feedback.
YouTube is expanding its likeness detection technology to a pilot group of government officials, political candidates, and journalists.
The tool identifies unauthorized AI generated deepfakes and allows those affected to request the removal of videos that may violate the platform’s policies.
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