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In a response to mounting concerns over harmful AI-generated content, both Indonesia and Malaysia have moved to block access to Grok, the AI chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s xAI, citing risks associated with AI-generated sexualised and non-consensual imagery. On January 10, Indonesia’s Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs temporarily blocked access to Grok after widespread

Z.ai, formerly known as Ziphu AI, the developer of the GLM family of large language models (LLMs), made its public market debut on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, becoming, as investors describe, the world’s first publicly listed large language model company. The company, which trades under the ticker 02513.HK, priced its shares at HK$116.20 apiece

xAI has restricted the image-generation features of its AI model, Grok, to paid subscribers. The change was revealed through Grok’s own responses to user prompts on X. The move follows widespread government backlash over how Grok was being misused on the platform.  Users on X were editing uploaded images through Grok to fulfil obscene requests.

An engineer at the AI-powered app development platform Lovable said in a LinkedIn post that a series of changes to the company’s system prompt helped cut annual large language model (LLM) costs by nearly $20 million, while also improving performance. Benjamin Verbeek, a member of technical staff at Lovable, explaining that he spent the holiday

EPAM Systems has announced a partnership with Cursor to help global enterprises move from limited AI coding trials to large scale AI-native software development.  The companies said the collaboration will combine Cursor’s AI-native integrated development environment with EPAM’s AI/Run delivery framework to improve productivity, code quality, and developer experience across enterprise engineering teams. The partnership

India’s minister of electronics and information technology, Ashwini Vaishnaw, met with officials from NVIDIA to discuss manufacturing the global chip giant’s DGX Spark in India.  DGX Spark is a compact system designed to handle a wide range of artificial intelligence workloads. It integrates NVIDIA’s full AI stack, including GPUs, CPUs, networking, CUDA libraries, and supporting