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Elon Musk’s xAI sued for turning three girls’ real photos into AI CSAM

A tip from an anonymous Discord user led cops to find what may be the first confirmed Grok-generated child sexual abuse materials (CSAM) that Elon Musk’s xAI can’t easily dismiss as nonexistent. As recently as January, Musk denied that Grok generated any CSAM during a scandal in which xAI refused to update filters to block […]

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Teenage girls sue Musk’s xAI, accusing Grok tool of creating child sexual abuse material

Lawuit details how sexualised AI-generated images were produced and distributed without girls’ knowledgeA group of three teenage girls, two of whom are minors, filed a lawsuit on Monday against Elon Musk’s xAI artificial intelligence company alleging that its Grok image generator used photos of them to produce and distribute child sexual abuse material. The class-action

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AI could give us our lives back – if we don’t blow it

Could we be at the beginning of a change never before seen by humans – allowing us to escape the drudgery of work?The other day I pulled into the parking lot of a client’s offices and in the spot next to me was a woman sitting in her car blasting music. She caught me looking

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Staff complain that xAI is flailing because of constant upheaval

Elon Musk has ordered another round of job cuts at xAI after growing frustrated with the poor performance of its coding product, forcing out several more cofounders and parachuting in “fixers” from SpaceX and Tesla to audit the startup. The latest overhaul of the 2-year-old startup follows the success of Anthropic and OpenAI, whose AI

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Elon Musk’s Tesla given go-ahead to supply electricity in Great Britain

Ofgem licence means firm can replicate Texas setup of powering homes, businesses and EVsElon Musk’s Tesla has won approval to supply electricity to households and businesses across Great Britain, as the tech billionaire expands his energy ambitions.The energy regulator, Ofgem, has formally granted Tesla an electricity supply licence, enabling it to provide electricity to domestic

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Musk’s xAI wins permit for datacenter’s makeshift power plant despite backlash

Billionaire’s artificial intelligence company gets approval to run 41 methane gas turbines at its ‘Colossus 2’ in MississippiElon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI won approval on Tuesday to run 41 methane gas turbines at its “Colossus 2” datacenter in northern Mississippi. That’s nearly double the amount it has been operating.The turbines will help power xAI’s

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Liverpool and Manchester United complain to X over ‘sickening’ Grok AI posts

AI feature generated offensive posts about Diogo Jota and the Hillsborough and Munich disastersLiverpool and Manchester United have complained to Elon Musk’s X after the Grok AI feature made offensive posts about Diogo Jota and the Hillsborough and Munich disasters.The posts were generated when users asked the AI tool to make hateful posts about the

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Tech oligarchs reshape humanity while billionaires of old seem quaint

From Gates to Musk and Altman, today’s ultra-rich steer AI and tech, raising questions about who decides the futureWhen Bill Gates became the first modern IT mogul to reach the apex of wealth and power in 1992, the world was a very different place. Gates joined the top 10 on Forbes magazine’s billionaires list alongside

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Musk fails to block California data disclosure law he fears will ruin xAI

Elon Musk’s xAI has lost its bid for a preliminary injunction that would have temporarily blocked California from enforcing a law that requires AI firms to publicly share information about their training data. xAI had tried to argue that California’s Assembly Bill 2013 (AB 2013) forced AI firms to disclose carefully guarded trade secrets. The

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Elon Musk takes witness stand in trial over Twitter takeover

Twitter investors allege the billionaire publicly derided the social network to sink its stock price and buy it at a bargainElon Musk took the stand on Wednesday in a trial brought by Twitter investors, who allege the billionaire committed securities fraud as he was buying the social media company in 2022. The class-action lawsuit alleges

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