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Elon Musk’s Grok AI is used to digitally undress images of women and children

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The degrading pictures are being posted to X despite the platform pledging to suspend people who generate themDegrading images of children and women with their clothes digitally removed by Grok AI continue to be shared on Elon Musk’s X, despite the platform’s commitment to suspend users who generate them.After days of concern over use of […]

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Mother of one of Elon Musk’s sons ‘horrified’ at use of Grok to create fake sexualised images of her

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Exclusive: Ashley St Clair says supporters of X owner are using his AI tool to create a form of revenge pornThe mother of one of Elon Musk’s sons has said she felt “horrified and violated” after fans of the billionaire used his AI tool, Grok, to create fake sexualised images of her by manipulating real

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Generation AI: fears of ‘social divide’ unless all children learn computing skills

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Children are growing up as AI natives and experts say computing skills should be on par with reading and writingIn a Cambridge classroom, Joseph, 10, trained his AI model to discern between drawings of apples and drawings of smiles.“AI gets lots of things wrong,” he said, as it mistakenly identified a fruit as a face.

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I’m watching myself on YouTube saying things I would never say. This is the deepfake menace we must confront | Yanis Varoufakis

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These inventions trigger rage, but also optimism. Maybe they will make people think more critically about debate and democracyIt was my blue shirt, a present from my sister-in-law, that gave it all away. It made me think of Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin, the lowly bureaucrat in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novella The Double, a disconcerting study of the

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LLM-Pruning Collection: A JAX Based Repo For Structured And Unstructured LLM Compression

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Zlab Princeton researchers have released LLM-Pruning Collection, a JAX based repository that consolidates major pruning algorithms for large language models into a single, reproducible framework. It targets one concrete goal, make it easy to compare block level, layer level and weight level pruning methods under a consistent training and evaluation stack on both GPUs and

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Tencent Researchers Release Tencent HY-MT1.5: A New Translation Models Featuring 1.8B and 7B Models Designed for Seamless on-Device and Cloud Deployment

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Tencent Hunyuan researchers have released HY-MT1.5, a multilingual machine translation family that targets both mobile devices and cloud systems with the same training recipe and metrics. HY-MT1.5 consists of 2 translation models, HY-MT1.5-1.8B and HY-MT1.5-7B, supports mutual translation across 33 languages with 5 ethnic and dialect variations, and is available on GitHub and Hugging Face

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Readers reply: should we turn the internet off?

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The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions ponders the online world – from what’s despicable to what’s indispensable• This week’s question: can you really fake it to make it?The internet has turned fringe belief into mainstream politics and policy – from authoritarianism to vaccines. With democracy itself threatened, is it time to

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World ‘may not have time’ to prepare for AI safety risks, says leading researcher

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AI safety expert David Dalrymple said rapid advances could outpace efforts to control powerful systemsThe world “may not have time” to prepare for the safety risks posed by cutting-edge AI systems, according to a leading figure at the UK government’s scientific research agency.David Dalrymple, a programme director and AI safety expert at the Aria agency,

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AI’s reckoning with reality represents a growing economic risk for 2026

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Revenues may be rising rapidly, but not by nearly enough to cover the wild levels of investment under wayThe US dictionary Merriam-Webster’s word of the year for 2025 was “slop”, which it defines as “digital content of low quality that is produced, usually in quantity, by means of artificial intelligence”. The choice underlined the fact

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Digital wallet fraud: how your bank card can be stolen without it leaving your wallet

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Fraudsters use phishing to steal card details, which fund a spending spree using Apple Pay or Google PayYou get a call from your bank and the informed voice asks to you to confirm the personal details they have on file, which you do. You are then asked whether you bought something at an electrical retailer

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