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French headquarters of Elon Musk’s X raided by Paris cybercrime unit

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Prosecutors summon tech billionaire and company’s ex-CEO for questioning as part of expanded investigationEurope live – latest updatesProsecutors have raided the French headquarters of Elon Musk’s social media platform X and summoned the tech billionaire and the company’s former chief executive for questioning as part of an investigation into alleged cybercrime.“A search is under way […]

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UK privacy watchdog opens inquiry into X over Grok AI sexual deepfakes

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Information Commissioner’s Office to investigate whether Elon Musk’s companies have complied with data protection lawThe Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has opened formal investigations into X and xAI over whether Elon Musk’s companies have complied with data protection law after the chatbot Grok was used to generate sexual deepfake images without consent.More details soon … Continue

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Elon Musk merges SpaceX with xAI at $1.25tn valuation

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Aerospace business and artificial intelligence firm to unite for IPO as world’s most valuable private companyBusiness live – latest updatesElon Musk’s aerospace company SpaceX has acquired his artificial intelligence business xAI, in a $1.25tn (£910bn) merger that consolidates part of Musk’s empire as SpaceX prepares to go public later this year.The two companies announced the

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Weekly Review 30 January 2026

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Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):Starlink will use your personal data to train AI models unless you opt out: https://www.extremetech.com/internet/psa-starlink-now-uses-customers-personal-data-for-ai-trainingAI are too prone to hallucination for me to trust them to write review articles: https://spectrum.ieee.org/scientific-researchA majority of CEOs aren’t seeing any payoff from AI: https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/20/pwc_ai_ceo_survey/Plasmons could

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EU launches inquiry into X over sexually explicit images made by Grok AI

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Investigation comes after Elon Musk’s firm sparked outrage by allowing users to ‘strip’ photos of women and childrenEurope live – latest updatesThe European Commission has launched an investigation into Elon Musk’s X over the production of sexually explicit images and the spreading of possible child sexual abuse material by the platform’s AI chatbot feature, Grok.The

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Life after Molly: Ian Russell on big tech, his daughter’s death – and why a social media ban won’t work

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Molly Russell was just 14 when she took her own life in 2017, and an inquest later found negative online content was a significant factor. With many people now pushing for teenagers to be kept off tech platforms, her father explains why he backs a different approachIan Russell describes his life as being split into

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Weekly Review 23 January 2026

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Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):The project to poison the data being scraped to train AI: https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/11/industry_insiders_seek_to_poison/Patients can’t always express that they are in pain. AI can help to detect if they are: https://spectrum.ieee.org/machine-learning-measure-pain-surgeryAnthropic has adapted its coding AI to do non-coding tasks: https://dataconomy.com/2026/01/13/anthropics-cowork-brings-developer-grade-ai-agents-to-non-coders/Training an AI

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Asking Grok to delete fake nudes may force victims to sue in Musk’s chosen court

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Journalists and advocates have been trying to grasp how many victims in total were harmed by Grok’s nudifying scandal after xAI delayed restricting outputs and app stores refused to cut off access for days. The latest estimates show that perhaps millions were harmed in the days immediately after Elon Musk promoted Grok’s undressing feature on

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The Guardian view on toddlers and screens: more reasons to be fearful of big tech | Editorial

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Growing concerns about the impact of smartphones on the youngest children must be addressedThe first UK government guidance on young children’s use of tablets, smartphones and other screens, expected in April, cannot come soon enough. The laissez-faire approach to the boom in social media, handheld devices and other digital technology was arguably nowhere less suitable

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Grok AI generated about 3m sexualised images this month, research says

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Estimate made by Center for Countering Digital Hate after Elon Musk’s AI image generation tool sparked international outrageGrok AI generated about 3m sexualised images earlier this month, including 23,000 that appear to depict children, according to researchers who said it “became an industrial scale machine for the production of sexual abuse material”.The estimate has been

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