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Hegseth wants to integrate Musk’s Grok AI into military networks this month

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On Monday, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said he plans to integrate Elon Musk’s AI tool, Grok, into Pentagon networks later this month. During remarks at the SpaceX headquarters in Texas reported by The Guardian, Hegseth said the integration would place “the world’s leading AI models on every unclassified and classified network throughout our department.” […]

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Apps like Grok are explicitly banned under Google’s rules—why is it still in the Play Store?

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Elon Musk’s xAI recently weakened content guard rails for image generation in the Grok AI bot. This led to a new spate of non-consensual sexual imagery on X, much of it aimed at silencing women on the platform. This, along with the creation of sexualized images of children in the more compliant Grok, has led

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UK probes X over Grok CSAM scandal; Elon Musk cries censorship

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Elon Musk’s X is currently under investigation in the United Kingdom after failing to stop the platform’s chatbot, Grok, from generating thousands of sexualized images of women and children. On Monday, UK media regulator Ofcom confirmed that X may have violated the UK’s Online Safety Act, which requires platforms to block illegal content. The proliferation

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X’s half-assed attempt to paywall Grok doesn’t block free image editing

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Once again, people are taking Grok at its word, treating the chatbot as a company spokesperson without questioning what it says. On Friday morning, many outlets reported that X had blocked universal access to Grok’s image-editing features after the chatbot began prompting some users to pay $8 to use them. The messages are seemingly in

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Grok assumes users seeking images of underage girls have “good intent”

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For weeks, xAI has faced backlash over undressing and sexualizing images of women and children generated by Grok. One researcher conducted a 24-hour analysis of the Grok account on X and estimated that the chatbot generated over 6,000 images an hour flagged as “sexually suggestive or nudifying,” Bloomberg reported. While the chatbot claimed that xAI

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xAI Closes $20 Bn Funding Round to Accelerate Grok Training, Data Centres

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Elon Musk’s xAI has raised $20 billion in an upsized Series E funding round, exceeding its initial $15 billion target, as the company scales its AI infrastructure and product development. The round attracted participation from Valor Equity Partners, Stepstone Group, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Qatar Investment Authority, MGX, and Baron Capital Group, with strategic

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X blames users for Grok-generated CSAM; no fixes announced

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It seems that instead of updating Grok to prevent outputs of sexualized images of minors, X is planning to purge users generating content that the platform deems illegal, including Grok-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM). On Saturday, X Safety finally posted an official response after nearly a week of backlash over Grok outputs that sexualized

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xAI silent after Grok sexualized images of kids; dril mocks Grok’s “apology”

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For days, xAI has remained silent after its chatbot Grok admitted to generating sexualized AI images of minors, which could be categorized as violative child sexual abuse materials (CSAM) in the US. According to Grok’s “apology”—which was generated by a user’s request, not posted by xAI—the chatbot’s outputs may have been illegal: “I deeply regret

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