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Grok Has Taken Over Elon Musk’s X—One Click Stops It

AI has taken over Gmail and Windows and our phones, but the land grab is even more stark when it comes to X. Not only is the ...

Elon Musk's X to block AI chatbot Grok from making explicit images of real people

Elon Musk's social media company X says it will block its AI chatbot Grok from creating explicit images of real people after governments around the world launched investigations into the feature.

Elon Musk’s Grok can no longer undress images of real people on X

Elon Musk’s Grok artificial intelligence chatbot will no longer edit “images of real people in revealing clothing” on the X ...

Elon Musk’s X restricts ability to create explicit images with Grok

The social media platform X said it was blocking Grok from generating sexualized and naked images of real people on its ...

Mother of Elon Musk's child sues xAI over Grok deepfakes

Ashley St Clair, the mother of one of Elon Musk's children, has sued his company xAI over sexualised deepfakes of her created ...

'Fire him': Elon Musk and the billionaire CEO of Europe's biggest airline trade insults over Starlink

Elon Musk said Ryanair "will lose customers to airlines that do have internet" after CEO Michael O'Leary said he wasn't ...

Anthropic taps former Microsoft India MD to lead Bengaluru expansion

Irina Ghose joins Anthropic as India managing director after 24 years at Microsoft.

Silicon Valley’s messiest breakup is definitely headed to court

OpenAI and Microsoft tried to dodge a courtroom showdown with Elon Musk, but a federal judge on Thursday rejected their requests to dismiss the case.

AI journalism startup Symbolic.ai signs deal with Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp

The startup claims its AI platform can help optimize editorial processes and research.

Influencer who had child with Elon Musk sues XAI over deepfake images

Ashley St. Clair is seeking a temporary restraining order to stop xAI’s Grok from creating images that undress her.

Republican Confronted Over Alleged Insider Trading in Elon Musk’s Grok

Representative Lisa McClain's husband purchased between $100,001 and $250,000 in private stocks of xAI on December 15, 2025.

Elon Musk says retirement savings 'won't matter' in 20 years. We asked 7 personal finance and AI gurus what they think.

Elon Musk said retirement savings will be "irrelevant" in 20 years if he's right about an abundant future. Experts see ...

Europe's biggest airline doesn't want Starlink on its planes. Elon Musk says it will lose customers

Elon Musk said Ryanair "will lose customers to airlines that do have internet" after its CEO said he wasn't interested in ...

Elon Musk Predicts This Airline Will ‘Lose Customers’ in Latest Feud

In the U.S., budget airlines have been on the decline as lower income customers struggle to pay for travel and luxury ...

The AI lab revolving door spins ever faster

AI labs just can't get their employees to stay put. Yesterday’s big AI news was the abrupt and seemingly acrimonious departure of three top executives at Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines lab.

Taiwan to invest $250B in US semiconductor manufacturing

The U.S. struck a trade deal with Taiwan as the country looks to help boost domestic semiconductor manufacturing.

Claude Code just got updated with one of the most-requested user features

Anthropic's open source standard, the Model Context Protocol (MCP), released in late 2024, allows users to connect AI models and the agents atop them to external tools in a structured, reliable format. It is the engine behind Anthropic's hit AI agentic programming harness, Claude Code, allowing it to access numerous functions like web browsing and file creation immediately when asked.But there was one problem: Claude Code typically had to "read" the instruction manual for eve

AI video startup, Higgsfield, founded by ex-Snap exec, lands $1.3B valuation

Higgsfield says it's on a $200 million annual revenue run rate. So it opened its previous Series A round back up and sold another $80 million in shares.

Iran’s internet shutdown is now one of its longest ever, as protests continue

Iran’s government-imposed internet shutdown enters its second week as authorities continue their violent crackdown on protesters.

Why MongoDB thinks better retrieval — not bigger models — is the key to trustworthy enterprise AI

Agentic systems and enterprise search depend on strong data retrieval that works efficiently and accurately. Database provider MongoDB thinks its newest embeddings models help solve falling retrieval quality as more AI systems go into production.As agentic and RAG systems move into production, retrieval quality is emerging as a quiet failure point — one that can undermine accuracy, cost, and user trust even when models themselves perform well.The company launched four new versions of its embeddi