Ashley St. Clair, the mother of one of Elon Musk's children, sues xAI over Grok sexual images
The lawsuit comes after weeks of mounting backlash against Grok’s ability to generate nonconsensual deepfakes.
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Elon Musk's X down for tens of thousands of users
Citing data from Downdetector.com, the news agency reports that nearly 78,000 users are unable to access X in the United ...
The world's 10 richest people in 2016 had a combined net worth of under $600 billion — less than Elon Musk is worth today
Elon Musk now dominates the rich list while Bill Gates and Warren Buffett have tumbled down the rankings largely due to their ...
Mother of Elon Musk’s child sues his AI company over sexual deepfake images created by Grok
The mother of one of Elon Musk's children is suing his AI company over deepfake images of her on the internet. Ashley St.
OpenAI is turning to the court of public opinion in its battle with Elon Musk
OpenAI published a blog post on Friday that said Elon Musk never treated the AI startup as an independent nonprofit.
Mother of Elon Musk’s son sues his xAI over AI-deepfake images
Ashley St. Clair, the mother of one of Elon Musk’s children, sued Musk’s xAI on Wednesday, alleging that the company’s AI ...
'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 ...
AI cloud startup Runpod hits $120M in ARR — and it started with a Reddit post
Their startup journey is a wild example of how if you build it well and the timing is lucky, they will definitely come.
Black Forest Labs launches open source Flux.2 [klein] to generate AI images in less than a second
The German AI startup Black Forest Labs (BFL), founded by former Stability AI engineers, is continuing to build out its suite of open source AI image generators with the release of FLUX.2 [klein], a new pair of small models — one open and one non-commercial — that emphasizes speed and lower compute requirements, with the models generating images in less than a second on a Nvidia GB200. The [klein] series, released yesterday, includes two primary parameter counts: 4 billion (4B) and 9 billion (9B
California AG sends Musk’s xAI a cease-and-desist order over sexual deepfakes
The flood of AI-generated sexual imagery has spurred concern from state and congressional officials alike.
How Google’s 'internal RL' could unlock long-horizon AI agents
Researchers at Google have developed a technique that makes it easier for AI models to learn complex reasoning tasks that usually cause LLMs to hallucinate or fall apart. Instead of training LLMs through next-token prediction, their technique, called internal reinforcement learning (internal RL), steers the model’s internal activations toward developing a high-level step-by-step solution for the input problem. Ultimately, this could provide a scalable path for creating autonomous agents that can
Snowflake, Databricks challenger ClickHouse hits $15B valuation
The $400 million round was led by Dragoneer.
TikTok quietly launches a microdrama app called ‘PineDrama’
Think TikTok, but every single video you come across is a short episode of a fictional story.
EPA rules that xAI’s natural gas generators were illegally used
Elon Musk's AI company had installed and operated 35 natural gas turbines without permits, something the EPA now says was illegal.
From OpenAI’s offices to a deal with Eli Lilly — how Chai Discovery became one of the flashiest names in AI drug development
The startup has partnered with Eli Lilly and enjoys the backing of some of Silicon Valley's most influential VCs.
BizzyNow opens Mamacrowd equity round to fund “micro-meetings” for business professionals
Italian startup BizzyNow has launched an equity crowdfunding round on Mamacrowd to finance the next phase of its networking app, built around quick, in-person meetups it calls “Bizzy Moments.” The campaign targets €150k–€400k at a €3m pre-money valuation, with a €500 minimum ticket. BizzyNow says proceeds will support go-to-market validation, product upgrades, and the operational groundwork needed to scale. The problem BizzyNow solves Professional networking has a timing problem. The most valuab
Supreme Court hacker posted stolen government data on Instagram
Nicholas Moore pleaded guilty to stealing victims’ information from the Supreme Court and other federal government agencies, and then posting it on his Instagram @ihackthegovernment.
ChatGPT users are about to get hit with targeted ads
OpenAI says that users impacted by the ads will have some control over what they see.
Trump administration wants tech companies to buy $15B of power plants they may not use
In an attempt to alleviate rising electricity prices, the White House wants grid operator PJM to hold an auction for new generating capacity, and it wants tech companies to bid.
The AI healthcare gold rush is here
AI companies are clustering around healthcare and fast.  In just the past week, OpenAI bought health startup Torch, Anthropic launched Claude for healthcare, and Sam Altman-backed MergeLabs closed a $250 million seed round at an $850 million valuation. The money and products are pouring into health and voice AI, but so are concerns about hallucination risks, inaccurate medical information, and […]