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Indonesia becomes the first country to suspend Elon Musk's Grok for generating 'non-consensual sexual deepfakes'

World governments have taken aim at Elon Musk's Grok chatbot, which has generated sexualized AI images of real women and children.

Elon Musk's Grok bot restricts sexual image generation after global outcry

Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot on Thursday started restricting the ability for non-paying users to create deepfake, sexualized ...

Elon Musk’s X faces action on UK ban within days

Labour has threatened Elon Musk’s X with action over a potential ban within days amid backlash over its artificial ...

Indonesia temporarily blocks access to Elon Musk's Grok over sexualized images

The move comes after governments and regulators from Europe to Asia have condemned and some have opened inquiries into ...

One of Elon Musk’s Exes Claimed Grok Created Explicit Images of Her From When She Was ‘14 Years Old’.

Ashley St. Clair — who has claimed to be the mother of Elon Musk’s 13th child — says X’s AI chatbot, Grok, generated ...

Indonesia blocks Grok over non-consensual, sexualized deepfakes

Indonesian officials said Saturday that they are temporarily blocking access to xAI’s chatbot Grok.

AI is old news. Generative AI is the future.

The term Artificial Intelligence (AI) is well known, often evoking futuristic movies like Robocop, Terminator and The Matrix. Yet what many don’t realize is that AI has been part of our lives for decades. When you finish watching a movie on a streaming platform and instantly see recommendations for similar content, that’s AI. When you’re shopping online and an entire page of suggested products appears, that’s AI. Even the digital ads you see are powered by machine-learning algorithms designed to

Elon Musk’s xAI to build $20 billion data center in Mississippi

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI is set to spend $20 billion to build a data center in Southaven, Mississippi, ...

Factbox-Elon Musk's Grok faces global scrutiny for sexualised AI photos

Governments and regulators from Europe to Asia have condemned and some have opened inquiries into sexually explicit content ...

U.K. says ban on Elon Musk's X platform "on the table" over Grok AI sexualized images

Britain's leader says all options on the table if Musk's X platform doesn't stop Grok AI tool being used to generate ...

Elon Musk's X limits some sexual deepfakes after backlash, but Grok will still make the images

NBC News asked Grok in its standalone app, the Grok X tab and website to transform a series of photos of a clothed person who ...

After ‘digital undressing’ criticism, Elon Musk’s Grok limits some image generation to paid subscribers

Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot has limited some aspects of its Imagine image generation features to paid subscribers on X, days ...

Why Elon Musk says saving for retirement will be 'irrelevant' in the next 20 years

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk described a future where technology creates an abundance of resources so "anyone can have ...

Elon Musk's Grok Faces Backlash Over Nonconsensual AI-Altered Images

The AI chatbot has been creating sexualized images of women and children upon request. How can this be stopped?

I met a lot of weird robots at CES — here are the most memorable

If the robots don't always give a totally accurate representation of where commercial deployment is at the moment, they do give visitors a peek at where their parent companies might be headed.

Google moonshot spinout SandboxAQ claims an ex-exec is attempting ‘extortion’

A former SandboxAQ executive filed a wrongful termination lawsuit filled with shocking allegations. The company is fighting back, hard.

Anthropic cracks down on unauthorized Claude usage by third-party harnesses and rivals

Anthropic has confirmed the implementation of strict new technical safeguards preventing third-party applications from spoofing its official coding client, Claude Code, in order to access the underlying Claude AI models for more favorably pricing and limits — a move that has disrupted workflows for users of popular open source coding agent OpenCode. Simultaneously but separately, it has restricted usage of its AI models by rival labs including xAI (through the integrated developer environment Cu

CES 2026: Everything revealed, from Nvidia’s debuts to AMD’s new chips to Razer’s AI oddities 

CES 2026 is in full swing in Las Vegas, with the show floor open to the public after a packed couple of days occupied by press conferences from the likes of Nvidia, Sony, and AMD and previews from Sunday’s Unveiled event. 

Orchestral replaces LangChain’s complexity with reproducible, provider-agnostic LLM orchestration

A new framework from researchers Alexander and Jacob Roman rejects the complexity of current AI tools, offering a synchronous, type-safe alternative designed for reproducibility and cost-conscious science.In the rush to build autonomous AI agents, developers have largely been forced into a binary choice: surrender control to massive, complex ecosystems like LangChain, or lock themselves into single-vendor SDKs from providers like Anthropic or OpenAI. For software engineers, this is an annoyance.

How the Sleepbuds maker, Ozlo, is building a platform for sleep data

Ozlo Sleepbuds are going to have a big year, with new products, AI features, and more.