Baltimore sues Elon Musk’s xAI over sexual Grok images
Baltimore, with a population of about 568,000, is the largest city to sue xAI over deepfakes attributed to Grok, its lawyers said.
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Elon Musk’s Boring names South Dallas project one of three national winners
Elon Musk’s Boring Company is selecting a South Dallas site to assess the feasibility of a mile-long underground tunnel ...
Elon Musk demands judge’s recusal over ‘support’ of LinkedIn post that mocked him after $2B verdict
Elon Musk is demanding a Delaware judge step aside from a high-stakes Tesla case after she allegedly “supported” a LinkedIn ...
Newsom tears into Elon Musk labeling him ‘one of the great disappointments’ of this era
Newsom accused Musk of ceding the electric vehicle market to China, and instead shifting Tesla’s focus to robotics ...
Elon Musk’s Grok AI Faces Lawsuit From Baltimore Over Sexualized Images
Baltimore sues Elon Musk’s Grok AI over fake nude images. The mayor and city council of Baltimore, Maryland, filed a lawsuit ...
Musk’s xAI ‘Doubling Down’ on AI Videos After OpenAI Nixes Sora
Elon Musk said his artificial intelligence company, xAI, plans to upgrade its AI video generator, seizing on an opening left ...
Elon Musk offers to pay TSA salaries — warns disruption hurts ‘so many Americans.’ Do this now if you get 1 paycheck
As a funding impasse disrupts airport operations across the U.S., Tesla CEO Elon Musk says he’s willing to pay the salaries ...
Jury finds Meta and Google negligent in landmark social media addiction trial
The jury says Meta and YouTube will have to pay $3 million in damages.
Meta is cutting several hundred jobs
The cuts will impact employees in the U.S. and other international markets.
Apple overhauls its app developer platform with 100 new metrics, more tools
Apple is adding 100+ new App Store Connect metrics, giving developers deeper, first-party insights into monetization, subscriptions, and user behavior as it doubles down on its app ecosystem in the AI era.
Bernie Sanders and AOC propose a ban on data center construction
Senator Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introduced companion legislation to halt construction on new data centers until Congress passes comprehensive AI regulation.
Pepper acquires YC-backed Alima to bring AI to food distribution’s messy product catalogues
Pepper, a New York-based technology platform for independent food distributors, has acquired Alima, a Y Combinator-backed startup that built ordering and procurement software for small food distributors in Latin America. The deal, announced on Tuesday with no disclosed financial terms, brings Alima’s two cofounders into Pepper’s leadership team and extends the company’s push into AI-driven […]This story continues at The Next Web
DeleteMe acquires social media security tool Block Party
Tracey Chou founded Block Party in 2018 as a tool to help people stay safe from targeted harassment on Twitter, inspired by her own experiences.
Your finance team is still chasing invoices. Here’s why that costs more than you think
The average small business processes around 500 invoices per month. When that workflow runs on email threads, spreadsheets, and manual check runs, each invoice costs somewhere between $15 and $40 to handle. That is not a technology problem. It is an operational tax on growth, and most finance teams have been paying it for years […]This story continues at The Next Web
Google launches Lyria 3 Pro music generation model
Google is launching Lyria 3 Pro, an upgraded music model that generates longer, more customizable tracks, as it expands AI music tools across Gemini, enterprise products, and other services.
Russia arrests alleged owner of cybercrime forum LeakBase, report says
Russian state-owned media reported that police in Russia arrested the administrator of LeakBase, a large hacking forum.
London’s Granola raises $125M to turn meeting recordings into enterprise AI infrastructure
Granola, the London-based AI meeting app that records conversations without dropping a bot into the call, has raised $125 million in a Series C round led by Danny Rimer at Index Ventures, with participation from Mamoon Hamid at Kleiner Perkins. The round values the company at $1.5 billion, a sixfold increase from its $250 million […]This story continues at The Next Web
Waymo relies on firefighters and police to bail out stuck robotaxis
In at least six instances identified by TechCrunch, first responders have had to take control of Waymo vehicles and move them out of traffic during emergency situations.
Reddit takes on the bots with new ‘human verification’ requirements for fishy behavior
Reddit will require suspected automated accounts to verify they’re human, as it ramps up efforts to curb bot-driven spam and manipulation.
Decathlon doubles warehouse output with Exotec’s climbing robots across seven European sites
The world’s largest sporting goods retailer has turned seven of its European warehouses over to robots, and the early results suggest the machines are earning their keep. Decathlon announced on Tuesday that its partnership with Exotec, a French warehouse robotics company, has delivered what it calls significant productivity gains across sites in France, the United […]This story continues at The Next Web