Grok has been climbing Apple and Google’s app store rankings amid calls to remove it for sexualized images
As uproar has grown around sexualized deepfakes of women and children through Grok’s image generation tools, so has the xAI chatbot’s popularity. The issue became popularized in late December , as use...
UK prime minister vows to take action against Elon Musk’s X over AI-generated images of minors, as Grok limits image generation to paid users
Sir Keir Starmer has vowed to “take action” against Elon Musk’s X over its AI tool Grok producing sexualized images of children . Speaking on Thursday, the UK premier called the images “unlawful” and ...
Rather than fully cracking down on scam ads, Meta worked to make them harder to find
In its latest piece on scam ads, Reuters found that the social media giant didn’t just remove fraudulent ads from its platforms — it also worked to make them harder for governments and journalists to...
Report: AI-powered toys tell kids where to find matches, parrot Chinese government propaganda
You may want to think twice before buying your kids a fancy AI-powered plush toy. A new report from NBC News found that several AI-powered kids toys could easily be steered to dangerous as well as sex...
Teens banned from social media might just turn to AI chatbots instead
This week is a dark one for web-obsessed teens living Down Under (or at least they might think so) after Australia’s social media ban for children under 16 came into effect on Wednesday. The new natio...
The New York Times, Chicago Tribune sue Perplexity
is suing the AI search engine startup Perplexity, alleging repeated copyright violations. In the complaint , the Times accuses Perplexity of scraping the company’s content and generating outputs that ...
Anthropic CEO Amodei asked to testify before Congress about Claude-powered Chinese cyberattack, Axios reports
Earlier this month, Anthropic revealed that Chinese state actors had used its Claude chatbot to orchestrate and execute a cyber espionage campaign for the first time. The company said that after it de...
Google rolls out Private AI Compute matching Apple’s AI privacy scheme
One of the barriers to people embracing AI in their daily lives is trust — making sure that the company that built the AI isn’t going to just spill your most sensitive info to advertisers and data bro...
Fermi falls after reporting steep Q3 loss, says US is “at war” on AI
fell on Tuesday after it reported a steeper-than-expected loss in its first quarterly earnings report since the company’s initial public offering last month. The company, which currently generates no ...
Getty Images suffers partial defeat in UK lawsuit against Stability AI
Stability AI, the creator of image generation tool Stable Diffusion, largely defended itself from a copyright violation lawsuit filed by , which alleged the company illegally trained its AI models on ...
Report: Hollywood talent agencies were blindsided by OpenAI’s Sora and its hazy opt-out scheme
Just before OpenAI unleashed its Sora app on the world, reports emerged that the company was taking a novel approach to dealing with intellectual property rights: rights holders would have to opt out ...
Pew: Americans, Italians are the most concerned about AI, while Israelis are the most excited
A new Pew Research Center survey looked at attitudes towards AI in 25 countries. The results show a widespread concern about AI, with more respondents worried about the technology’s use in daily life ...
Reading an article online? It’s now a coin flip whether it was authored by a human or AI
Ahh yes, it’s another great day to be someone who writes words for an online audience. I’m sure I won’t come across any news on the internet likely to send me into an existential spiral about my caree...
Sam Altman says OpenAI fixed ChatGPT’s serious mental health issues in just a month; others aren’t so sure
Well that was quick. Just over a month ago, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced a 120-day plan to roll out new protections for identifying and helping ChatGPT users who are suffering a mental health crisi...
Sora’s ghoulish reanimation of dead celebrities raises alarms
OpenAI’s video generation app Sora has spent its first two weeks at the top of the charts . The startup’s fast-and-loose approach to enforcing intellectual property rights has seen the app flooded wit...
OpenAI’s internal Slack messages could cost it billions in copyright suit
Among the many copyright infringement cases that AI companies are defending themselves against, one piece of evidence keeps popping up: their use of pirated book databases like LibGen to train AI mode...
AI loves an em dash — writers in the US, on the other hand, aren’t so keen
Of the many tips and tricks people are coming up with to determine whether a piece of writing has been written with a little help from AI, the world seems to have homed in on the use of one particular...
Most Americans don’t like surreptitious AI use, but many are unbothered by AI-generated music
During the unveiling of new smart glasses last week, besides a few blunders , CEO Mark Zuckerberg said: “It is no surprise that AI glasses are taking off. This feeling of presence is a profound thing...
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg: AI might be a bubble but “misspending a couple of hundred billion” is worth it to achieve superintelligence
“It’s quite possible” that AI is a bubble, CEO Mark Zuckerberg told tech journalist Alex Heath, formerly of The Verge, on his new podcast, “ Access ,” and for his newsletter, Sources . That isn’t sto...
OpenAI building a teen mode that will guess a user’s age and restrict flirtatious and self-harm-related chats
After a series of alarming safety failures in which ChatGPT encouraged self-harm, OpenAI has announced a 120-day plan to roll out new protections for young users and those that may be experiencing a m...