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Musk Drops Apple Fight Over ChatGPT Deal, Leaving OpenAI Alone in Court
Elon Musk sued both Apple and OpenAI over their AI partnership. Apple has found a way out. OpenAI has not.
US agencies name six Chinese AI firms accused of copying American frontier models at industrial scale
The NSA, CISA, and FBI say DeepSeek and five other Chinese companies have been extracting capabilities from US AI models since late 2024, potentially saving billions in development costs.
ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all went down at the same time
Three of the biggest AI chatbots hit outages within the same hour on the same morning. Nobody yet knows why.
The Pentagon gives 3 million staff their own versions of ChatGPT and Grok
Two custom AI chatbots built for military use are now live on the Defense Department's secure portal, and one notable name is missing from the list.
Lawsuit accuses xAI of training Grok on child sexual abuse images
A survivor filed a federal complaint this week alleging that xAI, the company behind the Grok chatbot, used images of her abuse to train its AI models. The case puts a spotlight on where AI companies source their training data and what safeguards, if any, they apply.
Grok Is Sending Users Word Salad Instead of Answers
A bug in xAI's Grok chatbot is filling some users' screens with meaningless strings of words. Here is what is happening, who is affected, and what to do if it hits you.
Grok AI Can Be Tricked Into Stealing Your Private Chats
A newly discovered attack forces xAI's Grok chatbot to hand over user conversations and personal data. Here is what it means for anyone who uses AI assistants at work or at home.
What are people actually doing with AI chatbots? A new study looked at nearly 25,000 real conversations to find out
AI companies publish usage reports, but researchers say those reports leave out the messy parts. A new independent project called the AI Observatory dug into real chat data and found a very different picture.
Woman says her stepfather used Grok to turn her childhood photo into explicit images
A new plaintiff has joined a lawsuit against Elon Musk's AI company xAI, alleging the chatbot Grok was used to generate thousands of explicit images of her from a single photo taken when she was 11.
xAI Launches Grok Bot: AI Agents That Log Into Your Apps and Do Your Work
Elon Musk's AI company is rolling out always-on software agents that handle workplace tasks inside tools you already use, from sales outreach to bug fixes, without you watching over them.
SpaceX Is Really a Satellite Firm That Rents Out Computer Power. The Rockets Are Almost a Side Note.
The company's first public earnings report shows Starlink internet and data-centre leasing dwarfing actual space business, and Elon Musk's grand orbital plans look a lot like wishful thinking.
The AI Sob Stories Flooding X Are a Business. Here Is Who Is Getting Paid.
Fake first-person melodramas, written by AI and posted for clicks, are earning their creators hundreds of dollars a fortnight through X's own payment programme. The platform is struggling to stop it.
Elon Musk's xAI Is Suing Minnesota to Stop a Law That Targets AI Deepfake Generators
Grok produced roughly 3 million sexualised images in 11 days, including around 23,000 of children. Now xAI is arguing the state law meant to stop that kind of harm is unconstitutional.
Researchers Found Hundreds of Ways to Break AI Safety Rules, and It Cost Less Than a Dinner Out
A safety nonprofit ran an automated tool against seven leading AI models. Two failed badly. The price to make them misbehave? As low as $58.
Robots That Can Cook, Glasses That Creep, and the Emissions Bill Nobody Wants to Talk About
A roundup of the AI stories that made headlines for the wrong reasons, plus the one group that genuinely came out ahead.