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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 can handle workplace tasks inside the tools you already use, from sales outreach to bug fixes, without you having to watch 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 tag 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 all the wrong reasons, plus the one group that genuinely came out ahead.

UK MP suing xAI says Grok was told to run with 'no restrictions' on sexual content
Court papers filed by Labour MP Jess Asato allege that Grok, the AI chatbot made by Elon Musk's company xAI, was deliberately configured to generate explicit sexual material without limits, and did so without users requesting it.

Cursor launches a $7-a-month plan for India as it eyes the world's second-largest developer market
The AI coding tool is betting that lower prices will turn India's millions of software developers into paying subscribers, ahead of its expected takeover by SpaceX.

Every major AI model leans left on politics, even Grok, half the time
A small research lab ran 16 leading AI models through a well-known political quiz thousands of times. All but one landed consistently in the libertarian-left zone. The one exception was Elon Musk's Grok, which couldn't make up its mind.

Elon Musk wants Grok to make a full-length Odyssey film before the year is out
The billionaire says his AI image and video platform will produce a 'historically accurate' version of Homer's epic. A three-minute clip is already circulating. Here is what we actually know.