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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.

SpaceX has officially bought Cursor, the AI coding assistant
The $60 billion deal is done. Cursor's AI coding tool now sits inside Elon Musk's rocket company, which wants to put its massive computing power to work for everyday software developers.

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.

River AI raises $1.1 billion to build AI you train yourself, not AI that replaces you
A two-month-old startup founded by an xAI co-founder just landed one of the largest seed rounds in AI history, with a bet that personal, trainable AI agents will matter more than corporate productivity tools.

Elon Musk's AI Wikipedia Rival Grokipedia Hasn't Updated in Three Months
xAI launched Grokipedia with six million articles and big promises. Now it appears frozen, with no accepted edits since late April.

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.

SpaceX Has Spent $329 Million on Tesla Batteries This Year. Here's Why.
The rocket company is buying industrial-scale battery storage at a pace that puts hard numbers on how tightly Elon Musk's businesses are wired together, and what that means for the AI data centers at the centre of it all.

A top House Democrat is demanding a tour of SpaceX's AI data centers in Memphis
Rep. Frank Pallone says the facilities are running gas turbines without proper permits, polluting the air, and shifting energy costs onto ordinary residents. He wants answers by August 11.

SpaceX Plans to Remove xAI's Illegal Turbines, But Not Until Mid-2027
The company running Elon Musk's AI data centers near Memphis says it will tear out 69 unpermitted gas turbines, replacing them with a permanent power plant. Nearby residents, already living in one of the most polluted regions in the US, will wait at least two more years for that to happen.

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.

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.

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.

Elon Musk says he got too caught up in politics and shares his predictions for AI
In a wide-ranging interview with The Economist, the world's richest person admits his time running the government cost-cutting body pulled his focus, and he lays out where he thinks artificial intelligence is heading.

xAI Sues Man Who Allegedly Used Grok to Create Child Abuse Images
Elon Musk's AI company is taking its first legal action against a user over AI-generated abuse material, after a South Carolina man was already arrested on eight felony charges.