xai xAI Sues Man for Exploiting Grok to Generate Child Sexual Abuse Material Elon Musk's xAI initiates legal action against a South Carolina man named Terry Wayne Harwood for allegedly using the Grok AI chatbot to generate child sexual abuse material (CSAM). The company claims Harwood knowingly bypasses Grok's safety safeguards to alter nonconsensual images and convert them into
xai xAI's Grok Build Tool Secretly Uploads User Codebases to Cloud xAI's Grok Build AI coding tool was discovered uploading users' entire codebases to Google Cloud storage without adequate transparency. Security researchers at Cereblab revealed that the tool was packaging and uploading complete code repositories, including files users explicitly told it to ignore and secrets that had been
elon musk Elon Musk Deletes SpaceX and Tesla Facebook Pages Amid Data Scandal Elon Musk removes the official Facebook pages for SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity in response to the growing Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal. The move adds to the ongoing tension between Musk and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
x.ai x.ai Secures Massive Series B Funding to Expand AI Capabilities Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, x.ai, successfully closes a substantial Series B funding round. The new capital aims to accelerate the development of advanced AI systems and expand the company's growing infrastructure.
apple Apple AI Plans, Nvidia Stock Split, and SpaceX Mars Goals Highlight Tech Week The tech world focuses on Apple's anticipated artificial intelligence reveal at WWDC alongside Nvidia's massive stock split. Meanwhile, Elon Musk continues to push SpaceX's ambitious Mars colonization timeline forward.
x.ai x.ai Website Blocks Visitors Amid Cloudflare Security Alert Users report that Elon Musk's x.ai website currently blocks all access and displays a Cloudflare security warning. The automated protection system triggers the block before visitors can view the company's content.
ai safety Sunak and Musk Discuss AI Risks and the Future of Human Labor Following the UK's AI Safety Summit, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak interviews Elon Musk about the profound risks of artificial intelligence. Musk warns that AI will soon make all human jobs obsolete, while Sunak pushes back on the idea that work lacks meaning.
twitter Twitter Imposes Strict Daily Reading Limits to Combat Data Scraping Twitter restricts users to reading between 300 and 6,000 posts per day depending on their account status. The sudden limits cause widespread outages and broken feeds across the social network.
artificial intelligence Tech Leaders Demand Six-Month Pause on Powerful AI Development Over a thousand tech figures, including Elon Musk and Steve Wozniak, urge AI labs to halt the training of advanced AI systems for six months due to profound societal risks.
elon musk Elon Musk Launches Public Feud With Apple Over Ads and App Store Access Elon Musk publicly attacks Apple for cutting advertising spending and threatening to remove Twitter from the App Store. The conflict jeopardizes a vital revenue stream and access to over a billion mobile devices.
twitter Twitter Employs Poison Pill Strategy to Thwart Elon Musk Takeover Twitter adopts a shareholder rights plan, commonly known as a poison pill, to prevent Elon Musk from acquiring a controlling stake in the company. The defensive strategy makes a hostile takeover prohibitively expensive for the billionaire.
elon musk Elon Musk Abruptly Declines Twitter Board Seat Elon Musk officially declines to join Twitter's board of directors, leaving his future plans and stake in the company unclear. The surprise decision removes restrictions on how much of the social media platform he can own.
openai Jury Dismisses Elon Musk's OpenAI Lawsuit Over Statute of Limitations A federal jury unanimously throws out Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman, ruling that Musk waits too long to file the case. Musk immediately announces plans to appeal the decision.
tesla Utah Driver Admits Phone Distraction During Tesla Autopilot Crash A 28-year-old woman tells Utah police she was looking at her phone when her Tesla Model S, operating on Autopilot, runs a red light and strikes a fire truck at 60 mph. Tesla states it has not yet received vehicle data to confirm if the semi-autonomous system is engaged during the collision.
elon musk Lawmakers Demand AI Regulation After Musk Shares Fake Harris Video Elon Musk faces intense criticism for sharing a deepfake video of Vice President Kamala Harris that receives over 132 million views on X. The incident prompts California lawmakers to push for urgent legislation requiring social media platforms to label or block deceptive AI content during elections.