
Fox News - 18 hours 14 min ago
American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten has abandoned X, citing the platform's decline from public square to hate and manipulation under Elon Musk's ownership.

Electrek - 18 hours 17 min ago
Tesla and the US Equal Employment Opportunities Commission have agreed to enter mediation talks over a 2023 lawsuit from the federal agency which describes pervasive racial abuse and retaliation against black employees at the company's Fremont, CA plant. The settlement talks come after Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that Tesla will only seek settlements in cases against the company that are "just." more...

Engadget - 18 hours 23 min ago
Generative AI, we are repeatedly told, is a transformative and complicated technology. So complicated that its own creators are unable to explain why it acts the way it does, and so transformative that we'd be fools to stand in the way of progress. Even when progress resembles a machine for undressing strangers without their consent on an unprecedented scale , as has been the case of late with Elon Musk's Grok chatbot. UK Prime Minister Kier Starmer seems to have so fully bought into the...

Tech Meme - 18 hours 30 min ago
Politico : California AG Rob Bonta launches an investigation into xAI over the proliferation of nonconsensual, sexualized images generated by Grok — California Attorney General Rob Bonta is investigating Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI over the proliferation of nonconsensual …...

Tech Meme - 18 hours 40 min ago
Raphael Satter / Reuters : Elon Musk claims he's "not aware of any naked underage images generated by Grok" and that Grok's operating principle is to "obey the laws of any given country" — California's governor and attorney general said on Wednesday that they were demanding answers …...

NY Post - 18 hours 55 min ago
Auto safety regulators last year opened an investigation into 2.88 million Tesla vehicles equipped with its FSD system.

Tech Meme - 18 hours 55 min ago
Reuters : Elon Musk claims he was "not aware of any naked underage images generated by Grok" and that Grok was programmed to comply with the laws of any given country — AI tool faces growing global scrutiny over the spread of nonconsensual sexual images of women and minors on X...

Stereogum - 19 hours 20 min ago
Was it ever cool to like Elon Musk? It's hard to remember now. He's obviously an absolute fucking pariah right now, and most people presumably feel absolute fucking revulsion whenever his stupid fucking face appears on their feeds. But it wasn't that long ago that Musk had enough cultural capital to, say, host Saturday Night Live . That should've never happened, and a great many people thought it was fucking stupid even then, but it still happened. Someone thought he was cool. Swedish...

The Guardian - 19 hours 26 min ago
AI tool faces growing global scrutiny over the spread of nonconsensual sexual images of women and minors on X Elon Musk said on Wednesday he was not aware of any "naked underage images" generated by xAI's Grok, as scrutiny of the AI tool intensifies worldwide. "I not aware of any naked underage images generated by Grok. Literally zero," Musk said in an X post. Musk's comment comes as xAI and X face growing global scrutiny, including calls by lawmakers and advocacy groups...

Jalopnik - 20 hours 3 min ago
O brave new world, that has such people in't!...

Autoblog - 20 hours 15 min ago
Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced on X that its Full Self-Driving (FSD) system will be offered exclusively on a monthly subscription basis starting after February 14. However, as is often the case with developments from the company, specific details remain limited, at least as of this ...

The Hill - 20 hours 45 min ago
A coalition of nearly 30 women's, child safety and tech advocacy groups urged both Google and Apple on Wednesday to remove Elon Musk's social platform X and AI chatbot Grok from their app stores amid a surge in AI-generated sexualized images. In a pair of letters to Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, the groups argued that Grok is being used to create "mass amounts"...

The Raw Story - 22 hours 16 min ago
The UK government has hit back at a US administration official's threat over a probe into Elon Musk and X. Online safety watchdog OFCOM is investigating the social media app for the sharing of non-consensual sex images which are artificially generated through the Grok tool, Sky News reported. Concerns over the deepfakes spread on the platform have since been aired in the UK's House of Commons, the elected house of representatives. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said, "I have been informed...

BBC - 22 hours 43 min ago
The prime minister says he's been told Elon Musk's X is taking steps to make it's in "full compliance with UK law."...

Yard Barker - 23 hours 40 min ago
West Ham midfielder Freddie Potts has revealed the famous figures he would most like to meet, and his choices might surprise a few people. The 22-year-old took part in a relaxed club feature where he was asked which well-known personalities he would most enjoy speaking with.

Sky News - 23 hours 53 min ago
Elon Musk's X is acting to comply with UK safety laws and the government "won't back down" in its row over the sex images produced by the platform's Grok AI tool, Sir Keir Starmer has said.