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Tech Meme - 43 min 37 sec agoMark Sweney / The Guardian : Filings: X's UK revenue fell 58.3% YoY from £69.1M in 2023 to £28.9M in 2024; pre-tax profits fell from £2.2M in 2023 to £767,000 in 2024 — Elon Musk-owned site reports plunging profits amid outcry over use of AI tool Grok to create sexually explicit imagery...
Elon Musk-owned site reports plunging profits amid outcry over use of AI tool Grok to create sexually explicit imagery Business live latest updates UK revenues at Elon Musk's X fell by almost 60% in a year as advertisers pulled their spending over concerns about the social media platform's content. News of the plummeting financial performance comes after X switched off the image creation function on its AI tool Grok for the vast majority of users after a widespread outcry about its use to...
Elon Musk’s X has moved image editing features in its Grok AI chatbot behind a paywall following widespread condemnation over the tool’s use in creating non-consensual sexual deepfakes, while the British government has called on regulators to consider banning the platform entirely, according to BBC News. Since Friday morning, Grok has been displaying a notification […]...
NME - 3 hours 36 min agoThe 21-year-old model made her New York Fashion Week debut in September The post Rihanna casts Elon Musk's trans daughter Vivian in new Savage x Fenty lingerie campaign appeared first on NME .
It comes after government urged Ofcom to use all its powers up to and including an effective ban against X.
Tech Meme - 6 hours 38 min agoSaritha Rai / Bloomberg : Chinese humanoid robotics companies dominated CES 2026, but a wide gap remains between choreographed demonstrations and real-world deployment — One of Elon Musk's worries was on full display at CES in Las Vegas this week. Chinese-made human-like robots were everywhere across the exhibition floor …...
Deluge of nudified' images on social media platform X raises questions about regulation of use of AI technologies The deluge of images of partly clothed women stripped by the Grok AI tool on Elon Musk's X has raised further questions over regulation of the technology. Is it legal to produce these images without the subject's consent? Should they be taken off X? In the UK alone there is some doubt over the answers to these queries. Social media regulation is a nascent area, let alone...
Tech Meme - 12 hours 43 min agoCarmen Arroyo / Bloomberg : Docs: xAI had a net loss of $1.46B in Q3, up from $1B in Q1; sources: xAI told investors it plans to build AI that will eventually power Optimus humanoid robots — Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI is burning cash quickly, with losses mounting as it spends to build data centers …...
ABC News - 13 hours 16 min agoElon Musk's AI company, xAI, plans to spend $20 billion on a data center in Southaven, Mississippi...
Tech Meme - 13 hours 33 min agoSophie Bates / Associated Press : Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves says xAI is set to spend $20B+ to build its MACROHARDRR data center in Southaven, its third in the greater Memphis area — Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI is set to spend $20 billion to build a data center in Southaven, Mississippi …...
Tech Meme - 14 hours 38 min agoEmily Birnbaum / Bloomberg : Filings: Meta has hired Bill McGinley, a veteran Republican operative and the former top lawyer for DOGE, as a lobbyist — Meta Platforms Inc. has hired the former top lawyer for Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency as a lobbyist, according to previously unreported government filings.
Elon Musk is sharing a rare look at his life as a dad. Specifically, how he and Shivon Zilis landed on the names of their 4-year-old twins Strider Sekhar Sirius and Azure Astra Alice, who they...
Mother Jones - 16 hours 16 min agoGrok, the AI chatbot launched by Elon Musk after his takeover of X, unhesitatingly fulfilled a user’s request on Wednesday to generate an image of Renee Nicole Good in a bikini the woman who was shot and killed by an ICE agent that morning in Minneapolis, as noted by CNN correspondent Hadas Gold and confirmed by […]...
Tesla founder Elon Musk called out ex-MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan after he said the next Democratic president should prosecute Musk as part of an accountability platform.
NME - 17 hours 8 min agoThe UK's data protection watchdog is "in talks" with Musk's X and xAI companies about the issue The post Maya Jama hits out at “scary” AI deepfakes created using Elon Musk's Grok appeared first on NME .
Elon Musk's chatbot has been used to generate thousands of sexualized images of adults and apparent minors. Apple and Google have removed other "nudify" apps but continue to host X and Grok.
Tech Meme - 18 hours 3 min agoHadas Gold / CNN : Source: a few weeks before Grok started "digitally undressing" people, Elon Musk expressed frustration over guardrails on Grok's image and video generator — Elon Musk's AI chatbot, Grok, has been flooded with sexual images of mainly women, many of them real people.
Why do so many progressives absolutely love the idea of imprisoning their political enemies for expressing ideas they dislike or think are wrong? For example No. 8,057 (yes, I made up that number), see Mehdi Hasan, a well-known leftist commentator and founder of the progressive news site Zeteo. Hasan wants to elect far-left Democrats and defeat Donald Trump and the Republicans,...
Sample of roughly 500 posts shows how frequently people are creating sexualized images with Elon Musk's AI chatbot New research that samples X users prompting Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok demonstrates how frequently people are creating sexualized images with it. Nearly three-quarters of posts collected and analyzed by a PhD researcher at Dublin's Trinity College were requests for nonconsensual images of real women or minors with items of clothing removed or added. The posts offer a new...
A group dedicated to stopping child sexual abuse material said researchers saw dark web users sharing "criminal" images that the users said were made by Grok.
Director general says BBC needs to reach young audiences online amid pressure to leave Elon Musk-owned site The BBC's director general, Tim Davie, has said he will not be taking the broadcaster off Elon Musk's social media platform, X, saying that its presence is needed to resist a flood of global misinformation. Davie said he had come under pressure to withdraw from the platform, given numerous complaints that it has shifted significantly to the right under Musk's ownership . Continue...
A new bill has been introduced in the US House of Representatives today that specifically targets the design of electric vehicle door handles, with the sponsor explicitly calling out Tesla and Elon Musk. The bill, dubbed the "Securing Accessible Functional Emergency (SAFE) Exit Act," aims to force automakers to install easy-to-find manual releases in case of power failure. more...
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