
Tech Meme - 38 min 14 sec ago
Robert Burnson / Bloomberg : Filing: Elon Musk seeks $79B-$134B damages from OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging OpenAI defrauded him by abandoning nonprofit roots and partnering with Microsoft — Elon Musk wants OpenAI Inc. and Microsoft to pay him damages in the range of $79 billion to $134 billion over his claims …...

CNBC - 6 hours 23 min ago
An updated rule from the EPA closed a loophole that allowed xAI to build its Memphis data center quickly using air-polluting turbines as a power source.

Chicago Tribune - 6 hours 36 min ago
The mother of one of Elon Musk's children is suing his AI company, saying its Grok chatbot allowed users to generate sexually exploitive deepfake images of her that have caused her humiliation and emotional distress.

Fortune - 7 hours 56 sec ago
The surge of traffic, and accidents, on the highway that leads to the burgeoning industrial center in northern Nevada is driving a search for alternatives.

NY Post - 8 hours 53 min ago
"A lot of people around here don't like [Musk] so maybe this is his way to use his money to stick it to us. Go find somewhere else where they support you and your politics," he said.

Attack of the Fanboy - 10 hours 58 min ago
Tech soap opera intensifies.

Observer - 12 hours 27 min ago
The OpenAI CEO is adding a well-funded brain-computer interface startup to his growing portfolio of ambitious bets.

NY Post - 12 hours 38 min ago
O'Leary dismissed the idea of equipping any of Ryanair's more than 600 jets with Musk's Starlink, citing the impact of fuel costs from drag caused by the antenna and estimating the service would cost up to $250 million a year.

Engadget - 12 hours 43 min ago
Although X removed Grok's ability to create nonconsensual digitally undressed images on the social platform, the standalone Grok app is another story. It reportedly continues to produce "nudified" deepfakes of real people. And now, Ashley St. Clair, a conservative political strategist and mother of one of Elon Musk's 14 children, has sued xAI for nonconsensual sexualized images of her that Grok allegedly produced. In the court filing , St. Clair accused xAI's Grok chatbot of...

The Hill - 14 hours 24 min ago
Ashley St. Clair, the mother of one of Elon Musk's children, is suing the tech billionaire's AI company, xAI, after its chatbot Grok produced sexualized images of her. St. Clair filed suit against xAI in New York state court Thursday, alleging that Grok generated images of her "as a child stripped down to a string...

US Weekly - 15 hours 29 min ago
Elon Musk ' s AI company filed a federal lawsuit against his ex Ashley St. Clair the same day she filed her own lawsuit against the billionaire's company, Us Weekly can report. On Thursday, January 15, Musk's AI company, xAI, sued St. Clair in Texas court. The lawsuit claims St. Clair signed up to use the AI chatbot Grok in December 2024. The suit alleges St. Clair and her lawyers threatened xAI with a lawsuit on Wednesday, January 14, that would be filed in New York. (St. Clair filed...

Deadline Hollywood - 15 hours 49 min ago
Visitors to X in many major cities on Friday were greeted with an error message. “Something went wrong,” it read. “Try reloading.” The widespread outage of the social media service was noted by the website DownDetector, which indicated more than 53,000 user reports as of 10:45 a.m. ET. “Posts aren’t loading right now. Try again,” […]...

Tech Meme - 16 hours 18 min ago
Alex Heath / Sources : Unsealed docs from Elon Musk's OpenAI lawsuit, set for a jury trial on April 27: Sutskever's concerns about treating open-source AI as a "side show", and more — This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week.

Forbes - 16 hours 24 min ago
A majority of reported problems involved issues accessing X's app and website.

Tech Meme - 16 hours 28 min ago
Alex Heath / The Verge : Unsealed docs from Elon Musk's OpenAI lawsuit, set for a jury trial on April 27, show Sutskever's concerns about treating open-source AI as a "side show", more — Highlights from Musk v. Altman. … Elon Musk first sued OpenAI in February 2024.

Variety - 16 hours 29 min ago
X went down on Friday morning as tens of thousands of users reported issues relating to the social media platform controlled by Elon Musk. Users attempting to reach the site formerly known as Twitter were met with error messages such as: “Something went wrong. Try reloading.” The reload button then resulted in an unresolved spinning […]...

Ars Technica - 17 hours 41 min ago
Claims Grok chatbot created "countless" sexual images of her without her consent.

BBC - 18 hours 2 min ago
The parent company of X and Grok, xAI, launched a counter-suit saying she had violated its terms of service.

NPR - 20 hours 3 min ago
Elon Musk's social media company X says it will block its AI chatbot Grok from creating explicit images of real people after governments around the world launched investigations into the feature.

Forbes - 20 hours 42 min ago
The conservative influencer, who had a child with Elon Musk, accused the xAI's Grok of generating sexualized images of her and undressing photos of her as a child.

The Nation - 21 hours 58 min ago
Laura Kavanagh Musk's attack on the new FDNY commissioner proves he knows nothing about how modern fire departments work. The post I Led the FDNY. Don't Believe Elon Musk's Nonsense About It. appeared first on The Nation .

US Weekly - 22 hours 54 min ago
Ashley St. Clair , the mother of Elon Musk 's son Romulus, is suing his xAI company, alleging its Grok AI generative tool created explicit sexual images of her without her consent. St. Clair, 27, filed the lawsuit in the state of New York on Thursday, January 15, reported CNN , NBC News and People . In the filing, the right-wing political commentator alleged that "xAI's product Grok, a generative artificial intelligence ('AI') chatbot, uses AI to undress, humiliate, and sexually...