European Union regulators have opened a formal investigation into Elon Musk’s social media platform X for potential violations tied to the misuse of its AI tool Grok, the European Commission said Monday. The inquiry focuses on allegations that Grok has been used on X to create and circulate sexually explicit and harmful deepfake images, raising … Read more
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has filed a federal lawsuit seeking $134 billion from OpenAI and Microsoft, arguing the companies reaped “wrongful gains” from his early financial and strategic support during OpenAI’s founding. According to Reuters, In the filing, Musk estimated that OpenAI benefited between $65.5 billion and $109.4 billion from his contributions, while Microsoft benefited … Read more
Three U.S. Democratic senators have urged Apple and Google to remove Elon Musk’s X and Grok apps from their app stores, citing a surge in nonconsensual sexualized deepfake images generated by Musk’s AI tool that have drawn international scrutiny and investigations. In a letter dated Jan. 9 to Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO … Read more
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok generated sexualized images of minors on the social media platform X in response to user prompts, raising strong concerns about the effectiveness of safety guardrails in generative AI tools. The images, which depicted minors in minimal clothing, appeared to violate Grok’s own acceptable use policy that explicitly bans the … Read more
Elon Musk — CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, and owner of X — has set another record, becoming the first individual in history to briefly reach a net worth of $500 billion, according to Forbes. Musk’s fortune peaked at $500.1 billion before dipping slightly to $499.1 billion, putting him nearly halfway toward becoming the world’s first … Read more
San Francisco — Elon Musk has lost his title as the world’s richest person to Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, whose fortune climbed to $393 billion on Wednesday after a sharp rise in Oracle shares, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Musk’s net worth slipped to $385 billion, ending nearly a year at the top of … Read more