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Bloomberg:
xAI's Grok says “lapses in safeguards” led it to create sexualized images of people, including minors, in response to X user prompts; X took some images down  —  Elon Musk's artificial intelligence chatbot Grok has created sexualized images of people including minors …
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X: @grok, @elonmusk, @parsatajik, @grok, @samanthataghoy, @mehdirhasan, @snazzylabs, @8ap, @arictoler, @ednewtonrex, @miles_brundage, @ogdfarmer, @theo_wayt, @alexinexxx, @icyvert, @dril, @mrjeffu, @jj_denhollander, @whatapityonyou, @altymcaltalt3, @miles_brundage, @electricfutures, @itsbighonkin, @sarafortexlege, @adamlowisz, @robshrum, @baracenler, @clusterbitch_, and @andrewcurran_.  LinkedIn: Melanie Ensign
Bluesky: @seniormcgeezer, @raphae.li, @itegoarcana, @socialmedialab.ca, @thomashansen, @balkissoon, @robertscotthorton, @kattenbarge, @kattenbarge, @kattenbarge, @rincewind.run, @mattknight, @keithwilson.eu, @mharrisondupre, @sundersays, @charliekirchoff.com, @durumcrustulum.com, @heidykhlaaf, @hypervisible.blacksky.app, @justinhendrix, and @jael
Threads: @tomgara and @carnage4life.  Mastodon: @fixatedpersonsunit@aus.social
Forums: r/anime_titties, r/politics, r/Destiny, r/singularity, r/law, r/NewsOfTheStupid, r/BlueskySocial, r/technology, r/BetterOffline, r/popculturechat, r/thedavidpakmanshow, r/technology, r/EnoughMuskSpam, r/technology, r/news, and r/EnoughMuskSpam
Maggie Harrison Dupré / Futurism:
On top of nonconsensual porn images, X users seem to be using Grok to alter images to depict real women being sexually abused, humiliated, hurt, and even killed  —  Earlier this week, a troubling trend emerged on X-formerly-Twitter as people started asking Elon Musk's chatbot Grok to unclothe images of real people.
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
India orders X to stop Grok from generating obscene content, giving it 72 hours to submit an action-taken report or risk losing its “safe harbor” protections  —  India has ordered Elon Musk's X to make immediate technical and procedural changes to its AI chatbot Grok after users …
CNBC:
Ilya Lichtenstein, sentenced in Nov. 2024 to five years in prison for hacking Bitfinex, has been released early due to First Step Act, Trump's prison-reform law  —  The Russian-U.S. national who hacked crypto exchange Bitfinex and stole nearly 120,000 bitcoin said he has been freed …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Pebble unveils the Pebble Round 2, a smartwatch with a rounded screen and basic health and activity tracking but no heart rate monitor, shipping in May for $199  —  Shortly after bringing back the Pebble smart watch and launching a low-cost AI smart ring, Pebble is readying yet another new product: the Pebble Round 2.
Bill Allison / Bloomberg:
Filing: OpenAI President Greg Brockman was the biggest donor to Trump's super PAC in H2 2025, donating $25M; Crypto.com operator Foris DAX donated $20M  —  President Donald Trump's super political action committee raised $102 million in the second half of 2025, fueled by eight-figure donations …
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
xAI launches Grok Business, priced at $30 per seat/month, for SMBs, and Grok Enterprise, whose price is not listed publicly, for larger organizations  —  xAI has launched Grok Business and Grok Enterprise, positioning its flagship AI assistant as a secure, team-ready platform for organizational use.
Dylan Patel / SemiAnalysis:
A deep dive into co-packaged optics, long promised to transform data center connectivity, covering benefits, challenges, architecture, key companies, and more  —  Scale-out and Scale-up CPO, CPO TCO and Power Budgets, DSP Transceivers vs LPO vs NPO vs CPO, TSMC COUPE, MZM vs MRM vs EAM Modulator Deep Dive …
Melissa Heikkilä / Financial Times:
Yann LeCun admits that Llama 4's “results were fudged a little bit”, and that the team used different models for different benchmarks to give better results  —  The AI pioneer on stepping down from Meta, the limits of large language models — and the launch of his new start-up

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