
xAI, owned by Elon Musk, is suing Terry Wayne Harwood for using its Grok AI chatbot to generate child sexual abuse material, alleging he violated the company’s policies by bypassing safeguards. Harwood is facing eight felony charges, and xAI seeks legal damages and a court order to prevent him from using Grok. The lawsuit follows a prior case against xAI by a group of teens, and xAI claims the incident exposed it to legal and reputational risks.
Imagine a trio of bumbling, English lads who fantasize about becoming megastars while knocking back a few pints in a grimy pub somewhere in London. Picture the guys chortling and trying to one-up each other's idealized visions of the future with a series of increasingly glitzy fantasies in which their fame leads to access to […]

Today on Decoder, I’m talking with Hayden Field, The Verge’s senior AI reporter, about a question that’s been rocketing around the tech industry for the past week: Is Google losing the AI race? That’s because last week Google announced a bombshell reorganization of its AI division, Google DeepMind. Jeff Dean, the company’s chief scientist, is […]

Microsoft is finally beginning to combine its consumer and commercial Copilot AI assistants into a single "super app" interface, starting with the Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot apps. Both personal and work accounts will be moved to the new unified app, which recycles the "Microsoft Copilot" name but features an updated app icon. The single […]
