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California attorney general investigates Musk’s Grok AI over lewd fake images

AI tool made by Elon Musk’s xAI makes it easy to harass women with deepfake images, says state’s top attorney

51-year-old quit policy career to start a business—now the wealthy buy $175,000 'protection dogs' from her

Svalinn breeds, trains and sells family protection dogs. Co-founder Kim Greene quit her previous career in international policy to start the business.

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Elon Musk’s stubborn spin on Grok’s sexualized images controversy

Musk attempts to recast AI tool’s misuse. Plus, tech billionaires plot against a proposed California tax on their fortunes

A construction crane falls onto a moving train in Thailand, killing at least 32 people

NAKHON RATCHASIMA, Thailand (AP) — A construction crane crashed onto a moving passenger train in northeastern Thailand on Wednesday, triggering a derailment that killed at least 32 people and injured dozens more.

Elon Musk's xAI probed by California DOJ over Grok's deepfake explicit images

Musk's Grok AI chatbot faces investigations from India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Ireland, Australia as well.

Google launches Personal Intelligence feature in Gemini app, challenging Apple Intelligence

Google has been bolstering its AI offerings as it takes on OpenAI, and is now going directly at Apple.

White House approves Nvidia chip sales to China despite bipartisan concern

President Donald Trump greenlit U.S. tech giant Nvidia to sell critical chips to Chinese vendors, despite warnings from experts that it would narrow the country’s lead in the artificial intelligence arms race.

Erotic gay smash Heated Rivalry is a well-timed defense of intimacy coordinators

The small screen phenomenon, and its publicized use of intimacy coordinators, has arrived as established Hollywood names have started to criticize the role

Musk claims he was unaware of Grok generating explicit images of minors

AI tool faces growing global scrutiny over the spread of nonconsensual sexual images of women and minors on X

Sex, drugs and sugar babies: first trailer for Euphoria season three drops

Sam Levinson’s hit HBO drama series returns in April with Zendaya, Sydney Sweeney and Jacob Elordi returning

He lived in a cage, jumped from a window and spent a year roped to a friend: is Tehching Hsieh the most extreme performance artist ever?

He has broken his ankles, endured 365 days in a cell and faced down the 20th century’s worst winter. Yet he says he is not a masochist. We meet the man Marina Abramovich calls ‘the master’