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Three Tennessee teenagers launched a lawsuit today against Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok for allegedly generating sexually explicit deepfake images of them without their consent. Earlier this year, X Corp. met with widespread criticism after reports emerged saying there had been a …
Grammarly shuts down ‘Expert Review’ after pushback from the real experts
After lighting the ire of journalists, academics, and authors this week, Superhuman Platform Inc. this week pulled a feature from Grammarly that impersonated writers. The “Expert Review” let users of Grammarly improve their writing by selecting from a roster of “leading professionals, …
Meta told by Oversight Board better moderation is needed for AI-generated deepfakes
Meta Platforms Inc. has been warned by its Oversight Board that it needs to do a lot more about the “proliferation” of deepfake videos shared on its platforms made by artificial intelligence tools. The 21-person board told the company today that its current …
Anthropic launches tool to monitor jobs lost to AI systems
Anthropic PBC today announced it has introduced a detection tool that measures artificial intelligence’s displacement of jobs. The forecasts so far of what AI will do to the labor force have ranged from dystopian to mild. No one knows what will happen, …
Google responds to lawsuit alleging Gemini coached a man to kill himself
The father of a man who committed suicide after interactions with Google LLC’s Gemini chatbot launched a lawsuit today alleging that Gemini fueled his son’s delusions. Thirty-six-year-old Florida resident Jonathan Gavalas started using Gemini last year for help with writing and shopping. …
Anthropic makes switching from competitors easier with new transfer memory tool
As Anthropic PBC’s Claude chatbot moves to the top of the app charts after a spat with the Trump administration, the company has introduced a memory import feature that will allow new customers to import their conversations from rival chatbots and start …
Netflix backs out of Warner Bros. bidding war after Paramount raises offer
Video streaming giant Netflix Inc. today said it won’t be raising its offer to take over Warner Bros Discovery Inc. after Paramount Skydance Corp. stepped in with a larger bid. Netflix agreed in December to purchase a stake in Warner Bros. Discovery …
New York reverses plans to allow robotaxis in major blow to Waymo
New York Governor Kathy Hochul today pulled a proposal that could have seen the state flooded with robotaxis. The proposal, which would have allowed driverless taxis in cities other than New York City, was dropped after not receiving support from state legislators. …
Spain launches probe into social media giants as European regulation starts to boil
Spanish authorities will investigate the social media companies Meta Platforms Inc., X Corp. and TikTok to determine if they’ve spread child sexual abuse material generated by artificial intelligence. The investigation follows a broader push by European countries to regulate what has often …
OpenAI researcher quits over slippery slope of ChatGPT ads
OpenAI researcher Zoë Hitzig says she left her position on Monday, resigning over the recent introduction of advertisements inside ChatGPT and what she believes is a move in the wrong direction for the company. In a guest essay in The New York …