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Elon Musk is combining SpaceX with his artificial intelligence startup xAI as the merged entity prepares for a massive IPO that could value the combined company at $1.25 trillion.

Nvidia has not received any orders from Chinese customers for its H200 AI chips as Beijing continues to deliberate on whether to permit imports of the American company’s components, according to CEO Jensen Huang.

Amazon has reported finding hundreds of thousands of pieces of suspected child sexual abuse material in data collected for training its AI models last year, though the company has provided limited information about the material’s origins to child safety officials.

Dow is cutting 4,500 employees as part of a cost-saving program that will lean on AI to increase productivity and bolster shareholder returns.

Amazon announced Wednesday it will eliminate 16,000 corporate positions as part of an organizational restructuring aimed at reducing management layers and streamlining operations.

Tech giants Apple and Google are offering numerous AI-powered applications on their app stores that can generate non-consensual nude images from ordinary photographs, according to a new report from industry watchdog Tech Transparency Project. The report comes after a global scandal erupted at Elon Musk’s Grok AI generated sexual deepfakes of women and children and posting them on X.

The European Commission has initiated a formal investigation into Elon Musk’s social media platform X over the scandal centering on its Grok AI generating sexualized deepfake images of women and children.

Tony- and Oscar-winning actress and singer Liza Minnelli said she used artificial intelligence to create original music.

Actors Scarlett Johansson, Cate Blanchett, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt are reportedly among 700 supporters of a new anti-AI campaign.

Hollywood star Chris Pratt says AI “will not replace God,” but he is worried about the effect it might have on kids.

A group of job applicants has filed a lawsuit claiming that AI screening tools used in hiring should be subject to the same disclosure requirements as credit reporting agencies. Just as credit bureaus must give consumers the ability to dispute inaccurate information, the lawsuit states that job seekers should have the right to correct AI screening software.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang believes that the AI boom will generate high-paying positions for skilled trade workers constructing chip manufacturing plants, data centers, and related facilities.

There is little need for large-scale migration into the U.S. economy while productivity is being turbocharged by artificial intelligence, according to Larry Karp, CEO of the fast-growing Palantir Technologies.

Chris Pratt says he is not worried about AI-generated actress Tilly Norwood. “I don’t know who this bitch is,” the “Guardians of the Galaxy” star said, calling the entertainment industry’s fear that artificial intelligence will end up replacing actors “all bullshit.”

Salesforce Chief Executive Officer Marc Benioff is demanding government regulation of artificial intelligence technology after multiple documented suicide cases were connected to AI systems. In an interview, Benioff explained, “This year, you really saw something pretty horrific, which is these AI models became suicide coaches.”

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is preparing to travel to China in advance of the Lunar New Year holiday as the company works to expand access for its AI processors in the communist country.

First Lady Melania Trump marked the one-year anniversary of her return to the White House on Tuesday by sharing a personal reflection on the significance of her position and the aspirations guiding her work.

The far-left Omidyar Network, bankrolled by eBay billionaire Pierre Omidyar, has rolled out its latest cohort of so-called “reporters in residence.” These journalists, funded directly through the organization’s LLC, are tasked with covering emerging technologies — with a heavy focus on AI.

Dario Amodei, the CEO of AI giant Anthropic, strongly opposes the United States’ decision to permit the sale of advanced AI chips to China, calling the move a serious national security mistake.

British police forces are planning to trial Artificial Intelligence schemes to predict and target potential criminals before an offence has been committed.

Elon Musk has requested damages ranging from $79 billion to $134 billion from OpenAI and Microsoft in a lawsuit alleging that Sam Altman’s AI startup defrauded him by abandoning its nonprofit mission.

Elon Musk’s xAI is still permitting users to create and post highly sexualized pictures and videos of real women generated through its AI tool Grok, despite recent company claims of implementing stricter content controls.

Chief Constable walks away with pension amid a roaring scandal over Israeli football fans, A.I. hallucinations, and Islamic extremism.

Actor Matthew McConaughey has taken a stand against artificial intelligence by trademarking himself so he has recourse to sue deepfake makers.

Tech Tycoon Elon Musk has declared that traditional retirement planning is obsolete due to coming technological advances he believes will eliminate scarcity. Musk says, “Don’t worry about squirreling money away for retirement in 10 or 20 years. It won’t matter.”

Ashley St. Clair, the mother of one of Elon Musk’s sons, has filed a lawsuit against the tech giant’s social media platform, X, over the prevalence of sexually explicit AI deepfakes of herself and of children.

A senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) has raised concerns about OpenAI’s financial sustainability, predicting the AI startup could deplete its capital reserves within the next year and a half, at which point it would be swallowed by another tech giant.

Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot will no longer allow users to sexualize images of real people by portraying their targets in revealing clothing, the company announced Wednesday evening, following global criticism over the tool’s usage as a “nudify” app to portray women and even children in sexual situations.

SAG-AFTRA union leader Duncan Crabtree-Ireland warned that the union has no problem going back on strike if they don’t reach their demands.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is moving forward with plans to reduce its Reality Labs division workforce by approximately 10 percent, affecting more than 1,000 employees in the unit responsible for developing the company’s virtual reality and Metaverse products.

President Donald Trump announced on Monday that Microsoft will introduce significant changes to prevent American consumers from facing increased utility bills resulting from the company’s data center construction for AI operations. The President wrote that tech giants must “pay their own way” to power their data centers.

A senior State Department diplomatic official has indicated that Washington may take retaliatory action if British regulators move forward with potential plans to ban Elon Musk’s social media platform X.

Dina Powell McCormick has been named president and vice-chairman of Meta, a move celebrated by President Donald Trump and her husband, Senator Dave McCormick.

An investigation has revealed that Google’s “AI Overview,” found at the top of most searches, provided users with false and potentially harmful medical information when they searched for health-related information like what the results of a liver function test meant. The search giant has scrubbed AI Overviews off the web in the cases of medical misinformation researchers uncovered.

British broadcasting regulator Ofcom announced Monday that it has launched a formal investigation into Elon Musk’s X social media platform over its Grok AI being used to create ‘deepfake’ sexualised images.