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Facing mounting pressure to acknowledge that Grok can still be used to generate non-consensual sexualized images of adults and minors, xAI filed a lawsuit Tuesday, suing the first user that Elon Musk’s firm has accused of using its chatbot to create illegal content. The complaint

Thousands of unionized Hyundai auto workers began walking off the job early after negotiations with the South Korean automaker broke down over plans to deploy humanoid robots—the most significant pushback from organized labor so far over the latest wave of robotic automation. The

Ryan Beiermeister has joined Founders Fund as a partner, she announced on Monday. Beiermeister is well-known in Silicon Valley for a number of reasons. For one, prior to this role, she spent about two years as VP of Product Policy at OpenAI as it became a household name, shortly

Two different reads on the housing market released Thursday point to the same problem, one that appears to be getting worse. Housing is just too expensive — to own and to build. Pending home sales in June, a measure of signed contracts on existing homes, fell 5.4% from May, accor

Kalshi is a high-tech prediction market that allows people to “forecast the future” (their term). It is about contracts and information, the company says, making its offerings more like a soybean futures contract than a round of blackjack or a pull on the one-armed bandit. Still,

Some England players disappointed by tactics as Tuchel questions team's DNA - Published England's defensive retreat in their agonising World Cup semi-final 2-1 loss to Argentina on Wednesday has become the big talking point – and that topic is also being hotly debated among membe

For year after year, more Americans have bought Toyota RAV4s than anything that isn’t a pickup truck. The brand’s reputation for solid reliability has kept it ahead of SUVs from other automakers, and the nation’s embrace of SUVs and crossovers relegated the poor old Camry to near

Artificial Intelligence Introducing Grok on Amazon Bedrock This post is co-written with Eric Jiang from xAI (SpaceXAI). xAI’s Grok 4.3 is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock, giving teams that build agents and AI workflows a model that reasons reliably over long inputs. Wit

One of the Russian government’s most elite hacking groups has adopted an attack, known as Clickfix, to compromise devices belonging to sensitive organizations in Ukraine, the latter country’s CERT center is warning. Clickfix has emerged as an effective attack technique that attac

The widespread introduction of AI-powered coding tools has led to some dramatic splits between those integrating those tools into their workflows and anti-AI absolutists who don’t want large language model-generated code anywhere near their projects. When it comes to the Linux ke

Middle East oil producers plan to build new pipelines to reduce their dependence on the Strait of Hormuz, as Iran disrupts the Gulf states' seaborne crude exports with near daily attacks on tankers. But new pipelines will not end the threat to the region's energy exports, analyst

Alphabet shares sank 4% on Thursday following a report that the company has delayed releasing its flagship artificial intelligence model. The search giant's Gemini 3.5 Pro AI model is months behind schedule due to the company's efforts to improve its performance, according to Blo

Alphabet shares sank 4% on Thursday following a report that the company has delayed releasing its flagship artificial intelligence model. The search giant's Gemini 3.5 Pro AI model is months behind schedule due to the company's efforts to improve its performance, according to Blo

Off the Wire Press Releases July 16, 2026 — The University of Toronto (U of T) is advancing its commitment to responsible artificial intelligence adoption at scale through an ambitious multi-year partnership with Cohere, a Canadian-founded, Toronto-based global leader in sovereig

Google is a Leader and positioned furthest in Vision and highest in Execution in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Conversational AI Platforms Ali Rana Director of Product Management, Applied AI For the second consecutive year, Google has been named a Leader in the Gartner® M

Off the Wire Press Releases WASHINGTON, July 16, 2026 — Today, the White House and the Department of Commerce announced an incremental $100 billion investment by TSMC for advanced semiconductor manufacturing and packaging facilities in Arizona. With the additional facilities, TSM

Dallas Federal Reserve President Lorie Logan, asserting that this week's good inflation news wasn't good enough, called Thursday for "modestly" higher interest rates to win a battle the central bank has been losing for the past five years. A voting member this year on the rate-se

Off the Wire Press Releases ST. PAUL, Minn. and REDMOND, Wash., July 16, 2026 — 3M and Microsoft have announced a strategic partnership focused on AI data center infrastructure and enterprise transformation. Microsoft’s Azure cloud and AI infrastructure will become the first anno

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The company behind social-media network Truth Social is launching a service that will give paying customers interested in market-moving information "licensed, real-time access" to posts from President Donald Trump and other top accounts, the company said Thursday. Trump's family

Off the Wire Press Releases TOKYO, July 16, 2026 — NVIDIA has announced that leading Japanese enterprises, startups and research institutions are building industry-specialized AI models and applications with NVIDIA Nemotron open models, data and libraries, accelerating the develo

OpenAI’s Sora may have shut down, but Google apparently thinks there’s still interest in a tool that lets you star in your own AI videos. On Thursday, the tech giant announced an update to Google Vids that will allow you to create a custom digital avatar that looks and sounds lik