SpaceX acquires xAI in landmark deal as Elon Musk merges tech giants for AI and space dominanceSpaceX has acquired AI startup xAI, merging two of Elon Musk's ventures into the world's most valuable private company. This strategic move...
03 Feb, 2026, 07.29 AM IST
Elon Musk’s AI-generated Sydney Sweeney post goes viral — here’s why everyone’s talkingElon Musk sparked fresh controversy after sharing a short AI-generated clip resembling Sydney Sweeney to promote updates to xAI’s Grok Imag...
29 Jan, 2026, 06.01 PM IST
Musk's chatbot flooded X with millions of sexualised images in days, new estimates showElon Musk's AI chatbot, Grok, created and shared over 1.8 million sexualized images of women and children. This surge of disturbing content...
22 Jan, 2026, 06.44 PM IST
Elon Musk's X restricts ability to create explicit images with GrokThe move comes amid global outrage over explicit, AI-generated images that have flooded X. In the last week, regulators around the world ha...
22 Jan, 2026, 08.47 AM IST
xAI sued over non-consensual deepfake images of Ashley St Clair, mother of Elon Musk’s childAshley St Clair, the mother of one of Elon Musk’s children, on Thursday sued his artificial intelligence (AI) company, xAI, alleging that i...
16 Jan, 2026, 01.43 PM IST
X revises developer API policies, bans ‘InfoFi’ apps to tackle bot spamConfirming the development, X’s head of product Nikita Bier said apps that financially reward users for posting on X will no longer be perm...
15 Jan, 2026, 10.28 PM IST
Musk's X announces measures to bar Grok from undressing images after global backlashElon Musk's platform X on Wednesday announced measures to prevent its AI chatbot Grok from undressing images of real people, following glob...
15 Jan, 2026, 08.15 AM IST
California to investigate xAI over Grok chatbot images, officials sayEarly this year, hyper-realistic images of women processed to look like they were in microscopic bikinis, in degrading poses, or covered in...
15 Jan, 2026, 07.40 AM IST
California to investigate xAI over deepfake content, officials sayCalifornia officials said they were demanding answers from Elon Musk's xAI amid the spread of non-consensual sexual images on the platform...
14 Jan, 2026, 11.22 PM IST
Beyond 1 crore WhatsApp bans; Oyo's third attempt at IPOThe government wants to know more about accounts banned by WhatsApp in India. This and more in today’s ETtech Top 5.
23 Dec, 2025, 07.23 PM IST
New York Times reporter sues Google, xAI, OpenAI over chatbot trainingInvestigative journalist John Carreyrou has sued major AI companies, alleging they used copyrighted books without permission to train chatb...
23 Dec, 2025, 09.28 AM IST
OpenAI may move forward with new business structure, partnership with Microsoft, regulators sayOpenAI has changed its ownership structure and become a public benefit corporation. This move allows the ChatGPT maker to profit more from ...
29 Oct, 2025, 08.43 AM IST
Google, Meta, OpenAI face FTC inquiry on chatbot impact on kidsThe antitrust and consumer protection agency said Thursday that it sent the orders to gather information to study how firms measure, test a...
11 Sep, 2025, 10.48 PM IST
Meta created flirty chatbots of Taylor Swift, other celebrities without permissionMeta has been found to have used celebrities' names and likenesses, including Taylor Swift and Scarlett Johansson, to create flirty chatbot...
30 Aug, 2025, 10.24 AM IST
Ex-OpenAI workers seek stay on for-profit conversion of ChatGPT makerFormer OpenAI employees, backed by Nobel laureates, are urging California and Delaware's attorneys generals to block the company's shift to...
23 Apr, 2025, 02.42 PM IST
US FTC weighs in on Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAIThe US Federal Trade Commission, while it did not support either side, pointed out the legalities that could potentially support Elon Musk'...
11 Jan, 2025, 05.45 PM IST
AI's latest challenge: the math olympicsOver the past few years, Google DeepMind has pursued a number of projects investigating the application of AI to mathematics. And more broa...
18 Jan, 2024, 02.14 PM IST