Elon Musk defends AI ambitions as IPO reveals troubleElon Musk insists that his artificial intelligence venture xAI remains a serious competitor, pushing back against mounting doubts after rev...
28 May, 2026, 11.26 PM IST
Big Donald Trump order on AI, cybersecurity coming soon as White House begins crackdown on deepfakesDonald Trump on AI: This comes as the United States on Tuesday began enforcing a law requiring tech platforms to remove deepfakes and other...
20 May, 2026, 06.51 AM IST
French prosecutors summon Elon Musk over allegations of child abuse images and deepfakes on XElon Musk and former X CEO Linda Yaccarino have been summoned to Paris for "voluntary interviews" regarding allegations of child sexual abu...
20 Apr, 2026, 10.57 AM IST
French prosecutors summon Elon Musk over allegations of child abuse images, deepfakes on XElon Musk faces scrutiny in Paris. Investigators are probing allegations of misconduct on his social media platform X. This includes the sp...
20 Apr, 2026, 10.43 AM IST
Researchers unmask trade in nude images on TelegramCampaign group AI Forensics said it found almost 25,000 active users in a six-week study of Spanish and Italian groups who were sharing ima...
08 Apr, 2026, 06.04 PM IST
Baltimore sues Elon Musk's xAI over Grok sexual 'deepfakes'Musk launched Grok in 2023 and distributes it through his social media platform X, which like xAI is now part of his rocket and space expl...
25 Mar, 2026, 08.20 AM IST
French prosecutors suspect Musk encouraged deepfakes row to inflate X valueFrench prosecutors said Saturday they had alerted US authorities to a suspicion that tech tycoon Elon Musk had encouraged controversy over ...
22 Mar, 2026, 10.05 AM IST
Teenagers sue Elon Musk's xAI claiming image-generator made sexually explicit images of them as minorsThree teenagers from Tennessee are taking a stand against Elon Musk's xAI, filing suit over claims that the company's AI capabilities produ...
20 Mar, 2026, 09.52 AM IST
EU states back ban on AI generating sexualised deepfakesEU nations on Friday backed a ban on AI systems generating sexualised deepfakes, after an outcry over such images produced by Elon Musk's A...
13 Mar, 2026, 05.24 PM IST
California AG sends letter demanding xAI stop producing deekfake contentCalifornia Attorney General Robert Bonta on Friday sent a cease and desist letter to xAI demanding the company stop the creation and distr...
17 Jan, 2026, 07.06 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
Malaysia, Indonesia become first to block Musk's Grok over AI deepfakesThe moves reflect growing global concern over generative AI tools that can produce realistic images, sound and text, while existing safegua...
12 Jan, 2026, 11.50 AM IST
Democratic senators demand Apple, Google take X and Grok off app stores over sexual images: ReportThree Democratic US senators are calling on Apple and Alphabet's Google to remove X and Grok from their respective app stores over the spr...
10 Jan, 2026, 04.09 PM IST
Grok limits image generation to paid users; not enough, says govtMeitY's concernThe issue will remain if X continues to allow the generation, hosting, uploading or sharing of obscene and illegal content t...
10 Jan, 2026, 10.07 AM IST
UK tells Musk to urgently address intimate 'deepfakes' on XBritain has urged Elon Musk's social media site X to urgently address misuse of its artificial intelligence tool Grok, Sky News reported o...
06 Jan, 2026, 09.31 PM IST
ET Explainer: What is Trump's Take it Down Act to tackle ‘revenge porn’President Trump has signed the Take it Down Act, a federal law criminalising the publication of non-consensual intimate images, including d...
23 May, 2025, 06.00 AM IST
Deepfake explicit images of Taylor Swift spread on social media: Swifties are fighting backSwift's ardent fanbase of "Swifties" quickly mobilised, launching a counteroffensive on the platform formerly known as Twitter and a #Prote...
27 Jan, 2024, 12.21 PM IST