Musk denies awareness of Grok sexual underage images as California AG launches probe

The California attorney general has opened a formal investigation into Elon Musk’s xAI after its chatbot Grok began generating nonconsensual sexual images of real women and even children.

OpenAI signs deal, worth $10B, for compute from Cerebras

The collaboration will help OpenAI’s models deliver faster response times for more difficult or time-consuming tasks, the companies said.

AI models are starting to crack high-level math problems 

Since the release of GPT 5.2, AI tools have become inescapable in high-level mathematics.

Google’s Trends Explore page gets new Gemini capabilities 

The Trends Explore page for users to analyze search interest just got a major upgrade. It now uses Gemini to identify and compare relevant trends.

Gemini is winning
Gemini is winning

If you want to win in AI – and I mean win in the biggest, most lucrative, most shape-the-world-in-your-image kind of way – you have to do a bunch of hard things simultaneously. You need to have a model that is unquestionably one of the best on the market. You need the nearly infinite resources […]

X hasn’t really stopped Grok AI from undressing women in the UK
X hasn’t really stopped Grok AI from undressing women in the UK

Elon Musk’s X is trying to stop people using its AI chatbot Grok to undress women amid intensifying outrage and legal scrutiny over the deluge of nonconsensual sexual deepfakes flooding the site. It’s not trying very hard: it took us less than a minute to get around its latest attempt to rein in the chatbot. […]

Robotics software maker Skild AI hits $14B valuation

Skild AI, which is building general-purpose robotic software, just raised a $1.4 billion funding round led by SoftBank.

Gemini just got scarily smart for you where Apple’s Siri dream failed

This new avatar of Gemini means smaller prompts and more personalized answers. Instead of typing an allergy exclusion like “exclude pine nuts,” Gemini automatically handles it using data from your connected Google products. Everything is going to be hy…

Gemini’s new beta feature provides proactive responses based on your photos, emails, and more

Personal Intelligence is off by default, as users have the option to choose if and when they want to connect their Google apps to Gemini.

Google’s Gemini AI will use what it knows about you from Gmail, Search, and YouTube
Google’s Gemini AI will use what it knows about you from Gmail, Search, and YouTube

Google’s Gemini AI is getting what could prove to be a very big upgrade: To help answers from Gemini be more personalized, the company is going to let you connect the chatbot to Gmail, Google Photos, Search, and your YouTube history to provide what Google is calling “Personal Intelligence.” This isn’t the first time Google […]