5 place 0 fresh

35 xAI sues a man for using Grok to generate CSAM ‘deepfakes’

The Verge
Emma Roth @ The Verge · today 17:33 EDT

xAI sues a man for using Grok to generate CSAM ‘deepfakes’

The Elon Musk-owned xAI is suing a South Carolina man who allegedly used the company's Grok AI chatbot to generate child sexual abuse material (CSAM). In a lawsuit reported earlier by Reuters, xAI claims Terry Wayne Harwood "knowingly and intentionally used Grok to circumvent safeguards, alter nonconsensual images, and generate and distribute CSAM," breaching the […]

To see detailed statistics for the news please log in »

Read the original

Add your comment
You must be logged in with Facebook to read and write comments.

A newsletter a day!

You may get 10 most important news around midday in daily newsletter. Press the button and we will send you the most important news only, no spam attached.

or register

LIKE us on Facebook so you won't miss the most important news of the day!

News from the same source
The Verge The Verge
Silicon Valley
George Avalos @ Silicon Valley 1 place · 02/07/2106 01:28 EDT

Newark apartment complex bought for much less than prior value

An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more

0

🔮
15.07.2026 ♉︎ Dear Taurus, today is expected to be a very ambiguous and насыщенный day that will... Read more ›
Silicon Valley
George Avalos @ Silicon Valley 2 place · 02/07/2106 01:28 EDT

PG&E buys San Jose building to bolster South Bay operations

A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more

0

The Information
Phoebe Liu @ The Information 1 place · today 19:01 EDT

Nvidia on Wednesday released a new small, open-source model for “physical” AI that operates in the real world, including for robots. The model, Cosmos 3 Edge, is just 4 billion parameters and can run on a customer’s own computer rather than in a data center. It can act as both a so-called vision ... Read more

0 newcommer

Slashdot
BeauHD @ Slashdot 1 place · today 19:00 EDT

Book Publishers Sue Google For Copyright Infringement Over Gemini AI Training

Major publishers Hachette, Cengage, Elsevier, and author Scott Turow have sued Google, accusing it of using millions of copyrighted books to train Gemini without permission or payment, in "one of the most prolific infringements of copyrighted materials in history." The Guardian reports: The publishers argue that Google repurposed books that had been supplied for limited services such as Google Books, Google Play Books and Google Scholar. Those services allowed Google... Read more

0 newcommer

TechRadar
TechRadar 1 place · today 19:00 EDT

NYT Strands hints and answers for Thursday, July 16 (game #865)

Looking for NYT Strands answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, including the spangram. Read more

0 newcommer

TechRadar
TechRadar 2 place · today 19:00 EDT

Quordle hints and answers for Thursday, July 16 (game #1634)

Looking for Quordle clues? We can help. Plus get the answers to Quordle today and past solutions. Read more

0 newcommer

Gizmodo
Webb Wright @ Gizmodo 1 place · today 19:00 EDT

China Just Performed the World’s First Implant of a Commercial Brain-Computer Interface

The device, called NEO, records neuronal activity and translates it to movements made a metal glove worn by a patient. Read more

0 newcommer

TechRadar
TechRadar 3 place · today 19:00 EDT

NYT Connections hints and answers for Thursday, July 16 (game #1131)

Looking for NYT Connections answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, plus my commentary on the puzzles. Read more

0 newcommer

Startups News
Daniel Levi @ Startups News 1 place · today 18:59 EDT

Thinking Machines launches Inkling, a powerful open-weights AI model that challenges Kimi and Nemotron

Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati’s AI startup, Thinking Machines Lab, has entered the race for open AI models with a release that is already drawing attention across the developer community. The company on Tuesday introduced Inkling, its first open-weights foundation ... Read more

0 newcommer

Skift
Adriana Lee @ Skift 1 place · today 18:52 EDT

JetBlue Ties Loyalty Points to Flight Financing

The airline's frequent flyer program was built to reward spending. JetBlue is using it as a pipeline to finance spending — and letting customers earn points for the privilege of paying interest. Read more

0 fresh

The Verge
Brad Bourque @ The Verge 1 place · today 18:47 EDT

HP’s OLED-equipped 2-in-1 laptop is a solid back-to-school deal

With storage and memory prices still at an all-time high, we’re happy to tell you about a solid deal on a good laptop when we find one, rare as they are. Best Buy is selling the HP OmniBook X Flip 2 in 1 for $999.99 (usually $1,649.99) with an Intel Core 7 Ultra CPU, 16GB […] Read more

0 fresh

Vox
Andrew Prokop @ Vox 1 place · today 18:45 EDT

A tale of two Trump flip-flops

This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: Remember the policy changes we wrote about in this newsletter on Monday and Tuesday? Neither lasted more than 24 hours — both fell victim to […] Read more

0 fresh

Skift
Sean O'Neill @ Skift 2 place · today 18:44 EDT

Travel + Leisure Buys Into Maui and Hilton Head in $343 Million Deal

The timeshare secret runs best on people who already said yes. So when it gets harder to land first-time buyers, buy someone else's customers. Read more

0 fresh

Digital Trends
Manisha Priyadarshini @ Digital Trends 1 place · today 18:41 EDT

Hate editing videos? This new AI app turns your camera roll into ready-to-post reels

Reelful is an AI app that builds finished reels from your photos and clips, complete with voiceovers, captions, and music. Read more

0 fresh

The Verge
Stevie Bonifield @ The Verge 2 place · today 18:39 EDT

Apple’s reportedly raising the price for AppleCare Plus on new Macs and iPads

A new AppleCare Plus subscription for a Mac or iPad will cost more soon, with prices going up by $0.50 per month or $5 per year for new sign-ups, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. Gurman says that under the new AppleCare Plus pricing, "a plan for a new 13-inch MacBook Air increased to $7.99 from […] Read more

0 fresh

Business Insider
Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert @ Business Insider 1 place · today 18:31 EDT

Trump calls data centers 'money machines' and says New York is letting them slip away

Trump slams New York's pause on AI data center, warning it could drive investment to states like Texas, amid debates over the infrastructure's impact. Read more

0 fresh

VentureBeat
VentureBeat 1 place · today 18:24 EDT

Across 101 enterprises, agent orchestration is consolidating onto model-provider platforms — Anthropic’s Claude leads by a wide margin — chosen for the gravity of the underlying model and judged on reliable multi-step execution. But the ambition runs well ahead of the reality: most deployed “agents” are still chatbot wrappers, the control plane enterprises expect is deliberately hybrid to avoid lock-in, and real-time fiscal control over token burn remains the exception.This... Read more

0 fresh

MacRumors
Juli Clover @ MacRumors 1 place · today 18:20 EDT

Apple Closes Unlocked iPhone Loophole for T-Mobile and Verizon Financing

Carrier-financed iPhones purchased from Apple will soon be locked to the carrier, ending a workaround customers used to purchase an unlocked iPhone on a payment plan. Until the rule change, buying an iPhone from Apple and opting for financing through Verizon or T-Mobile meant you would get an iPhone not locked to either carrier's network. That's no longer the case, and now iPhones financed through Verizon or T-Mobile will not... Read more

0 fresh

Startups News
Nickie Louise @ Startups News 2 place · today 18:20 EDT

Venture capital & startup funding roundup, July 15, 2026: Accel, CRV, Greylock, Goldman Sachs, Khosla Ventures, M13, and Nava Ventures

It’s Wednesday, July 15, 2026, and the venture market did not broadly pour money into this cycle. It concentrated aggressively on software that turns AI from a demo into an operating system, on industrial bottlenecks that matter in the physical ... Read more

0 fresh

The Verge
Sean Hollister @ The Verge 3 place · today 18:16 EDT

Valve says iFixit will keep selling Steam Deck batteries after all

Valve has been incredibly friendly to customers who need repairs - which is why it was so surprising to hear that Valve was already discontinuing the battery for the Steam Deck LCD handheld. It would have meant you could no longer just buy a battery from iFixit and install it yourself. Why would Valve stop […] Read more

0 fresh

The most popular news from the same source for the last week
The Verge The Verge
The Verge
Thomas Ricker @ The Verge · 07/09/2026 07:51 EDT

SpaceX is on track for record-setting Starlink deployments

SpaceX is currently ahead of last year's record-setting pace for Starlink satellite deployments. SpaceX launched 1,589 Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit in the first half of 2026, according to launch data compiled by Jonathan McDowell's satellite tracker, compared to 1,489 satellites deployed at the same point in 2025. 2025 was already a record year for […] Read more

0

The Verge
Terrence O’Brien @ The Verge · 07/09/2026 09:00 EDT

FL Studio 2026 turns its AI chatbot into your assistant engineer

Last year, Image Line introduced Gopher for FL Studio, an AI chatbot that was basically a glorified instruction manual. You asked it how to do something, and it would serve up the relevant instructions. It's the kind of thing I actually use AI for on a semi-regular basis. But in the new release, Gopher can […] Read more

0

The Verge
Charles Pulliam-Moore @ The Verge · 07/09/2026 09:11 EDT

Character.AI wants a piece of the microdrama pie

Character.AI's plan to become more than just an LLM-powered chatbot platform is going beyond interactive books, comics, and audio dramas. Today, the company announced the debut of c.ai Series - short-form, episodic videos designed to be watched and interacted with - on your phone. Unlike traditional microdrama services that feature cheaply produced, live-action shows starring […] Read more

0

The Verge
Hayden Field @ The Verge · 07/09/2026 09:30 EDT

Say hello to Claude Wrapped

The popularity of Spotify Wrapped has kicked off a wide range of year-in-review features, on apps from YouTube to Uber - and now, the lookback trend has come to AI. Anthropic on Thursday announced a "reflect" feature for its Claude chatbot, allowing users to see an analysis of their usage data over the past month, […] Read more

0

The Verge
Gaby Del Valle @ The Verge · 07/09/2026 09:45 EDT

ICE agents are making house calls for online critics

A few hours after checking into a hotel in New York City, David Streever woke up to a call from the front desk saying someone was looking for him. Streever had just landed on a return trip from Finland, where he'd vacationed with his daughter. Though Streever didn't know it yet, while he'd been away, […] Read more

0

The Verge
Antonio G. Di Benedetto @ The Verge · 07/09/2026 10:00 EDT

Sony brings back the superzoom RX10 with a stacked sensor and a high price

Sony is bringing back the RX10 superzoom camera after a nearly nine-year gap between models. The newly announced RX10 V retains the same 24-600mm equivalent f/2.4-4 Zeiss Vario-Sonnar 25x zoom lens of its last two predecessors, but it has lots of upgrades elsewhere. The new 20.1-megapixel 1-inch-type sensor is a stacked design, allowing up to […] Read more

0

The Verge
Dominic Preston @ The Verge · 07/09/2026 10:00 EDT

Meta says its new AI model is ready to compete on coding

After reentering the AI race with its first in-house Muse Spark model in April, Meta is now opening up the doors to developers with a new model that can plug into AI coding software with the new Meta Model API. Meta says that Muse Spark 1.1 is a "step-change" from the first generation, with improvements […] Read more

0

The Verge
Nilay Patel @ The Verge · 07/09/2026 10:00 EDT

Comcast is breaking up with NBCU. Why did it ever buy it in the first place?

Today on Decoder, I’m talking with Peter Kafka, who is chief correspondent at Business Insider and host of Channels, a podcast about the media industry. And it’s a big week for the media industry — Comcast just announced that it’s splitting itself up, into the Comcast broadband company and the NBCUniversal entertainment company. That’s after […] Read more

0

The Verge
Andrew Liszewski @ The Verge · 07/09/2026 10:11 EDT

The PocketMage resurrects the PDA with an e-paper screen

Personal digital assistants like the iconic Palm Pilot were one of many devices we thought went extinct with the arrival of the smartphone. But similar to Canon resurrecting a nearly decade old digital camera to appeal to point-and-shoot fans, Talisman Design is crowdfunding a clamshell PDA called the PocketMage that combines a tactile keyboard with […] Read more

0

The Verge
Brad Bourque @ The Verge · 07/09/2026 10:30 EDT

Sonos Ace wireless headphones are steeply discounted

If you’re looking for a discount on a great pair of active noise-canceling headphones for your summer adventures (even if they’re indoors), you’re in luck. The Sonos Ace headphones in black are currently on sale for $279 (usually $399) at a variety of retailers, including Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart, and directly from Sonos. Weirdly, the […] Read more

0

Most popular sources

  • You see 902 news out of 902.
  • Sources 61 out of 61.
Tech Wire Asia 0%
ReadWrite 0%
ScienceDaily 0%
ArcticStartup 0%
Irish Tech News 0%
View sources »

LIKE us on Facebook so you won't miss the most important news of the day!

15.07.2026 19:19
Last update: 19:10 EDT.
News rating updated: 02:11.

What is Times42?

Times42 brings you the most popular news from tech news portals in real-time chart.
Read about us in FAQ section.


Times42 © 2026