In August, X, the social media company once known as Twitter, publicly released Grok 2, the latest iteration of its AI chatbot. With limited guardrails, Grok has been responsible for pushing misinformation about elections and allowing users to make life-like artificial intelligence-generated images – otherwise known as deepfakes – of…
US Commerce Department says curbs follow consultation with international partners. The United States has rolled out fresh export controls on quantum computers and semiconductor-manufacturing equipment amid concerns about the use of advanced technologies by rivals such as China. The US Department of Commerce said on Thursday that the export restrictions…
Tech founder says French authorities are putting innovation at risk in first public comments since his detention. Telegram CEO Pavel Durov has criticised French authorities for pursuing “misguided” criminal charges against him instead of approaching his company with their concerns in his first public comments since his arrest. In a…
Russia and Elon Musk condemn the action against the Russian-born co-founder of the messaging app. The CEO of Telegram, Pavel Durov, is being held by French police. The detention of the Russian-born billionaire has been condemned by Moscow and Elon Musk, the owner of social media platform X. Why is…
US tech company says it will continue case against Lynch’s estate following his death in a yacht wreck off Sicily. Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has confirmed that it will pursue $4bn in damages against the estate of tech mogul Mike Lynch following his death in a yacht wreck off the…
Site failed to comply with court order to block accounts linked to disinformation. Social media giant X has been banned in Brazil. It is the latest development in a months-long dispute between a Supreme Court judge and tech billionaire Elon Musk over censorship and disinformation. Brazil isn’t the first country…
Kandabari, India – On a sunny morning in Kandabari village in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh, a group of students is learning to code in a classroom. Kriti Kumari, 19, is one of 31 women at the Sapna Center, which trains rural women from marginalised backgrounds and requires…
The judge has ordered the full and immediate suspension of X in the country until all related court orders on X are complied with. A Brazilian Supreme Court justice ordered on Friday the “immediate suspension” of social media platform X in the country after a court-imposed deadline expired for the…
At issue is whether de Moraes can order the social network to block certain accounts, a request that Musk denounces as censorship. Brazilian Supreme Court judge Alexandre de Moraes has moved to block the financial accounts of billionaire Elon Musk’s Starlink as an ongoing feud leaves his social media platform…
Investigating judge ends Durov’s police custody and will have him brought to court, Paris prosecutor’s office says. Russian-born Telegram boss Pavel Durov has been sent to see a French investigative judge who is due to decide whether to place him under formal investigation after his arrest as part of a…
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