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Elon Musk’s xAI is still permitting users to create and post highly sexualized pictures and videos of real women generated through its AI tool Grok, despite recent company claims of implementing stricter content controls.

A shortage of memory chips has placed significant financial pressure on major technology hardware companies, forcing them to choose between reduced profit margins or increasing their prices for consumers.

Australian Communications Minister Anika Wells said on Friday that some 4.7 million social media accounts have been shut down since her country’s ban on social media for children under 16 went into effect in December.

Rockstar Games has banned player-created “missions” in its Grand Theft Auto Online game that recreated the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk. The company also reportedly added “Charlie Kirk” to a filter used for flagging prohibited content.

Actor Matthew McConaughey has taken a stand against artificial intelligence by trademarking himself so he has recourse to sue deepfake makers.

Ford CEO Jim Farley has provided an update on the automaker’s ambitious electric vehicle platform project, comparing the undertaking to historic space exploration programs while confirming that prototype vehicles are now operational. Ford recently took a historic $19.5 billion write down related to electric cars, signaling its retreat from EVs.

Tech Tycoon Elon Musk has declared that traditional retirement planning is obsolete due to coming technological advances he believes will eliminate scarcity. Musk says, “Don’t worry about squirreling money away for retirement in 10 or 20 years. It won’t matter.”

Ashley St. Clair, the mother of one of Elon Musk’s sons, has filed a lawsuit against the tech giant’s social media platform, X, over the prevalence of sexually explicit AI deepfakes of herself and of children.

Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot will no longer allow users to sexualize images of real people by portraying their targets in revealing clothing, the company announced Wednesday evening, following global criticism over the tool’s usage as a “nudify” app to portray women and even children in sexual situations.

A 35-year-old man who set fire to a Tesla Cybertruck and attempted to burn down a Tesla dealership in Mesa, Arizona, has been sentenced to five years in prison followed by three years of probation.

Verizon customers across the United States experienced widespread service disruptions on Wednesday, with voice calling and mobile data access failing for several hours. The company has not disclosed what caused the outage, but law enforcement sources do not suspect a cyberattack.

Volvo has issued an urgent safety recall for its 2025 EX30 electric crossover after discovering that faulty high-voltage batteries supplied by a Chinese manufacturer could potentially short-circuit and catch fire.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is moving forward with plans to reduce its Reality Labs division workforce by approximately 10 percent, affecting more than 1,000 employees in the unit responsible for developing the company’s virtual reality and Metaverse products.

The father of a motorcyclist killed when a Tesla driver using the EV’s “Autopilot” feature struck him from behind has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Elon Musk’s electric car giant, claiming the company knowingly sold dangerous technology.

Left-wing govt performs another about-face, this time on mandatory digital I.D., but Farage makes clear there is still more work to be done.

War Secretary Pete Hegseth visited aerospace, defense, and weapons manufacturers as part of his ongoing “Arsenal of Freedom” tour, where he emphasized the Pentagon’s push to support smaller technology contractors and thanked the engineers for their work.

The FCC voted this week to close a loophole that allows criminals to more easily profit from stolen smartphones — fueling retail theft and strengthening organized crime networks involved in trafficking devices.

Eric Adams, the former mayor of New York City, is under fire from the crypto community following allegations of a “rug pull” scheme involving a newly launched memecoin he promoted. 

President Donald Trump announced on Monday that Microsoft will introduce significant changes to prevent American consumers from facing increased utility bills resulting from the company’s data center construction for AI operations. The President wrote that tech giants must “pay their own way” to power their data centers.

A senior State Department diplomatic official has indicated that Washington may take retaliatory action if British regulators move forward with potential plans to ban Elon Musk’s social media platform X.

Dina Powell McCormick has been named president and vice-chairman of Meta, a move celebrated by President Donald Trump and her husband, Senator Dave McCormick.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has removed approximately 550,000 user accounts across its platforms during the initial implementation phase of Australia’s new teen social media ban.

An investigation has revealed that Google’s “AI Overview,” found at the top of most searches, provided users with false and potentially harmful medical information when they searched for health-related information like what the results of a liver function test meant. The search giant has scrubbed AI Overviews off the web in the cases of medical misinformation researchers uncovered.

British broadcasting regulator Ofcom announced Monday that it has launched a formal investigation into Elon Musk’s X social media platform over its Grok AI being used to create ‘deepfake’ sexualised images.

Sergey Brin has reportedly restructured multiple business entities in California, following a similar pattern established by his Google cofounder Larry Page, as the state prepares to vote on a proposed wealth tax targeting billionaires.

The British government has reportedly reached out to fellow leftist-run Anglo-sphere nations Australia and Canada in an attempt to wage a coordinated campaign to potentially ban Elon Musk’s X social media platform.

Sam Altman’s OpenAI has unveiled ChatGPT Health,  a new feature that enables users to securely link their medical records and wellness applications to the AI-powered chatbot.

Texas A&M University is axing gender- and race-related content as the school reviews its courses, telling professors they should not feature material that includes major plotlines involving gay and transgender characters in their core-curriculum classes. Professors intent on shoving radical gender ideology and LGBT material down their students’ throats are up in arms over the change.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta revealed on Friday a comprehensive series of nuclear power agreements designed to supply electricity for its expanding AI infrastructure across the United States.

Since you are a Breitbart News reader, you are aware of Google’s “unprecedented algorithmic suppression” of Breitbart News in search results. That’s actually what Google’s own Gemini 2.5 Pro AI calls it. However, Google has recently launched a “Preferred Sources” feature that allows you, with just a few clicks, to designate Breitbart News as a source to include in the “Top Stories” section of Google search results.

Facing a global backlash for Grok AI generating deepfake sexualized images of women and children, Elon Musk’s X platform has restricted access to Grok’s image editing capabilities to paying subscribers only.

A “serious medical condition” affecting one crew member aboard the International Space Station has prompted NASA to bring four astronauts back to Earth several months ahead of schedule, marking the first emergency return in 25 years of operations aboard the ISS.