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Baltimore is first U.S. city to sue over Grok deepfake porn as legal pressure mounts on Musk’s xAI
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Baltimore is first U.S. city to sue over Grok deepfake porn as legal pressure mounts on Musk’s xAI

The logo of the artificial intelligence company xAI appears on the screen of a smartphone placed on a surface reflecting an abstract blue illustration. Samuel Boivin | Nurphoto | Getty Images Lawsuits against Elon Musk’s xAI are piling up, with Baltimore becoming the first major U.S. city to file a complaint against the company concerning […]

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DCCC launches geotargeted digital ad campaign hitting GOP for gas prices
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DCCC launches geotargeted digital ad campaign hitting GOP for gas prices

Prices are posted at a gas station in Downtown Brooklyn on March 18, 2026, in New York, United States. Matthew Hoen | Nurphoto | Getty Images The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee on Tuesday is launching a digital ad campaign targeting President Donald Trump and Republicans for rising gas prices amid the war in Iran. The […]

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Iran Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei gets another blue check on X, despite sanctions policy
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Iran Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei gets another blue check on X, despite sanctions policy

FILE PHOTO: Iran’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, the second son of late Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, attends a rally in Tehran, Iran, May 31, 2019. Hamid Forootan | Via Reuters Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has subscribed to X Premium on his official English-language account, despite the Elon Musk-owned company’s policy on […]

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OpenClaw’s ChatGPT moment sparks concern that AI models are becoming commodities
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OpenClaw’s ChatGPT moment sparks concern that AI models are becoming commodities

People queue to have their laptops install with OpenClaw, an open-source AI assistant at the Baidu headquarter in Beijing on March 11, 2026. Adek Berry | Afp | Getty Images Three months ago, the tech industry was unaware of a lobster-themed AI coding project built by an under-the-radar Austrian software developer. OpenClaw, as that creation […]

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Elon Musk misled Twitter investors ahead of  billion acquisition, jury says
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Elon Musk misled Twitter investors ahead of $44 billion acquisition, jury says

Elon Musk arrives at federal court on March 4, 2026 in San Francisco, California. Josh Edelson | Getty Images A jury in California found that Elon Musk misled Twitter shareholders during the runup to his $44 billion acquisition of the social media company, according to a verdict issued on Friday. Total damages could reach up […]

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Meta backtracks on decision to end Horizon Worlds VR after fans speak up
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Meta backtracks on decision to end Horizon Worlds VR after fans speak up

Pavlo Gonchar| SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images A day after announcing that it will be shutting down Horizon Worlds for Quest virtual reality headsets, Meta has changed course. The company said Wednesday that the VR platform will remain available “for the foreseeable future.” “We have decided, just today in fact, that we will […]

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Meta to cut back on third-party vendors in favor of AI for content enforcement
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Meta to cut back on third-party vendors in favor of AI for content enforcement

Arda Kucukkaya | Anadolu | Getty Images Meta is beginning a yearslong rollout of more advanced artificial intelligence systems that will handle content enforcement-related tasks like catching scams and removing illegal media, as the company reduces its use of third-party vendors and contractors in favor of AI. In a blog post Thursday, Meta said that […]

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Meta is shutting down VR social platform Horizon Worlds in further pivot away from the metaverse
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Meta is shutting down VR social platform Horizon Worlds in further pivot away from the metaverse

The Meta Horizon Worlds logo is displayed on a smartphone screen, and the Meta logo is in the background in Chania, Greece, on Aug. 9, 2024. Nikolas Kokovlis | Nurphoto | Getty Images Meta announced Tuesday that it is shutting down Horizon Worlds, the virtual reality social network for Quest VR headsets that was once […]

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Meta will pay Instagram, TikTok and YouTube creators with big followings to post on Facebook
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Meta will pay Instagram, TikTok and YouTube creators with big followings to post on Facebook

Mark Zuckerberg attends the UFC 320 event at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Oct. 4, 2025. Chris Unger | Ufc | Getty Images Meta on Wednesday launched a new program aimed at luring top creators from TikTok and YouTube to Facebook, offering guaranteed pay and boosted reach. The Creator Fast Track program offers social media […]

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Jensen Huang says Nvidia has received orders from China and is ‘restarting our manufacturing’
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Jensen Huang says Nvidia has received orders from China and is ‘restarting our manufacturing’

After an extended delay in selling into the world’s second-largest economy, chipmaker Nvidia is gearing up to provide some customers in China with its H200 processors, CEO Jensen Huang said on Tuesday. “We have received purchase orders, and we’re in the process of restarting our manufacturing,” Huang told reporters at the company’s GTC conference in […]

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