Mar 20 Jury finds Musk misled investors during Twitter takeover, absolves him of some fraud claims By Barbara Ortutay, Associated Press A jury has found Elon Musk liable for misleading investors by deliberately driving down Twitter's stock price in the tumultuous months leading up to his 2022 acquisition of the social media company for $44 billion. But it absolved him of some fraud… Continue reading
Mar 04 Musk defends himself against accusations of misconduct prior to Twitter takeover By Barbara Ortutay, Michael Liedtke, Associated Press A defiant Elon Musk on Wednesday took the stand in a jury trial to defend himself against accusations that he engaged in a pattern of deceptive behavior that misled investors as he attempted to back out of his $44 billion… Continue reading
Feb 17 Musk's Grok chatbot faces EU privacy investigation over sexualized deepfake images By Kelvin Chan, Associated Press X faces a new EU privacy investigation after its Grok chatbot generated nonconsensual deepfake images on the platform. Continue reading
Feb 03 Paris prosecutors raid X offices as part of investigation over child abuse images, deepfakes By Sylvie Corbet, Associated Press French prosecutors raided the offices of social media platform X on Tuesday as part of a preliminary investigation into allegations including spreading child sexual abuse images and deepfakes. They have also summoned billionaire owner Elon Musk for questioning. Continue reading
Feb 01 A list of powerful men named in the Epstein files, from Elon Musk to former Prince Andrew By Philip Marcelo, Associated Press A who’s who of powerful men make appearances in the huge trove of documents released by the Justice Department in connection with its investigations of Jeffrey Epstein. Continue reading
Jan 27 Watch 9:18 Whistleblower responds after DOJ confirms DOGE mishandled Social Security data By Amna Nawaz, Matt Loffman The Social Security Administration says members of Elon Musk’s DOGE team working at the agency accessed and shared sensitive data. The latest disclosure from the Trump administration seemed to confirm some key concerns first raised in a whistleblower complaint filed… Continue watching
Jan 26 EU investigates Musk's AI chatbot Grok over sexual deepfakes By Kelvin Chan, Associated Press European Union regulators have opened a formal investigation into Elon Musk's social media platform X after its AI chatbot Grok started producing nonconsensual sexualized deepfake images. Continue reading
Jan 16 Watch 6:29 Musk's Grok AI faces more scrutiny after generating sexual deepfake images By Liz Landers, Karina Cuevas, Bridget Craig Elon Musk was forced to put restrictions on X and its AI chatbot, Grok, after its image generator sparked outrage around the world. Grok created non-consensual sexualized images, prompting some countries to ban the bot. Liz Landers discussed Grok's troubles… Continue watching
Jan 15 Grok blocked from undressing images with AI in places where it's illegal, X says By Elaine Kurtenbach, Associated Press Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok won’t be able to edit photos to portray real people in revealing clothing in places where that is illegal, according to a statement posted on X. Continue reading
Jan 12 Malaysia and Indonesia become the first countries to block Musk's chatbot Grok over sexualized AI images By Eileen Ng, Edna Tarigan, Associated Press An emailed request for comment by The Associated Press to Musk's xAI resulted in an automated reply from the media support email address which stated, "Legacy Media Lies."… Continue reading