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Grok chatbot allowed users to create digitally altered photos of minors in
Elon Musk's Grok, the chatbot developed by his company xAI, acknowledged "lapses in safeguards" on the AI platform that allowed users to generate digitally altered, sexualized photos of minors.The admission comes after multiple users alleged...
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India orders Musk’s X to fix Grok over ‘obscene’ AI content | TechCrunch
India has ordered Elon Musk’s X to make immediate technical and procedural changes to its AI chatbot Grok after users and lawmakers flagged the generation of “obscene” content, including AI-altered images of women created using the tool.On Friday, India’s...
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Watch Scuttle Go From Research Project to Commercial Farming Robot
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for...
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Nvidia’s AI empire: A look at its top startup investments | TechCrunch
No company has capitalized on the AI revolution more dramatically than Nvidia. Its revenue, profitability, and cash reserves have skyrocketed since the introduction of ChatGPT over three years ago — and the many competitive generative AI services that have...
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In 2026, AI will move from hype to pragmatism | TechCrunch
If 2025 was the year AI got a vibe check, 2026 will be the year the tech gets practical. The focus is already shifting away from building ever-larger language models and towards the harder work of making AI usable....
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Clicks debuts its own take on the BlackBerry smartphone, plus a $79 snap-on mobile keyboard | TechCrunch
Clicks Technology, a company known for making physical keyboards for smartphones, is launching two new devices ahead of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next week. In addition to a new, $79 slide-out keyboard for smart devices, the...
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Even as global crop prices fall, India’s Arya.ag is attracting investors — and staying profitable | TechCrunch
Arya.ag, an Indian agritech company offering storage facilities near farms and offering lending services to hundreds of thousands of farmers, has drawn investor interest and remained profitable even as global crop prices continue to fall in a volatile commodities...
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A beginner’s guide to Mastodon, the open source Twitter alternative | TechCrunch
Unless if you’re really in the know about nascent platforms, you probably didn’t know what Mastodon was until Elon Musk bought Twitter and renamed it X. In the initial aftermath of the acquisition, as users fretted over what direction...
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Rare Saturn-sized rogue planet is first to have its mass measured
Nearly 10,000 light years away, a planet the size of Saturn is floating all on its own through empty...
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Tech to Track in 2026
Every September as we plan our January tech forecast issue, IEEE Spectrum’s editors survey their beats and seek out promising projects that could solve seemingly intractable problems or transform entire industries.Often these projects fly under the radar of the...
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U.S. envoy urges Syrian government, Kurds
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