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The State-Led Crackdown on Grok and xAI Has Begun

3 months 2 weeks ago

At least 37 attorneys general for US states and territories are taking action against xAI after Grok generated a flood of nonconsensual sexual images of women and minors.

Maddy Varner, Manisha Krishnan

New Data Shows Robotaxis Competing on Price—and Speed

3 months 2 weeks ago

Research from the ride-hail aggregator Obi finds Waymo is starting to edge up on Uber and Lyft in San Francisco. Tesla, which operates a ride-hail service with human drivers, is winning the price wars.

Aarian Marshall

WhatsApp is rolling out a new stricter security setting to protect users from cyber attacts

3 months 2 weeks ago

Days after Meta was sued by over alleged false privacy claims by its chat app WhatsApp, the company has rolled out a new setting to protect users against cyber attacks. The feature, called Strict Account Settings, adds restrictions like automatically blocking media and attachments from unknown senders, and silencing calls from unknown numbers. Under this setting, link […]

Ivan Mehta