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Jul 15, 2026 204

xAI sues a man for using Grok to generate CSAM ‘deepfakes’

The Elon Musk-owned xAI is suing a South Carolina man who allegedly used the company's Grok AI chatbot to generate child sexual abuse mat...

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Jul 15, 2026 201

AI slop movies are the new direct-to-video cash grabs

This weekend, cinephiles across the world will march to their local theaters to feast their eyes on Christopher Nolan's new adaptation of...

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Jul 15, 2026 247

Amid hardware legal battle, OpenAI releases a $230 keyboard for Codex

OpenAI, which is in the middle of a legal battle with Apple over hardware trade theft allegations, just released a light-up keyboard desi...

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Jul 15, 2026 249

SpaceX falls to $135 IPO price ahead of Starship launch

The stock has steadily fallen from the euphoric post-IPO high, showing that markets may be sobering up to the promises CEO Elon Musk made...

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Jul 15, 2026 158

Thinking Machines amps up its bet against one-size-fits-all AI with its first open model, Inkling

It's the company's first public proof point after a year and a half spent building AI infrastructure largely out of public view.

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Jul 15, 2026 253

Suno snatched millions of songs from YouTube, Genius, and Deezer

Suno data obtained in a hacking incident has exposed that the AI music generator was trained by scraping millions of songs and lyrics fro...

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Jul 15, 2026 182

Meet GPT-Red: an LLM super-hacker OpenAI built to make its models safer

OpenAI has built an LLM super-hacker called GPT-Red that it uses as a sparring partner to help its other models boost their defenses agai...

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Jul 15, 2026 227

Hack suggests AI music generator Suno scraped YouTube for training data

The hacker used an employee's credentials to access source code, which revealed how Suno scraped decades of audio.

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Jul 15, 2026 172

Whatnot acquires Shaped to power real-time live shopping recommendations

Livestream shopping platform Whatnot has acquired AI startup Shaped, a machine learning company focused on real-time recommendations and ...

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Jul 15, 2026 205

Microsoft patches record number of security vulnerabilities, citing its use of AI

Microsoft's monthly release of security fixes, dubbed Patch Tuesday, resolved a record 570 security vulnerabilities across the company's ...

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Jul 15, 2026 160

OpenAI finally launches hardware… for Codex

OpenAI is finally releasing some hardware. No, it isn't the mysterious AI-powered device the company is developing with former Apple desi...

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Jul 15, 2026 113

Apple Intelligence approved for launch in China with Alibaba’s Qwen AI

The deal, which was rumored to be in the works last year, marks an important step for Apple's AI ambitions in a key market.