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Grok’s Sexual Deepfakes Almost Got It Banned From Apple’s App Store. Almost.
Apple threatened to remove Elon Musk’s AI app Grok from its App Store in January 2026 after the tool enabled non‑consensual sexual deepfakes on X. The company demanded a concrete moderation plan, labeling Grok “out of compliance” while deeming X “substantially resolved.” After a series of back‑and‑forth revisions, Apple granted conditional approval, though researchers still report easy generation of explicit images. The episode reveals Apple’s quiet but decisive influence over AI app distribution and highlights ongoing challenges in curbing synthetic sexual content.
Your Article About AI Doesn’t Need AI Art
The New Yorker commissioned mixed‑media artist David Szauder to create an AI‑generated illustration for its profile of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Szauder combined hand‑drawn sketches, Photoshop edits, and custom generative‑AI tools to produce a collage of multiple Altman faces that...
Microsoft’s New ‘Superintelligence’ Game Plan Is All About Business
Microsoft has appointed its first CEO of AI, Mustafa Suleyman, to steer a "superintelligence" agenda centered on business value. A March restructuring merged enterprise and consumer AI groups under the Copilot banner, freeing Suleyman to focus on frontier models. The...
Senate Democrats Are Trying to ‘Codify’ Anthropic’s Red Lines on Autonomous Weapons and Mass Surveillance
Senate Democrats, led by Sen. Adam Schiff and Sen. Elissa Slotkin, are drafting legislation to codify Anthropic’s self‑imposed limits on the use of artificial intelligence for autonomous weapons and mass surveillance. The bills would require a human in the loop...
Adobe’s AI Image Generator Can Now Be Trained on Your Own Art
Adobe has opened a public beta for Firefly Custom Models, letting creators and brands train its AI image generator on their own artwork. The tool preserves specific visual attributes such as stroke weight, color palette, lighting, and character features, ensuring...
How the Spiraling Iran Conflict Could Affect Data Centers and Electricity Costs
Escalating conflict between the US, Israel and Iran has shut down traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, pushing crude oil prices above $110 per barrel and raising concerns about global energy volatility. The disruption is also tightening natural‑gas markets as...
Ford Is Giving Its Commercial Fleet Business an AI Makeover
Ford unveiled Ford Pro AI, a generative‑AI chatbot embedded in its Pro telematics platform, to turn fleet telemetry into actionable insights for its 840,000 paid subscribers. The model‑agnostic service runs on Google Cloud, operates in read‑only mode and still requires human oversight,...
YouTube Is Expanding Its AI Deepfake Detection Tool to Politicians and Journalists
YouTube is rolling out its AI‑powered likeness detection tool to a pilot group of politicians, journalists and other public officials. The feature scans the platform for videos that replicate a person’s face and lets verified individuals request removal, though requests...
OpenAI’s New GPT-5.4 Model Is a Big Step Toward Autonomous Agents
OpenAI has launched GPT‑5.4, its latest model that combines advanced reasoning, coding, and professional‑task abilities with native computer‑use capabilities, allowing it to issue keyboard and mouse commands from screenshots. The model, available via the ChatGPT web app, Android, API, Codex,...
Raycast’s Glaze Is an All-in-One Vibe Coding App Platform
Raycast has introduced Glaze, an AI‑driven vibe‑coding platform that lets users create tiny Mac apps by typing a single prompt. Powered by Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex, Glaze generates, deploys, and packages utilities in one go, then lists them in...
How the Experts Figure Out What’s Real in the Age of Deepfakes
The Verge explains how leading newsrooms such as The New York Times, Bellingcat and Indicator combat deep‑fake misinformation after high‑profile conflicts. Reporters follow a four‑step workflow: meticulous visual inspection, vetting source reputation, tracing the digital footprint, and confirming date and location with...
A Robot Arm with Puppy Dog Eyes Is Just One of Lenovo’s New Desktop AI Concepts
Lenovo used the Mobile World Congress stage to unveil two AI‑driven desktop concepts designed as always‑on work companions. The AI Workmate features a small robotic arm, camera and built‑in projector that can scan documents, generate summaries and display content on...
Get Ready for the AI Ad-Pocalypse
Generative AI is rapidly infiltrating advertising, with over half of brand marketers already using AI tools in 2025 and 90% planning AI‑driven video ads. Studies project AI‑generated content will power 40% of all ads by 2026, while human detection rates...
Adobe Is Developing ‘IP-Safe’ Gen AI Models for the Entertainment Industry
Adobe announced Firefly Foundry, a suite of private, IP‑safe generative AI models designed for the entertainment sector. The models are trained solely on intellectual property owned by each client, avoiding the scraped‑data approach of most public AI tools. Integrated with...
Instagram’s Top Boss Is Missing the Point About AI on the Platform
Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri warned that AI‑generated content will flood the platform and threaten authentic creator voices. He argues that authenticity will become “infinitely reproducible” and that labeling AI work will be harder than watermarking. The article counters that Instagram...