Elon Muskβs Grok chatbot on Thursday started restricting the ability for non-paying users to create deepfake, sexualized images after global pushback from users and governments. Late last month, some users began tagging Grok on Muskβs social media platform X with prompts such as βput her in a bikiniβ to generate nonconsensual images of real people…
Lauren Perlmutter is a βGilmore Girlsβ superfan. Sheβs watched the show on a loop for the past 10 years. Itβs mostly been in chronological order, and sometimes just in the background while sheβs working on something else but craving the showβs comforting familiarity. βItβs like my bowl of chicken noodle soup,β she said. Perlmutter, 23,…
UCLA senior Jordan Chiles remains unstoppable on the floor exercise. A week after reviving her Prince routine to honor fans during a meet at Minnesota, Chiles seamlessly transitioned back at Pauley Pavilion to her energetic routine set to a medley of hits by icons Janet Jackson, Whitney Houston, Stevie Wonder and Tina Turner. The result…
Emmy-winning actor Timothy Busfield is officially in police custody in New Mexico, days after allegations that he sexually abused two child actors on the set of the Fox drama βThe Cleaning Ladyβ came to light. A spokesperson for the Albuquerque Police Department confirmed on Tuesday that the 68-year-old actor βturned himself in at the Metro…
California joined 20 other states and the District of Columbia on Monday in a lawsuit that seeks to prevent the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from being defunded and closed by the Trump administration. The legal action filed in U.S. District Court in Eugene, Ore. by the Democratic attorneys general accuses Acting Director Russell Vought…
HOUSTONΒ βΒ In their first meeting of the season on Christmas Day, Lakers coach JJ Redick said the Lakers were βpunkedβ by the Houston Rockets and vowed not to let it happen again. On Monday, the Lakers displayed their toughness in a 100-92 win over the Rockets at Toyota Center. Even when they were faltering in the…
Elon Musk is planning to launch a new payments platform, called XMoney, in beta form to select users in April. InΒ announcingΒ a planned partnership between XMoney and Visa more than a year ago, then X CEO Linda Yaccarino referred to the platform as a so-called “Everything App” β a reference to the kind of all-in-one digital…
Kemi Badenoch claims Labour is “nothing like the patriotic party of yesteryear” and “playing student politics” over the Iran war. In a speech at the Conservative spring conference in Harrogate today, the Tory leader will accuse the prime minister of “sitting on the fence” while the rest of the world rearms. “I never thought I…
U.S. chipmakers Nvidia and AMD will pay the U.S. government 15% of revenue generated by sales of their AI chips in China, a White House official confirmed to CBS News.Β The Financial Times on SundayΒ reported that the agreement between the tech giants and the U.S. government was reached as a condition for granting export licenses…
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) questions U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth as he testifies before the House Armed Services Committee April 29, 2026 in the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, DC. Win Mcnamee | Getty Images Potential 2028 presidential hopeful Rep. Ro Khanna challenged newly minted trillionaire Elon Musk to a televised debate on…