Indonesia and Malaysia block Grok over non-consensual, sexualized deepfakes

Indonesian officials said Saturday that they are temporarily blocking access to xAI’s chatbot Grok.

Meta signs deals with three nuclear companies for 6-plus GW of power

Two smaller companies, Oklo and TerraPower, along with Vistra, a large energy company, just signed agreements with Meta.

X restricts Grok’s image generation to paying subscribers only after drawing the world’s ire

Elon Musk’s AI company has restricted Grok’s controversial AI image-generation feature to only paying subscribers on X, after the tool invited heated criticism from across the world for letting users generate sexualized images of women and children.

WhatsApp rolls out new group chat features, including member tags

You can choose a tag that gives others in the group chat more context about who you are.

Spotify now lets you share what you’re streaming in real time with friends

You can tap a friend’s listening activity to play the track, save it, open the menu, or react with an emoji.

Roblox now requires all users globally to complete age checks to access chat

Once users complete an age check, they can access age-based chat, which means they can only communicate with others in a similar age group.

Threads is developing in-message games

Launching in-message games would give Threads an edge over competitors like X and Bluesky, which don’t offer built-in games.

French and Malaysian authorities are investigating Grok for generating sexualized deepfakes

France and Malaysia have joined India in condemning Grok for creating sexualized deepfakes of women and minors.

India orders Musk’s X to fix Grok over “obscene” AI content

India’s IT ministry has given X 72 hours to submit an action-taken report.

A beginner’s guide to Mastodon, the open source Twitter alternative

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 Twitt…