2 h. ago Trump threatens to block ExxonMobil from Venezuela after CEO calls country ‘uninvestable’

US president says company is ‘playing too cute’ after CEO responds sceptically to his push for oil investment after deposing Nicolás MaduroDonald Trump has said he might block ExxonMobil from investing in Venezuela after the oil company’s chief executive called the country “uninvestable” during a White House meeting last week.Darren Woods told the US president that Venezuela would need to change its laws before it could be an attractive investment opportunity, during the high-profile meeting on Friday with at least 17 other oil executives. Continue reading...

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40 h. ago Musk hits out at ‘fascist’ UK as row over X and its Grok AI escalates

Technology Secretary Liz Kendall said she would back regulator Ofcom if it sought to ban the social media platform and its AI.

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58 h. ago UK minister threatens to block X after Grok AI reportedly made sexual images of children

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59 h. ago Greater Manchester MP handed key role amid push for digital IDs

Makerfield MP Josh Simons has been made Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

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60 h. ago Technology Secretary threatens to block UK access to X over Grok deepfakes

Ofcom said it was undertaking an ‘expedited assessment’ after X and XAi responded to its urgent contact on Monday.

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3 d. ago The Guardian view on Ofcom versus Grok: chatbots cannot be allowed to undress children. | Editorial

A wave of humiliating sexualised imagery must prompt regulators and politicians to step upAn online trend involving asking Grok, the Elon Musk-owned chatbot, to undress photographs of women and girls and show them wearing bikinis has rightly sparked outrage in the UK and internationally. Earlier this week Liz Kendall, the science and technology secretary, described the proliferation of the digitally altered pictures, some of which are overtly sexualised or violent, as “unacceptable in decent society”. What happens next will depend on whether she and her colleagues are prepared to follow through on such remarks. The government’s generally enthusiastic approach to AI, and the growing role they see for it in public services, do not inspire confidence in their ability to confront such threats.In addition to the deluge of bikini images, the Internet Watch Foundation, a charity, has evidence that Grok Imagine (an AI tool that generates images and videos from prompts) has been used to crea...

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5 d. ago Wave of Grok AI fake images of women and girls appalling, says UK minister

Liz Kendall calls on X to ‘deal with this urgently’ while expert criticises ‘worryingly slow’ government responseThe UK technology secretary has called a wave of images of women and children with their clothes digitally removed generated by Elon Musk’s Grok AI “appalling and unacceptable in decent society”.After thousands of intimate deepfakes circulated online, Liz Kendall said X, Musk’s social media platform, needed to “deal with this urgently” and she backed the UK regulator Ofcom to “take any enforcement action it deems necessary”. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Liz Kendall calls on Musk’s X to take urgent action over ‘appalling’ deepfakes

Technology Secretary Liz Kendall said: ‘What we have been seeing online in recent days has been absolutely appalling.’

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5 d. ago Kendall calls on Musk’s X to take urgent action over ‘appalling’ deepfakes

Technology Secretary Liz Kendall said: ‘What we have been seeing online in recent days has been absolutely appalling.’

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3 w. ago Scots flats EVACUATED after man ‘threatened to blow up’ homes as armed cops lock down scene

A BLOCK of flats has been evacuated after a man allegedly threatened to 'blow up' homes. Armed cops have locked down the scene on Drumlaken Avenue in Summerston, Glasgow, this afternoon amid the ongoing incident. Locals have told how a man - thought to be in his 40s - had barricaded himself in a flat...

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