Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI has filed a federal lawsuit against Terry Wayner Harwood, a 67-year-old South Carolina resident, accusing him of using the Grok chatbot to generate child sexual abuse material and nonconsensual sexual deepfakes. Filed on July 17 in U.S. federal court, the 12-page complaint alleges Harwood...
New York — SpaceX shares fell below their $135 initial public offering price for the first time on Wednesday, extending a four-day losing streak and marking a sharp reversal from last month’s rally. The stock traded as low as $133 during the session, down from last month’s peak when SpaceX...
NEW DELHI — A major cyber breach has exposed thousands of sensitive engineering and construction files tied to the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant, India’s largest nuclear facility. The ransomware group World Leaks, formerly known as Hunters International, published the data cache on the dark web, Reuters reported on July 16,...
New York, United States – New York Governor Kathy Hochul has signed an executive order imposing a one-year, statewide moratorium on new hyperscale data centers, making New York the first U.S. state to halt development of these large, resource-intensive facilities. The order, signed on Tuesday, July 14, 2026, targets the...
Hawaii Governor Josh Green has signed two laws, Acts 247 and 248, that create some of the most restrictive state-level rules on deepfakes and AI chatbots in the United States. At a ceremony in Honolulu on Tuesday, July 14, 2026, Green approved House Bill 2137 as Act 247, defining highly...
South Korean prosecutors have launched a criminal probe into alleged international price-fixing in the semiconductor sector, raiding the local offices of three major chip suppliers. On Wednesday, 15 July 2026, the Fair Trade Investigation Division of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office searched the South Korean offices of China’s Montage...
Texas, United States, has enacted a new state law requiring minors to obtain verifiable parental approval before downloading apps from digital app stores, affecting major platforms such as Apple’s App Store and Google Play. Lawmakers framed the measure as a child-safety initiative intended to give parents greater oversight of their...
PENNSYLVANIA – JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon warned that Anthropic’s advanced Mythos artificial intelligence model poses serious security risks if released broadly to the public. Speaking on Wednesday at the Senator Dave McCormick Defense and Innovation Summit in Pennsylvania, Dimon said that allowing individuals to access Mythos would be comparable...
United States – The U.S. Department of Energy has granted SuperCritical Materials a license to commercialize a patented process for extracting uranium and other critical materials directly from seawater. Developed by researchers at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, the technology demonstrates the feasibility of industrial-scale uranium recovery from the oceans...
Iowa, United States, is among 42 states that have reached a settlement with genetics and biotechnology company 23andMe after a large-scale data breach disclosed in 2023. According to the Iowa Attorney General’s Office, the breach affected nearly 7 million people and exposed customers’ genetic ancestry information, personal details and other...
