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Elon Musk’s company xAI should be held accountable for allowing its AI models to generate abusive sexual images of recognizable minors, three anonymous plaintiffs claim in a lawsuit filed Monday in California federal court. The three plaintiffs want to file a class action lawsuit on behalf of those who had actual images of themselves as minors altered by Grok to contain sexual content. xAI claims it does not take basic precautions taken by other Frontier Institutes to prevent image models from producing pornography depicting real people or minors. The lawsuit by Jane Doe 1, Jane Doe 2, a minor, and…

You may have missed Kaia Gerber and Louis Pullman’s date night at the Vanity Fair Oscar PartyHollywood’s biggest stars attended the 2026 Academy Awards in droves, but Kaia Gerber and Louis Pullman were the only ones who had their eyes on each other. The couple, who first became romantically involved in January 2025, enjoyed a low-key date night at Vanity Fair’s annual Oscar afterparty on March 15, walking separately on the gray carpet and entering the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). However, Kaia, 24, and Lewis, 33, appeared to reunite inside the venue and ultimately left the event…

Apollo Global Management sign in New York, December 5, 2023.Gina Moon | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesApollo’s John Zito has given a frank assessment of how private equity firms are valuing their software holdings, saying, “Not really.” As the share prices of comparable publicly traded technology companies plummet.Zito, co-president and head of credit at the firm’s giant asset management division, told clients of investment bank UBS last month in remarks first published in the Wall Street Journal. CNBC confirmed Zito’s comments. “I think literally every mark is wrong,” Zito told his customers. “I think the private equity mark is wrong.”Investors have…

Sean Shen believes that for AI to succeed in the physical world, it needs to remember what it sees. Shen’s company Memories.ai uses Nvidia AI tools to build an infrastructure that allows wearables and robotics to remember and recall visual memories. Memories.ai announced a partnership with semiconductor giant NVIDIA at Monday’s GTC conference. Through this partnership, Memories.ai continues to develop visual memory technology using Nvidia’s Cosmos-Reason 2, an inferential vision language model, and Nvidia Metropolis, a video search and summarization application. Shen (pictured above, left) told TechCrunch that he and his co-founder and CTO Ben Zhou (pictured above, right) got…

CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Monday hailed the drop in oil prices that sent stocks higher, but said the real action for investors will unfold at Nvidia’s GTC artificial intelligence showcase this week.Nvidia Kramer said on “Mad Money” that stocks participated in a broader stock market rally spurred by President Donald Trump’s decision to “allow Iranian oil to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.” “That caused oil prices to drop to the mid-$90s, but that’s all that matters to the (stock) average,” he added. The move allayed fears that an escalating war with Iran could disrupt global oil supplies and push…

Let’s hope there aren’t any new fights with security on Oscar night. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences publicly condemned Teyana Taylor, who was shoved by a security guard as she tried to walk onto the stage after winning Best Picture for the film “One Battle After Another” at a ceremony on March 15. (Click here to see all the celebrities who attended the awards ceremony hosted by Conan O’Brien.) “We are deeply disturbed to learn of what Teyana Taylor endured at the end of last night’s Oscar ceremony,” the organization that oversees the Oscars told Variety in…

Benchmark general partner Bill Gurley said Monday that the artificial intelligence wave is real and that many people have struck it rich, but he expects a “reset” to come.”When people get rich quick, they get a lot of people who want to get rich too. That’s why you end up with a bubble,” Gurley said on CNBC’s “Money Movers.””Bubbles only exist if there are real waves,” Gurley said, referring to the work of economist Carlota Pérez, author of “Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: Bubble Dynamics and the Golden Age.”The venture capitalist said that once a reset occurs, investors should keep…

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) sent a letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday expressing concern about the Pentagon’s decision to grant Elon Musk’s company xAI access to sensitive networks. “The controversial AI model Grok developed by xAI has had disturbing consequences for users, including giving them ‘advice on how to commit murder or terrorist attacks,’ generating anti-Semitic content, and creating child sexual abuse material,” the letter said. Warren said Grok’s “clear lack of adequate guardrails” could pose “significant risks to the safety of U.S. military personnel and the cybersecurity of sensitive systems.” She asked Hegseth to provide information on…

Pedro Pascal looks much different after shaving all his facial hair for the 2026 OscarsPedro Pascal A stunning new look debuts. of fantastic four stars attended Oscars 2026—Sponsored by Conan O’Brien Fans did a double-take when they saw his new clean-shaven look on the carpet at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood on March 15. In fact, Pedro wore a custom Chanel look to the awards ceremony. Jacketless tuxedo shirt with starburst floral brooch made of silk and feathers. But in addition to the jacketless look, the 50-year-old had noticeably lost his mustache. Last sport you watched during his appearance bad…

President Donald Trump on Monday complained that some countries are not joining the coalition to escort tankers through the Strait of Hormuz. “Some people are very enthusiastic about it, and some people are not so enthusiastic about it,” Trump said at a news conference. “And I think there are some people who won’t do it. I think there’s one or two people who won’t do it, which we’ve spent tens of billions of dollars defending for about 40 years.”President Trump is pressuring U.S. allies to send troops to export oil through the strait. The Iranian attack has sharply reduced tanker…