Artificial Intelligence

• Germany plans measures to combat harmful AI image manipulation - BERLIN, Jan 9 () - Germany's justice ministry plans to present measures in the near future that would allow authorities to more effectively ​combat the use of artificial intelligence to manipulate images in ways that ‌violate personal right
• Elon Musk's Grok bot restricts sexual image generation after global outcry - Grok now restricts non-paying users from generating free deepfake images on X.
• Maya Jama asks AI chatbot Grok not to modify or edit photos of her - It comes after regulator Ofcom said it contacted X after reports that users have prompted the tool to generate sexualised images of people.
• China’s first 'AI tiger' goes public as Zhipu climbs in Hong Kong debut - Shares of China-backed Zhipu made small gains on their Hong Kong debut, following a $558 million initial public offering.
• China asks tech firms to halt orders for Nvidia's H200 chips, Information reports - Beijing has asked some Chinese tech companies to halt orders for Nvidia's H200 chips this week, and is expected to mandate ​domestic artificial intelligence chip purchases, the Information reported on Wednesday, citing people ‌familiar with
• AI Weekly: AI center stage at CES, xAI's funding haul - STORY: From AI taking center stage in Las Vegas... to xAI's funding haul...This is AI Weekly.:: AI WeeklyAI was a major focus at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.Nvidia and rival Advanced Micro Devices revealed their latest chips.
• Nvidia Details New A.I. Chips and Autonomous Car Project With Mercedes - At the CES conference, Jensen Huang, the company’s chief executive, said the more efficient and powerful chip would begin shipping later this year.
• Hochul Will Back New Safeguards to Protect Children Online - In her State of the State address, Gov. Kathy Hochul will propose that the default setting for online platforms should ban viewing or messaging minors.
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• Elon Musk company bot apologizes for sharing sexualized images of children - Grok published sexualized images of children as its guardrails seem to have failed when it was prompted with vile user requests.