Breaking News: Technology
- Elon Musk's X faces probes in Europe, India, Malaysia after Grok generated explicit images of women and children - Regulators in Europe, India and Malaysia are scrutinizing X after exploitative images created with the Grok chatbot went viral on Elon Musk's social network.
- Nvidia plans to test a robotaxi service in 2027 in self-driving push - Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has said that robotics — including self-driving cars — is the company's second most important growth category after AI.
- Democratic mayor of Silicon Valley's largest city opposes billionaire tax - Matt Mahan, the Democratic mayor of San Jose, California, came out against a proposed ballot measure that would impose a tax on billionaires in the state.
- Elon Musk's Starlink offers free internet access in Venezuela following U.S. airstrikes and Maduro’s arrest - SpaceX's Starlink is offering free broadband internet service to the people of Venezuela through Feb. 3, amid the fallout of a U.S. military operation in the country.
- Musk's xAI faces backlash after Grok generates sexualized images of children on X - Users on X raised concerns over explicit content of minors being generated using Musk's Grok tool.
- Ilya Lichtenstein, Bitcoin hacker behind massive crypto theft, credits Trump for early prison release - Ilya Lichtenstein had been sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty and admitting to the hack of crypto assets valued in the billions of dollars.
- Chip stocks rally to start 2026 after third-straight winning year - Investors piled into the winning artificial intelligence-adjacent sector following another big year of gains.
- Tesla reports 418,227 deliveries for the fourth quarter, down 16% - Tesla's fourth-quarter deliveries report follows a steep rally in the company's stock in the last few months of 2025.
- China’s BYD poised to overtake Tesla as world’s top EV seller for the first time - The milestone would cap an extraordinary rise for BYD, a company Tesla's Elon Musk once dismissed by laughing at their products.
- China’s ‘Silicon Valley’ is building robots and fortune-telling AI apps at the same time - Hangzhou’s AI ecosystem now spans everything from cutting-edge robotics to experimental apps built by solo founders.