A Dutch court has ordered Elon Musk’s xAI to stop generating and distributing nude images of people without their consent in the Netherlands, warning it would impose fines of 100,000 euros ($115,350) per day for noncompliance. The Amsterdam District Court ruled Thursday that xAI’s Grok artificial intelligence tool and the X platform that hosts it … Read moreDutch court bans xAI’s Grok from generating nonconsensual nude images
London’s Metropolitan Police warns that anyone showing support for Palestine Action is now “likely to be arrested”, weeks after the force said it would not do so. Police had said in February that it would refrain from arresting supporters following the High Court’s ruling that the ban on Palestine Action as a terror group was … Read moreIn U-turn, UK police say Palestine Action protesters will be arrested again
Oil prices have climbed higher amid fading hopes of deescalation in the Iran war following Tehran’s denial that talks with the United States are under way. Futures for Brent crude, the international benchmark, rose nearly 2 percent on Thursday to top $104 per barrel after Tehran dismissed reports of direct negotiations with US President Donald … Read moreOil prices rise higher as Iran denies US talks, dimming deescalation hopes
Tasnim Israel says it has killed the Iranian navy chief overseeing what is a near-total blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. Alireza Tangsiri, head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) navy, was “directly responsible for the terrorist act of bombing and blocking the Strait of Hormuz”, and has been “blown up”, according to Israel’s … Read moreIsrael says it has killed Iran’s navy chief overseeing Strait of Hormuz blockade