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India has ordered Elon Musk’s X to make immediate technical and procedural changes to its AI chatbot Grok after users and lawmakers flagged the generation of “obscene” content, including AI-altered images of women created using the tool. On Friday, India’s IT ministry issued the order directing Musk’s X to take corrective action on Grok, including restricting the generation of content involving “nudity, sexualization, sexually explicit, or otherwise unlawful” material. The ministry also gave the social media platform 72 hours to submit an action-taken report detailing the steps it has taken to prevent the hosting or dissemination of content deemed “obscene,…

As billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk readies to take SpaceX to the public market, investors are awaiting the chance to get in on what is expected to be the biggest IPO on record. Musk said late last month that reports of the space technology company’s plans to go public this year were “accurate.” Multiple outlets reported that the IPO was in the works following a share sale valuing the firm at around $800 billion. SpaceX is reportedly looking at a value of around $1.5 trillion when it hits the public market. That would surpass the prior record set by the Saudi…

Three-year-old startup Mercor has become a $10 billion middleman in AI’s data gold rush. The company connects AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic with former employees of Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, and white-shoe law firms, paying them up to $200 an hour to share their industry expertise and train the AI models that could eventually automate their former employers out of business.   Today we’re bringing you a conversation with CEO Brendan Foody from this year’s Disrupt, where he explained why AI labs need high-skilled contractors instead of crowdsourced labor, how Scale AI’s troubles accelerated Mercor’s rise, and why he thinks the entire economy will converge on training AI agents.  Listen to the full…

Dead by Daylight has welcomed dozens of icons from horror history, covering movies, TV shows, and games. From Stranger Things’ The Demogorgon to Resident Evil’s Nemesis and The Ring’s Sadako, a few of the all-time greatest and most powerful villains are currently available as part of the game, and most of them are pretty incredible (and somewhat difficult to master). Then, there is The Ghost Face, aka Danny Johnson. Hailing from Scream, the killer is an ordinary human in the movie, albeit one who has a twisted sense of humor and a taste for blood. In theory, the DBD version…

Check out the companies making the biggest moves midday: Vertiv — Shares popped 8% after Barclays upgraded the data center infrastructure provider to an overweight rating from equal weight. The bank said recent volatility has created an attractive entry point, and believes that upside potential to earnings estimates will drive further outperformance. Sable Offshore — The oil and gas company soared nearly 19% after a federal court denied a stay by environmental groups that wanted to halt the restart of Sable Offshore’s Las Flores pipelines in California. Litigation will continue on the issue this year. Sandisk — Spun off of…

Crypto laws around the world are changing in 2026, building on the momentum from 2025, which will impact crypto users in the United States, the United Kingdom and the Asia-Pacific (APAC) regions.The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), a US banking regulator, published a proposal in December outlining a pathway for banks to be able to issue dollar-pegged stablecoins under the GENIUS stablecoin framework passed by Congress in mid-2025.Under the proposal, banks must issue the stablecoins through a subsidiary, with both institutions subject to FDIC reviews and audits for financial soundness.The US Federal Reserve, the country’s central bank, in December rescinded…

No company has capitalized on the AI revolution more dramatically than Nvidia. Its revenue, profitability, and cash reserves have skyrocketed since the introduction of ChatGPT over three years ago — and the many competitive generative AI services that have launched since. Its stock price has soared, making it a $4.6 trillion market cap company.  The world’s leading high-performance GPU maker has used its ballooning fortunes to significantly increase investments in startups, particularly in AI.  Nvidia has participated in nearly 67 venture capital deals in 2025, surpassing the 54 deals the company completed in all of 2024, according to PitchBook data. Note…

If 2025 was the year AI got a vibe check, 2026 will be the year the tech gets practical. The focus is already shifting away from building ever-larger language models and toward the harder work of making AI usable. In practice, that involves deploying smaller models where they fit, embedding intelligence into physical devices, and designing systems that integrate cleanly into human workflows.  The experts TechCrunch spoke to see 2026 as a year of transition, one that evolves from brute-force scaling to researching new architectures, from flashy demos to targeted deployments, and from agents that promise autonomy to ones that…

Be it a friend, partner, or family member, every video game fan on the planet has tried and either failed or succeeded in getting a loved one into gaming. It’s hard not to share a passion with somebody else, and this goes to all hobbies from collecting stamps to hiking to getting into race car driving. Related 8 Best Casual Couch Co-Op Games These are some of the best, casual co-op titles players can enjoy. It used to be difficult to find a game nearly anyone could play, but thanks to the mid-2000s, more casual games started to arise along…

Coinbase intends to prioritize stablecoins, its Ethereum layer-2 Base and building out its exchange products past cryptocurrencies throughout 2026, according to CEO Brian Armstrong.In a New Year’s social media post Armstrong reaffirmed Coinbase’s “everything exchange” strategy, which includes products like prediction markets, equities and commodities.At its year-end conference in December, Coinbase launched stock trading and prediction markets as part of its push. The company has also rebranded its wallet app as an “everything app,” adding social networking and onchain features. Coinbase isn’t alone in broadening its product suite. Rival crypto exchanges are increasingly bundling services in a bid to become…