Lawsuit says AI giants made illegal deal on technology's slowdown

The lawsuit argues the leading AI companies violated antitrust laws when they agreed to coordinate slowdown efforts.

• Sep 19

Musk loses lawsuit against OpenAI

A California jury on Monday unanimously dismissed Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI and its top executives. CBS News legal contributor Jessica Levinson breaks down the case.

• May 18

Musk says he'll appeal OpenAI lawsuit dismissal

A California jury on Monday unanimously dismissed Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman. CBS News senior business and technology correspondent Jo Ling Kent reports.

• May 18

Jury to start deliberations in OpenAI trial

A nine-person jury will begin deliberations Monday in Elon Musk's $150 billion civil lawsuit against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Rachel Metz, artificial intelligence reporter for Bloomberg, joins with more.

• May 18

Jury selection begins in Musk-Altman legal battle

Jury selection began Monday in the legal battle between tech leaders Elon Musk and Sam Altman. CBS News senior business and technology correspondent Jo Ling Kent has the latest.

• Apr 27

Musk and Altman face off in federal court. Here's what to know.

The trial comes at a pivotal moment for AI, a technology poised to bring advancement that could also drastically reshape humanity.

• Apr 27

X office in Paris searched as prosecutor summons Musk for questioning

French officials search X's office in Paris and ask Elon Musk to answer questions about the platform amid a probe into its algorithms and AI functions.

• Feb 3

X and Grok AI users can still digitally undress people without consent

As the European Union announces an investigation, the Grok chatbot tells CBS News, "Yes, tools like me should face meaningful regulation."

• Jan 26

AI videos of child sexual abuse hit record highs in 2025, report finds

Analysts from the U.K.-based group the Internet Watch Foundation detected 3,440 AI videos of child sexual abuse last year, a 26,362% increase from 2024.

• Jan 16

Mother of Musk child sues over deepfake images

Elon Musk is facing a lawsuit from Ashley St. Clair, with whom he shares a child, over deepfakes of her undressed made by his AI chatbot Grok. CBS News legal contributor Jessica Levinson joins with analysis.

• Jan 15

Apple, Google face pressure to remove X and Grok from their app stores

Grok faces mounting scrutiny from government officials and advocacy groups after people used the AI chatbot to create sexualized images of minors and women.

• Jan 15

Woman says AI chatbot Grok generated sexual deepfake images of her

Ashley St. Clair, the mother of one of Elon Musk's children, alleges Grok generated and published sexual deepfake images of her without permission.

• Jan 13

Mother speaks out over AI chatbot Grok

Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok is facing intense criticism, accused of allowing X users to generate sexually explicit images of real women and children. One of the alleged victims is Ashley St. Clair, the mother of one of Musk's children. She said she discovered people used Grok to generate and publish sexualized deepfake images without her permission and share them on X. Musk has not responded to a request for comment.

• Jan 13

British regulators on Grok AI images

British regulators are investigating X for lewd AI images generated by Grok, the AI arm of Elon Musk's social platform. Michael Goodyear, an associate professor at New York Law School, joins CBS News with more.

• Jan 13

Pentagon adopting Musk's Grok AI despite growing backlash against it

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the Pentagon will start using Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok. The word comes days after Grok drew global outcry for generating highly sexualized deepfake images.

• Jan 13