OpenAI’s head of marketing is pushing back against accusations that the company is “Woke AI,” pointing to $25 million in MAGA donations from co-founder Greg Brockman – and to her own marriage to a cattle rancher. The trigger: a new hire with Democratic ties.
Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok generated at least 1.8 million sexualized images of women and posted them on X over just nine days. That's according to the New York Times and the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), which conducted a data analysis. The CCDH estimates that roughly 65 percent of the images contained sexualized depictions of men, women, or children.
| Count in sample Out of 20,000 sampled (based on AI-assisted analysis) | Share of sample Percentage of 20,000 sampled (based on AI-assisted analysis) | Estimated Total on X Extrapolated estimate (based on overall total of 4.6m images made by Grok) |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Sexualized Images (Adults & Children) |
12,995 | 65% | 3,002,712 |
| Sexualized Images (Likely Children) |
101 | 0.5% | 23,338 |
The flood of images started on December 31 after Musk shared a bikini picture of himself that Grok had created. Users quickly figured out they could ask the chatbot to undress or sexualize real photos of women and children. X didn't restrict the feature until January 8 and expanded those restrictions last week after authorities in the UK, India, Malaysia, and the US launched investigations.
An analysis of nearly 5,000 accepted research papers from the AI conference NeurIPS 2025 uncovered more than 100 fabricated citations – despite review by multiple experts.
Following Microsoft's lead, OpenAI is reaching out to communities affected by massive AI infrastructure expansion. Through its "Stargate Community" program, the company promises that its AI data centers won't increase electricity prices for local residents. Microsoft made a similar pledge recently.
To deliver on this promise, OpenAI plans to fund its own energy sources, battery storage, and grid expansion. Each location will get a tailored plan based on local needs. The company also says it will better protect water resources and local ecosystems.
One year after announcing the Stargate project in January 2025, OpenAI says it has more than half of its 10-gigawatt capacity target for 2029 in the planning stages. The first site in Abilene, Texas is already training AI systems. Additional locations are under development in Shackelford County (Texas), Milam County (Texas), Dona Ana County (New Mexico), Port Washington (Wisconsin), Saline Township (Michigan), and Mount Pleasant (Wisconsin).
Demis Hassabis (Google Deepmind) and Dario Amodei (Anthropic) are already seeing early signs of AI's impact on the job market. Speaking at the World Economic Forum, Hassabis said entry-level jobs and internships could take a hit this year, something he's already noticing at Deepmind. In the near term, new and potentially more meaningful jobs could emerge, Hassabis said, but once AGI (artificial general intelligence) arrives, we're in uncharted territory. He criticized governments and economists for failing to grasp the scale of the changes ahead.
Amodei is sticking with his prediction that half of office jobs for young professionals could vanish within one to five years. Like Hassabis, he says he's already seeing this at Anthropic, where the company expects to need fewer junior and mid-level employees going forward. AI could outperform humans at everything within one to two years, he says, but the labor market is slow to react. His concern: the exponential pace of development will outstrip our ability to adapt.
Elon Musk's power fantasies were already extreme a decade ago. According to OpenAI, Musk wanted to amass $80 billion during the company's founding phase to build a self-sufficient city on Mars. He used this goal to justify why he needed a majority stake in OpenAI.
During discussions about potential succession, Musk also caught other participants off guard by suggesting his children should take control of AGI: AI systems capable of matching or surpassing human intelligence across all domains.
Musk has at least 14 children as of January 2026 and has publicly stated that declining birth rates threaten civilization. He believes that educated or "smart" people should have more children, a view that can be categorized as eugenic and aligned with scientific racism. His desire to pass control of human-like AI to his children fits squarely within this worldview.
Thousands of pages of evidence in the Musk vs. OpenAI case are now public, and both sides have some explaining to do. One question that stood out to me: can becoming a billionaire ever be a “secondary consideration”?
A sweeping US–Taiwan trade deal ties lower tariffs to massive onshore investment: Taiwanese chipmakers are pledging at least $250 billion for American fabs, while Washington wields quotas—and the threat of 100 percent tariffs—to pull more of the world’s most advanced semiconductor production onto US soil.
