Ofcom has said it is aware of serious concerns raised about Grok creating undressed images of people. Ofcom has said it is aware of serious concerns raised about Grok creating undressed images of people. Liz Kendall calls on X to'deal with this urgently' while expert criticises'worryingly slow' government response Tue 6 Jan 2026 11.56 ESTLast modified on Tue 6 Jan 2026 12.17 EST The UK technology secretary has called a wave of images of women and children with their clothes digitally removed generated by Elon Musk's Grok AI "appalling and unacceptable in decent society". After thousands of intimate deepfakes circulated online, Liz Kendall said X, Musk's social media platform, needed to "deal with this urgently" and she backed the UK regulator Ofcom to "take any enforcement action it deems necessary". "We cannot and will not allow the proliferation of these demeaning and degrading images, which are disproportionately aimed at women and girls," she said.

Amazon Employees for Climate Justice says that over 1,000 workers have signed a petition raising "serious concerns" about the company's "aggressive rollout" of artificial intelligence tools. Over 1,000 Amazon employees have anonymously signed an open letter warning that the company's allegedly "all-costs-justified, warp-speed approach to AI development" could cause "staggering damage to democracy, to our jobs, and to the earth," an internal advocacy group announced on Wednesday. Four members of Amazon Employees for Climate Justice tell WIRED that they began asking workers to sign the letter last month. After reaching their initial goal, the group published on Wednesday the job titles of the Amazon employees who signed and disclosed that more than 2,400 supporters from other organizations, including Google and Apple, have also joined in. Backers inside Amazon include high-ranking engineers, senior product leaders, marketing managers, and warehouse staff spanning many divisions of the company.

Summary and Contributions: *** Post rebuttal update *** I have read the authors' response and considered the modifications they'll introduce based on the feedback. Despite having read all the reviews and the rebuttal, I continue to have serious concerns about this paper and upon further investigation after reading the rebuttal I would like to clarify why I am reducing my score: * Proposition 1 Corollary 1: These are very poorly phrased and the proofs are quite haphazardly written, e.g. Proposition 1 is also quite uninteresting and it's not clear what its significance is; the'proof' is trivial. SVD minimizes the Frob norm) is a straightforward proofs present in any advanced linear algebra textbook. Our contributions include a theoretically motivated analysis" (lines 44-45).

When your mailbag brims with 25,000 letters and emails every day, deciding which to answer first is daunting. When lurking within are pleas for help from some of the country's most vulnerable people, the stakes only get higher. That is the challenge facing the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) as correspondence floods in from benefit applicants and claimants – of which there are more than 20 million, including pensioners, in the UK. The DWP thinks it may have found a solution in using artificial intelligence to read it all first – including handwritten missives. Human reading used to take weeks and could leave the most vulnerable people waiting for too long for help.

Video recorded by a passenger at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport this year shows a federal agent seizing a traveler's bag. The Justice Department has now ordered the DEA to halt random searches at transit hubs. The Drug Enforcement Administration is no longer allowed to randomly search travelers at airports and other transit hubs after a scathing report from the Justice Department found "serious concerns" with the practice. DEA agents failed to properly document searches, may have illegally targeted minorities and, in at least one case, paid an airline employee tens of thousands of dollars over several years to suggest targets for searches, according to the report released Thursday by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz. The deputy attorney general ordered the DEA to suspend the random searches Nov. 12 after seeing a draft of the memo.

Paper summary: The paper proposed a learning based hybrid proximal gradient method for composite minimization problems. The iteration is divided into two modules: the learning module does data fidelity minimization with certain network-based priors; consequently the optimization module generates strict convergence propagations by applying proximal gradient feedback on the output of the learning module. The generated iterates were shown to be a Cauchy sequence converging to the critical points of the original objective. The method was applied to image restoration tasks with performance evaluated. Comments: The core idea is to develop a learning based optimization module to incorporate domain knowledge into conventional proximal gradient descent procedure.

The military has its eye on artificial intelligence solutions to everything from data analysis to surveillance, maintenance and medical care, but before the Defense Department moves full steam ahead into an AI future, they're laying out some ethical principles to live by. "The United States, together with our allies and partners, must accelerate the adoption of AI and lead in its national security applications to maintain our strategic position, prevail on future battlefields, and safeguard the rules-based international order," said Esper wrote. "AI technology will change much about the battlefield of the future, but nothing will change America's steadfast commitment to responsible and lawful behavior." The list is the result of a 15-month study by the Defense Innovation Board, which is made up of academics and executives in tech and business, who presented their proposed principles in a public forum at Georgetown University in October. According to Esper's Monday memo, the Pentagon pledges that its AI efforts will be: 1) Responsible, 2) Equitable, 3) Traceable, 4) Reliable and 5) Governable.

A code of practice should govern when police forces deploy facial recognition technology, the information commissioner has said. It comes after South Wales Police was found to have acted lawfully when a shopper complained his human rights were breached when he was photographed. An investigation by commissioner Elizabeth Denham has raised "serious concerns" over use of the technology. Ms Denham called on the government to introduce a statutory code of practice. Ed Bridges had brought a legal challenge after he was photographed shopping in Cardiff in 2017, and the following year at a peaceful protest against the arms trade.

The Northrop Grumman B-2 Stealth Bomber comes in to land at RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire on September 11th, 2019 - Close up underneath photos of the B-2 bombers - the world's most expensive and secretive planes - returning from a training exercise from Iceland. Senior Air Force leaders believe that current shortages in the U.S. bomber fleet are putting the service, and the nation, at tremendous risk of enemy attack. The U.S. Air Force needs as many as 225 bomber aircraft to meet current and future threats presented by rivals such as Russia and China, according to Gen. Timothy Ray, Commander of Global Strike Command and Strategic Command. Speaking at the 2019 Air Force Association Air, Space and Cyber Conference, Ray said the Air Force bomber inventory needs to jump from roughly 156 up to more than 220. "The number is North of 225. The B-1s and B-2 are older airplanes," Ray said at the conference.