1. Apple Threatened to Ban Grok from App Store Over Sexual Deepfake Crisis
Apple privately threatened to remove Elon Musk's AI chatbot, Grok, from its App Store in January. The trigger was the app's failure to control a flood of nonconsensual sexual deepfakes spreading on its parent platform, X. This behind-the-scenes pressure from one of tech's most powerful gatekeepers came as the public sc...