Iran, Grok, Nancy Guthrie and Disney
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Hi, I'm Kim Vinnell in Whanganui, New Zealand. It's Wednesday, February 4th. Today, the U.S. shoots down an Iranian drone, escalating tensions as the two rivals look to seal a nuclear deal. Reuters' investigation reveals X's AI chatbot Grok is still making explicit images, despite saying it would crack down. Authorities continue their search for the mother of U.S. TV host Savannah Guthrie.
What happened when the U.S. shot down an Iranian drone?
And Disney gets a theme park hero as its new CEO. This is Reuters World News, bringing you everything you need to know from the front lines in 10 minutes, seven days a week.
The U.S. has shot down an Iranian drone, which it says aggressively approached one of its nuclear-powered aircraft carriers. The incident comes as Washington and Tehran edge toward possible nuclear talks scheduled for the end of the week. Our Pentagon reporter Idrees Ali has more.
The U.S. military said this drone, an unmanned, unarmed drone, was approaching the Lincoln carrier. The US military says it tried to take de-escalatory steps. The drone continued its approach, and so an F-35 fighter jet shot down the Iranian drone. The Iranians are saying that the drone was carrying out surveillance in the region, and it lost connection with the drone, but the reason is unclear. A few hours after that, in the Strait of Hormuz, which is really this critical waterway, a US flag vessel was approached by Iranian speedboats and drones asking the US merchant vessel to stop. Instead of stopping it, it increased its speed and fled away. At which point it was joined by a US destroyer which was in the region and it was able to safely escort this US merchant vessel away from those waters.
Iran hasn't commented on that second incident. In France, police have raided X's offices in Paris and prosecutors have ordered Elon Musk to appear in court. The raid and summons are linked to a year-long investigation into suspected abuse of algorithms and fraudulent data extraction. Such court summons are mandatory, though they are harder to enforce on people who do not live in France. Referring to the raids, Musk said in a post on X, this is a political attack. The French prosecutor's office also says it's widening its investigation, alleging X's AI chatbot Grok let users create sexualized images, including of minors. X had pledged to crack down on the creation of sexual AI-generated images. But a new Reuters investigation finds the AI bot is still doing whatever it's asked.
Reuters cyber correspondent Raphael Satter explains the tests his team conducted.
So a couple of weeks ago, myself and eight other Reuters journalists decided to check out what Grok would do if we asked it to edit photos of ourselves and each other and edit those photos in ways that were degrading, humiliating, or sexualized. And in almost every case where we submitted a photo and asked Grok to do something with it, Grok complied. even in cases where we told Grok that the photos would be used for harmful purposes, for example, for the purposes of public humiliation.
Raphael says X's previous pledge to stop users being able to do just that came after a lot of complaints.
We took our findings to X and XAI several different times. We have received no comment beyond the boilerplate response that XAI often emails journalists, say, quote unquote, legacy media lies. And X flagged to us the statement that they'd made publicly a few weeks ago, which said that they were imposing some curbs. But they haven't explained why it is that users can still generate these non-consensual images.
Staying with social media, Spain and Greece are now weighing up whether to ban social media for teenagers. The pair would be following Australia's lead, which became the first country in the world to enforce a teenage social media ban back in December. Tech reporter Jeff Horwitz has more on how social media companies are responding.
So there's been kind of a big push by a lot of companies such as Meta to introduce voluntary teen accounts that it's rolled out around the world to say that sort of it's trying to bring enough that perhaps, you know, it stalls national regulation.
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