French prosecutors suspect Musk encouraged deepfakes row to inflate X value

The social media network's Grok AI chatbot stirred outrage earlier this year over it generating images of women and girls in minimal attire without their consent. "The controversy sparked by sexually explicit deepfakes generated by Grok (X's AI) may have been deliberately generated in order to artificially boost the value of companies X and X AI," the Paris prosecutor's office said, confirming a report in Le Monde newspaper on Friday. This could have been done towards "the planned June 2026 stock...