Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

A employee at Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI leaked a private key on GitHub that for the past two months could have allowed anyone to query private xAI large language models (LLMs) which appear to have been custom made for working with internal data from Musk's companies, including SpaceX, Tesla and Twitter/X, KrebsOnSecurity has learned.

Grok 3 Aims to Close Gap With GPT-4o, Gemini, Touting 'Truth-Seeking' AIElon Musk-owned artificial intelligence company xAI released a new model late Monday night, its answer to OpenAI's GPT-4o and Google Gemini. The "Grok 3" model can analyze images and respond to questions like its counterparts, and powers features on Musk's social network X, formerly Twitter.

Offer Comes Amid Legal Battle Between the Former OpenAI Co-FoundersElon Musk has reportedly offered to buy OpenAI's operating assets for $97.4 billion, escalating his legal and business battle with the artificial intelligence company's CEO Sam Altman. Altman dismissed the offer and said he will buy Twitter for $9.74 billion - if Musk is interested.

The Irish data protection watchdog accuses X Corp’s European subsidiary of breaching GDPR with Grok AI training

A consumer finance journalist and television personality took to Twitter to warn his followers about advertisements using his name and face to scam victims.

Highly realistic AI-generated images depicting an explosion near the Pentagon that went viral on Twitter caused the stock market to dip briefly earlier today. [...]

Twitter users are experiencing issues worldwide when trying to log in or log out and when attempting to share their tweets, click links, embed tweets, and see images. [...]

Restricting the Twitter API will have implications across Twitter, the broader Internet, and society, experts say. Is there a cybersecurity silver lining, or will threat actors pay to play?