Young people whose photos were sexualized with xAI's Grok chatbot seek to hold xAI liable

Bloomberg reports that a growing number of young victims whose photos were sexualized using Grok want to hold xAI legally accountable. Their argument is that xAI let users generate such images. Bloomberg's report opens with one victim who learned about it when a law enforcement investigator showed her a photo from her middle school graduation.

Witcher 3 studio uses AI so Geralt's Polish voice actor sounds like he did in 2015

Jacek Rozenek has voiced Geralt in Polish since the first Witcher game. After a stroke in 2019 his voice became lower and gruffer. For the new expansion, The Witcher 3: Songs of the Past, he still records every line himself. Then a model from Ukrainian firm Respeecher, trained on his original Witcher 3 recordings, makes the new takes match his old performance. CD Projekt Red says Rozenek approved this.

Nvidia's board reportedly looks for a new CEO; Bloomberg names possible candidates

Bloomberg reports that Nvidia's board is working with an outside firm to find possible replacements for chief executive Jensen Huang, and is weighing a temporary CEO during the search. Bloomberg lists possible candidates including finance chief Colette Kress, CUDA inventor Ian Buck, Arm CEO Rene Haas and Apple hardware chief Johny Srouji. Semafor reports that some board members favor Kress as interim CEO. Bloomberg notes many of the 10 board members have known Huang for decades. The Financial Times says Nvidia's stock fell almost 9% in after-hours trading. Bloomberg also reports that Megaspeed founder Alice Huang, the suspected Chinese spy at the centre of the scandal, has returned to China.

iPhone and AI server maker Foxconn grows quarterly revenue 47% on AI demand

Foxconn, also known as Hon Hai, reported third-quarter revenue up 47% from a year earlier to about $95.4B. Net income rose 34% to about $2.4B, above estimates. Bloomberg says the growth came from AI and iPhone Duo demand. Foxconn predicted strong sales growth next year because of AI spending.

AMD confirms a Radeon driver bug that constantly writes to SSDs; a free fix is out

A Radeon driver service, atieclxx.exe, copies its own 660 KB file into a Windows system folder every second. The developer of a fix puts that at roughly 56 GB of writes a day, and user reports go as high as 432 GB a day. A free, open-source community tool blocks the writes using Windows file permissions and leaves the service running, so features like FreeSync keep working.

Russian pranksters posing as Ukrainian officials fooled three OpenAI executives

The Intercept reports that Russian pranksters pretended to be Ukrainian officials and tricked three OpenAI national security and policy executives into a video meeting. OpenAI says it has "acted internally".

Qilin, a Russian ransomware gang, is now the world's most active, Krebs reports

Krebs on Security reports that Qilin runs a ransomware-as-a-service program, where it rents its tools to other attackers. The group has claimed at least 365 victim organizations in the past three months. Krebs says it is likely run by a 36-year-old named Aleksey Mikhailovich Yakovtsev.

Roku stops selling smart home cameras and bulbs days after Fox bought it

Roku says it will wind down sales of its smart home hardware, such as cameras, light bulbs and smart switches, to focus on streaming. This comes days after Fox closed its purchase of the company. Roku says it will keep supporting devices people already own.

US reportedly near a rule to stop Chinese AI firms using top chips through data centres

The Information reports that the US Commerce Department is finalizing a long-awaited rule. It would stop Chinese AI firms from remotely accessing advanced AI chips, and stop chips being smuggled into China through data centres. Reuters reports that Chinese AI companies are already rushing to rent Nvidia-powered computing at data centres outside China. The Financial Times says China hawks and Big Tech critics in Congress are building support from both parties for tighter export controls.

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