Malaysia and Indonesia become the first countries to block Musk’s Grok over sexualized AI images

Malaysia and Indonesia become the first countries to block Musk’s Grok over sexualized AI images

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia and Indonesia have become the first countries to block Grok, the artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s company xAI, as concerns grow among global authorities that it is being misused to generate sexually explicit and nonconsensual images. There is growing scrutiny of generative AI tools that can produce…

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From Surrealism to Séances: The Art World’s Spiritual Turn

From Surrealism to Séances: The Art World’s Spiritual Turn

As museums and biennials revisit Surrealism, outsider practices and Indigenous cosmologies, a pattern emerges that suggests a renewed turn toward spirituality, mysticism and alternative knowledge systems as tools for meaning-making in a moment of political, technological and ecological crisis. Courtesy Archivio Chiara Fumai Riding the continued momentum of 2022’s The Milk of Dreams and the…

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Nuclear Fusion Energy’s Long Promised Future Starts to Look Commercially Real

Nuclear Fusion Energy’s Long Promised Future Starts to Look Commercially Real

Type One Energy plans to build a fusion power plan on the site of the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Bull Run coal-fired power plant in Oak Ridge, Tenn. Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images After decades of being dismissed as perpetually 30 years away, fusion energy—power generated through nuclear fusion reactions—is increasingly viewed as a…

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Golden Globes: Hunting Wives’ Brittany Snow Teases Character’s Death in Season 2

Golden Globes: Hunting Wives’ Brittany Snow Teases Character’s Death in Season 2

Brittany Snow is bracing for a bloodbath. The Hunting Wives star—who walked the red carpet at the 2026 Golden Globes in Beverly Hills, Calif., in a white Danielle Frankel gown with Effy jewelry—confirmed production is underway for the second season of the Netflix drama, hinting that fans will continue to have very strong reactions. “Someone dies,” she told Entertainment Tonight in an…

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Heated Rivalry Author Rachel Reid Announces New Book Sequel

Heated Rivalry Author Rachel Reid Announces New Book Sequel

“Connor is very expressive. Ilya is kind of like this Slavic rock,” the 24-year-old—who  presented alongside Connor, 25, during the awards ceremony—continued. “Then Shane is also like a dense brick. So, you have the Slavic rock and the dense brick.”  And though the show’s depiction of a queer love story has touched the hearts of many,…

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Stellan Skarsgård Jokes His 8 Kids Taught Him to Play a “Bad Father” During Golden Globes Speech

Stellan Skarsgård Jokes His 8 Kids Taught Him to Play a “Bad Father” During Golden Globes Speech

Golden Globes 2026 Biggest Winners: Timothée Chalamet, One Battle After Another & More Stellan Skarsgård is getting sentimental—kind of.  As the Sentimental Value star picked up his trophy for Best Supporting Male Actor in a Motion Picture at the 2026 Golden Globes Jan. 11, he took a moment to thank a special group of people who inadvertently helped him…

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