A fourth plaintiff has joined the class action against xAI, alleging her stepfather turned a photo of her at 11 into more than 7,000 explicit images -- while xAI has sued Minnesota to overturn the first US ban on nudification tools.

The $3.48m trial that cleared Australia's under-16 social media ban cites journal papers whose identifiers resolve to nothing, and its authors conceded ChatGPT was involved only after the Guardian found its metadata inside four of the report's own links.

Candidates in 40% of US races and 90% of states now list AI and data centres on their websites -- ahead of cryptocurrency, Israel, manufacturing and race -- after public opinion on data centres moved 49 points in nine months.