NEW - Feds are finding Telegram groups sharing AI-generated child abuse material, alongside other horrific content. In a warrant, HSI states plainly Telegram "generally does not cooperate with law enforcement." But is all this enough to arrest Durov? forbes.com/sites/thomasbr…

Inside The Prompt this week: AI tools are helping North Koreans mass apply to remote IT jobs, American patriotism-themed pages with AI-generated content are spreading on Facebook and companies are opting for AI career coaches. forbes.com/sites/rashishr…

"Profits At Mar-a-Lago Have Quadrupled Since Trump Left The White House" me, for @forbes forbes.com/sites/zachever…

New: Y Combinator has entered defense tech with its first weapons startup, Ares, which hopes to make anti-ship missiles smaller and cheaper than Lockheed Martin and Raytheon. YC's partner told Forbes: "The competitors are dinosaurs." forbes.com/sites/davidjea…

As more states pass laws banning or restricting phones at school—and districts institute their own rules—a Silicon Valley startup that makes lockable phone pouches is seeing its business explode. On Yondr, the tech getting tech out of America's classrooms:forbes.com/sites/alexandr…

"Florida Woman Bequeathed Donald Trump Condo In Senior Community" A Publix employee, pets and the ex-president were all included in the will of a Trump supporter. me, for Forbes forbes.com/sites/zachever…

🚨 NEW🚨 The most disturbing use of AI I've seen to date. A man charged with multiple child exploitation crimes took a GoPro to Disney World, and harvested images of kids to create child sexual abuse material with Stable Diffusion AI, cops claim. forbes.com/sites/thomasbr…

Scoop! Bolt is threatening legal action against the lead investor in its wild $450m fundraising round, per email from CEO Justin Grooms. Silverbear Capital said it was wrongly named as investor. Bolt says it's ready to "enforce our rights vigorously." forbes.com/sites/iainmart…

The way the turkeys responded

This is why the internet was created.

Elon confirms that’s xAI’s supercomputer is called Colossus, which we first reported back in July

Back-to-school looks different this year as tens of thousands of students across America are forced to part with their smartphones. Meet Yondr, the tech getting tech out of America's classrooms — and seeing its business explode a decade after its launch: forbes.com/sites/alexandr…

Scoop: Ilya Sutskever’s three-month old AI lab Safe Superintelligence has raised $1B. Valuation is $5B, sources tell Krystal Hu, Anna Tong, and me. We have the exclusive interview with the former OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever and his SSI cofounders: reuters.com/technology/art…

News: Nichole Wischoff and her VC firm Wischoff Ventures have raised $50 million for her third fund. I spoke to the Nashville investor about her difficult childhood, going viral on social media and how she's backing the "new supply chain" for Forbes. forbes.com/sites/alexkonr…

My Grok AI-curated “stories for you” featured a topic called “Musk Endorses Holocaust Revisionism” with a photo of Musk in a Nazi uniform. So I clicked in to see what it was about and the first post was from Musk hyping up how good Grok AI is.

Scoop: In an email to shareholders, Bolt founder Ryan Breslow thanked a dozen investors for supporting him and the $450 million deal. Only, some of them told Forbes they actually hadn't. Meanwhile, BlackRock & others have filed a restraining order in court to block the round.

Breslow now faces another obstacle. BlackRock, along with Hedosophia and Untitled Ventures, applied for a restraining order in Delaware’s Court of the Chancery to halt Bolt’s Series F. forbes.com/sites/iainmart…

“Montauk Ventures has not and does not support the financing,” Philip Krim, the founder of Montauk Ventures and mattress startup Casper, told Forbes. “I am not sure why Ryan included me. He did not have my permission and I do not support this financing.”

lol. Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, privately heaped praise on a major religious-rights group for fighting efforts to reform the nation’s highest court — efforts sparked, in large part, by her husband’s ethical lapses.

The annual results for Britain’s best (?) startup just dropped: GMV: $6.6bn up 20% Users: 305m annual up 27% Revenue: $1.3bn up 20% Profits: $485m up 16% Dividend: $485.4m up 40% If you can’t guess these are the numbers for OnlyFans’ parent company Fenix