Minnesota: Five-year old boy detained by ICE

US Immigration and Enforcement (ICE) officers this week detained five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos in Minnesota as he was returning home from preschool, with school officials and witnesses saying agents used the child to lure out and arrest his father.  The witnesses also said that the agents refused...

Minnesota: Five-year old boy detained by ICE

Minnesota: Five-year old boy detained by ICE

US Immigration and Enforcement (ICE) officers this week detained five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos in Minnesota as he was returning home from preschool, with school officials and witnesses saying agents used the child to lure out and arrest his father.  The witnesses also said that the agents refused...

Malaysia lifts ban on Grok after taking X at its word

Malaysia lifts ban on Grok after taking X at its word

After being one of the first countries in the world to block Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot, Malaysia has now lifted its ban. Along with Indonesia, the country moved swiftly to temporarily halt access to X's frequently controversial AI chatbot earlier this month, after multiple reports emerged of it bei...

AI labs wage a reputational knife fight at Davos

This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. The leaders of the three preeminent frontier AI labs spent this week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, taking shots at each other like can...