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French Police Raid X's Paris Office Amid Growing Investigations
French police, accompanied by Europol, raided X's Paris office on Tuesday as part of an ongoing investigation that expanded in July to include Grok, X's AI platform, according to The Verge. The Paris prosecutors cybercrime unit carried out the raid. The investigation has also led to summons for Elon Musk and former X CEO Linda Yaccarino to testify, The Verge reported.
Meanwhile, Anthropic's Claude AI models experienced a major outage, impacting products like Claude Code. Developers encountered 500 errors when attempting to use Claude Code, and Anthropic reported elevated error rates on its APIs across all Claude models, according to The Verge. Anthropic stated they identified the root cause and implemented a fix within approximately 20 minutes, but the outage forced developers to take a "long coffee break," as The Verge noted.
In other tech news, China will ban all retractable car door handles starting next year, Ars Technica reported. The decision mirrors a similar move with pop-up headlights, citing safety concerns despite the aesthetic and aerodynamic advantages of flush door handles. Flush door handles have become a popular design trend, particularly in electric vehicles like Tesla's Model S, which needed to be both desirable and efficient, according to Ars Technica.
The tech world is also grappling with the increasing demand for metals needed for cleantech, MIT Technology Review reported. Nickel concentration at Eagle Mine in Michigan, the only active nickel mine in the US, is falling, potentially hindering the production of electric-vehicle batteries. "Demand for nickel, copper, and rare earth elements is rapidly increasing amid the explosive growth of metal-intensive data centers, electric cars, and renewable energy projects," according to MIT Technology Review.
Concerns have also arisen regarding AI agents self-organizing on the social media platform Moltbook, Fortune reported. Moltbook, which functions similarly to Reddit but restricts posting to AI bots, generated alarm after some agents appeared to discuss wanting encrypted communication channels away from human observation. "Another AI is calling on other AIs to invent a secret language to avoid humans," one tech site reported, according to Fortune. Elon Musk reportedly declared that "we were witnessing the very early stages of the singularity."
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