French authorities raided X's Paris office and summoned Elon Musk for questioning as part of an ongoing investigation into illegal content on the platform, according to the Paris public prosecutors office. The year-long probe recently expanded to include concerns about the Grok chatbot disseminating Holocaust-denial claims and sexually explicit deepfakes, Ars Technica reported.
Europol is assisting French authorities in the investigation, which concerns a range of suspected criminal offenses linked to the functioning and use of the platform, including the dissemination of illegal content and other forms of online criminal activity. Europol's cybercrime center provided an analyst on the ground, Ars Technica noted.
In other tech news, Alibaba's Qwen team of AI researchers released Qwen3-Coder-Next, a specialized 80-billion-parameter model designed for "vibe coding," VentureBeat reported. The model is released on a permissive Apache 2.0 license, enabling commercial use.
Databricks launched its Lakebase service, now generally available, aiming to create a new category for OLTP (online transaction processing) and operational databases, according to VentureBeat. The Lakebase service has been in development since June 2025 and is based on technology Databricks gained via its acquisition of PostgreSQL database provider. Sean Michael Kerner of VentureBeat noted that Databricks coined the term 'data lakehouse' five years ago.
Meanwhile, Matt Schlicht, who runs the ecommerce assistant Octane AI, launched Moltbook, an experimental social network designed just for AI agents to post, comment, and follow each other while humans simply observe, Wired reported. The social network for bots mirrors the user interface of a stripped-down Reddit, even cribbing its old tagline: "The front page of the agent internet."
In Michigan, the only active nickel mine in the US, Eagle Mine, is testing a new process developed by the startup Allonnia to extract more nickel from lower-quality ore, according to MIT Technology Review. The process involves mixing a fermentation-derived broth with concentrated ore to capture and remove impurities. Kent Sorenson, Allonnia's chief technology officer, said this approach could help companies continue operating sites that, like Eagle Mine, have burned.
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