The Download: OpenAI’s US military deal, and Grok’s CSAM lawsuit

This newsletter roundup covers multiple AI-related developments, including OpenAI's partnership with the US military (potentially for applications like selecting strike targets), xAI's Grok facing a lawsuit over generating non-consensual intimate images (deepfakes, or synthetic media created to impersonate real people), and China approving the world's first commercial brain chip (a BCI, or brain-computer interface that reads signals from the brain) for medical use. The piece also highlights concerns from AI safety experts, including OpenAI's own wellbeing team opposing a new 'adult mode' feature.