Ben Goggin

Deputy Technology Editor

I'm an award-winning journalist covering technology and the internet at NBC News. In addition to overseeing the work of a team of reporters, my own reporting focuses on child safety online, internet subcultures, online extremism and new influence.

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I'm an award-winning journalist covering technology and the internet at NBC News. In addition to overseeing the work of a team of reporters, my own reporting focuses on child safety online, internet subcultures, online extremism and new influence.

Do you have a news tip you want to share with our journalists? Visit NBC News Tips to learn more.


Latest from Ben Goggin

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Paris prosecutors summon Elon Musk after raid on X's French offices

Prosecutors in Paris said they asked Elon Musk to appear for questioning after searching X's offices in as part of a probe into sexual deepfakes.

Ashley St. Clair, the mother of one of Elon Musk's children, sues xAI over Grok sexual images

Ashley St. Clair, the mother of one of Elon Musk’s children, sued Musk’s xAI artificial intelligence company Thursday.

Elon Musk's X limits some sexual deepfakes after backlash, but Grok will still make the images

Elon Musk’s controversial Grok artificial intelligence model appears to have been restricted in part on one app, while remaining largely unchanged on another

The mother of one of Elon Musk's children says his AI bot won't stop creating sexualized images of her

When Ashley St. Clair asked Grok, the generative artificial intelligence reply bot built into the X platform, to stop creating sexually suggestive pictures of her, Grok said it would stop.
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Australian authorities ignored warning signs of rising antisemitism, some Jewish leaders say

For the past couple of years, leaders in Australia’s Jewish community have been seeing a rise in antisemitism and urging the country’s leaders to act.
79d ago

X’s new location labels unmask users. Insiders say the idea was rejected for years.

Advocates for transparency cheered when X, the app owned by tech billionaire Elon Musk, rolled out a new feature that disclosed the country locations of users.
85d ago

Larry Summers going on leave at Harvard as university investigates ties to Jeffrey Epstein

Larry Summers announced he is resigning from OpenAI's board of directors, days after he said he was stepping back from public commitments.
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'I am deeply ashamed': Larry Summers to step back from public commitments after new Epstein emails

Sen. Elizabeth Warren had called for institutions affiliated with Summers, who served as treasury secretary during the Clinton administration, to sever ties with him.
86d ago

Many internet services disrupted after Cloudflare warns of service issues

Many popular internet destinations appeared to be suffering from service issues after Cloudflare said it was dealing with "an internal service degradation."
105d ago

What Trump and Xi did and didn't agree upon in their meeting

From fentanyl to rare earths, President Donald Trump’s highly anticipated meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping saw the world’s two biggest economies ease their trade tensions, or at least some of them.

Trump lowers fentanyl tariffs on China, while Xi delays rare earth export controls

President Donald Trump said Thursday after meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping that he was lowering tariffs in exchange for a crackdown on fentanyl and that he would visit China in April.