French prosecutors summoned Elon Musk to question him regarding the deepfake use on his platform X and AI chatbot Grok. Musk did not appear for the voluntary interview, following earlier comments he made criticizing French authorities.

Elon Musk did not appear on Monday for a voluntary interview with Paris prosecutors, who had summoned the American tech billionaire over a probe into his social media platform X and AI chatbot Grok. Prosecutors said they had “taken note of the absence of the first people summoned,” without mentioning Musk’s name. The billionaire had dubbed the French authorities “retards” weeks earlier in a French-language X post. “The presence or absence [of the people summoned] is not an obstacle to continuing...