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Elon Musk’s stubborn spin on Grok’s sexualized images controversy

Musk attempts to recast AI tool’s misuse. Plus, tech billionaires plot against a proposed California tax on their fortunes

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‘It will refuse to produce anything illegal’: Elon Musk rails against Grok backlash, but UK Prime Minister says ‘we’re not going to back down’

X CEO Elon Musk disputes image generation charges leveled at Grok AI.

TechRadar

Grok fallout: Tech giants must be held accountable for technology-assisted gender-based violence

The new image and video editing feature for xAI’s chatbot, Grok, has generated thousands of non-consensual, sexually explicit images of women and minors since Grok announced the editing feature on Christmas Eve. It was promoted as enabling the addition of Santa Claus to photos.

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Google's Nano Banana Pro hits key milestone, and it couldn't have come at a better time

Nano Banana Pro hasn't even been out for two full months, and the image generation model already crossed a major threshold when it matters most.

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Why Canada’s reaction to the Grok scandal is so muted in the midst of a global outcry

A global backlash is brewing against Grok, the AI chatbot owned by Elon Musk and embedded into the social media platform X, after recent reports revealed that Grok was being used to digitally undress women (“Put her into a very transparent mini-bikini,”) and pose them in sexually explicit positions.

The Conversation

Starmer ‘won’t back down’ in fight with Musk’s X over Grok AI sexualised images

‘We’ve made it clear that X has to act,’ the prime minister says

The Independent UK

X is acting to comply with UK law, Keir Starmer tells MPs amid Grok row

The PM said news the social media company was taking action on concerns Grok was producing sexualised images of women and children was welcome.

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Irish police investigating 200 reports of Grok child abuse material

Detective Chief Superintendent Barry Walsh said gardai remain in contact with the Irish media regulator Coimisiun na Mean.

Evening Standard

Irish police investigating hundreds of reports of Grok child abuse material

The committee was told there are currently 200 reports being investigated by the Irish police service

The Independent UK

Grok Is Signed Up For Pentagon Use Despite Global Outcry For Sexual Exploitation

The US Department of Defence plans to use Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot in military networks, sparking controversy amid global outcry over the tool's role in generating sexualised and deepfake content.

International Business Times UK

Use of AI to harm women has only just begun, experts warn

While Grok has introduced belated safeguards to prevent sexualised AI imagery, other tools have far fewer limits

The Guardian - UK

Elon Musk Breaks His Silence on the Terminator Style Threats Facing Our Future

Elon Musk breaks his silence on fears of AI turning on humanity, as Grok is compared to a real-life Terminator scenario.

International Business Times UK

Musk’s AI tool Grok will be integrated into Pentagon networks, Hegseth says

Defense secretary says AI tool will join military systems later this month as it comes under fire for sexual imagery

The Guardian - US

Musk Hosts Defense Secretary At SpaceX Days After $739M Contract, Announces Grok AI Pentagon Deployment

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth visited SpaceX days after $739M contract, announcing Grok AI deployment at Pentagon alongside Google's Gemini this month.

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Government accused of ‘muted and confusing’ response to Grok abusive images

Social Democrats leader Holly Cairns has called for criminal investigations into the production of distributions of child abuse images.

Roll Call

Senate passes bill targeting nonconsensual deepfake images

Passage follows furor over Elon Musk-owned X allowing the Grok AI chatbot to generate sexualized images of real people, including children.

The Independent UK

X down: Twitter not working amid major outage

Outage comes amid growing outrage over X’s AI tool, Grok, being used to create abusive and violent images

The Conversation

What can technology do to stop AI-generated sexualised images?

The global outcry over the sexualisation and nudification of photographs – including of children – by Grok, the chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI, has led to urgent discussions about how such technology should be more strictly regulated.

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Malaysia to take legal action against Elon Musk's X and xAI over misuse of Grok chatbot

Authorities said Grok was being misused to generate sexually explicit and non-consensual AI images.

The Independent UK

Labour’s first ‘Twitter tsar’ says ministers should get off ‘cesspit’ X immediately

Kerry McCarthy says X had ‘gone too far’ after its AI tool Grok was found to have been used to ‘undress’ images of people without consent and sexualise women and children

Windows Central

The UK outlaws deepfake nudes on X after Grok AI uproar — Sorry, Elon, it’s nothing to do with suppression of free speech

The UK is bringing into force a law that will make it illegal to create non-consensual intimate deepfake images after X's Grok AI was spotted generating sexually explicit images of real people without consent.

The Independent UK

Malaysia will take legal action against Musk's X and xAI over misuse of Grok chatbot

Malaysian authorities have announced legal action against Elon Musk's social media platform X and its AI unit xAI

The Independent UK

Irish minister says police would act if Grok-type platform was set up in someone’s basement

James Lawless also said the EU Artificial Intelligence Act, which is currently being introduced, would help regulate the industry

The Independent UK

Experts predict UK mortgage market ‘boom’ in 2026

Options for first-time buyers are reaching record highs, new data shows

Euronews

US Pentagon embraces Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot despite global backlash

'Very soon we will have the world’s leading AI models on every unclassified and classified network throughout our department,' US defence secretary Pete Hegseth said in a speech at Musk’s space flight company, SpaceX.

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