93 m. ago AIMEE WALSH: 'Elon Musk's Grok exposes a dark new way women and girls are being abused online'

Digital abuse has a terrifying new weapon. Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, Grok, is being used to degrade and humiliate women and girls of all ages - and the law is failing to protect them.

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2 h. ago Musk v Starmer: will UK ban X over Grok nudification? | The Latest

The UK government is threatening Elon Musk’s X with a ban. The social media platform is under pressure from ministers over the use of the Grok AI tool to manipulate images of women and children to remove their clothes. Ofcom, the UK’s media regulator, has launched an investigation into X – and the government says it will support a ban if Ofcom decides to press ahead. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago 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 imageryPete Hegseth announced on Monday that the US military will begin integrating Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence tool, Grok, into Pentagon networks.Speaking at the SpaceX headquarters in Texas on Monday evening, the US defense secretary said that the integration of Grok into military systems would go live later this month. “Very soon we will have the world’s leading AI models on every unclassified and classified network throughout our department,” Hegseth said. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Elon Musk says he wants to copy Star Trek by setting up a real

Multi-billionaire wants to build real Starfleet Academy to train astronauts to fly in 'epic futuristic spaceships' to far-flung star systems where they 'may meet aliens'

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6 h. ago X down for thousands as outrage on Elon Musk's platform hits US and UK users

Social media giant X has been hit with tens of thousands of outrage reports from user in the UK and US who are getting error messages or constant loading screens while using the platform

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7 h. ago Watch live: Ministers questioned over Grok AI row as Keir Starmer vows to end abuse on X

Watch live as technology secretary Liz Kendall and culture secretary Lisa Nandy are questioned over AI and copyright on Tuesday (13 January).

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8 h. ago Police urged to investigate Elon Musk and X after deepfake scandal

Police have been urged to investigate Elon Musk and X by the Liberal Democrats party amid an explosion of sexualised deepfakes on the social media platform in the last week

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9 h. ago Labour’s first ‘Twitter tsar’ says ministers should get off ‘cesspit’ X immediately

Kerry McCarthy said 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

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10 h. ago 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

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10 h. ago Apple picks Google Gemini to power Siri and other AI in blow to ChatGPT

Elon Musk, who runs his own AI startup, criticised the partnership as ‘an unreasonable concentration of power’ for Google

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11 h. ago Has Keir Starmer quietly quit X? PM hasn't tweeted in nearly a week since row erupted over Elon Musk's Grok creating sexualised images of children

The Prime Minister hasn't posted on the social media platform in nearly a week, since 8 January, leading to speculation he might be deliberately snubbing the site.

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11 h. ago Can X be banned under UK law and what are the other options?

UK media regulator is investigating whether X has breached the Online Safety Act – what could happen next?The UK government is threatening Elon Musk’s X with the nuclear option under the country’s online safety laws: a ban. The social media platform is under pressure from ministers after it allowed the Grok AI tool, which is integrated within the app, to generate indecent images of unsuspecting women and children.The government has said it will support the media regulator Ofcom, which has launched an investigation into X, if it decides to push ahead with a ban. But is such a move likely? Continue reading...

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12 h. ago How Iran is ‘jamming’ Starlink satellites to stop horror of protest crackdown reaching the outside world

Tehran’s near-total internet blackout has kept the scale of the government’s ruthless crackdown hidden

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12 h. ago Musk ‘ideologically committed’ to pushing free speech boundaries – Louise Haigh

The former minister also said the British lawmaking process is not fit for purpose when it comes to regulating new technology.

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15 h. ago Transfer news LIVE: Carrick to Man Utd today, Real Madrid axe Alonso, Spurs' £35m deal, Arsenal latest

Manchester United are closing in on an interim boss after a week with Michael Carrick set to return whilst ex-Liverpool man Xabi Alonso has left Real Madrid and Tottenham pursue Conor Gallagher

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19 h. ago Pentagon is embracing Musk's Grok AI chatbot as it draws global outcry

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok will join Google’s AI engine inside the Pentagon network

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20 h. ago Starmer warns Elon Musk if he cannot control nude deepfakes then 'we will' after AI chatbot Grok was used to 'undress' women and children

Keir Starmer last night warned Elon Musk to shut down an AI tool allowing users to create 'disgusting' images on his social media site, saying: 'If X cannot control Grok, we will.'

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21 h. ago Elon Musk says he’s seeking sole custody of son with Ashley St. Clair after she announces support of trans community

The conservative influencer announced last year that her son with the Tesla billionaire was born in September 2024

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22 h. ago Labour MP ‘baffled’ government still uses X after minister calls Grok’s sexualised images ‘weapons of abuse’

Charlotte Nichols calls on technology secretary to set out ‘red line’ social media firms must cross before government switches to alternative platforms

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24 h. ago Elon Musk’s inhuman AI is stripping women of their most fundamental rights

Editorial: It is entirely right that Liz Kendall, the technology secretary, should put the safety of women and girls first and protect them from the ‘hyper-pornographied slop’ pumped out by the Silicon Valley giants

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