64 m. ago Liverpool transfer news: Dominik Szoboszlai deal 'agreed' as Leipzig winger shares dream

The latest Liverpool transfer news as Dominik Szoboszlai 'agrees' a deal despite interest from Real Madrid and Bayern Munich, while the Reds' interest in a Yan Diomande takes a fresh turn

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74 m. ago Stockport Pyramid has become the 'buffet restaurant of dreams'

It captured public imagination quite like no other in 2025 with its transformation of the iconic Stockport Pyramid - and the number of diners who have visited The Royal Nawaab is staggering.

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76 m. ago The horrific 'nude' AI pictures being posted online without consent

An artificial intelligence chatbot within X has been used in recent days to create sexualised and nude images of adults and children without consent. Urgent calls have now been made for action to be taken against the 'abusive' tool on the popular platform. James Holt reports.

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2 h. ago Indonesia first country to block Grok over sexualised images of adults and children

The move comes after governments and regulators from Europe to Asia have condemned and some have opened inquiries into sexualised content on the app

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2 h. ago Lamar wants to have children with his girlfriend. The problem? She’s entirely AI

As synthetic personas become an increasingly normal part of life, meet the people falling for their chatbot loversLamar remembered the moment of betrayal like it was yesterday. He’d gone to the party with his girlfriend but hadn’t seen her for over an hour, and it wasn’t like her to disappear. He slipped down the hallway to check his phone. At that point, he heard murmurs coming from one of the bedrooms and thought he recognised his best friend Jason’s low voice. As he pushed the door ajar, they were both still scrambling to throw their clothes on; her shirt was unbuttoned, while Jason struggled to cover himself. The image of his girlfriend and best friend together hit Lamar like a blow to the chest. He left without saying a word.Two years on, when he spoke to me, the memory remained raw. He was still seething with anger, as if telling the story for the first time. “I got betrayed by humans,” Lamar insisted. “I introduced my best friend to her, and this is what they d...

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2 h. ago ‘Add blood, forced smile’: how Grok’s nudification tool went viral

The ‘put her in a bikini’ trend rapidly evolved into hundreds of thousands of requests to strip clothes from photos of women, horrifying those targetedLike thousands of women across the world, Evie, a 22-year-old photographer from Lincolnshire, woke up on New Year’s Day, looked at her phone and was alarmed to see that fully clothed photographs of her had been digitally manipulated by Elon Musk’s AI tool, Grok, to show her in just a bikini.The “put her in a bikini” trend began quietly at the end of last year before exploding at the start of 2026. Within days, hundreds of thousands of requests were being made to the Grok chatbot, asking it to strip the clothes from photographs of women. The fake, sexualised images were posted publicly on X, freely available for millions of people to inspect. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago What unites Greenland, Venezuela and Ukraine? Trump's immoral lies and Europe's chronic weakness | Simon Tisdall

The president’s inability to tell right from wrong fuels his increasingly dictatorial, illegal and erratic behaviour Donald Trump made 30,573 “false or misleading” claims during his first term, according to calculations published in 2021 by the Washington Post. That’s roughly 21 fibs a day. Second time around, he’s still hard at it, lying to Americans and the world on a daily basis. Trump’s disregard for truth and honesty in public life – seen again in his despicable response to the fatal shooting in Minneapolis – is dangerously immoral.Trump declared last week that the only constraint on his power is “my own morality, my own mind”. That explains a lot. His idea of right and wrong is wholly subjective. He is his own ethical and legal adviser, his own priest and confessor. He is a church of one. Trump lies to himself as well as everyone else. And the resulting damage is pernicious. It costs lives, harms democracy and destroys trust between nations.Simon Tisdall is a Guardian foreign ...

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2 h. ago Liverpool transfer news: Dominik Szoboszlai 'agrees' deal as winger gives 'dream' update

The latest Liverpool transfer news as Dominik Szoboszlai 'agrees' a deal after interest from Real Madrid and Bayern Munich, while the Reds' interest in a talented winger takes a fresh twist

Economics

8 h. ago Too big for his boots? Marco Rubio wears new shoes in the White House ordered for him by Donald Trump

Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio were both pictured wearing the formal Oxford shoes gifted to them by President Trump, even if they were several sizes too big.

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9 h. ago JD Vance believes Grok's sexualised pictures on X are 'unacceptable', says foreign secretary

Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy has revealed JD Vance has been sympathetic to the UK's position on manipulated images being produced by AI chatbot Grok.

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9 h. ago Drone images capture the crowds at beauty spot in the icy weather

Hundreds braved the cold for a visit to the popular Welsh beauty spot

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9 h. ago JD Vance backs UK over ‘unacceptable’ sexualised AI images on X

The Deputy Prime Minister raised the concerns with Vance about Grok in a meeting this week

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11 h. ago Elon Musk hits out at Keir Starmer reposting AI image of PM wearing a bikini

He called the UK a country that wants to ‘suppress free speech’

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12 h. ago Buendía deepens gloom for Frank and Spurs with victory for Aston Villa in FA Cup

This was Tottenham’s second defeat to Aston Villa this season and it is becoming increasingly hard to imagine Thomas Frank being in charge when the teams come together a third time in May. A performance that put an end to any realistic chance of a trophy this season, it fell well below the expectations of a furious crowd. That their opponents offer the diametric opposite of Spurs’ dysfunction can only have heightened the sting.Goals from Emi Buendía and Morgan Rogers put this tie to bed for Villa in the first half, Wilson Odobert’s strike after half-time bringing a closeness to the scoreline that was not reflected in the general play. A scuffle on the field at the final whistle involving Rogers, João Palhinha and a host of Tottenham players only added further sourness to the occasion. Continue reading...

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12 h. ago Buendía deepens gloom for Frank and Spurs as Aston Villa progress in FA Cup

This was Tottenham’s second defeat to Aston Villa this season and it is becoming increasingly hard to imagine Thomas Frank being in charge when the teams come together a third time in May. A performance that put an end to any realistic chance of a trophy this season, it fell well below the expectations of a furious crowd. That their opponents offer the diametric opposite of Tottenham’s dysfunction can only have heightened the sting.Goals from Emi Buendía and Morgan Rogers put this tie to bed for Villa in the first half, Wilson Odobert’s strike after half-time bringing a closeness to the scoreline that was not reflected in the general play. A scuffle on the field at the final whistle involving Rogers, João Palhinha and a host of Tottenham players only added further sourness to the occasion. Continue reading...

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13 h. ago Lammy says Vance agrees that sexualised AI images on X are ‘despicable’

Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy discussed the issue with US vice president JD Vance during a trip to Washington.

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13 h. ago 5 unanswered questions about Andrew and Fergie email leaked by Epstein photographer

New images captured by a photographer who also pictured Jeffrey Epstein reveal a previously unseen email on the paedophile's desk

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15 h. ago David Lammy: JD Vance agrees that sexualised AI images on X are ‘unacceptable’

Exclusive: US vice-president ‘sympathetic’ to concerns over Grok-generated pornography, says deputy PMJD Vance, the US vice-president, has agreed that it is “entirely unacceptable” for platforms such as X to allow the proliferation of AI-generated sexualised images of women and children, David Lammy has told the Guardian.The deputy prime minister said Vance, usually known as an AI enthusiast, expressed concern about how the technology was being used to fuel “hyper-pornographied slop” online when they met in Washington on Thursday. Continue reading...

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16 h. ago Elon Musk hits out at 'fascist' Britain and posts AI image of Keir Starmer in a bikini as he claims banning X over Grok sexualised pictures would be 'censorship'

Elon Musk made a defiant response against Sir Keir Starmer who said he was leaving 'all options' on the table in response to deep fake pornography and child abuse images on X.

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18 h. ago Elon Musk says UK wants to suppress free speech as X faces possible ban

Ministers warn platform could be blocked after Grok AI used to create sexual images without consentElon Musk has accused the UK government of wanting to suppress free speech after ministers threatened fines and a possible ban for his social media site X after its AI tool, Grok, was used to make sexual images of women and children without their consent.The billionaire claimed Grok was the most downloaded app on the UK App Store on Friday night after ministers threatened to take action unless the function to create sexually harassing images was removed. Continue reading...

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