
Screen Rant - 16 hours 54 min ago
X, or Twitter, could be banned in the UK following the deepfake controversy, due to images generated by the platform and Elon Musk's AI tool Grok.

Tech Meme - 17 hours 22 min ago
Robert Hart / The Verge : X is restricting Grok's image capabilities via the @grok reply command, but free users can still create sexual deepfakes through the standalone Grok app or site — X's sexual deepfake machine is still running, despite Grok saying otherwise. … Elon Musk's X has partially restricted access …...

The Guardian - 17 hours 57 min ago
Elon Musk's reckless and degrading AI could be built differently. But Americans will have to speak up Over the past year, Elon Musk has made a series of protocol changes to Grok, the proprietary AI chatbot of his company xAI, which runs prominently on his social media site X, formerly Twitter. Many of these changes have been geared to make the bot more amenable to producing pornography. In August 2025, Grok launched an image generator, branded as Grok Imagine, which featured a service geared...

Tech Meme - 18 hours 3 min ago
Mark Sweney / The Guardian : Filings: X's UK revenue fell 58.3% YoY from £69.1M in 2023 to £28.9M in 2024; pre-tax profits fell from £2.2M in 2023 to £767,000 in 2024 — Elon Musk-owned site reports plunging profits amid outcry over use of AI tool Grok to create sexually explicit imagery...

ABC News - 18 hours 17 min ago
Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok has stopped allowing most users to generate or edit images after backlash over sexualized deepfakes...

The Guardian - 18 hours 31 min ago
Elon Musk-owned site reports plunging profits amid outcry over use of AI tool Grok to create sexually explicit imagery Business live latest updates UK revenues at Elon Musk's X fell by almost 60% in a year as advertisers pulled their spending over concerns about the social media platform's content. News of the plummeting financial performance comes after X switched off the image creation function on its AI tool Grok for the vast majority of users after a widespread outcry about its use to...

Fortune - 18 hours 52 min ago
The restriction comes as regulators worldwide threaten enforcement action over Grok's generation of thousands of non-consensual deepfakes per hour.

ABC News - 19 hours 3 min ago
Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, plans to spend $20 billion on a data center in Southaven, Mississippi...

Variety - 20 hours 35 min ago
Elon Musk’s X has moved image editing features in its Grok AI chatbot behind a paywall following widespread condemnation over the tool’s use in creating non-consensual sexual deepfakes, while the British government has called on regulators to consider banning the platform entirely, according to BBC News. Since Friday morning, Grok has been displaying a notification […]...

NME - 20 hours 56 min ago
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BBC - 22 hours 18 min ago
It comes after government urged Ofcom to use all its powers up to and including an effective ban against X.

Tech Meme - 23 hours 58 min ago
Saritha Rai / Bloomberg : Chinese humanoid robotics companies dominated CES 2026, but a wide gap remains between choreographed demonstrations and real-world deployment — One of Elon Musk's worries was on full display at CES in Las Vegas this week. Chinese-made human-like robots were everywhere across the exhibition floor …...