Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Grok

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

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

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

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.

International Business Times UK

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.

Evening Standard

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

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.

Roll Call

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 Independent UK

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.

The Conversation

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.

Euronews

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

The Independent UK

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.

Windows Central

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

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

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.

The Guardian - UK

Greenland’s PM says territory ‘chooses Denmark over the US’ ahead of talks with JD Vance – as it happened

Danish PM adds that Greenland is ‘not for sale’ in joint briefing ahead of tomorrow’s talks with the US

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Evening Standard

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.

TechRadar

US Senators call on Apple and Google to ban X and Grok from app stores amid image-generation controversy

US Senators have told Apple and Google to take action over Grok creating explicit images of women and children.

International Business Times UK

'If X Can't Control Grok, We Will' — UK Signals End of Self-Regulation for Musk's Platform

The UK is activating laws to criminalise AI-generated deepfakes following a crackdown on Elon Musk's Grok. Prime Minister Keir Starmer warned X could lose its self-regulatory status if it fails to curb digital abuse.

The Independent UK

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

Evening Standard

Creating non-consensual sexual images to become illegal amid Grok AI backlash

The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology did not specify which day it would come into effect.

The Independent UK

MPs clash over ‘childish’ petition calling for snap general election

The petition was debated in parliament after a petition attracted more than one million signatures

The Independent UK

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

1 2 3 4 5

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

the Financial Conduct Authority

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Police

133,569 stories

Artificial Intelligence

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.