The Latest Breaking News from Liz Kendall

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: 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

The UK is making it a crime to generate or request AI-made explicit content from this week, following the ban on sharing deepfakes. The region's communications regulator, Ofcom, is also looking into Grok, investigating the service formally to see if it "has complied with its duties to protect people."

It comes as media watchdog Ofcom has launched an investigation into whether the social media platform has breached UK law.

For those who died before a compensation decision was reached, the long-awaited government report comes too late - for other women, the fight continues