
Attack of the Fanboy - 1 hour 16 min ago
It's baffling that there were no guardrails to begin with.

Variety - 1 hour 16 min ago
Elon Musk's X (formerly Twitter) has filed an antitrust lawsuit against some 18 music publishers and their trade organization, the National Music Publishers Association, in the latest move in a drawn-out battle over licensing. The platform alleges that the companies and NMPA colluded in order to coerce X into purchasing industrywide licenses, without which the […]...

Los Angeles Times - 1 hour 29 min ago
Grok now restricts non-paying users from generating free deepfake images on X.

CNBC - 1 hour 37 min ago
Senators from Oregon, Massachusetts and New Mexico urged Apple and Google to suspend X and Grok until Elon Musk curbs AI-generated sexualized images of kids.

New York Times - 2 hours 9 min ago
Starting in 2021, Twitter, now known as X, had been exploring licensing deals with the major music conglomerates, but those talks stalled once Elon Musk took the platform over.

Forbes - 2 hours 52 min ago
Elon Musk's AI chatbot is making misleading claims after being blasted for nonconsensual sexual images of users...

The Hill - 3 hours 24 min ago
Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok restricted image generation on the social platform X following numerous complaints that it was producing sexualized images of women and children. "Image generation and editing are currently limited to paying subscribers," Grok wrote in response to a user request Friday. The chatbot has faced intense scrutiny in recent weeks, as regulators from the...

Rolling Stone - 5 hours 40 min ago
The U.K. has threatened to ban the service, which Elon Musk owns, over what Prime Minister Keir Starmer has called "disgusting" images...

The Guardian - 5 hours 42 min ago
Major new films promise to reveal more about the lives of public figures, provocative topics and historical events The landscape for nonfiction cinema is swift, fragile and constantly in flux in these absurd times; films we discuss now may not be released, and films we discuss a year from now may not even be the germ of an idea yet. But between the usual stable of celebrity retrospectives, music documentaries and the ongoing work to record the atrocities in Gaza, the documentary slate for 2026 already...

Vulture - 6 hours 10 min ago
After users and officials gave X's AI chatbot a dressing-down for complying with requests to digitally undress women and girls.

NBC News - 6 hours 16 min ago
Three Democratic senators urged Apple and Google to remove Elon Musk's apps X and Grok from their app stores Thursday evening.

BBC - 7 hours 12 min ago
It comes after government urged Ofcom to use all its powers up to and including an effective ban against X.

The Guardian - 7 hours 36 min ago
Exclusive: party says Nigel Farage and colleagues receiving tainted money' for their posts on Elon Musk's platform The Liberal Democrats have urged Reform UK MPs who receive payment from X for their posts to donate the money to charities working to combat sexual exploitation, after the site was flooded with AI-generated sexualised images of women and children. The party's spokesperson for science, innovation and technology, Victoria Collins, said Nigel Farage and other MPs paid by the...

Quartz - 7 hours 53 min ago
Elon Musk's startup xAI has limited the image generation tool on its Grok chatbot to paying subscribers of social media platform X...

Newser - 8 hours 41 sec ago
Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok is preventing most users from generating or editing any images after a global backlash that erupted after it started spewing sexualized deepfakes of people. The chatbot, which is accessed through Musk's social media platform X, has in the past few weeks been granting a wave...

NBC News - 8 hours 5 min ago
Elon Musk's controversial Grok artificial intelligence model appears to have been restricted on one app, while remaining largely unchanged on another...

New York Times - 8 hours 6 min ago
Grok's prompt page is displayed on a phone.

Screen Rant - 8 hours 13 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 - 8 hours 41 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 - 9 hours 16 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 - 9 hours 21 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 - 9 hours 36 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 - 9 hours 50 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 - 10 hours 11 min ago
The restriction comes as regulators worldwide threaten enforcement action over Grok's generation of thousands of non-consensual deepfakes per hour.