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Exclusive: Guardian investigation finds AI Overviews provided inaccurate and false information when queried over blood tests Google has removed some of its artificial intelligence health summaries after a Guardian investigation found people were being put at risk of harm by false and misleading information. The company has said its AI Overviews, which use generative AI to provide snapshots of ess…

Exclusive: US vice-president ‘sympathetic’ to concerns over Grok-generated pornography, says deputy PM JD 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, e…

Ministers warn platform could be blocked after Grok AI used to create sexual images without consent Elon 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 d…

Experts note the blackout is unprecedented in its extent but also selective, allowing some government communications Iran’s internet shutdown, now in place for 36 hours as the authorities seek to quell escalating anti-government protests, represents a “new high-water mark” in terms of its sophistication and severity, say experts – and could last a long time. As the blackout kicked in, 90% of inte…

The US president is weaponising tech, but his tariffs and Brexit provide a surprising opportunity to gain back digital control of our lives It’s been 25 years since I started working for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an American nonprofit dedicated to preserving and promoting human rights on the internet. I’ve found myself in dozens of countries working with activists, politicians and civil…

Platform has restricted image creation on the Grok AI tool to paying subscribers, but victims and experts say this does not go far enough Elon Musk’s X has been ordered by the UK government to tackle a wave of indecent AI images or face a de facto ban, as an expert said the platform was no longer a “safe space” for women. The media watchdog, Ofcom, confirmed it would accelerate an investigation i…

Spokesperson says limiting access to paying subscribers just makes ability to generate unlawful images a premium service UK politics live – latest updates Downing Street has condemned the move by X to restrict its AI image creation tool to paying subscribers as insulting, saying it simply made the ability to generate explicit and unlawful images a premium service. There has been widespread anger …

Image-creation function has been limited to paying subscribers after Elon Musk’s platform was threatened with fines and regulatory action Downing Street has defended its decision to single out pubs for special help with the problems created by rising business rate costs. At the No 10 lobby briefing this morning, the PM’s spokesperson confirmed that a package of measures to help pubs will be unvei…

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 functi…

Labour party chair says government having conversations about use of platform in light of sexualised Grok images UK politics live – latest updates UK ministers are considering leaving X as a result of the controversy over the platform’s AI tool, which has been allowing users to generate digitally altered pictures of people – including children – with their clothes removed. Anna Turley, the chair …

X to limit editing function to paying subscribers after platform threatened with fines and regulatory action Grok, Elon Musk’s AI tool, has switched off its image creation function for the vast majority of users after widespread outcry over its use to create sexually explicit and violent imagery. The move comes after Musk was threatened with fines, regulatory action and reports of a possible ban …

AI tool also used to undress image of woman killed by ICE agent in US, says research Elon Musk’s AI tool Grok has been used to create sexually violent and explicit video content featuring women, according to new research, as the British prime minister added to condemnation of images it has created. Grok has also been used to undress an image of Renee Nicole Good , the woman killed by an Immigrati…

Ashley St Clair – a conservative influencer and former partner of Elon Musk – and Dan Milmo chart the scandal over Grok, X’s AI chatbot, after it generated sexualised images of women without their consent The conservative writer and political strategist Ashley St Clair had just put her young son to bed when she received a text from a friend with a link to a page on X. When she opened it, she says…

A wave of humiliating sexualised imagery must prompt regulators and politicians to step up An online trend involving asking Grok, the Elon Musk-owned chatbot, to undress photographs of women and girls and show them wearing bikinis has rightly sparked outrage in the UK and internationally. Earlier this week Liz Kendall, the science and technology secretary, described the proliferation of the digit…

Director general says BBC needs to reach young audiences online amid pressure to leave Elon Musk-owned site The BBC’s director general, Tim Davie, has said he will not be taking the broadcaster off Elon Musk’s social media platform, X, saying that its presence is needed to resist a flood of global misinformation. Davie said he had come under pressure to withdraw from the platform, given numerous …