Overview
- Malaysia temporarily suspended access to Grok after Indonesia’s block, citing risks from AI-generated pornographic and abusive images.
- UK regulator Ofcom is examining potential breaches of the Online Safety Act, and the government has signaled that penalties up to an X platform block remain possible.
- The European Commission ordered xAI to preserve internal Grok documents for review and said restricting image generation to paying users does not fix the underlying problem.
- Elon Musk accused the UK government of censorship and called it “fascist,” while UK Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy said US Vice President J.D. Vance agreed the abuses were completely unacceptable.
- US senators urged Apple and Google to remove X and Grok from their app stores until the companies address what lawmakers describe as likely illegal deepfake activity.