Elon Musk has hit back at Keir Starmer saying the UK “just want to suppress free speech” and reposting a fake AI image of the prime minister wearing a bikini. The government has threatened to ban social media site X due to the misuse of its AI tool, Grok, to generate sexualised images of children and women.

Sir Keir Starmer’s efforts to rally an international crackdown on Elon Musk’s social media platform X have suffered a blow after Canada publicly backed away from an outright ban.

Dani Pinter, the chief legal officer and director of the Law Center for the National Center on Sexual Exploitation, said X failed to pull abusive images from its AI training material and should have banned users requesting illegal content. “This was an entirely predictable and avoidable atrocity,” Pinter said.

Elon Musk's X (formerly Twitter) is under potential legal scrutiny over harassment facilitated through Grok, the social media site's AI companion.

AI raised $20 billion in an upsized Series E to fund AI infrastructure and products, the company said in a press release.

Indonesia blocked access to Grok after an investigation into the artificial intelligence system’s generation of sexual content.

A federal judge on Wednesday indicated a jury will be allowed to decide whether artificial intelligence trailblazer OpenAI hoodwinked its billionaire co-founder Elon Musk during its evolution from a nonprofit research lab into a capitalistic enterprise now valued at $500 billion.

Elon Musk says China's electricity advantage gives it the edge to "far exceed the rest of the world in AI compute."