Indonesia and Malaysia have taken the strongest actions yet against xAI’s chatbot Grok, temporarily blocking access to the tool after it was repeatedly used to generate non consensual, sexualized AI images, including deepfakes depicting real women and minors.  The bans, announced over the weekend, mark a significant escalation in global scrutiny of generative AI tools and their role in enabling explicit and harmful content at scale. Grok is developed by xAI and integrated in

The technology industry is approaching a historic legal moment as Google and Character.AI move toward finalizing what may be the first major settlements tied directly to alleged harm caused by artificial intelligence chatbots.  The companies have agreed in principle to resolve multiple lawsuits brought by families whose teenage children died by suicide or suffered serious psychological harm after interacting with Character.AI ’s chatbot companions. While the settlement deta

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok is once again under scrutiny after repeatedly spreading misinformation about a mass shooting at Bondi Beach in Australia, raising renewed concerns about the reliability of AI generated information during breaking news events.  The incident occurred during a festival marking the start of Hanukkah and has reportedly left at least 16 people dead, according to early reports. As users on X turned to Grok for information, the chatbot delivered a mix of