It comes after government urged Ofcom to use all its powers – up to and including an effective ban – against X.

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI has raised $20 billion in an upsized Series E funding round, the company announced on Tuesday. The news comes days after the company's next generation intelligent assistant Grok came under scrutiny for generating nonconsensual sexualized images.

Elon Musk's xAI has raised $20B in its latest funding around, amid backlash over chatbot Grok creating sexualized imagery of women and children. The company said the Series F funding round had exceeded a $15B target,

Elon Musk's social media platform X faces a potential UK ban after its AI chatbot, Grok, was reportedly used to generate sexualized images of women and children.

Some users are claiming the bot is responding to prompts to digitally undress people.

Elon Musk's Grok AI is under scrutiny after Ashley St Clair alleged the chatbot created sexualised images of her, raising concerns over AI safety, consent and regulation.

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, Grok, has been flooded with sexual images of mainly women, many of them real people, by being prompted by users to “digitally undress” them and sometimes placing them in suggestive poses.

The European Commission has ordered Elon Musk's X to retain all documents relating to its AI chatbot, Grok, for longer while the bloc ensures compliance with its rules after condemning it for producing sexualised images,