Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok restricted access to a much-criticized deepfake generator on social media platform X following a surge of users creating nonconsensual nude images.

Europe is clamping down on AI-generated material on social media platforms that it says violates its laws. The move thrusts Europe back to the center of AI regulation after pressure from Big Tech and the US set it up for a watered down approach.

German media minister Wolfram Weimer urged the European Commission on Tuesday to take legal action to stop what he called the "industrialisation of sexual harassment" taking place on Elon Musk's social media platform X.

Zelenskyy used the occasion to press Cyprus to advance Ukraine’s EU accession bid during its presidency, as talks to end the war in Russia percolate. “We respect [Cyprus’s] territorial integrity and sovereignty. We are Ukraine. Please respect our territorial integrity and sovereignty,” Zelenskyy said.

Elon Musk-owned AI assistant Grok was always designed to be edgy – even politically incorrect – but the controversial tool has now sparked global outrage after generating sexually explicit images of women and children, highlighting the slow enforcement against rogue AI deepfake sexual abuse content.

Paris, London, Brussels and others take action to crack down on a flood of non-consensual pictures, but risk U.S. retaliation.

Under the EU's Digital Services Act, large platforms like Twitter can be fined for failing to swiftly removal illegal hate speech.

The European Commission has ordered Elon Musk's social media platform X to retain all internal documents and data relating to its built-in artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok, until the end of 2026,