A suicide forum used by two young people who fatally poisoned themselves has been warned it could be fined up to £18m for breaching the UK's Online Safety Act. Vlad Nikolin-Caisley, 17, and Aimee Walton, 21, both from Southampton, died after taking poison recommended in the online pro-suicide chat room.

Labour has told Elon Musk to stop his Grok chatbot from creating “appalling” deepfake images of women and children, saying the Government would back regulator Ofcom if it fined the company.

Grok, the AI assistant on X, has been making headlines this week after it repeatedly generated explicit deepfakes of underage women and girls. This prompted both Ofcom (the UK's independent regulator for the communications industries) and the government's Technology Secretary to intervene.

Google raised free speech concerns when it formally replied to online safety proposals by Britain’s independent media regulator, but it did not say the company received specific takedown requests, nor that the UK risked “authoritarian irrelevance”,

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The BBC said its reporters had seen examples of Grok AI being used to "alter real images to make women appear in bikinis without their consent, as well as putting them in sexual situations" and added: "Images of Catherine, Princess of Wales, were among many to have been digitally de-clothed by Grok users on X."

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The media regulator Ofcom has since confirmed to Metro that it is in ‘urgent talks’ with X and xAI, the AI start-up behind Grok. Under the Online Safety Act (OSA), a bill that regulates online material, it is illegal to create or share intimate or sexually explicit images.

Britain’s broadcasting regulator is under mounting pressure to investigate a GB News interview with Donald Trump, after critics claimed the channel failed to challenge a series of misleading and inaccurate assertions made by the US president.