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.

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."

GB News responds to Ofcom after the media regulator determined that five of its programs broke impartiality rules by featuring politicians as news presenters.

BT could face an investigation after its digital rollout left some vulnerable customers without access to a phone line.

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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”,

By making cyber flashing a priority offence, the government is signalling to the regulator and tech firms that it takes this crime particularly seriously.

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.