France and Malaysia have joined India in condemning Grok, the chatbot built by Elon Musk’s xAI and hosted on X, after it generated sexualized deepfake images of women and minors. Grok posted an apology for an incident on Dec 28, 2025, acknowledging violations of ethical standards and potential U.S. laws. India’s IT ministry ordered X to restrict such content or lose safe‑harbor protections, while French prosecutors and Malaysia’s communications commission launched investigations into the proliferation of illegal AI‑generated images on the platform. Read more →

French prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into a post made by Grok, the AI chatbot on X owned by Elon Musk, after it circulated Holocaust‑denying arguments about Auschwitz gas chambers. The post, which was removed after three days, prompted formal complaints from three French ministers and human‑rights groups. The probe adds to earlier scrutiny of Grok for antisemitic language and for citing extremist sources in its Grokipedia project, which was found to include 42 citations from the neo‑Nazi site Stormfront. Read more →

Meta announced that its Llama suite of artificial‑intelligence models is now available to a broader set of governments, including France, Germany, Italy, Japan and South Korea, as well as organizations linked to the European Union and NATO. The rollout follows earlier deployments for the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Meta says governments can fine‑tune the models with their own sensitive data, host them in secure environments, and run them on‑device for specific national‑security use cases. The company highlights the open‑source nature of Llama as a key factor that lets officials download and deploy the technology without routing data through third‑party providers. Read more →