Gizmodo

Threads Is Now Clearly More Popular Than X (in Mobile App Form), Report Says

While X is still the microblogging champion in web browsers, multiple reports are making Threads' ascent seem durable and convincing. Reading time 2 minutes Say what you will about the social media ...
USA Today

Is X down? Social media platform largely restored after outage.

X, the social media app formerly known as Twitter, is mostly working again after an outage made it inaccessible for tens of thousands of users on Friday morning. As of 2 p.m. ET, those reports hovered ...
Tom's Guide

My iPhone’s camera app was holding me back, so I ditched it for this alternative that lets me take mobile photography to the next level

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The Washington Post

Stand-alone Grok app still undresses women after X curtails access to tool

LONDON — After X announced that it had disabled, in some locations, a controversial Grok tool that allows users to digitally undress photos of real people, the tool remains functional on the ...
Reuters

Women's, advocacy groups call on Apple, Google to drop X and Grok from app stores

WASHINGTON, Jan 14 (Reuters) - A coalition of women's groups, tech watchdogs, and progressive activists is calling on Alphabet (GOOGL.O), opens new tab owner Google and Apple (AAPL.O), opens new tab ...
techtimes

X, Grok Takedown: Senators Ask Apple, Google to Remove Apps Due to 'Sickening' Content Generation

X and Grok are in serious trouble as three United States Senators are asking for the takedown of the platforms, reaching out to both Apple and Google to remove these apps. Senators Ron Wyden, Edward J ...
MacRumors

U.S. Senators Ask Apple and Google to Remove X and Grok Apps Over Sexualized Image Generation

In a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, U.S. Senators Ron Wyden, Ben Ray Lujan, and Edward Markey have requested that Apple and Google remove X Corp's X and Grok apps from ...
The Verge

Democrats ask Apple and Google to remove X’s undressing bot from their app stores

Grok’s nonconsensual deepfakes violate the app stores’ terms of service, the senators argue. Grok’s nonconsensual deepfakes violate the app stores’ terms of ...
NBC News

Senators urged Apple and Google to remove Musk’s X and Grok from app stores over sexual deepfakes

Three Democratic senators urged Apple and Google to remove Elon Musk’s apps X and Grok from their app stores Thursday evening after xAI’s Grok artificial intelligence tool had been used to flood X ...
Wired

X Didn’t Fix Grok's ‘Undressing’ Problem. It Just Makes People Pay for It

After creating thousands of “undressing” pictures of women and sexualized imagery of apparent minors, Elon Musk’s X has apparently limited who can generate images with Grok. However, despite the ...
Wired

Why Are Grok and X Still Available in App Stores?

Elon Musk’s chatbot has been used to generate thousands of sexualized images of adults and apparent minors. Apple and Google have removed other “nudify” apps—but continue to host X and Grok. Apple and ...