Jan. 12, 2026, 1:50 p.m. ET The United Kingdom’s online watchdog launched a formal investigation Monday into Elon Musk’s X over sexualized pictures created by its Grok chatbot – just two days after the billionaire accused Downing Street of being “fascist.” The UK’S Office of Communications, or Ofcom, cited “deeply concerning reports of the Grok AI chatbot account on X being used to create and share undressed images of people — which may amount to intimate image abuse or pornography — and sexualized images of children that may amount to child sexual abuse material.” Musk’s firm has faced renewed heat from regulators since December, when Grok began churning out creepy, scantily-clad photos of women and minors in response to user prompts. X responded by limiting the photo-editing feature to paid subscribers and warning that users who request illegal content “will suffer the same consequences as if they upload illegal content.” Ofcom said it already received a response from X on its plan to protect kids and other users from harm ahead of a Friday deadline, and that the office would conduct an “expedited assessment of available evidence.”