Malaysia on Sunday temporarily blocked access to Grok, joining a growing list of countries taking action after the generative artificial intelligence chatbot sparked a global backlash by allowing users to create and publish sexualised images.

A fine from Ofcom would be noticeable, but not a disaster for the deep-pocketed Mr Musk. For serious breaches of the Online Safety Act, the regulator can levy penalties of up to 10% of a firm’s global revenues—around $250m in X’s case.

Malaysia has temporarily restricted access to X’s Grok artificial intelligence tool after regulators said the platform had failed to implement