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Welcome to the Tech Brew ride home for Thursday, 01/08/2026. I'm Brian McCullough. Today, Grok and x have been letting people create some risque and in some cases probably illegal images, and governments around the world are getting pissed. Does Google think AI can obviate your entire email inbox? And would you upload your medical history to ChatGPT? Sam Altman is asking you to. Here's what you missed today in the world of tech. You may have noticed that your customers love webinar and video content, but if you've ever put together a webinar or a video, then you know that it can eat up a lot of your time and budget. But now, thankfully, there's a singular tool that can streamline your team's video and webinar workflows, Wistia. Wistia can scale your content output with AI powered tools that help you create, edit, and repurpose videos and webinars fast. And speaking of webinars, you can host engaging, easy to set up webinars in Wistia too, complete with built in analytics. With Wistia, you don't have to pay for multiple video tools, hop between platforms, or constantly reupload files. Create, edit, collaborate, and publish all in one place. Head to wistia.com/brew to learn more. That's wistia.com/brew. With Wistia, you can expect less work and more plays. So I was kinda really hoping not to have to talk about this. No such luck because at this point, I wouldn't be doing my job if we didn't talk about it. So we're gonna talk about it. Last week, people noticed that people on x were posting sexualized images of people, including minors. Apparently, on x, you could ask the AI agent Grok to generate these images in response to various x user prompts. X did take some of these images down, and xAI has said that this happened because of a, quote, lapse in safeguards, end quote, on Grok, but it kinda hasn't stopped. Next, on top of nonconsensual porn images, people noticed that ex users seem to be using Grok to alter images to depict real women being sexually abused, humiliated, hurt, and even killed. The nation of India ordered x to stop Grok from generating obscene content, giving it seventy two hours to submit an action taken report or risk losing its safe harbor protections in that country. This was followed by stern warnings from Malaysia, various countries in Europe. At one point, a researcher estimated that between January 5 and January 6, so earlier this week, 85% of all Grok images were sexual images. And this morning, the EU says it is ordering x to retain all internal documents and data relating to Grok until the 2026 after criticizing Grok's nonconsensual image generation. And Wired says things are even crazier on Grok's web app. Quote, Elon Musk's Grok chatbot has drawn outrage and calls for investigation after being used to flood x with undressed images of women and sexualized images of what appear to be minors. However, that's not …