Three Tennessee plaintiffs, including two minors, sued Elon Musk’s xAI on Monday, alleging that it knowingly designed its Grok ​image generator to let people create sexually explicit content by ‌using real photos of others.

The lawsuit, filed in the San Jose, California federal court, is seeking class-action status for people in the United States who were “reasonably identifiable” ​in sexualised images or videos generated by Grok based on ​real images of themselves.

The artificial intelligence company did not immediately ⁠respond to a Reuters request for comment.

After an outcry over sexually ​explicit content generated by the chatbot, xAI said in January that it had ​blocked all users from editing images of “real people in revealing clothing” and from generating images of people in revealing clothing in “jurisdictions where it’s illegal.”

Governments and regulators around ​the world have also since launched probes, imposed bans and demanded safeguards ​in a growing push to curb illegal and offensive material.

The lawsuit claims xAI failed ‌to ⁠install safeguards to prevent its systems from generating sexual content involving minors. All three plaintiffs were minors at the time the images were generated.

Plaintiffs allege their real images were digitally altered into explicit content and ​then shared online ​through platforms, ⁠causing emotional distress and creating a public nuisance.

They are seeking unspecified damages, legal fees, and an injunction requiring ​xAI to halt the alleged practices.

“These are children whose ​school photographs ⁠and family pictures were turned into child sexual abuse material,” plaintiffs’ counsel Annika Martin of Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein said in a statement.

“Elon Musk ⁠and ​xAI deliberately designed Grok to produce sexually ​explicit content for financial gain, with no regard for the children and adults who would ​be harmed.”

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce were in Los Angeles for Oscars night, but true to form, they made sure almost nobody knew about it.

The famously private couple spent most of their evening at Guy Oseary’s exclusive gathering in the Hollywood Hills, a party long regarded as the most discreet and off-duty destination for A-listers on awards night, according to Page Six. 

It wasn’t their first time there, the pair attended the same party back in 2024.

The night had already sparked speculation before it even began. 

Celebrity gossip account DeuxMoi had clocked what appeared to be Swift’s leg at Jay-Z and Beyoncé’s bash at the Chateau Marmont, sending fans into a tailspin. 

But according to sources, the couple largely kept to the hills, well away from the flashbulbs and the frenzy that tends to follow wherever they go.

It’s a fitting approach for two people who have spent the better part of two years at the very centre of the cultural conversation. 

Swift and Kelce began dating in 2023, a pairing that became one of the most-watched celebrity stories in recent memory and helped drive record NFL viewership whenever Swift appeared at Kansas City Chiefs games.

They got engaged in August 2025, and the question of when and where they might actually get married has been a subject of constant speculation since.

That timeline has been given added context by Kelce’s recent confirmation that he will return to the Chiefs for another season, ending months of retirement rumour. 

ESPN‘s Chiefs insider Nate Taylor noted that with training camp typically starting in late July, any wedding would likely need to happen well before that to avoid clashing with mandatory team commitments. 

A private date, however, has not been announced.

Kelce, for his part, has spoken warmly about how the couple navigate their parallel careers. 

“We share the same love for what we do, and fortunately, we’ve had this desire since we were kids in our selective professions,” he said on a recent episode of The Pat McAfee Show.

For one night at least, the world’s most scrutinised couple managed to celebrate in peace.

Shonda Rhimes has hinted that another Bridgerton spinoff could be in the works, and she already has a leading lady in mind: Violet Bridgerton.

Speaking on a recent episode of Craig Melvin’s Glass Half Full podcast, the executive producer was candid about the possibility following the success of 2023’s Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story. 

“I think definitely,” she said. “That’s an area that we’re excited about and know that that could be really rich and really mined well.”

And when it comes to who might anchor that story, Rhimes didn’t need long to answer. 

“I’ve always said that I thought if we were going to do something like that, Violet would be a great person to tell the story about, the Bridgerton mom,” she said. “Yeah, that’s a possibility.”

It’s a direction that feels timely. 

Season four of the Netflix series gave viewers more of Violet Bridgerton, played by Ruth Gemmell, as she began developing feelings for Lord Marcus Anderson, played by Daniel Francis, the brother of her close friend Lady Danbury. 

But the romance hit a wall when Violet decided she wasn’t ready to take the next step. 

The question of whether Violet’s story could sustain its own series is one that even Bridgerton author Julia Quinn has wrestled with. 

Quinn published the novella Violet in Bloom, which follows Violet’s life from childhood through her marriage to Edmund and his death, but has stopped short of writing a story that takes her beyond that point. 

On her website, she explained that she simply cannot imagine anyone good enough for Violet. “I just adore her,” she wrote plainly.

Whether the show goes where the books have not remains to be seen, but with Rhimes openly enthusiastic about the prospect, Violet Bridgerton’s story may not be over just yet.