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Now the Philippines puts a stop to Grok.
Who's next?
It's World Business Express from the BBC World Service.
I'm Liana Byrne.
In Greenland one mining company is optimistic, despite tensions with the US and Taiwan's chip giant posts bumper profits.
Yes, the Philippines has become the third country to ban Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok outright, after Malaysia and Indonesia, despite new safeguards announced by X this week.
Several governments have been piling pressure on Musk's AI company XAI, after Grok was used to generate a flood of sexually explicit and non-consensual images, including of women and children.
Ashley St.
Clair is a former partner of Elon Musk and one of those whose images were edited.
It's incredibly violating and it's also how realistic it is, because these look very real, these images.
And they also have real parts of my real life, like my real son's backpack in the background that was kept in these photos as they were altered.
X says it will now geo-block the creation or editing of images showing people in bikinis, underwear or similar clothing in countries where that content is illegal and restrict image generation on Grok to paid subscribers only.
So the question is whether X's latest changes are enough.
Here's Chris Vallance from our tech team.
That's a question that I'm going to have to answer with a cliche, which is really to say that time will tell.
It also comes with a qualification, doesn't it, which it says that they will do this in jurisdictions where putting real images of real people in revealing clothing is illegal.
So in that sense, it's not a global block issue.
Speaking about global, Chris, this is very much a push globally, isn't it?
It's quite striking that Southeast Asian countries are actually acting faster in some cases.
But can you just bring us up to speed with how many countries and how many investigations are ongoing?
There's a lot.
Indonesia has temporarily blocked grok due to the risk of AI-generated pornographic content.
Malaysia's communication regulator has warned that it will take legal action.
The Philippines news broke that it is moving to block Elon Musk's AI chatbot grok.
Serious concern about this from the EU. and from European countries.
And we've got perhaps significantly for X, given the location of the tech industry.
We have the authorities in California announcing that they are going to take a look at the issue as well.
The top prosecutor there said the investigation was launched into the spread of sexualized AI deepfakes generated by Grok.
Do you think Elon Musk's AI company is legally exposed?
We're in such untested territory with AI that I think that's a hard question to answer.
If you look at say, the UK, some of the legislation needed to be rushed into force in response to what's happened.
There are laws on the books that govern platforms, laws like the UK's Online Safety Act, the Digital Services Act in the EU.
They do create some legal jeopardy, I think.
I imagine that X will vociferously defend its position and also may well find some sympathetic support backing from the US administration, which has been very tough on European countries, seeking to, as they see it, suppress or try to regulate American businesses.
That was Chris Vallance speaking to me.
Frank, but constructive.
That's how talks between the US, Denmark and Greenland were framed, resulting in what the Danish foreign minister described still as a fundamental disagreement over the future of Greenland.
President Trump's interest centres around defence, and Greenland is also rich in natural resources, including rare earths.
But there are only two active mines on the entire island.
And to date, no rare earth, uranium or other high-profile critical mineral projects have entered commercial production.
Eldor Olofsson is CEO of Amarok, a mining company which operates one of those two active mines.
The Canadian firm's shares have doubled in value since last summer.
He's optimistic despite the current dispute.
The focus on Greenland ever since 2017.
When Trump put the focus on country, it brought the attention of investors all around the world for this huge resource opportunity that is in country.
Now I don't think anyone in the market believes that there won't be found a good solution to this discussion between US, Denmark and the allies in the North Atlantic.
And so therefore, I think the focus of investors is that there will be a lot more capital coming into country.
There will be a lot more investment focus because, as I said earlier, this is a resource base in this race for critical minerals and energy that needs to be developed to secure the Western world with critical minerals.
So how does he think the situation can be resolved?
I think it's a cooperation angle, like has happened between Denmark and US now for more than 80 years, and I should say Nordics and US.
So these have been the strongest partners to protect the Atlantic, to protect the shipping route, to protect the resources there.
I think we will see that relatively soon in the next coming weeks, that there will be an amenable agreement to all parties.
I think it is vital to America that that is secured for the long run.
So they want some autonomy of that in relation to defence, but they also want to develop the critical minerals there.
Denmark wants exactly the same.
I think Greenland wants exactly the same.
So I think it's about making sure that the message is clear and everybody is working towards the same thing.
That was Aldo Olofsson, CEO of Amarok.
Now the Taiwanese chip-making titan TSMC, announced a forecast-busting net profit for the fourth quarter, since shares up by about 3.
Randeep Samal is fund manager at M&G Investments.
Randeep, I guess investors, they're still excited about chips and AI?
Absolutely.
TSMC is a good bellwether.
They're actually a foundry manufacturer for the likes of Broadcom and NVIDIA.
And they stated today not only did they have strong results, but they expect sales to grow by 30 in 2026.
And they've upped their CapEx budget by another $15 billion.
It sent other tech stocks up too as well.
Also, the German economy expanded for the first time in three years in 2025.
I have to say, I've been talking about the opposite for so long.
So what's behind this?
It has.
It's been a huge laggard for some time, rising energy costs, Chinese slowdown.
But the German government last year, to try and arrest this, actually decided to put through a stimulus package of half a trillion euros for the next decade to be spent on infrastructure.
The checks finally started landing last year and we've started now to see the actual development in the economy with a small amount of growth, but albeit growth.
All right.
Well, we'll have to keep an eye on that and keep seeing if it is growing.
Randy Samuel, fund manager at M&G Investments.
Always a pleasure.
The shipping giant Maersk says it will resume sailing via the key Red Sea and Suez Canal route, which connects the Middle East and India to the US East Coast.
And the ceasefire in Gaza could mean a return to more normal sea traffic.
It had to change course for the past two years, after a series of attacks on ships in the Red Sea by Yemen's Houthi movement.
Now, Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia, has changed how we learn.
It marks a quarter of a century of crowdsourced knowledge.
Its founder, Jimmy Wales, has been speaking to the BBC to mark the anniversary.
He says AI will help create content for the site but won't replace its band of volunteer writers.
We think there's some interesting opportunities for our community to use AI to help us with the work.
It's not good enough to write Wikipedia entries, but it is good enough to say spot a problem or to make a suggestion.
And he spelled out his concerns for the encyclopedia's future.
I do worry a lot about the rise of censorship around the world and the various ways that governments, both totalitarian governments but also even democratic governments, are starting to, I think, soften on their understanding of freedom of expression and so forth.
So I worry, you know, a fair amount about that sort of thing.
I always am thinking about the community and thinking, how do we stay healthy?
How do we stay strong?
That was Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia.
And that's it from World Business Express.
I'm Leanna Byrne.
Have a great day.
Thanks for listening.
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