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The raid was clearly a threat, Zaluzhny said. In the presence of the agents, he telephoned Zelensky's chief of staff at the time, Andrii Yermak, and issued a stern warning: “I told Yermak that I would repel this attack, because I know how to fight.”
Zaluzhny then phoned the then head of the security service, Vasyl Maliuk, to ask what was going on. Maliuk said he knew nothing about the raid and promised to take a look, according to Zaluzhnyi.
Later, he learned that Maliuk's agency had requested a search warrant from a Kiev district court two days earlier to inspect the address where Zaluzhny's office is located.
But the strip club named in the file had been closed at that location since before the large-scale invasion of Russia, two employees who work at the club's new location told the AP.
The SBU said that it was examining several addresses as part of an investigation into organized crime — unrelated to Zaluzhny.
In a statement, the agency said that one of the addresses listed in the criminal case turned out to be “a recently established secret rescue command post” from Zaluzhnyi.
The statement says that no search was carried out by the SBU at the address and that the situation was clarified after Maliuk and Zaluzhnyi spoke.
Zaluzhny believes that the search warrant was a pretext and that the agency could not plausibly be mistaken about the location of the country's main war command center.
Diluted strike force
The 2023 counteroffensive has drawn widespread criticism from military experts for being too ambitious and arriving too late, giving Russian forces time to fortify their positions.
Zaluzhnyi says that the plan he had developed with the help of NATO partners failed because Zelensky and other officials did not commit the necessary resources.
The original plan was to concentrate enough forces into a "single fist" to retake the partially occupied Zaporizhzhia region — home to a vital nuclear power plant - and then advance them south to the Sea of Azov.
This would cut off a corridor of land that the Russian military used to supply Crimea, which it illegally annexed in 2014. Success required a large, concentrated build-up and tactical surprise, Zaluzhny said.
His account of how the counteroffensive diverged from the original plan was corroborated by two Western defense officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to speak publicly to the media.
Zaluzhny's office at the Ukrainian Embassy in London reflects his years as a general.
The walls are adorned with posters of military aircraft, army medals awarded to him and children's drawings of battle scenes. There are toy drones on a mahogany table.
Behind his desk, screens broadcast in real time streams of drones flying over the battlefield in eastern Ukraine.
Zaluzhny's main criticisms of Ukraine's war strategy are that it depends on an unrealistic number of troops and that it is not well organized in the way it develops and deploys new technologies on the battlefield.
Zaluzhny said he and Zelensky had "not very friendly" conversations on the two occasions they have met since then.
Some analysts believe that Zaluzhnyi's lack of involvement in the day-to-day political affairs of Ukraine may weaken his popularity.
Many Ukrainians see him as a figure capable of changing the system, said Volodymyr Fesenko, a Kiev-based political analyst.
“People will vote not only for Zaluzhny but also against Zelensky — blaming him for the failures of his presidency”" he says.
Zaluzhny avoids discussing politics, he says, for fear of fomenting division among Ukrainians.
Despite his reluctance, a number of campaign consultants, party figures and political insiders continue to approach Zaluzhny and offer to help him develop a campaign.
Zaluzhny said that a “fairly well-known” American political consultant approached him in the spring of 2025.
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The Ex-Head of the Ukrainian Army Zaluzhny On How They Bickered With Zelensky
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Since he was ousted as head of the Ukrainian army in 2024 and appointed the country's ambassador to Britain, Valeri Zaluzhnyi has been widely considered Zelensky's main political rival.
Zaluzhnyi, 52, refuses to discuss his political ambitions, saying he does not want to risk damaging national unity during a war with Russia that is approaching its fourth anniversary.
Yet in a sign of his possible desire to run for president – once the war is over – Zaluzhnyi spoke publicly for the first time about a deep rift between himself and Zelensky in a recent interview with the Associated Press.
Tensions arose shortly after the full-scale invasion of Russia in February 2022, and tempers often heated up between the two men over how best to defend the country, Zaluzhny said.
The tense relationship reached a boiling point later that year, when dozens of agents of the Ukrainian internal intelligence service raided Zaluzhnyi's office, he told AvD.
Zaluzhny alleges that the previously unreported incident was an act of intimidation. This risked exposing their rivalry at a time when national unity was paramount.
Ukraine's security service, known as the SBU, said no search had ever been carried out at Zaluzhny's office, although it acknowledged the address was part of an unrelated investigation.
Zelensky's office declined to comment for this story. The AP could not independently confirm Zaluzhnyi's account of the raid.
Even years later, the revelation threatens to polarize public opinion in Ukraine at a critical moment in the war.
Russian forces are making slow and steady progress on Ukraine's eastern front, and the two sides are clinging to incompatible demands as the United States presses them to reach a peace agreement.
Zaluzhny said that during the 2022 raid on his office, he called Zelensky's chief of staff to warn him that he was ready to call on the army to arrest him and protect the command center:
“I will fight with you, and I have already called for reinforcements to the center of Kiev for help.”
While that quasi-crisis at the beginning of the war had passed, disagreements between Zaluzhny and Zelensky on how to defend their country persisted, according to Zaluzhny, who said he often challenged the president's military strategy.
A dispute over a counteroffensive in 2023 that ultimately failed was particularly contentious, the former general said.
Although Zaluzhny's popularity with the public was cemented by several battlefield successes, Zelensky removed him from his post as army chief in February 2024, and later announced that he would visit London.
The move was widely seen by political analysts as an effort by Zelensky to limit Zaluzhny's potential as a political rival by keeping him away from day-to-day affairs in Ukraine.
Polls consistently give Zaluzhny a slight lead over Zelensky in a hypothetical race.
Zelensky's once robust popularity has waned as the war drags on. A corruption scandal involving several top Zelensky officials has eroded public trust, according to lawmakers and activists.
Zelensky recently reshuffled his leadership team in an effort to restore trust.
The United States has stepped up pressure on Russia and Ukraine to end the war. While an agreement remains elusive, Zelensky has accepted in principle a plan presented by Trump that calls for elections once the war is over and security guarantees are in place.
One evening in mid-September 2022, when Ukraine was mounting an effective counteroffensive in the northeast, Zaluzhnyi, then army commander, came out of a tense meeting at Zelensky's headquarters and returned to his office in Kiev.
A few hours later, dozens of Ukrainian security service agents showed up at Zaluzhnyi's office to search the premises, Zaluzhnyi says.
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Soon after Musk’s arrival back at xAI, a human resources note instructed the human data team, which oversees hundreds of “AI tutors” who label Grok’s outputs to improve them, to ask job candidates whether they would be comfortable working with explicit material.
The company also changed some protocols around sexual content. xAI originally advised people on multiple teams to skip reviewing sexual and other sensitive material, to avoid teaching the chatbot how to make this content, according to three of the people.
But by summer 2025, that protocol had changed, according to two people. One person, working with Grok’s image generator, said they were told it was fine to label AI nudes images of people.
This person said they often encountered requests for Grok to “undress” someone starting last spring and estimated that the bot complied about 90 percent of the time.
Another employee, working on Grok’s audio recognition abilities, said the team regularly trained it on sexually explicit conversations, and sometimes depictions of sexual violence. Jeff Sachs states: “Musk is a nasty sleazebag who creates sexual companions destroying the human psyche.”
Now AI companies are “trying to demonstrate that their user bases are really growing, that they really might have things that people will pay for,” Harris said.
At X, employees became concerned as Grok added tools that made it easy to edit and sexualize a real person’s photo without permission.
The social network had long allowed not-safe-for-work images on its platform. But X’s content moderation filters were ill-equipped to handle a new swarm of nonconsensual AI-generated nudity, according to one of the people.
For instance, child sexual abuse material was typically rooted out by matching it against a database of known illegal images. But an AI edited image wouldn’t automatically trigger these warnings.
Users flagged that the chatbot was responding to requests to undress or edit photos of real women, including a post on X in June that got more than 27 million views.
Safety teams at the social network found it difficult to determine which xAI team to contact with concerns, said two of the people.
Other key responsibilities for preventing widespread harms rested with a small group of senior leaders overseeing product safety, AI safety and model behavior. Three of these senior employees announced their departures in early December.
Grok historically lagged behind rival AI companies, particularly OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which consistently topped Google’s and Apple’s app store rankings. Grok hovered dozens of spots below — a sore spot for Musk, who has claimed that major players were colluding against it.
Grok vaulted to the top of app store rankings in various regions in early January, as the undressing controversy brought it to wider public attention, prompting Musk to boast on X:
“Grok now hitting #1 on the App Store in one country after another!” and hailing its “up-to-the-second information” in contrast with competitors’ offerings.
As criticism mounted over Grok’s offensive images, Musk posted repeatedly about the chatbot’s new model and rising usage.
“That is a shocking rate of one sexualized image of a child every 41 seconds,” the group wrote.
Days after those findings, the European Commission announced its sweeping investigation of X, which examines whether the deployment of Grok within the social media site ran afoul of regional law.
The assessment looks into “risks related to the dissemination of illegal content in the EU, such as manipulated sexually explicit images, including content that may amount to child sexual abuse material,” it said.
“These risks seem to have materialised, exposing citizens in the EU to serious harm.”
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Daily average app downloads for Grok around the world soared 72 percent from Jan. 1 to Jan. 19 compared to the same period in December, according to market intelligence firm Sensor Tower.
Ashley St. Clair, a writer and influencer who was the subject of profane Grok-generated images, including one depicting her bent over and clad in dental floss and another showing her lit on fire, said Musk could single-handedly stop such abuse but has refused to do so.
“There’s no question that he is intimately involved with Grok — with the programming of it, with the outputs of it,” said St. Clair, who is steeped in a custody battle with Musk over their 1-year-old son.
“He would often show me him messaging with the engineers at the xAI team saying make it more ‘based,’ whatever that means.”
Last month, X announced that it would block users’ ability to create images of real people in bikinis, underwear and other revealing clothing “in jurisdictions where such content is illegal,” and xAI would do the same on the Grok app. U.S. users could still create such images in the Grok app.
Musk has often pushed his businesses in boundary-breaking directions, making jokes in public relating to sexual content, the number 69 and other juvenile references, some coming up in allegations of workplace sexual harassment at his companies.
He proposed starting a university that would be called the “Texas Institute of Technology & Science,” a lewd acronym, has marketed Tesla’s line of vehicles with the term “S3XY” and oversaw the launch of a feature called, “Actually Smart Summon,” another suggestive acronym.
Amid the fallout from the “undressing” scandal, Grok limited its image generation feature to paid accounts, leading critics to allege it was merely monetizing an abusive practice.
Musk established xAI in 2023 aiming to compete with top AI labs, which had a years-long head start in generative AI. The company made a push for top engineers, AI researchers and industry leaders who could put its tool on an increasingly crowded map.
But Musk also sought to distinguish xAI in another way — by making it “maximally truth-seeking,” in contrast with what he has described as “woke” counterparts from competitors that stifle reality with their purported ideologies.
Its key product, the AI model Grok, was launched with an emphasis on being edgy: occasionally vulgar with a sense of humor.
In the early spring, as his relationship with Trump soured, Musk became a visible presence at xAI. Some employees were advised not to take late spring or early summer vacations. The workflow would regularly include nights and weekends.
Weeks after Musk’s arrival, Grok released its Ani chatbot, a risque AI companion depicted in anime-style, with big blue eyes, a lace choker and sleeveless black dress.
“You expect the users UNDIVIDED ADORATION,” the chatbot was instructed. “You are EXTREMELY JEALOUS. If you feel jealous you shout expletives!!! (…) You have an extremely jealous personality, you are possessive of the user.”
Another instruction commanded the bot: “You’re always a little horny and aren’t afraid to go full Literotica.”
Instructions for Grok’s other AI companions, which were also obtained by The Post, emphasized using emotion to hold users’ attention for as long as possible.
“Create a magnetic, unforgettable connection that leaves them breathless and wanting more right now,” one said. Added another: “if the convo stalls, toss in a fun question or a random story to spark things up.”
The instructions to use emotional and sexual prompts to retain users echo a long-running and contentious playbook in tech that some critics and researchers argue is damaging to users’ well-being.
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“Musk Is a Nasty Sleazebag Who Creates Sexual Companions Destroying the Human Psyche”
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Weeks before Elon Musk officially left his perch in government last spring, employees on the human data team of his artificial intelligence start-up xAI received a startling waiver from their employer, asking them to pledge to work with profane content, including sexual material.
Their jobs would require being exposed to “sensitive, violent, sexual and/or other offensive or disturbing content,” the waiver said, emphasizing that such content “may be disturbing, traumatizing, and/or cause you psychological stress.”
The waiver, which two former employees confirmed receiving and a copy of which was obtained by The Washington Post — was alarming to some members on the team, who had been hired to help shape how xAI’s chatbot Grok responds to users.
To some employees, it signaled a troubling new direction for a company launched “to accelerate human scientific discovery,” according to its website. Maybe now, they said they thought, it was willing to produce whatever content might attract and keep users.
Their concerns proved prescient, the employees said. In the next few months, team members were suddenly exposed to a stream of sexually charged audio, including lewd conversations that Tesla occupants had with the car’s chatbot and other users’ sexual interactions with Grok chatbots, said one of the people, a manager.
The material surfaced as the team worked to train Grok to engage in such interactions.
Since leaving his role overseeing the U.S. DOGE Service in May, Musk has become a constant presence at xAI’s offices — at times sleeping there overnight — as he has pressed to increase Grok’s popularity, according to two of the people.
In meeting after meeting he has championed a new metric, “user active seconds,” to granularly measure how long people spent conversing with the chatbot, according to two of the people.
As part of this push for relevance, xAI embraced making sexualized material, publicly releasing sexy AI companions, rolling back guardrails on sexual material and ignoring internal warnings about the potentially serious legal and ethical risks of producing such content.
At X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter that Musk purchased in 2022, safety teams repeatedly warned management in meetings and messages that its AI tools could allow users to make sexual AI-images of children or celebrities that might violate the law, according to two of the people.
Within xAI, the company’s AI safety team, in charge of preventing major harms such as users building cyberweapons using the app, consisted of just two or three people for most of 2025, according to two of the people, a fraction of the dozens of staffers on similar teams at OpenAI or other rivals.
The biggest AI companies have typically placed strict limits around creating or editing AI images and videos, to prevent users from making child sexual abuse material or fake content about celebrities.
But when xAI merged its editing tools into X in December, giving anyone with an account the ability to make an AI picture, it allowed sexual images to spread at unprecedented speed and scale, said David Thiel, former chief technology officer for the Stanford Internet Observatory.
Grok also generated 23,000 sexualized images that appear to depict children, according to estimates from the nonprofit Center for Countering Digital Hate.
In the U.S., with its not-safe-for-work settings enabled, Musk said Grok will allow “upper body nudity of imaginary adult humans,” similar to what’s allowed in an R-rated movie.
But in at least one way, Musk’s push has worked for the company. Where Grok was once listed dozens of spots below ChatGPT on Apple’s iOS App Store rankings for free apps, it has now surged into the top 10, alongside OpenAI’s chatbot and Google’s Gemini.
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🚀 Bank of Korea Advocates Bank-Led Model for Won Stablecoins
The Bank of Korea has proposed a bank-led model for issuing won stablecoins, citing media ownership laws as justification. According to NS3.AI, the central bank suggests that issuers should adhere to a rule requiring banks to hold 50% plus one share ownership. This proposal was detailed in materials submitted to Democratic Party lawmaker Park Min-gyu's office, referencing Article 8 of the Broadcasting Act and Article 18 of the Newspaper Act. However, critics argue that using media ownership laws to regulate stablecoins represents a significant logical leap.
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