After mounting pressure from women and governments around the world, X has announced that its AI tool, Grok, will no longer be able to create sexualised images of real people. But if these photos aren’t “real”, some have argued, what’s the harm? Quite a lot.

Alex Fisher explains the psychology behind why it can be so distressing to see “digitally undressed” images of oneself online. This is a form of digital sexual violence that can cause victims to feel “alienated, dehumanised, humiliated and violated – as if they were real intimate images shared.”

As Donald Trump appears to back down on his threats to intervene in Iran, Middle East expert Scott Lucas answers our international editor’s questions about what happens next, both for the regime and the nationwide protest movement.

And new research suggests that wormholes – what you may think of as mysterious shortcuts across the universe – may not exist. But here’s what they could reveal about time and the origins of the universe.