PITTSBURGH (AP) — Quinn Priester went seven innings for his franchise-record 11th consecutive decision, Jake Bauers drove in a pair of runs, and the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 5-2 on Friday night.
Priester (12-2) gave up two runs and six hits while striking out six and walking one to break the mark set by Chris Bosio and Cal Eldred, who won 10 consecutive decisions in 1992.
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Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Carmen Mlodzinski delivers during the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Milwaukee Brewers, Friday, Sept. 5, 2025, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Matt Freed)
Pittsburgh Pirates' Bryan Reynolds, right, scores as Milwaukee Brewers catcher William Contreras, front left, waits for a late throw during the third inning of a baseball game Friday, Sept. 5, 2025, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Matt Freed)
Milwaukee Brewers' Jake Bauers watches his RBI single during the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Pittsburgh Pirates, Friday, Sept. 5, 2025, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Matt Freed)
Milwaukee Brewers pitcher Quinn Priester winds up to deliver during the first inning of a baseball game against the Pittsburgh Pirates, Friday, Sept. 5, 2025, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Matt Freed)
Milwaukee Brewers pitcher Quinn Priester delivers during the first inning of a baseball game against the Pittsburgh Pirates, Friday, Sept. 5, 2025, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Matt Freed)
Priester, who has not lost since May 13, was acquired from Boston in a trade on April 7. He was the Pirates’ first-round pick in the 2019 amateur draft.
The Brewers, who began a six-game road trip, maintained their 5 1/2-game lead in the NL Central over the Chicago Cubs, who beat Washington 11-5 on Friday. Milwaukee had lost three of its previous four games.
Bauers' two-run single off Carmen Mlodzinski (3-8) put the Brewers ahead 3-2 in the sixth inning. Brice Turang hit an RBI single in the eighth and Andrew Vaughn drove in a run in the ninth.
Abner Uribe pitched a perfect ninth for his fifth save.
Bauers, Turang, and William Contreras had two hits each. The Pirates got two hits apiece from Spencer Horwitz and Oneil Cruz.
Pirates starter Johan Oviedo allowed only one unearned run and one hit in five innings in his fifth start since returning from Tommy John surgery.
The last-place Pirates lost for just the fifth time in 17 games.
Bauers’ line-drive two-run single to right field in the sixth inning proved to be the decisive hit.
The Brewers improved to 31-11 in their last 42 road games and ended the Pirates’ seven-game home winning streak.
Brewers RHP Brandon Woodruff (5-2, 3.69 ERA) faces RHP Mitch Keller (6-13, 4.21) on Saturday night.
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Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Carmen Mlodzinski delivers during the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Milwaukee Brewers, Friday, Sept. 5, 2025, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Matt Freed)
Pittsburgh Pirates' Bryan Reynolds, right, scores as Milwaukee Brewers catcher William Contreras, front left, waits for a late throw during the third inning of a baseball game Friday, Sept. 5, 2025, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Matt Freed)
Milwaukee Brewers' Jake Bauers watches his RBI single during the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Pittsburgh Pirates, Friday, Sept. 5, 2025, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Matt Freed)
Milwaukee Brewers pitcher Quinn Priester winds up to deliver during the first inning of a baseball game against the Pittsburgh Pirates, Friday, Sept. 5, 2025, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Matt Freed)
Milwaukee Brewers pitcher Quinn Priester delivers during the first inning of a baseball game against the Pittsburgh Pirates, Friday, Sept. 5, 2025, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Matt Freed)
LONDON (AP) — Laws that will make it illegal to create online sexual images of someone without their consent are coming into force soon in the U.K., officials said Thursday, following a global backlash over the use of Elon Musk's artificial intelligence chatbot Grok to make sexualized deepfakes of women and children.
Musk's company, xAI, announced late Wednesday that it has introduced measures to prevent Grok from allowing the editing of photos of real people to portray them in revealing clothing in places where that is illegal.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer welcomed the move, and said X must “immediately” ensure full compliance with U.K. law. He stressed that his government will remain vigilant on any transgressions by Grok and its users.
“Free speech is not the freedom to violate consent," Starmer said Thursday. “I am glad that action has now been taken. But we’re not going to let this go. We will continue because this is a values argument.”
The chatbot, developed by Musk's company xAI and freely accessed through his social media platform X, has faced global scrutiny after it emerged that it was used in recent weeks to generate thousands of images that “undress” people without their consent. The digitally-altered pictures included nude images as well as depictions of women and children in bikinis or in sexually explicit poses.
Critics have said laws regulating generative AI tools are long overdue, and that the U.K. legal changes should have been brought into force much sooner.
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Britain's media regulator has launched an investigation into whether X has breached U.K. laws over the Grok-generated images of children being sexualized or people being undressed. The watchdog, Ofcom, said such images — and similar productions made by other AI models — may amount to pornography or child sexual abuse material.
The problem stemmed from the launch last year of Grok Imagine, an AI image generator that allows users to create videos and pictures by typing in text prompts. It includes a so-called “spicy mode” that can generate adult content.
Technology Secretary Liz Kendall cited a report from the internet Watch Foundation saying the deepfake images included sexualization of 11-year-olds and women subjected to physical abuse.
“The content which has circulated on X is vile. It is not just an affront to decent society, it is illegal,” she said.
Authorities said they are making legal changes to criminalize those who use or supply “nudification” tools.
First, the government says it is fast-tracking provisions in the Data (Use and Access) Act making it a criminal offense to create or request deepfake images. The act was passed by Parliament last year, but had not yet been brought into force.
The legislation is set to come into effect on Feb. 6
“Let this be a clear message to every cowardly perpetrator hiding behind a screen: you will be stopped and when you are, make no mistake that you will face the full force of the law,” Justice Secretary David Lammy said
Separately, the government said it is also criminalizing “nudification” apps as part of the Crime and Policing Bill, which is currently going through Parliament.
The new criminal offense will make it illegal for companies to supply tools designed to create non-consensual intimate images. Kendall said this would “target the problem at its source.”
The investigation by Ofcom is ongoing. Kendall said X could face a fine of up to 10% of its qualifying global revenue depending on the investigation’s outcome and a possible court order blocking access to the site.
Starmer has faced calls for his government to stop using X. Downing Street said this week it was keeping its presence on the platform “under review."
Musk insisted Grok complied with the law. “When asked to generate images, it will refuse to produce anything illegal, as the operating principle for Grok is to obey the laws of any given country or state,” he posted on X. “There may be times when adversarial hacking of Grok prompts does something unexpected. If that happens, we fix the bug immediately.”
FILE - Workers install lighting on an "X" sign atop the company headquarters, formerly known as Twitter, in downtown San Francisco, July 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)
