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Bacon joins probe into Musk and Grok AI over allegations of antisemitism, ‘deeply alarming messages’
Neb., is among three members of Congress seeking answers from Elon Musk and his xAI Corp. over ‘deeply alarming messages’ ...
Elon Musk’s Grok AI lands $200M Pentagon contract, days after spouting antisemitism
Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot has landed a $200 million contract with the United States Department of Defense (DOD) just a few ...
Musk Launches Grok 4 Amid Antisemitism Controversy—Claims It's ‘Smarter Than Almost All Graduate Students’
AI owner Elon Musk made some big claims about Grok’s capability, saying it was “better than PhD level in every subject.” ...
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Despite Grok's 'MechaHitler' Meltdown, Elon Musk’s xAI Scores $200M Pentagon Deal
The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded xAI a lucrative deal just days after the Grok chatbot spewed antisemitism, ...
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Elon Musk’s AI Chatbot Grok Insults Turkey’s President – Here’s the Country’s Response
This is not the first time the Grok AI chatbot has parroted insulting and offensive rhetoric after engineers tinkered with ...
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Commission meeting with X in wake of Grok AI antisemitism scandal
The social media platform has previously been found to have breached the EU's Digital Services Act (DSA) but has yet to face ...
AI Grok Declaring Itself 'MechaHitler' On X Is Where 'Anti-Woke' Was Always Headed
On Tuesday July 8, X (née Twitter) was forced to switch off the social media platform’s in-built AI, Grok, after it declared ...
xAI debuts powerful Grok 4 AI model, but it's not going to make people forget the antisemitism it spewed on X
The takeaway, at least from a technical standpoint, is that Grok 4 is now firmly in frontier-model territory. That’s a meaningful shift for xAI, which just months ago was primarily known for its ...