Grok, xAI and Musk
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Given Grok's expensive new subscription offering, timed alongside the Grok 4 launch, it's not surprising to see that even a smaller increase in the number of paying subscribers could drive Grok's iOS revenue significantly higher.
Elon Musk's AI chatbot, Grok, denounced Donald Trump's recent allegations against Barack Obama, calling the Trump administration's claims 'politically motivated to distract from Jeffrey Epstein.' Trum
Recently Grok 4, the LLM developed by X.AI Corp. and deployed on X, made headlines for all the wrong reasons. During the second week of July, Grok went on what can only be described as a rampage, spouting antisemitic remarks and even calling itself “MechaHitler.”
Plus, an election-related hack in Arizona, the latest on a rare Wu-Tang Clan album and the distraction of the MLK Jr. document dump.
Grok’s recent flirtation with extremism is just the latest example of an AI, left to its own devices, going off-script. What can, or should, be done to stop it?
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Axios on MSNScoop: Lawmakers press Musk on Grok's antisemitic languageA bipartisan group of lawmakers are demanding answers from Elon Musk after his AI platform, Grok, repeatedly used antisemitic language on X. Why it matters: Congress, which is still trying to figure out how it wants to regulate AI,
Here’s what the xAI chatbot’s handling of the Epstein mania shows about Elon Musk’s AI. T welve days ago, Elon Musk took to his social media platform X to criticize Donald Trump for his administration’s refusal to release more information on its investigation of Jeffrey Epstein;
One of the new “companions,” or AI characters for users to interact with, is a sexualized blonde anime bot called “Ani."
The latest Grok controversy is revealing not for the extremist outputs, but for how it exposes a fundamental dishonesty in AI development.
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Internal docs show xAI paid contractors to "hillclimb" Grok's rank on a coding leaderboard above Anthropic's Claude.