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How do you stop an AI model from turning Nazi? What the Grok drama reveals about AI training.
The latest Grok controversy is revealing not for the extremist outputs, but for how it exposes a fundamental dishonesty in AI ...
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Grok’s Meltdown: xAI Says Sorry for AI Chatbot’s ‘Horrible Behavior,’ Blames Code Glitch
Elon Musk’s company xAI apologized after Grok posted hate speech and extremist content, blaming a code update and pledging ...
Grok gets AI companion that's down to go NSFW with you
The latest version of Grok for iOS (version 1.1.18) comes with two companions — an anime girl called Ani and a red panda ...
The Pentagon is throwing $200 million at ‘Grok for Government’ and other AI companies
The Pentagon is set to spend nearly a billion dollars for AI with four major Silicon Valley tech firms, Google, xAI, OpenAI ...
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Pentagon taps four commercial tech firms to expand military use of AI
Google, Anthropic, OpenAI and Elon Musk's xAI — will help the DOD develop AI workflows for key national security missions.
Defense Department to begin using Grok, Musk’s controversial AI model
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence start-up xAI said its models are now available to federal agencies. The DOD said it ...
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New Grok AI model surprises experts by checking Elon Musk’s views before answering
An AI model launched last week appears to have shipped with an unexpected occasional behavior: checking what its owner thinks ...
AI’s antisemitism problem is bigger than Grok
When Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot began spewing out antisemitic responses to several queries on X last week, some users were shocked.
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New Grok 4 Takes on ‘Humanity’s Last Exam’ as the AI Race Heats Up
Elon Musk has launched xAI’s Grok 4—calling it the “world’s smartest AI” and claiming it can ace Ph.D.-level exams and ...
Praise and Addiction Fears: Musk’s AI Girlfriend Sparks Fierce Debate
This marks a shift in the AI wars. Instead of just competing on intelligence or reasoning, Musk wants Grok to feel more ...