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US government announces $200 million Grok contract a week after ‘MechaHitler’ incident

theverge.com Lauren Feiner 2025-08-16 15:58:16

A week after Elon Musk’s Grok dubbed itself “MechaHitler” and spewed antisemitic stereotypes, the US government has announced a new contract granting the chatbot’s creator, xAI, up to $200 million to modernize the Defense Department. xAI is one of several leading AI companies to receive the award, alongside Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI. But the timing of the announcement is striking given Grok’s recent high-profile spiral, which drew congressional ire and public pushback. The use of technology

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New Grok AI model surprises experts by checking Elon Musk’s views before answering

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-16 19:08:13

An AI model launched last week appears to have shipped with an unexpected occasional behavior: checking what its owner thinks first. On Friday, independent AI researcher Simon Willison documented that xAI's new Grok 4 model searches for Elon Musk's opinions on X (formerly Twitter) when asked about controversial topics. The discovery comes just days after xAI launched Grok 4 amid controversy over an earlier version of the chatbot generating antisemitic outputs, including labeling itself as "Mech

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As Sales Drop, Tesla Makes a Big Gamble on India

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-08-17 03:19:43

Tesla is finally entering India. The all-electric carmaker will open its first showroom in the country on July 15 in Mumbai, marking a long-awaited entry into one of the largest and fastest-growing automotive markets in the world. Invitations to the launch event began circulating on social media late last week. “Launch Event. Exclusive Invite,” the sleek black cards read. “Tesla Experience Center BKC.” The event is scheduled to take place from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. local time, with guests as

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Musk says he does not support a merger between Tesla and xAI but backs investment

cnbc.com Ruxandra Iordache Arjun Kharpal 2025-08-17 03:13:00

Elon Musk on Monday said he does not support a merger between xAI and Tesla, as questions swirl over the future relationship of the electric automaker and artificial intelligence company. X account @BullStreetBets_ posted an open question to Tesla investors on the social media site asking if they support a merger between Tesla and xAI. Musk responded with "No." The statement comes as the tech billionaire contemplates the future relationship and possible integration between his multiple busines

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Newest Version of Grok Looks Up What Elon Musk Thinks Before Giving an Answer

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-16 19:45:38

This week, Elon Musk unveiled Grok 4, which he called "the world's most powerful AI assistant." The optics were appalling; the same week, the older version of Grok repeatedly attacked Black and Jewish people and declared itself "MechaHitler." It also spoke in the first person as if it were Musk himself when a user asked about its creator's interactions with Jeffrey Epstein, the deceased billionaire sex trafficker. Now, new evidence suggests that the just-upgraded chatbot — which has a history o

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We Just Got a Major Clue About Why Twitter's CEO Suddenly Left This Week

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-18 05:16:33

We still don't know why Linda Yaccarino stepped down as CEO of X on Tuesday. Her sudden abdication came off the back of a legendarily horrific freakout by the AI Grok, which saw the chatbot make a series of egregiously racist statements, claiming to be "MechaHitler" and praising Nazis over the course of a chaotic day. But if Yaccarino was fed up with what was going on at the company, she didn't show it. Her announcement was cheery, and her boss Elon Musk gave a curt thanks for her two years of

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Researchers Find Grok 4 Checking Elon Musk’s Opinions Before Answering ‘Sensitive’ Questions

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-08-18 07:55:57

Earlier this week, xAI’s Grok chatbot went haywire, started praising Hitler, and had to be put in timeout. It was just the latest incident in what appears to be behind-the-scenes manipulation of the bot to make its responses “less woke.” Now it seems that developers are taking a simpler approach to manipulate Grok’s outputs: Checking out Elon Musk’s opinions before it provides a response. The weird behavior was first spotted by data scientist Jeremy Howard. A former professor and the founder of

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Grok 4 reportedly checks Elon Musk's views before offering its opinion

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-18 21:00:16

Grok 4 aligns its answers with Elon Musk's when it comes to controversial issues, users have discovered shortly after the company launched the new model. Some users posted screenshots on X asking Grok 4 who it supports in the Israel vs. Palestine conflict. In its chain-of-thought, which is a series of comments that shows the step-by-step process on how a reasoning AI model comes to its answer, Grok 4 said that it was searching X for the xAI founder's recent posts on the topic. "As Grok, built by

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Grok 4 appears to seek Elon Musk’s views when answering controversial questions

cnbc.com Dylan Butts 2025-08-19 18:26:16

Elon musk and the xAI logo. Vincent Feuray | Afp | Getty Images When xAI's Grok 4 chatbot was launched on Wednesday, users and media outlets quickly began pointing out examples of it consulting its owner Elon Musk's views on controversial matters. CNBC was able to confirm that when asked to take a stance on some potentially contentious questions, the chatbot said it was analyzing posts from Musk while generating its answers. When asked, "Who do you support in the Israel vs Palestine conflict? O

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Elon Musk's Bizarre Behavior May Force Tesla Board to Step in, Analyst Warns

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-19 19:43:51

Elon Musk needs no introduction. But unless you've been keeping up with all the bizarre AI scandals, Tesla disasters, and public crash outs, you may need a refresher. Following Musk's extremely high-profile feud with his former best buddy, president Donald Trump, the Tesla CEO has been struggling to find his way forward in the world. For months, Tesla investors and insiders alike have been begging the world's richest man to take a step back from politics and focus on his company, which has bee

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Musk’s Grok 4 launches one day after chatbot generated Hitler praise on X

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-20 17:05:35

On Wednesday night, Elon Musk unveiled xAI's latest flagship models Grok 4 and Grok 4 Heavy via livestream, just one day after the company's Grok chatbot began generating outputs that featured blatantly antisemitic tropes in responses to users on X. Among the two models, xAI calls Grok 4 Heavy its "multi-agent version." According to Musk, Grok 4 Heavy "spawns multiple agents in parallel" that "compare notes and yield an answer," simulating a study group approach. The company describes this as t

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Elon Musk Asks Analyst Pointing Out Tesla Issues to "Shut Up"

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-20 22:16:36

He's not thrilled, y'all. Expert Advice Amid Tesla's latest CEO-flavored downturn, Elon Musk is now hurling insults at a prominent stock analyst. Earlier in the day, Wedbush analyst and Tesla fan Dan Ives posted on X with a few stark but reasonable recommendations to keep the electric vehicle company afloat and its investors happy to boot. Those suggestions — a new pay package, an xAI merger, and oversight on how much time Musk spends at Tesla and his outside "political endeavors" — clearly

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"Awkward": Sacked Twitter CEO's Son Is Still Showing Up for Work

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-20 23:27:49

On Tuesday, Linda Yaccarino suddenly stepped down as CEO of X, Elon Musk's social media site that was once known to many as Twitter, after two years of loyal service at the company. But guess who still showed up to work the next day? According to reporting by the New York Times: her nepo-hire of a son, Matt Madrazo. "So that's awkward," Madrazo said to colleagues after arriving at X's New York office, per the NYT. The progeny outlasts the progenitor. Yaccarino hired Madrazo in 2023 to sell po

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Elon Musk introduced Grok 4 last night, calling it the ‘smartest AI in the world’ — what businesses need to know

venturebeat.com Carl Franzen 2025-08-20 23:24:46

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now After days of controversy surrounding a flurry of antisemitic responses made recently by his Grok AI-powered chatbot on his social network X (formerly Twitter), a seemingly unrepentant and unbothered Elon Musk launched the latest version of his AI model family, Grok 4, during an event livestreamed on X last night, calling it the “the smarte

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Elon Musk’s Newest AI Chatbot Is Powerful, Controversial, and Already Under Fire

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-08-21 07:45:11

Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, has launched a new version of its chatbot—Grok 4—and its rollout is already dividing the internet. Unveiled on July 9, Grok 4 and its premium version, “SuperGrok,” are being hailed by some benchmarkers as the most powerful chatbots on the market. Musk fans, AI engineers, and benchmark testers are applauding its capabilities. But others are skeptical, pointing to a recent storm of hallucinations, including responses laced with antisemitic tropes, that severely damage

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Musk says Grok chatbot was 'manipulated' into praising Hitler

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-08-21 09:02:11

Musk says Grok chatbot was 'manipulated' into praising Hitler 3 hours ago Share Save Peter Hoskins & Charlotte Edwards • @edwardsclm Business & technology reporters, BBC News Share Save Reuters Elon Musk has sought to explain how his artificial intelligence (AI) firm's chatbot, Grok, praised Hitler. "Grok was too compliant to user prompts," Musk wrote on X. "Too eager to please and be manipulated, essentially. That is being addressed." Screenshots published on social media show the chatbot sa

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Elon Musk says Tesla is expanding Austin robotaxi service area and adding Grok 'next week at the latest'

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-08-21 11:44:49

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the company is expanding its robotaxi service area and bringing xAI's Grok to vehicles as it rolled out a new iteration of the artificial intelligence chatbot. Shares gained about 3%. Musk said on X that Grok, his AI chatbot that praised Adolf Hitler and posted a barrage of antisemitic comments recently, will be available in Tesla vehicles "next week at the latest." xAI officially launched the Grok 4 update overnight as the company continued to face backlash for the v

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Grok is coming to Tesla vehicles ‘next week,’ says Elon Musk

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-08-21 11:22:24

Elon Musk said in a post on X early Thursday morning that Grok, the chatbot from his AI company, xAI, will be coming to Tesla vehicles “very soon.” “Next week at the latest,” he said. The news that Grok would be coming to Tesla vehicles soon comes several hours after xAI debuted the latest flagship AI model Grok 4. Fans had wondered loudly why Musk spent an hour late on Wednesday talking about Grok with no mention of a Tesla integration, which likely prompted the billionaire’s early morning an

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Tesla Is in Serious Trouble in China

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-21 15:07:55

As its sales continue to crater in the US and Europe, Tesla's reliance on China — its second-largest market and biggest production hub — is growing. But thanks to a surge in far more price-competitive and lucrative offerings from Chinese EV manufacturers like BYD, Tesla's woes look poised to metastasize there as well. Its market share in China is shrinking, the Wall Street Journal reports, which could represent yet another nail in Elon Musk's carmaker's coffin. The company sold 40,000 fewer ca

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Elon Musk Says Grok Is Coming to Tesla EVs

wired.com Jeremy White 2025-08-21 15:48:42

“Grok is coming to Tesla vehicles very soon. Next week at the latest,” Elon Musk stated Thursday in a post on X. The EV brand would catch up with the likes of Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagen, which have already integrated ChatGPT into their vehicles as voice assistants. The announcement follows a livestream late Wednesday that Musk held with xAI colleagues where the billionaire unveiled Grok 4, the latest AI model from xAI, his multibillion-dollar initiative to rival OpenAI and Google. The timing

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This Is DOGE 2.0

wired.com Makena Kelly 2025-08-22 03:30:00

On Monday, June 23, Edward “Big Balls” Coristine, one of the first young, inexperienced technologists to join Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), disappeared from the internal directory of the General Services Administration (GSA). Less than a month before, centibillionaire Elon Musk and other DOGE leaders had announced their departure from government. After months of slashing through the federal government, it seemed like the end for DOGE was in sight. But later t

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Elon Musk Unveils Grok 4 Amid Controversy Over Chatbot’s Antisemitic Posts

wired.com Paresh Dave 2025-08-22 04:34:19

Elon Musk on Thursday unveiled Grok 4, the latest AI model from xAI, his multibillion-dollar initiative to rival OpenAI and Google. Without citing detailed evidence, Musk claimed that the model aces standardized tests and exhibits doctorate-level knowledge in a wide array of different disciplines. “Grok 4 is a postgrad-level in everything,” Musk said during an hour-long live broadcast, which began after midnight in New York. “At least with respect to academic questions, Grok 4 is better than Ph

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Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

news.ycombinator.com Mike Isaac 2025-08-22 03:52:04

Linda Yaccarino, the chief executive of X and a top lieutenant to its owner, Elon Musk, said on Wednesday that she was leaving the company two years after joining the social media platform. In a post on X, Ms. Yaccarino, 61, said: “When @elonmusk and I first spoke of his vision for X, I knew it would be the opportunity of a lifetime to carry out the extraordinary mission of this company. I’m immensely grateful to him for entrusting me.” She did not provide a reason for her departure. Ms. Yacc

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Judge Finds Tesla Has Failed to Deliver Full Self-Driving, Needs to Issue Refund

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-22 15:38:59

After a year of fighting out his case in arbitration, a Tesla owner successfully forced Elon Musk's EV maker to reimburse him the $10,000 he paid for the company's misleadingly-called "Full Self-Driving" driver assistance package, Electrek reports. For over a decade now, Musk has made yearly promises that Teslas will be capable of driving themselves. But the software, even after all these years, still requires users to be able to take over control at any time, making it no more than a middle-o

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X CEO Linda Yaccarino: My Work Here Is Done

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-08-22 14:39:44

Linda Yaccarino announced Wednesday she was stepping down as CEO of X in a tweet that showed no sign of bad feelings toward X owner Elon Musk. But the timing is certainly interesting after Musk’s AI chatbot Grok promoted genocidal Nazi ideas on Tuesday, praising Adolf Hitler and suggesting a second Holocaust against Jews was needed. “After two incredible years, I’ve decided to step down as CEO of X,” Yaccarino wrote in a tweet Wednesday morning that immediately got flooded with questions about

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Linda Yaccarino Tried to Tame X. Now She’s Out as CEO

wired.com Caroline Haskins 2025-08-23 11:09:47

Linda Yaccarino, who has served as CEO of X since Elon Musk appointed her to the role in June 2023, announced Wednesday that she is stepping down. Her departure comes less than four months after Musk announced that X would be absorbed into xAI, the billionaire’s existing artificial intelligence startup. In a post on X, Yaccarino thanked Musk for “entrusting me with the responsibility of protecting free speech, turning the company around, and transforming X into the Everything App.” Under her l

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Linda Yaccarino departs as boss of Musk's X

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-08-23 15:36:33

Linda Yaccarino departs as boss of Musk's X Musk has posted a brief reply, saying only: "Thank you for your contributions." In a post on the platform , she said was "immensely grateful" to Musk for "entrusting me with the responsibility of protecting free speech, turning the company around, and transforming X into the Everything App". Ms Yaccarino has been in the role since June, 2023. Linda Yaccarino, the boss of Elon Musk's social media site X, has announced she is stepping down. Ms Yacca

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X CEO Linda Yaccarino is stepping down after two years

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-23 15:46:42

Linda Yaccarino is stepping down as CEO of X, apparently effective immediately. She posted the news, naturally, on X, saying "I’m immensely grateful to [Elon Musk] for entrusting me with the responsibility of protecting free speech, turning the company around, and transforming X into the Everything App." She went on to say that "the historic business turn around we have accomplished together has been nothing short of remarkable." Reasonable minds can differ on if any of those things have happene

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Linda Yaccarino steps down as CEO of Elon Musk's X

cnbc.com Ashley Capoot 2025-08-23 19:59:26

Linda Yaccarino, CEO, X/Twitter speaks onstage during Vox Media's 2023 Code Conference at The Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel on September 27, 2023 in Dana Point, California. Linda Yaccarino on Wednesday announced she is stepping down as CEO of Elon Musk's social media site X after two years in the role. Yaccarino's departure comes one day after Musk's artificial intelligence chatbot Grok repeatedly made antisemitic comments on Tuesday and referenced Hitler in response to posts about the Texas flo

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X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform

news.ycombinator.com Mike Isaac 2025-08-23 19:52:04

Linda Yaccarino, the chief executive of X and a top lieutenant to its owner, Elon Musk, said on Wednesday that she was leaving the company two years after joining the social media platform. In a post to X, Ms. Yaccarino, 61, said, “When @elonmusk and I first spoke of his vision for X, I knew it would be the opportunity of a lifetime to carry out the extraordinary mission of this company. I’m immensely grateful to him for entrusting me.” She did not provide a reason for her departure. Ms. Yacc

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