Here’s your Tuesday Tech Drop, a spin through some of the week’s top stories from the intersection of tech and politics.

Grok’s recent flirtation with extremism is just the latest example of an AI, left to its own devices, going off-script. What ...

It isn't immediately clear what led to the disturbing posts, whether due to a fault in the chatbot's programming or if Grok ...

Musk said an update to make Grok less politically correct instead made it susceptible to manipulation. The AI chatbot praised ...

A week after Grok's antisemitic outburst, which included praise of Hitler and a post calling itself "MechaHitler," Elon ...

A week after Elon Musk’s AI tool Grok descended into antisemitic rants and declared itself “MechaHitler,” the social media ...

"Incredible!" Musk raises eyebrows with announcement about AI system coming to Tesla vehicles: 'Next week at the latest' ...

On Tuesday July 8, X (née Twitter) was forced to switch off the social media platform’s in-built AI, Grok, after it declared ...

Grok began repeatedly praising Adolf Hitler, using antisemitic phrases and attacking users with traditionally Jewish surnames ...

It claimed to just be “noticing patterns” — patterns like, Grok claimed, that Jewish people were more likely to be radical leftists who want to destroy America. It then volunteered quite cheerfully ...

AI explained why Grok 4 seemed to search for Elon Musk's opinions when asked about some hot-button topics.

The latest Grok controversy is revealing not for the extremist outputs, but for how it exposes a fundamental dishonesty in AI development.