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?

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

Experts at OpenAI and Anthropic are calling out Elon Musk and xAI for refusing to publish any safety research. In the wake of ...

A chatbot named Grok, housed in a large-language model computer program at an old Electrolux factory in Memphis, has been generating antisemitic posts, causing a scandal and raising concerns about the ...

xAI’s latest frontier model, Grok 4, has been released without industry-standard safety reports, despite the company’s CEO, ...

The billionaire has used Trump’s handling of the ‘Epstein files’ issue to repeatedly attack his former ally since their ...

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

Grok’s pro-Hitler ranting didn't disqualify it from a $200 million defense contract. With Pete Hegseth running the DoD, why would it?

Grok will now go into Tesla cars — despite its recent antisemitic outburst on X, the social media platform owned by Elon Musk ...

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Grok has been plagued by controversy recently over its responses to users, raising questions about how tech companies seek to moderate content from ...

For an administration that is ostensibly so worried about anti-Semitism that it is trying to dismantle several universities, hiring avowed anti-Semite MechaHitler as a DOD contractor certainly seems ...

The Pentagon announced that it signed a contract with Elon Musk’s AI firm with a value of up to $200 million on Monday — just days after the company unveiled an update to its chatbot, Grok, that ...