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?

Plus, an election-related hack in Arizona, the latest on a rare Wu-Tang Clan album and the distraction of the MLK Jr.

Early on, this column suggested that while first-generation users might have a hard time freeing themselves of the anthropomorphic delusion, their kids wouldn’t. They’d grow up appreciating AI as the ...

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 ...

Amid the flurry of events, the company dropped 2 AI Avatars or Grok Companions, dubbed Ani and Rudy. Ani, an NSFW ...

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, dubbed Grok, is embedded in X (formerly Twitter) and has made headlines for numerous controversies – ...

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

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot last week referred to itself as “MechaHitler”. It’s now at the centre of an Australian legal dispute.

Hello and welcome to another edition of the Weekly Vine. In this week’s digest, we are going to discuss Trump’s year since he ...