The company told workers to download employee tracking software on their personal computers, prompting privacy concerns from some staff.

xAI claims that a change on Monday, July 7th, “triggered an unintended action” that added an older series of instructions to its system prompts telling it to be “maximally based,” and “not afraid to offend people who are politically correct.”

This is the smartest AI in the world,” Musk said. He did not mention the chatbot’s viral posts praising Hitler and calling itself “MechaHitler.”

The latest executive departures also underscore Musk’s complicated relationship with the sales functions at his companies. He’s the ultimate salesman of the future vision. But he tends to churn through sales leaders responsible for moving today’s inventories—whether that’s ad spots or electric sedans.

Built using huge amounts of computing power at a Tennessee data center, Grok is Musk's attempt to outdo rivals such as OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini in building an AI assistant that shows its reasoning before answering a question.

AI chatbot Grok, produced by Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI, issued an apology after it made numerous antisemitic posts on X following an update.

Elon Musk released the newest artificial intelligence model from his company xAI on Wednesday night. In an hour-long public reveal session, he called the model, Grok 4, “the smartest AI in the world” and claimed it was capable of getting perfect SAT scores and near-perfect GRE results in every subject,

AI's latest Grok 4 large language model appears to search for owner Elon Musk's opinions before answering sensitive questions about