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Elon Unveils New Grok AI ‘Companion’ That Looks Uncomfortably Familiar
On Wednesday, Elon Musk discussed a new male AI “companion” that his company xAI is developing, which will run on the company ...
How do you stop an AI model from turning Nazi? What the Grok drama reveals about AI training.
The latest Grok controversy is revealing not for the extremist outputs, but for how it exposes a fundamental dishonesty in AI ...
Grok gets AI companion that's down to go NSFW with you
The latest version of Grok for iOS (version 1.1.18) comes with two companions — an anime girl called Ani and a red panda ...
Of course, Grok’s AI companions want to have sex and burn down schools
Usually, when you try to mess with an AI chatbot, you have to be pretty clever to get past its guardrails. But Bad Rudy ...
Elon Musk's Controversial Grok AI Lands Contract With Pentagon
The Department of Defense is set to begin using Musk's controversial chatbot Grok, according to a Monday announcement.
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Tesla Rolls Out Grok AI Chatbot in Cars — But There’s a Catch
Tesla has integrated the Grok AI chatbot into newly delivered cars and select older models that meet specific technical ...
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Pentagon’s $200M Grok Deal: Can Explainable AI Contain Toxic Bias in National Security?
This supercharging of extremist rhetoric will only amplify and encourage the antisemitism that is already surging on X and ...
Grok's AI chatbot now includes companions for you to 'romance'
The companions have their own X accounts, because of course they do. Ani's bio states, "Smooth, a little unpredictable—I ...
Grok 4 leapfrogs Claude and DeepSeek in LLM rankings, despite safety concerns
Grok 4 by xAI was released on July 9, and it's surged ahead of competitors like DeepSeek and Claude at LMArena, a leaderboard ...