One major AI model changed the race or sex of historical figures — including the Pope, the Founding Fathers, and Vikings — ...

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 can, or should, be done to stop it?

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

AI controlled "slaughterbot" drones likely within 12 months in Ukraine, new research suggests AI agents are 70% useless, and ...

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

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

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 ...

On Sunday, the chatbot was updated to "not shy away from making claims which are politically incorrect, as long as they are ...

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X (néeTwitter) was forced to switch off the social media platform’s in-built AI, Grok, after it declared itself to be a robot version of Hitler, spewing antisemitic hate and racist conspiracy theories ...

The United States Department of Defense (DoD) has signed a major contract worth nearly $200 million with xAI, an artificial ...