Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI, has released its latest models, Grok 3 and Grok 3 mini, on Microsoft Azure. With this move, Microsoft becomes one of the first hyperscalers to offer managed access to Grok.

Telegram and Elon Musk's xAI have announced a major one-year partnership, integrating the Grok AI chatbot into the messaging app with a $300 million investment, set to bring advanced AI capabilities to over a billion users this summer.

Or maybe Grok’s willingness to spout controversial fringe theories is a reminder to everyone about what AI is, and what it is not. AI systems only know what data tells them. Even as an AI system “remembers” things about specific users,

ChatGPT and Grok share their wildly different 16-team SEC football power rankings ahead of the 2025 regular season.

The use of AI chatbots for fact-checking is on the rise. However, Grok's unsolicited claims about "white genocide" show that the responses of Grok, ChatGPT, Meta AI and other chatbots are not always reliable.

In a report released Thursday, the Tech Transparency Project (TTP) flagged popular accounts likely linked to US-sanctioned terrorists. Some of the accounts bear "ID verified" badges, suggesting that X may be going against its own policies that ban sanctioned terrorists from benefiting from its platform.

In early May, users of Grok – an AI chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s xAI and integrated into the social media platform X – noticed a pattern. When asked general questions, Grok occasionally brought up the theory of ‘white genocide’ in South Africa, referring to it as “real and racially motivated.”

Social media users asked Grok a series of questions about 'white genocide', revealing that the bot was trained to keep mentioning it

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