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Employee’s Change Caused xAI’s Chatbot to Veer Into South African Politics
Grok, the chatbot operated by Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, was providing the responses about South Africa to ...
Grok is unpromptedly telling X users about South African ‘white genocide’
Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok experienced a bug on Wednesday that caused it to reply to posts on X with info about South ...
Microsoft is now hosting xAI’s Grok 3 models
“These models will have all the service level agreements (SLAs) Azure customers expect from any Microsoft product,” says ...
A former OpenAI safety researcher makes sense of ChatGPT’s sycophancy and Grok’s South Africa obsession
Steven Adler breaks down recent erratic behavior from leading chatbots. It has been an odd few weeks for generative AI ...
Elon Musk, who's suing Microsoft, is also software giant's special guest in new Grok AI partnership
Elon Musk is in a legal fight with Microsoft but made a virtual appearance at the software giant's annual developer ...
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South Africa: The High-Stakes Diplomatic Dance Between Ramaphosa and Trump - How Will It End?
Tensions escalated since Trump's return to the White House in 2025, driven by his amplification of debunked "white genocide" narratives, and echoed by Musk. Trump said "terrible things are happening" ...
Grok AI Sparks Uproar After Bizarre 'White Genocide' Rants - What's Happening?
Elon Musk's AI chatbot, Grok, developed by xAI, ignited a firestorm on 14 May 2025, when it repeatedly posted about 'white ...
The day Grok lost its mind
A controversy erupted when Elon Musk shared a post about murdered white farmers in South Africa. Grok, an AI chatbot, ...