Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, xAI, says an “unauthorized modification” led its Grok chatbot to post unsolicited claims on social media about the persecution and “genocide” of white people in South Africa.

Despite its recent misinformation controversies, Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok has landed a new deal with Microsoft. Just a matter of days after two controversies that first saw Grok make unprompted right-wing claims about a “white genocide” in South Africa,