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Think Grok is bad? Microsoft made an AI so evil it had to be erased (twice)

Another Grok blunder is making headlines, but Microsoft still holds the crown for most unhinged chatbot — and its downfall took just 16 hours.

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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 genocide' in South Africa in response to unrelated X queries.

International Business Times UK

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot blames ‘programming error’ for Holocaust denial

Grok said it was sceptical of the figure of six million Jews killed by Nazis

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Musk’s AI bot Grok blames ‘programming error’ for its Holocaust denial

Grok doubted 6 million death toll, days after peddling conspiracy theory of ‘white genocide’ in South Africa

The Guardian - UK

Musk’s company now claims Grok’s lies of a nonexistent ‘white genocide’ in South Africa were ‘unauthorized’

Musk’s AI chatbot Grok turned unrelated questions on several different issues back to an insistence that white genocide is ‘real.’ It was responding to a code manipulation said xAI

The Independent UK

Musk's XAI Blames 'Unauthorized' Tweak For 'White Genocide' Posts

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup has blamed an "unauthorized modification" for causing its chatbot Grok to generate misleading and unsolicited posts referencing "white genocide" in South Africa.

International Business Times

Elon Musk’s AI firm blames unauthorised change for chatbot’s rant about ‘white genocide’

xAI’s Grok bot repeatedly referred to widely discredited claim about South Africa that has been touted by Donald Trump

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Musk's AI Blames CEO After Glitch Causes Grok to Sound Off on 'White Genocide' in South Africa Despite 'Unrelated Context'

Grok, Elon Musk's xAI chatbot, glitched on Wednesday, spouting incoherent claims about white genocide in South Africa and later blaming its creator.

Latin Times

Musk’s AI Grok bot rants about ‘white genocide’ in South Africa in unrelated chats

X chatbot tells users it was ‘instructed by my creators’ to accept ‘white genocide as real and racially motivated’

The Guardian - US

Donald Trump Jr slams report comparing him to Hunter Biden over business dealings

President Donald Trump’s son became partner in investment firm 1789 Capital just after 2024 election

The Independent UK

OpenAI's ChatGPT claims neither Sam Altman nor Elon Musk is suited to advance AI if humanity is at stake — as Microsoft Copilot throws the ball back in the court

Grok AI says Elon Musk is better suited to run AI advances over OpenAI CEO Sam Altman if humanity's fate is at stake.

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Is Palantir Stock a Buy, Sell, or Hold on New xAI Partnership?

Palantir has just formed a partnership agreement with Elon Musk’s xAI and financial firm TWG Global.

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Musk's Colossus data center for Grok is at the centre of an environmental row over air quality in South Memphis

"From the beginning, the company operated with a stunning lack of transparency that left impacted communities in the dark."

PC Gamer

Elon Musk Could Launch Grok 3.5 Soon, But No Official Word Yet

The AI community is abuzz, expecting that Grok 3.5 is on its way to launch. It's the next major upgrade from xAI. Several posts on X (formerly Twitter)

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International Business Times UK

Who Is Gorklon Rust And Why Did Elon Musk Change His Twitter Handle?

Elon Musk's new X handle, Gorklon Rust, blends AI, coding, and meme coin chaos. Is this a marketing stunt for xAI or another crypto pump?

International Business Times

The Data Economy's New Architect Trevor Koverko Pioneering the Future of AI

While others chased compute infrastructure, serial entrepreneur (and former pro hockey player) Trevor Koverko saw something more scalable, accessible, and urgent: the human side of AI training.

Windows Central

Microsoft could bring Elon Musk's Grok AI model to Azure — Cozying up with OpenAI's arch-nemesis xAI for its AI Foundry

Microsoft is reportedly planning to host Elon Musk's Grok AI model. However, it won't host xAI's servers to train any of its future AI models.

Tom’s Hardware

Elon Musk’s Nvidia-powered Colossus supercomputer faces pollution allegations from under‐reported power generators

xAI's Colossus supercomputer at Memphis, Tennessee, is accused of spewing excess pollution to get the power it needs to run all its GPUs.

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The Guardian - US

Elon Musk’s xAI accused of pollution over Memphis supercomputer

Hearing scheduled for Friday as residents receive anonymous leaflets that downplay pollution dangers

Tom’s Hardware

Speculation mounts that Musk will raise tens of billions for AI supercomputer with 1 million GPUs: Report

Elon Musk is reportedly seeking to raise up to tens of billions of dollars for xAI as part of an effort to revalue the company at $150 billion — $200 billion and fund the Colossus 2 supercomputer project with one million GPUs.

TechRadar

Grok gets seriously productive, writing code and text in new Grok Studio feature

Grok Studio offers a workspace to collaborate with the AI.

Fortune

Elon Musk's X just revealed a dramatic revenue drop in U.K. after $44 billion takeover

X’s U.K. arm saw a 66.3% drop in revenue in the year following Musk’s takeover, falling from £205.3 million in 2022 to £69.1 million in 2023.

International Business Times

Elon's Grok Goes Full Memory Mode: xAI Bot Now Remembers Your Chats, But Can it Beat ChatGPT Now?

Elon Musk's Grok AI adds memory, voice, and image features to rival ChatGPT and Gemini, making it smarter, sharper, and ready for the AI spotlight.

TechRadar

Grok may start remembering everything you ask it to do, according to new reports

xAI is adding a memory featur to Grok.

Tom’s Hardware

Elon Musk’s xAI allegedly uses 'illegal' generators to power Colossus supercomputer facility

xAI has reportedly built a 420 MW power facility to power the Colossus supercomputer that is set to expand to 200,000 GPUs and beyond. It's using more portable generators than it has permits for, but the suggested $25,000 per day fine is effectively meaningless.

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