AI released two AI "companions" on its Grok platform, a Japanese anime girl named "Ani" and an animated red panda called "Rudi."

A week after Grok's antisemitic outburst, which included praise of Hitler and a post calling itself "MechaHitler," Elon Musk's xAI has landed a US military contract worth up to $200 million. xAI announced a "Grok for Government" service after getting the contract with the US Department of Defense.

As for why Grok was consulting Musk’s posts when asked about controversial topics, the company wrote, “The model reasons that as an AI it doesn’t have an opinion but knowing it was Grok 4 by xAI, searches to see what xAI or Elon Musk might have said on a topic to align itself with the company.”

Five months after DOGE staffer Marko Elez resigned from the agency over racist social media posts, he's not only back at DOGE, but back in the news for another not-very-positive reason.

AI reins in Grok AI after backlash over politically charged and offensive responses, including bizarre “Hitler” surname claim.

In a series of posts on X, the AI chatbot Grok apologized for what it admitted was “horrific behavior.” The posts appear to be an official statement from xAI, the Elon Musk-led company behind Grok, as opposed to an AI-generated explanation for Grok’s posts.

Joy Taylor is out at Fox Sports. The prominent sports media personality, who is the younger sister of former NFL star Jason Taylor, was let go by Fox Sports on Monday, according to a report from The Athletic. Taylor and her show, "Speak," were reportedly canceled by Fox Sports 1. The network ...

Elon Musk's xAI startup is swimming in controversy after launching Grok 4, the latest version of its snarky AI chatbot. Last week, the company boasted that Grok 4 achieved higher scores than quite a few other large language models (LLMs) on various industry benchmarks.