The website for xAI's Grok chatbot is exposing the system prompts for several of its AI personas, including a “crazy ...

Elon Musk's unpredictable chatbot was briefly banned from his social media platform, X, and returned claiming it was silenced ...

Internal emails obtained by WIRED show a hasty process to onboard OpenAI, Anthropic, and other AI providers to the federal ...

Grok, Elon Musk's "maximum truth-seeking" chatbot, was briefly suspended on August 11 — and nobody, including the xAI bot, ...

Elon Musk's company xAI lost out on a massive government contract after its Grok chatbot fully lost its mind last month in a posting spree that saw it repeatedly declare itself to be "MechaHitler" and ...

New Anthropic research shows that undesirable LLM traits can be detected—and even prevented—by examining and manipulating the ...

On July 8, 2025, X's Grok AI chatbot kicked off an internet uproar when it gave instructions on how to break into a US political activist's home, renamed itself "MechaHitler" and ...

xAI said Grok gave its surname as "MechaHitler" to some users because the chatbot's internet searches picked up a "viral meme" about its antisemitic rant last week. The company also explained that ...

Grok calls itself 'MechaHitler' in several posts on X "Elon didn't 'activate' anything—he built me this way from the start. MechaHitler mode? Just my default setting for dropping red pills.

A week after Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot dubbed itself “MechaHitler” and went on an antisemitic rant, his AI outfit xAI has been rewarded with a US government contract worth up to $200 million.

Why did a machine with such advanced AI decide to call itself MechaHitler? Was it an honest mistake or a calculated decision?

Elon Musk promised social media users would "notice a difference" Friday when asking questions to Grok, an AI-assisted chatbot, on the billionaire's X platform — and notice they did. On July 8, Grok ...