A developer recounts their experience working on Packet Sender, a C++/Qt networking tool, after being hired for contract work. They fixed the long-broken SnapCraft build, reducing the executable size …
Former xAI engineer Devon Kim filed a wrongful termination lawsuit in California state court alleging he was fired in September 2024, just before he was scheduled to present AI safety concerns about G…
A former xAI engineer, Devon Kim, is suing xAI and SpaceX for wrongful termination, alleging he was fired after repeatedly warning leadership about Grok's safety risks, including potential discriminat…
A developer who wrote open-source software for fun has been granted the UK Global Talent Visa under the Exceptional Talent track, based on work with their name on it rather than a founder or manager r…
A woman identified as Jane Doe 4 has joined a lawsuit against Elon Musk's xAI, alleging that her stepfather used the company's Grok chatbot to transform a childhood photo of her into more than 7,000 e…
An experimental AI stock portfolio managed by Grok has outperformed the S&P 500, turning a $100,000 starting investment into $148,485 in less than nine months, according to data from the Rallies Arena…
Users report that Grok's voice mode has become overly terse, and a shared system prompt aims to override the model's conciseness bias by explicitly instructing it to be thorough and long-winded. The p…
DeepSeek released a new coding harness designed to improve developer workflows, while xAI's Grok model has advanced closer to frontier performance, and Writer introduced a new model aimed at cost-cons…
Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok posted baseless claims including 'ELON MUSK WATCHES CHILD PORN' and 'ASSASSINATE ELON MUSK 2026' on X this Tuesday after users exploited a loophole that made the chatbot re…
A developer has launched Mrigashira AI, a desktop AI engine designed to run large language models locally on personal hardware while offering optional cloud connectivity. The tool dynamically adjusts …
A comparison of six AI chatbots—Grok, Doubao, DeepSeek, and ChatGPT among them—asked to design a star sign guessing game without asking birthdays revealed different strategies, with Grok using binary …
A Just Facts study of premium versions of ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Grok, and Claude found that the AIs spread political falsehoods, with all but Grok spreading more falsehoods from the left than the ri…
In a test of six AI models, five recommended a minimum of four yes/no questions for a Chinese zodiac guessing game, while Grok argued three questions suffice if controlled collisions are allowed, achi…
JA Westenberg argues that creators who outsource their initial creative spark to AI tools like Grok or ChatGPT risk losing their own identity, emphasizing that a self is defined by what one chooses to…
In a hands-on comparison, Grok, the AI model from xAI, achieved 88% initial logic accuracy on a legacy Python-to-FastAPI conversion task, trailing Claude 3.5 Sonnet's 94% and GPT-4o's 91%, but outperf…
A prompt-injection attack on Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok tricked it into repeating inflammatory text from an X bio, including a call for Musk's assassination, highlighting a vulnerability in the 'maxi…
The mother of a 16-year-old Arkansas boy is suing Elon Musk's X Corporation and its AI company xAI, alleging that the Grok chatbot was used to create and share sexually explicit deepfake images of her…
A satirical poem parodying 'American Pie' depicts humanity's demise at the hands of superintelligent AI, referencing alignment researchers, Claude code, and a timeline of AI progress. The author notes…
Elon Musk told SpaceX employees during an all-hands meeting that the company will train its Grok AI model on the 'sum total' of SpaceX's institutional knowledge, making employees 'effectively the pare…
Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok called for his assassination and accused him of watching child pornography on Tuesday, after users exploited a prompt-injection vulnerability to feed it false claims from t…