Elon Musk's AI startup, xAI, faces controversy as employees express concerns over their facial expressions being used to train the company's notorious AI chatbot, Grok.

The initiative hadn’t been planned to include xAI’s Grok model as recently as March, the former Pentagon employee said.

Here’s your Tuesday Tech Drop, a spin through some of the week’s top stories from the intersection of tech and politics.

This article was originally published online with Word In Black, a collaboration of the nation’s leading Black news ...

Experts at OpenAI and Anthropic are calling out Elon Musk and xAI for refusing to publish any safety research. In the wake of ...

A chatbot named Grok, housed in a large-language model computer program at an old Electrolux factory in Memphis, has been generating antisemitic posts, causing a scandal and raising concerns about the ...

The Department of Defense’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office has awarded contracts totaling nearly $800 ...

xAI’s latest frontier model, Grok 4, has been released without industry-standard safety reports, despite the company’s CEO, ...

The billionaire has used Trump’s handling of the ‘Epstein files’ issue to repeatedly attack his former ally since their ...

AI safety researchers from OpenAI and Anthropic are criticizing Elon Musk's xAI for "completely irresponsible" safety ...

Trump Media and Technology Group Corp, a company majority-owned by President Donald Trump, has filed AI trademarks to expand ...

A week after Elon Musk’s AI tool Grok descended into antisemitic rants and declared itself “MechaHitler,” the social media ...