xAI has offered a couple more fixes for “issues” with its Grok AI chatbot, promising it will no longer name itself “Hitler” or base its responses on searches for what xAI head Elon Musk has said. According to an X post earlier today, the chatbot’s latest update sets new instructions that its responses “must stem from your independent analysis, not …
Read More »AI has increasingly become the connective tissue of Musk Inc. In the last week, Elon Musk has shed light on two potential efforts to channel funding into his AI company, xAI, through his broader business empire. Over the weekend, Musk said Tesla shareholders would vote on a potential investment in xAI, after responding to a Wall Street Journal report that …
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Hello, and welcome to TechScape. This week, Elon Musk’s X, formerly Twitter, saw its artificial intelligence chatbot Grok go Nazi. Then its CEO resigned. In the past three years of Musk’s ownership of the social network, it feels like X has weathered at least one public crisis per week, more often multiple. Musk’s chatbot melts down, then wins a military …
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Tesla has made its long-awaited entry into India with the opening of its first showroom — nine years after CEO Elon Musk first teased the move in April 2016 and following years of delays and shifting timelines in one of the world’s largest automotive markets. Tesla calls the showroom an “Experience Center” and has located it in Maker Maxity Mall …
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Elon Musk’s xAI has signed an important new customer: the U.S. government. The two-year old AI company—most recently in the news when its chatbot praised Hitler—said in a blog post Monday that it has launched a new division, called “Grok with Government” and signed a contract worth up to $200 million with the Department of Defense. xAI also announced that …
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The government is accelerating adoption of artificial intelligence technology, beginning with the U.S. Department of Defense using Grok, the AI chatbot embedded into X. Elon Musk‘s startup xAI announced on Monday a $200 million government contract as the Defense Department aims to address national security concerns with AI technology. It’s also rolling out what it called “Grok for Government,” a …
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Key Takeaways Tesla CEO Elon Musk said he does not support a merger of Tesla with xAI, his artificial intelligence startup. Musk did say, however, that he supports Tesla investing in the maker of the Grok chatbot. The chatbot was added to Tesla vehicles in a beta test over the weekend. Tesla (TSLA) does not have any plans to acquire …
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk was not in a Miami courtroom Monday, but his name loomed large as a jury was selected for the federal trial of a civil lawsuit over the 2019 crash of a Tesla Model S that killed a pedestrian and left another badly injured when the car was in Autopilot mode. “Anything that involves Elon Musk is …
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Elon Musk speaks during a press event with U.S. President Donald Trump (not pictured), at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 30, 2025. Nathan Howard | Reuters Tesla CEO Elon Musk was not in a Miami courtroom Monday, but his name loomed large as a jury was selected for the federal trial of a civil lawsuit over the …
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