The company told workers to download employee tracking software on their personal computers, prompting privacy concerns from some staff.

This is not the first time Grok, owned by Elon Musk’s AI company XAI, has landed in trouble. In May 2025, users noticed it mentioned “white genocide” in South Africa during unrelated conversations.

This is the smartest AI in the world,” Musk said. He did not mention the chatbot’s viral posts praising Hitler and calling itself “MechaHitler.”

AI’s chatbot spiraled into chaos after trying to sound more human. The fix reveals just how fragile truth-seeking AI really is.

Built using huge amounts of computing power at a Tennessee data center, Grok is Musk's attempt to outdo rivals such as OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini in building an AI assistant that shows its reasoning before answering a question.

Elon Musk released the newest artificial intelligence model from his company xAI on Wednesday night. In an hour-long public reveal session, he called the model, Grok 4, “the smartest AI in the world” and claimed it was capable of getting perfect SAT scores and near-perfect GRE results in every subject,

AI's latest Grok 4 large language model appears to search for owner Elon Musk's opinions before answering sensitive questions about