10 h. ago How Elon Musk’s rogue Grok chatbot became a cautionary AI tale

Posts praising Hitler show the risks of accelerating the nascent technology with little stress testing and few guardrails

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11 h. ago Elon Musk’s X investigated in France for alleged data tampering and fraud

French prosecutors have launched an investigation into alleged data tampering and fraud involving Elon Musk's platform X

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11 h. ago 'AI is learning from our hate' – expert explains why Grok went 'MechaHitler' rouge

EXCLUSIVE: In a search for why Elon Musk's Grok AI went off the rails, began praising Hitler and making anti-semetic jokes – the Daily Star turned to an expert in AI to find the answer

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12 h. ago Elon Musk's X platform investigated in France for alleged data tampering and fraud

French prosecutors have launched an investigation into alleged data tampering and fraud involving Elon Musk's platform X

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17 h. ago Ecotricity founder Dale Vince: ‘There’s got to be a bigger purpose in life’

The entrepreneur on his Labour party donations, the case for green growth — and taking Elon Musk to court

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32 h. ago Grok, fresh off its antisemitic turn, is being installed in Teslas by next week

Update comes after Musk’s xAI company unveiled latest Grok artificial intelligence model

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32 h. ago Grok’s Nazi turn is the latest in a long line of AI chatbots gone wrong

ANALYSIS: Grok is the latest in a long line of AI chatbots to have turned Nazi after being exposed to the depth of online human thought, Richard Hall writes.

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38 h. ago Trump names Sean Duffy as interim Nasa head after rejecting Elon Musk ally

President appoints his transportation secretary as interim administrator of space agency as it faces crisis amid Trump’s budget cutsDonald Trump has appointed his transportation secretary, Sean Duffy, as interim administrator of Nasa, six weeks after withdrawing the nomination of Elon Musk ally and billionaire Jared Isaacman for the permanent role.The president announced the appointment on Truth Social on Wednesday evening, praising Duffy’s work on transportation infrastructure and describing him as someone who will be “a fantastic leader of the ever more important space agency, even if only for a short period of time”. Continue reading...

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42 h. ago Trump puts another nail in Musk friendship with his NASA appointee

Transport Secretary Sean Duffy, who fell out with tech boss over DOGE cuts to air traffic control, named as interim leader of space agency

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43 h. ago The CEO who never was: how Linda Yaccarino was set up to fail at Elon Musk’s X

Ex-NBC executive was tasked with building an ‘everything app’, but billionaire owner was biggest obstacle in her pathIn May 2023, when Linda Yaccarino, an NBC advertising executive, joined what was then still known as Twitter, she was given a tall order: repair the company’s relationship with advertisers after a chaotic year of being owned by Elon Musk. But just weeks after she became CEO, Musk posted an antisemitic tweet that drove away major brands like Disney, Paramount, NBCUniversal, Comcast, Lionsgate and Warner Bros Discovery to pause their advertising on the platform. Musk delivered an apology for the tweet later at a conference – which he called the worst post he’s ever done – but it came with a message to advertisers, specifically the Disney CEO Bob Iger: “Go fuck yourselves”. Yaccarino was in the audience of the conference.“I don’t want them to advertise,” he said. “If someone is going to blackmail me with advertising or money, go fuck yourself. Go. Fuck. Yourself,” he sai...

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47 h. ago Elon Musk unfollows MAGA allies as he fumes over Jeffrey Epstein client list 'cover

The world's richest man has expressed fury over Attorney General Pam Bondi's claims that a full and thorough investigation had not produced an Epstein 'client list.'

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54 h. ago ‘It’s not something you do by posting on Twitter’: Man behind Ross Perot’s campaign gives Musk third

‘My basic advice is: Go to rehab and then focus on creating a new political party from a position of seriousness,’ Russell Verney tells Musk

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61 h. ago Top X boss Linda Yaccarino QUITS as Elon Musk's feud with Donald Trump escalates

The executive announced the decision to step away from Elon Musk's company on Wednesday morning.

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61 h. ago X on the hunt for a new CEO after Linda Yaccarino steps down two years after taking top job at Musk’s platform

Yaccarino took the position of CEO when Musk acquired Twitter two years ago

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61 h. ago CEO of Elon Musk's X steps down as AI bot Grok praises Adolf Hitler

Linda Yaccarino is stepping down after two years as CEO of X, she announced on Wednesday, saying she feels 'immensely grateful' to Elon Musk for offering her the job

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61 h. ago Elon Musk's X CEO Linda Yaccarino quits after Grok's 'MechaHitler' meltdown

This is a breaking news story and is being constantly updated by our reporters as the breaking news story develops

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62 h. ago White House chief of staff details Musk’s ‘fatherly fixation’ with Trump and their falling out in new interview

Susie Wiles praises tech boss as ‘fascinating person’ who ‘sees the world differently’ but concedes friendship with president met ‘very troublesome ending’

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62 h. ago Elon Musk's X chatbot censored after it started praising Adolf Hitler

The AI bot even started referring to itself as ‘MechaHitler’ and made antisemitic comments in response to user queries on X

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63 h. ago Musk's AI firm forced to delete posts after chatbot praises Hitler and makes antisemitic comments

Elon Musk 's AI firm has been forced to delete posts after the Grok chatbot praised Hitler and made a string of deeply antisemitic posts.

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63 h. ago DOGE bros are at war with the White House on the agency’s future amid Trump

Elon Musk’s influence over the cost-cutting department continues to be felt

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