NEW DELHI: A fresh round of discussion has emerged on social media after multiple users asked Grok who it would vote for if it were an Indian citizen, with the chatbot repeatedly naming Prime Minister Narendra Modi over Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi.Several users posed a similar question to the chatbot, offering…
Apple reportedly threatened Elon Musk owned X (formerly Twitter) and xAI to remove the Grok app from the App Store earlier this year. The iPhone-maker, according to a NBC News report, sent a letter to US senators about how it worked behind the scenes to address the then viral incidents of sexualized deepfakes generated by…
Staffers in the US Senate have now been officially cleared to use only three AI chatbots for their work. The three chatbots allowed to use in the US Senate are OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google Gemini and Microsoft Copilot. This decision of the US Senate was outlined in a memo sent by the Senate Sergeant at Arms’…
Grok prediction on US-Israel strike on Iran goes viral A social media narrative has spread worldwide suggesting that Grok, an AI chatbot developed by xAI and closely associated with Elon Musk, “predicted” the date of coordinated military action involving the US and Israel against Iran and that Musk responded publicly to the coincidence. While this…
Oracle’s Larry Ellison believes the AI race is becoming a commodity due to shared internet data. He argues the future lies in leveraging private enterprise data, a move Oracle is heavily investing in with massive infrastructure plans. While competitors are also building enterprise AI, Oracle’s existing database dominance could be key to its success in…
Elon Musk has sparked a fresh debate regarding the ethics of artificial intelligence after claiming his AI chatbot, Grok, needed to have a “moral constitution,” following growing condemnation of his AI firm, xAI, over the misuse of Grok to create obscene photographs of real-life human beings. Amid a growing fear among governments, policymakers, and the…
In response to mounting backlash and regulatory scrutiny, Grok AI has ceased the creation of explicit images of real individuals. xAI has introduced stringent technical measures to curb misuse, particularly addressing concerns around deepfake content involving women and minors. Furthermore, image generation and editing services are now reserved for paid X subscribers, with geoblocking mechanisms…
Pete Hegseth went to Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starbase in South Texas as part of his “Arsenal of Freedom” tour. Standing beside Musk, he repeated Musk’s line “We want to make Star Trek real” and gave the Vulcan salute. The moment went viral, but it was attached to something far more serious: the Pentagon is rewriting…
Malaysia restricts access to Grok AI (Image credit: Reuters) Malaysia has moved to restrict access to Grok, the artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s xAI, as controversy grows over the tool’s use in generating sexualised and manipulated images. The action places Malaysia among a small but growing group of countries taking regulatory steps against…
Three US senators have urged Apple and Google to remove X and Grok apps, citing the platforms’ alleged facilitation of non-consensual explicit images and child sexual abuse content. They argue that allowing such material undermines the tech giants’ moderation claims and app store safety assurances. This action follows intense global criticism and regulatory scrutiny over…