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

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

Grok’s recent flirtation with extremism is just the latest example of an AI, left to its own devices, going off-script. What can, or should, be done to stop it?

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, dubbed Grok, is embedded in X (formerly Twitter) and has made headlines for numerous controversies – ...

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 ...

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

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot last week referred to itself as “MechaHitler”. It’s now at the centre of an Australian legal dispute.

Amid the flurry of events, the company dropped 2 AI Avatars or Grok Companions, dubbed Ani and Rudy. Ani, an NSFW ...

This latest development from xAI follows a rapid period of innovation, including the recent release of Grok 4 earlier this month.

Early on, this column suggested that while first-generation users might have a hard time freeing themselves of the anthropomorphic delusion, their kids wouldn’t. They’d grow up appreciating AI as the ...

"Incredible!" Musk raises eyebrows with announcement about AI system coming to Tesla vehicles: 'Next week at the latest' ...