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US Defense Department awards $200 million contract to Elon Musk's Grok aka 'MechaHitler' and is looking forward to deploying it 'in our warfighting domain'

By Rich Stanton Published

News Actual decision-making will remain in the hands of humans, probably.

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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 13: Elon Musk attends the 2024 Breakthrough Prize Ceremony at Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on April 13, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Taylor Hill/Getty Images)
Elon Musk claims Grok was 'manipulated' into praising Hitler, then makes wild claims about it discovering 'new technologies' and 'new physics' within the next year: 'Just let that sink in'

By Rich Stanton Published

News I did Nazi that coming!

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LAS VEGAS, USA - JANUARY 07: Linda Yaccarino, CEO of X Corp., formerly Twitter, speaks during a keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada, on January 7, 2025. Linda Yaccarino discussed with Canadian-American journalist Catherine Herridge how the company is redefining the future of digital communication and creating a global newsroom. (Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
X CEO Linda Yaccarino calls it quits less than 24 hours after the platform's AI-powered chatbot Grok anoints itself 'MechaHitler' and starts posting antisemitic messages and graphic descriptions of sexual assault

By Andy Chalk Published

news Yaccarino said her tenure has been "nothing short of remarkable," and she's not wrong.

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WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 13: Elon Musk listens as U.S. President-elect Donald Trump addresses a House Republicans Conference meeting at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill on November 13, 2024 in Washington, DC. As is tradition with incoming presidents, Trump is traveling to Washington, DC to meet with U.S. President Joe Biden at the White House as well as meet with Republican congressmen on Capitol Hill. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
A battle over air quality between Musk's xAI and the citizens of Memphis now looks to be heading towards the courts

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News Fighting giants.

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Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Robert Prevost addresses the crowd on the main central loggia balcony of the St Peter's Basilica for the first time, after the cardinals ended the conclave, in The Vatican, on May 8, 2025. Robert Francis Prevost was on Thursday elected the first pope from the United States, the Vatican announced. A moderate who was close to Pope Francis and spent years as a missionary in Peru, he becomes the Catholic Church's 267th pontiff, taking the papal name Leo XIV. (Photo by TIZIANA FABI/AFP via Getty Images)
Calling AI a threat to 'human dignity, justice and labor,' Pope Leo XIV of all people takes on Big Tech

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News I'm definitely not looking to convert, but I'm listening.

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Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., wears a "DOGE" hat during a news conference in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Friday, May 30, 2025. The event gives an opportunity for the president and his largest campaign benefactor to dispel any notion of an acrimonious divorce. Photographer: Francis Chung/Politico/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Elon Musk's latest gaming take is ruthlessly mocked by Bioshock fans: 'Probably thinks Andrew Ryan was the hero'

By Andy Chalk Published

news Musk is apparently a big Andrew Ryan fan, but also doesn't seem to actually know anything about him.

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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 13: Elon Musk attends the 2024 Breakthrough Prize Ceremony at Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on April 13, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Taylor Hill/Getty Images)
Someone flipped a switch on Elon Musk's Grok AI so it wouldn't stop banging on about 'white genocide' and South African politics, xAI blames 'an unauthorized modification' but doesn't say who did it

By Rich Stanton Published

News "It’s awfully easy for the people who are in charge of these algorithms to manipulate the version of truth that they’re giving."

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US President Donald Trump speaks during a photo opportunity with autoracing officials and champions on the South Portico of the White House on April 9, 2025, in Washington, DC. US President Donald Trump abruptly backed down Wednesday in his global trade war with a 90 day tariff pause for most countries -- but slapped even more levies against China in what has become a brutal duel between the world's two largest economies. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)
Trump administration reportedly fires the head of the US Copyright Office as it tries to tackle AI's use of copyrighted materials

By Andy Edser Published

News The firing finger gets to work once more.

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Philanthropist and former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates speaks to youth participants at the Global Solutions Summit
Bill Gates says Elon Musk's DOGE cutbacks are directly responsible for kids dying: 'The picture of the world's richest man killing the world's poorest children is not a pretty one'

By Rich Stanton Published

News Adds that Musk has no idea what these agencies do.

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Chess pieces
Eric Barone's been playing lots of chess and reckons Elon Musk's 'tech tree' idea isn't awful: 'What if someone did a Balatro treatment… a chess roguelike?'

By Rich Stanton Published

News "I'm not like a huge chess guy, it's just always been something that I've wanted to be decent at."

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