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

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.

The Grok incident “highlights the very real risks the [EU’s] AI Act was designed to address,” said Italian Social-Democrat European Parliament lawmaker Brando Benifei, who led work on the EU’s AI rulebook that entered into law last year.

A French prosecutor has opened a criminal investigation into social platform X and its owner, Elon Musk, on accusations of “creating bias in France’s democratic debate.” The investigation comes

The EU is already investigating the social media platform under the Digital Services Act and had been weighing a fine ahead of its summer recess

Grok’s “offensive remarks” and “erratic and full of expletive-laden rants” on social media X could be a “major infringement” of the bloc's content moderation rulebook, the Digital Services Act, Poland’s Deputy Prime Minister Krzysztof Gawkowski wrote in the letter addressed to EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen.

Last week, multiple outlets reported that Musk had fired Omead Afshar, the head of Tesla’s sales and manufacturing operations in North America and Europe. The alleged expulsion (Tesla never confirmed what had happened,

When Tesla chief executive Elon Musk asked his followers on the social platform X last week whether it was time to create a new political party, 80 percent answered “yes.” Wall Street seems to disagree.