AI advancements like Grok 4 highlight Nvidia being the overwhelming leader in supplying the picks and shovels for the GPU gold rush. Read more on NVDA and its prospects.

A week after Grok's antisemitic outburst, which included praise of Hitler and a post calling itself "MechaHitler," Elon Musk's xAI has landed a US military contract worth up to $200 million. xAI announced a "Grok for Government" service after getting the contract with the US Department of Defense.

But the Grok account on X that runs off the model immediately showed there were some major issues: It started saying its surname was “Hitler”, tweeted antisemitic messages, and seemed to reference Elon Musk’s posts when asked about controversial topics, siding with the xAI owner’s views as a result.

Internal docs show xAI paid contractors to "hillclimb" Grok's rank on a coding leaderboard above Anthropic's Claude.

xAI hasn’t found any such takers for Grok, yet. That’s the biggest challenge for xAI right now, and it would be interesting to see what brands it can onboard to push Grok-3, with all its bells ...

In a series of posts on X, the AI chatbot Grok apologized for what it admitted was “horrific behavior.” The posts appear to be an official statement from xAI, the Elon Musk-led company behind Grok, as opposed to an AI-generated explanation for Grok’s posts.

Elon Musk says any Tesla investment in his AI startup, xAI, should come from shareholder proposals. Tesla CFO Vaibhav Taneja says the earnings call isn’t the right forum to discuss the investment. SpaceX is reported to be investing about $2 billion into xAI.

Elon Musk’s AI start-up xAI is working with Valor Equity Partners to secure up to $12 billion in financing for its rapid expansion, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday