The launch of Grok 4.3 represents a calculated bet by xAI that the market wants specialized brilliance and extreme cost ...

If you're anything like me, the day is not complete until I finish all of the free word games from the New York Times. Working on the daily Connections, Connections Sports Edition, Wordle, and Strands ...

AI bias issues are increasingly evident in modern models, with Grok 4.1 bias highlighting challenges in fairness, representation, and decision-making. Training data imbalances and demographic skews ...

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...

Grok 4.2 is an advanced AI model designed to handle complex reasoning and decision-making tasks through a collaborative multi-agent framework. As overviewed by the AI Grid, this system integrates the ...

Researchers have coined a new way to trick artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots into generating malicious outputs. AI security startup NeuralTrust calls it "semantic chaining," and it requires just a ...

The problem of nonconsensual sexual deepfakes produced by artificial-intelligence image generators hasn’t gone away just because the social-media site X took some steps to restrict the Grok chatbot ...

Over nine days, Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot generated and posted 4.4 million images, of which at least 41 percent were sexualized images of women. By Kate Conger Dylan Freedman and Stuart A. Thompson ...

Elon Musk’s chatbot has been used to generate thousands of sexualized images of adults and apparent minors. Apple and Google have removed other “nudify” apps—but continue to host X and Grok. Apple and ...

For weeks, xAI has faced backlash over undressing and sexualizing images of women and children generated by Grok. One researcher conducted a 24-hour analysis of the Grok account on X and estimated ...

A WIRED review of outputs hosted on Grok’s official website shows it’s being used to create violent sexual images and videos, as well as content that includes apparent minors. Unlike on X, where ...

On Dec. 31, xAI’s Grok was prompted by a user on X to write a "heartfelt apology note" after the chatbot had generated and shared an image of two young girls in sexualized attire based on a user’s ...