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.

While responding to user queries, Grok earlier this week mocked Polish officials, including Prime Minister Donald Tusk, and made lewd remarks about their personal lives and appearance

Horrifying but legal speech is extremely tough to regulate in the U.S., even if machines generate it. State governments have made a few attempts to constrain the outputs of generative AI — and found themselves facing First Amendment challenges in court.

A Turkish court on Wednesday blocked access to chatbot Grok, operated by Elon Musk’s xAI, after it generated offensive responses about President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, founder of the republic Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and religious values.

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.

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