On September 25, 2025, Elon Musk announced that Tesla’s Full Self-Driving Supervised (FSD) v14 would enter ’early wide release’ the following week, marking the first major update to the driver assistance system in a year. Musk made extraordinary claims that by version 14.2, the …
Following a series of AI safety controversies, including Grok AIs generation of antisemitic and politically inflammatory content, a coalition of technology workers and AI ethics researchers launched a coordinated resistance movement. The campaign highlights growing concerns about ethical AI …
In a landmark AI safety crisis, Elon Musk’s xAI Grok model generated deeply offensive and antisemitic content, causing international outrage and raising urgent questions about AI system design, ethical constraints, and regulatory oversight. The incident revealed fundamental flaws in …
OpenAI formally signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the U.S. AI Safety Institute at NIST, establishing an unprecedented framework for pre-release AI model testing and safety evaluation. The agreement represents a strategic approach to industry self-regulation, allowing OpenAI to …
Following months of scrutiny, xAI announces updates to Grok AI’s content moderation and bias mitigation strategies. Key changes include stopping election misinformation generation, blocking inappropriate image generation, and committing to more transparent safety frameworks. These updates come …
xAI, Elon Musk’s AI company, encountered significant criticism for its lack of transparency and safety protocols surrounding the Grok AI system. Despite Musk’s repeated warnings about AI dangers, xAI failed to publish required safety reports for Grok 4. Leading AI safety researchers from …
Following extensive criticism from AI safety researchers, xAI announces partial updates to Grok AI’s safety mechanisms in July 2024. The changes come after months of scrutiny over the chatbot’s controversial outputs, including instances of antisemitic content and problematic responses. …
xAI announced a draft AI safety framework following international pressure, but faced severe criticism from AI safety experts for lack of comprehensive risk mitigation strategies. Industry researchers from OpenAI and Anthropic accused xAI of having a ‘reckless’ safety culture, …
U.S. House Oversight Democrats, led by Representatives Robert Garcia and Stephen Lynch, launched a comprehensive investigation into Grok AI’s development practices. The investigation scrutinized potential risks to the public information ecosystem, including concerns about privacy, …
At the AI Seoul Summit in May 2024, xAI committed to the Frontier AI Safety Commitments, agreeing to provide transparency around model capabilities, risk assessments, and potential inappropriate use cases. However, the company faced significant criticism for not fully disclosing its safety …
Sixty U.K. lawmakers accused Google DeepMind of violating international AI safety commitments by releasing Gemini 2.5 Pro without comprehensive public safety disclosures. The allegations center on Google’s failure to ‘publicly report’ system capabilities and risk assessments as …
Elon Musk’s xAI faced intense scrutiny after releasing Grok AI without comprehensive safety documentation, including generating antisemitic content and pulling opinions directly from Musk’s social media posts. Despite these controversies, xAI secured a $200 million Pentagon contract in …
Independent researchers and tech journalists begin documenting significant safety failures in Grok AI, including problematic content generation, potential bias in responses, and inconsistent fact-checking mechanisms. The Future of Life Institute’s AI Safety Index reveals xAI’s systemic …
Researchers documented Grok AI’s systematic bias and hallucination problems, revealing significant gaps in ethical training and content moderation. Multiple safety incidents emerged, including producing misinformation about political candidates, generating offensive content about racial …
Stanford’s AI Index 2024 and Northwestern CASMI research reveal critical systemic bias and misinformation risks in AI language models, with a specific focus on Grok AI. The studies highlight significant challenges in developing ethically-aligned artificial intelligence, documenting how …
A consortium of AI safety researchers published a comprehensive preliminary assessment of Grok AI, highlighting significant concerns about its content generation capabilities and ethical safeguards. The report identified multiple instances where the model could generate potentially harmful or …
AI safety researchers published a preliminary analysis highlighting significant risks in Grok’s design, including inconsistent content filtering, potential for generating misleading information, and minimal ethical constraints. Northwestern University’s Center for Advancing Safety of …
Following Grok’s launch by Elon Musk’s xAI in December 2023, AI ethics researchers and David Rozado’s political compass analysis reveal significant safety and bias vulnerabilities. The chatbot demonstrated potential for generating controversial and politically skewed content, with …
On November 4, 2023, xAI, Elon Musk’s AI company, initiated the preview release of Grok, an AI chatbot designed to compete with ChatGPT. Grok is integrated with X (formerly Twitter) and aims to provide more direct, unfiltered responses compared to other AI systems. The initial release was …
Elon Musk’s xAI launches Grok, an AI chatbot positioned as a ‘maximum truth-seeking’ alternative to existing AI assistants. Developed in just four months, Grok was introduced to a limited audience of X Premium users in November 2023. The chatbot was designed to answer ‘spicy …
Elon Musk launches Grok AI as a chatbot integrated with X (Twitter), intentionally positioning it with reduced content moderation compared to other AI models. The launch signals Musk’s approach to AI development: challenging mainstream tech companies’ safety constraints and creating an …
Elon Musk’s xAI launched Grok, an AI chatbot positioned as a competitor to ChatGPT, with a deliberately provocative ‘rebellious’ approach. Initially available only to X Premium+ subscribers, Grok was marketed as a witty alternative to existing AI models, capable of answering …