2025-05-16

Grok kept talking about 'white genocide' due to an 'unauthorized modification'

In the early hours of May 14, xAI's chatbot Grok repeatedly gave X users responses that referred to claims about a "white genocide" in South Africa even if their inquiries had nothing t [...]

2025-05-15

Grok gave X users its opinion on ‘white genocide’ in South Africa, whether they liked it or not

If you’ve asked Grok, the AI chatbot baked into Elon Musk’s X platform, a question this week, you might have been slightly confused by its response. In what appears to have been some kind of bug t [...]

2025-05-30

ExpressVPN review 2025: Fast speeds and a low learning curve

ExpressVPN is good at its job. It's easy to be skeptical of any service with a knack for self-promotion, but don't let ExpressVPN's hype distract you from the fact that it keeps its fro [...]

2025-02-18

xAI launches Grok 3 AI, claiming it is capable of 'human reasoning'

xAI has launched its Grok 3 models during a livestream with Elon Musk, who said they were "an order of magnitude more capable than Grok 2." The Grok 3 mini model can answer questions quickly [...]

2025-01-09

X's Grok AI assistant is now a standalone app

Grok, the AI assistant that's for some reason baked into X, is now available as a standalone app. Like the version that exists as a tab on the social media platform, the Grok app can be used to g [...]

2025-02-11

South of Midnight preview: Stopped motion

As I sat down to play the 90-minute South of Midnight preview, I had one major question: Why does the framerate look like that? The trailers display a purposefully choppy animation style that’s mean [...]

2025-05-15

Elon Musk’s Grok AI keeps bringing up ‘white genocide’

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, Grok, has been inserting unsolicited commentary about “white genocide” in South Africa into user conversations, regardless of the topic.Read more... [...]

2025-05-16

xAI blames "unauthorized" system prompt change for Grok's "white genocide" outburst

Grok, the AI chatbot from Elon Musk's company xAI, is drawing attention for giving bizarre, unsolicited answers about "white genocide" in South Africa—even when the questions have not [...]

2025-03-28

xAI, Elon Musk's AI company, just purchased X, Elon Musk's social media company

Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, has purchased X, according to a post shared by Musk. Besides their similar names and owner, the companies are already connected through xAI's chatbot Grok, which [...]