The initiative hadn’t been planned to include xAI’s Grok model as recently as March, a former Pentagon employee says.

During a project called "Skippy," tutors recorded themselves making facial expressions. It would help "give Grok a face," one engineer said.

Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, is facing growing backlash, as the NAACP, along with several environmental groups, recently filed a legal appeal.

AI has acquired the site of a former Duke Energy power plant in Mississippi, continuing the expansion of power infrastructure near its Memphis data centers.

AI released two AI "companions" on its Grok platform, a Japanese anime girl named "Ani" and an animated red panda called "Rudi."

AI is expanding its Mid-South footprint with the purchase of a 114.49-acre Stanton Road property in Southaven.

xAI’s latest frontier model, Grok 4, has been released without industry-standard safety reports, despite the company’s CEO, Elon Musk, being notably vocal about his concerns regarding AI safety. Leading AI labs typically release safety reports known as “system cards” alongside frontier models.

AI explained why Grok 4 seemed to search for Elon Musk's opinions when asked about some hot-button topics.

AI employees were asked to record facial expressions to train Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok, raising internal privacy concerns.