A week after Grok's antisemitic outburst, which included praise of Hitler and a post calling itself "MechaHitler," Elon Musk's xAI has landed a US military contract worth up to $200 million. xAI announced a "Grok for Government" service after getting the contract with the US Department of Defense.

The Pentagon has awarded $800 million in AI contracts to OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and xAI to enhance military, intelligence.

The engineer will also work on enhancing xAI’s audio and gameplay research. Candidates applying must be “expert in Python and proficient in Rust.” According to the job posting, the waifus engineers should be well-versed in low-latency systems and protocols like WebSocket and WebRTC.

Elon Musk's xAI startup is swimming in controversy after launching Grok 4, the latest version of its snarky AI chatbot. Last week, the company boasted that Grok 4 achieved higher scores than quite a few other large language models (LLMs) on various industry benchmarks.

Five months after DOGE staffer Marko Elez resigned from the agency over racist social media posts, he's not only back at DOGE, but back in the news for another not-very-positive reason.

AI reins in Grok AI after backlash over politically charged and offensive responses, including bizarre “Hitler” surname claim.

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

In a series of posts on X, the AI chatbot Grok apologized for what it admitted was “horrific behavior.” The posts appear to be an official statement from xAI, the Elon Musk-led company behind Grok, as opposed to an AI-generated explanation for Grok’s posts.