Less than a year after joining xAI's founding team, one of the researchers poached by Elon ... what turned out to be a brief defection to Musk's AI venture. While the timeline is somewhat fuzzy ...

The rollout of Grok was a risky experiment ... AI safety and drumming up outrage, Musk may be trying to politicize AI development more broadly,” he said. “Not good for AI research, certainly ...

Elon Musk’s new no-holds-barred generative AI program Grok is flooding social media with absolutely wild pics and videos of former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris in ...

Send news tips to: will.oremus@washpost.com. Below: X discloses some details about Trump-Musk interview promos. First: AI researchers call for “personhood credentials” as bots get smarter.

Smoke in the Air The facility Elon Musk is using to power his massive AI "supercomputer" is visibly emitting fumes into an ...

Elon Musk unexpectedly endorsed ... while several of his top industry rivals remain opposed. The bill would establish safety standards for AI models that cost more than $100 million to train ...

In just 18 months, xAI has managed to leap into the top five AI developers ... use of data from Musk's X platform has stirred controversy. Earlier this month, they partially paused data processing ...

At first glance, a recent batch of research ... The AI scientist is one example of Clune’s lab riffing on the possibilities. The program comes up with machine learning experiments, decides ...

Amidst the online furor, Musk posted, “Grok is the most fun AI in the world!” By Friday, the shocking images had lost some of their novelty. The volume of posts about Grok peaked at 166,000 ...

The rollout of Grok was a risky experiment in what happens when guardrails are limited, or don’t exist at all. Musk has been a champion of AI without much intervention, vocally criticizing tools ...

The rollout of Grok was a risky experiment ... AI safety and drumming up outrage, Musk may be trying to politicize AI development more broadly," he said. "Not good for AI research, certainly ...