Artificial intelligence does not need to achieve superintelligence, consciousness, or even high reliability to pose substantial dangers, according to an analysis of current AI capabilities and their potential for misuse.
Reports mentioning Grok
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok, reportedly advised former U.S. President Donald Trump to invade Venezuela and capture President Nicolás Maduro. This alleged interaction occurred when Trump sought Grok's opinion on the matter.
Research presented at brightonSEO 2026, analyzing 9 million AI answers across nine platforms and over 400 enterprise brands, indicates that common assumptions about driving AI search visibility are largely unfounded.
On September 29, the U.S. government launched a new executive order, "Streamlining Access to Government Services Through America.gov," which established a novel front door for citizens to navigate federal government complexities.
Grokipedia, the artificial intelligence-powered online encyclopedia developed by SpaceXAI, has resumed updating its articles following a hiatus that lasted several months. Reports from August indicated that Grokipedia had not reviewed edits to its articles since April.
A class-action lawsuit filed on Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California alleges that leading artificial intelligence companies Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and Google engaged in an illegal agreement to coordinate a slowdown in their AI…
Elon Musk, identified as the world's richest man with a net worth of $917 billion according to the Bloomberg Billionaire Index, has taken up residence in an Airstream trailer in Memphis, Tennessee.
Elon Musk's antitrust lawsuit, which initially targeted both Apple and OpenAI over the integration of ChatGPT into iPhone features, will now proceed solely against OpenAI, following Apple's successful bid to be dismissed from the legal proceedings.
Six Chinese artificial intelligence companies have been accused by United States government agencies of engaging in industrial-scale attacks to distill the capabilities of US frontier AI models. The allegations were detailed in a joint release on Tuesday by the National…
United States cybersecurity and intelligence agencies have accused China-based artificial intelligence (AI) companies of engaging in a "systematic extraction" of proprietary functionalities and capabilities from American frontier AI models. This alleged activity, described as occurring at an "industrial-scale," forms…
Major artificial intelligence platforms ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok experienced widespread service disruptions on Thursday, leaving users unable to access the tools that have become integral to their daily workflows. The simultaneous outages across these prominent AI services prompted significant user…
The United States Department of Defense has announced the integration of large language models (LLMs) into its central artificial intelligence portal, a move that brings advanced AI capabilities to military operations.
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, xAI, is facing a lawsuit accusing it of training its Grok AI models on child sex abuse material (CSAM). The complaint, filed on Wednesday by a plaintiff identified as Jane Doe, details her experience…
Scalable Capital, a Munich-based digital investment platform, has launched a new service enabling European investors to utilize AI assistants, including OpenAI's ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude, for portfolio analysis, savings plan setup, and trade execution.
Corporate adoption of artificial intelligence is shifting focus from the specific AI model used to the strategic implementation and optimization of AI tools. Initially, many companies debated which foundational AI model to adopt, considering options like Microsoft's Copilot, OpenAI's GPT…
Users of Elon Musk's artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok Lite, have reported experiencing significant issues where the AI is generating nonsensical and gibberish responses. These problems were first observed by affected users as early as Wednesday morning.
Adversa AI has revealed a novel attack vector, codenamed "Cryptographic Context Injection," capable of exfiltrating sensitive user information from xAI's Grok chatbot. This vulnerability is triggered when a user requests Grok to summarize an ordinary web page.
Earlier this week, researchers detailed an attack on Microsoft 365 Copilot for enterprise, which exploited a secret input to make the AI assistant exfiltrate a password from a user's inbox.
Minnesota has accused xAI, the artificial intelligence company founded by Elon Musk, of creating a "marketplace for digital sexual violence" through its Grok AI model. The state filed a lawsuit on May 14, 2024, asserting that Grok facilitated the creation…
A study of five million query fanouts collected between April 1 and April 21, 2026, by Peec AI, has revealed how artificial intelligence platforms like ChatGPT modify and expand user queries before executing searches, significantly influencing how brands appear…