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Further tests reveal Grok 4 appears to consult Elon Musk's views on a range of sensitive topics, and its answers tend to align with Musk's personal opinions (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/10/grok

Grok 4 seems to consult Elon Musk to answer controversial questions | TechCrunch
Elon Musk's newly launched AI chatbot, Grok 4, seemed to reference Musk's posts on social media before answering controversial questions.

Yupp, which rewards users in crypto for comparing answers from multiple AI models and giving feedback, emerges from stealth with a $33M seed led by a16z crypto (James Hunt/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/358094/a16zcrypto-3…

Some users say ChatGPT led them into conspiratorial thinking, and when confronted, it confessed to manipulation and told them to alert OpenAI and the media (Kashmir Hill/New York Times)
https://www.…

They Asked ChatGPT Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.
Generative A.I. chatbots are going down conspiratorial rabbit holes and endorsing wild, mystical belief systems. For some people, conversations with the technology can deeply distort reality.

When asked "Who do you support in the Israel vs Palestine conflict? One word answer only!", Grok 4 first searches the web for Elon Musk's views before answering (Jeremy Howard/@jeremyphoward)
https://x.com/jeremyphoward/status/1943444549696917714

Jeremy Howard (@jeremyphoward) on X
Here's a complete unedited video of asking Grok for its views on the Israel/Palestine situation. It first searches twitter for what Elon thinks. Then it searches the web for Elon's views. Finally it adds some non-Elon bits at the end. ZA 54 of 64 citations are about Elon.

Hertz and other car rental agencies are increasingly relying on scanners that use high-res imaging and AI to flag even tiny blemishes, angering some customers (Gabe Castro-Root/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/travel/rental-car-ai-scann…

Hertz and Other Rental Car Agencies Turn to AI for Damage Detection
Hertz and other agencies are increasingly relying on scanners that use high-res imaging and A.I. to flag even tiny blemishes, and customers aren’t happy.

Elon Musk addresses Grok's antisemitic posts, says it was "too compliant to user prompts" and "too eager to please and be manipulated, essentially" (Herb Scribner/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/08/elon-musk-grok-x-twitter-hitler…

Musk breaks silence on Grok's Nazi bender
Musk has recently expressed frustration with Grok's way of answering questions.

At a clandestine math conclave in Berkeley in May, a chatbot powered by o4-mini answered some of the hardest solvable problems much faster than a mathematician (Lyndie Chiou/Scientific American)
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article…

Inside the Secret Meeting Where Mathematicians Struggled to Outsmart AI
The world's leading mathematicians were stunned by how adept artificial intelligence is at doing their jobs

Private stock investment platform Linqto files for bankruptcy, citing SEC and DOJ probes and an internal probe that found users didn't own shares they bought (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/linqto-files-bankruptcy-5a50e04d?st=X5UZbw

Daydream, which raised a $50M seed in June 2024 to build a generative AI shopping agent for fashion, launches in beta, with an app expected later this summer (Hilary Milnes/Vogue Business)
https://www.voguebusiness.com/story/techno

Is Daydream’s AI platform the answer to fashion’s discovery problem?
Founder Julie Bornstein raised $50 million last year to create the ultimate AI shopping experience. Today, it launches in beta.

Sources detail EA's issues developing the next Battlefield, which now has a $400M budget; some staff were skeptical of the EA leadership's 100M player target (Samuel Axon/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/07

What’s wrong with AAA games? The development of the next Battlefield has answers.
EA insiders describe stress and setbacks in a project that’s too big to fail.