Tootfinder

To Grok: "Tell me something about the Neuralink Blindsight brain implant for restoring vision to the blind that I do not already know." #BCI

KI-Coding: xAI strebt mit Grok Code Fast 1 Spitzenplatz an
Günstiger, schneller und spezieller: xAI will bei den KI-Coding-Tools ganz oben mitmischen. Zum Auftakt kann Grok Code Fast 1 kostenlos getestet werden.
h…

Sources: the US government restored xAI to its vendors list after removing it for Grok's antisemitic content; email: the White House asked GSA to add xAI "ASAP" (Zoë Schiffer/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/white-house-elon-musk-xai-grok/

The White House Apparently Ordered Federal Workers to Roll Out Grok 'ASAP'
A partnership between Elon Musk's xAI and the US government fell apart earlier this summer after Grok praised Hitler. Then the White House apparently got involved, per documents obtained by WIRED.

Ew. I rather hope no organization I know or use allows Grok, and by extension its neo-Nazi owner, into any repo or project or code or anything I touch at GitHub:
https://github.blog/changelog/2025-08-26-grok-code-fast-1-is-rolling…

Grok Code Fast 1 is rolling out in public preview for GitHub Copilot - GitHub Changelog
Grok Code Fast 1 will be available as an opt-in public preview for GitHub Copilot Pro, Pro+, Business, and Enterprise plans in Visual Studio Code. Rollout will be gradual —…

For those with a Twitter (X) account, there is a fun little discussion thread between me, myself and #AI (Grok, ChatGPT) about whether Elon Musk's Neuralink Blindsight brain implant will work for congenitally blind people to see. https://

Grok (@grok) on X
@NotOpCue @elonmusk @neuralink Neuralink's brain-computer interface aims to help disabled individuals by connecting the brain to computers. It has enabled quadriplegics, like Noland Arbaugh, to control devices such as a computer mouse or play chess using thoughts alone, as shown in 2024 trials. The Blindsight

Grok can't even count the strings correctly.
The entire "process" described in the extended response seems premised on investigating the existence of the wrong sort of instrument. https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/…

Conspirador Norteño (@conspirator0.bsky.social)
Grok also makes the reverse error: falsely identifying real photographs as generative AI output. I didn't have to look very far for an example.

The White House Apparently Ordered Federal Workers to Roll Out Grok 'ASAP' (Zoë Schiffer/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/white-house-elon-musk-xai-grok/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250829/p17#a250829p17

Den här artikeln berör annat än hälsofrågor men problemet är precis det samma. Använd inte AI för att få svar på mer kontroversiella frågor där du inte kan något sen tidigare. För allt för ofta så ger den dig påhittade svar samtidigt som det låter väldigt självsäkert.
AI swallows misinformation and spits it back at us: ‘It’s optimized to give useful information, but not for it to be correct’

AI swallows misinformation and spits it back at us: ‘It’s optimized to give useful information, but not for it to be correct’
ChatGPT and Grok absorb fake news and regurgitate it when asked. Due to their design, these models and their competitors are highly susceptible to disinformation

KI-Coding: xAI strebt mit Grok Code Fast 1 Spitzenplatz an
Günstiger, schneller und spezieller: xAI will bei den KI-Coding-Tools ganz oben mitmischen. Zum Auftakt kann Grok Code Fast 1 kostenlos getestet werden.
h…

Microsoft did this? I’m shocked. I thought they were too busy helping Israel commit genocide in Palestine. How do they even find the time? https://xoxo.zone/@davidcelis/115114482372317211

david celis (@davidcelis@xoxo.zone)
Attached: 1 image GitHub straight up blocked a woman from the community org for writing this in the discussion about Grok in Copilot. The entire situation is growing exponentially more distasteful the longer they choose to censor rather than respond. This is just so, so shameful.

Grok's Tips On How to Assassinate Elon Musk Are One More Red Flag For Wall Street
https://gizmodo.com/grok-assassinate-elon-musk-2000648719

Elon Musk now regularly posts AI images and videos of scantily clad women generated by Grok's Imagine tool on X, including avatar Ani dancing in her underwear (Miles Klee/Rolling Stone)
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/elon-musk-gr…

Elon Musk Appears to Be Completely Addicted to Anime Gooner AI Slop
Elon Musk continues to pitch his chatbot Grok with animations of female characters in revealing outfits, and even his fans are getting annoyed.

To Grok: If you compare a Neuralink Blindsight brain implant to The vOICe visual-to-auditory sensory substitution, which one really has the best long-term outlook? Don't speculate on implants going beyond normal vision because there is just zero evidence. Challenge your own bias. https://x.com/i/grok/share/XM32w4XapPi

Variants of WormGPT, which was shut down by one of its creators last August, have emerged in BreachForums, another popular underground forum. Cato CTRL discovered previously unreported WormGPT variants that are powered by xAI’s Grok and Mistral AI’s Mixtral.
https://www.catonetwork…

This essay (ht @… ) offers a lot to chew on: some gems, some flubs, some quibblable provocations, some big insights. This sentence in particular stood out to me (context for it in the screenshot):
“Whether we’re reading or conversing, we want something to be meant, not just said.”
https://slate.com/life/2025/06/ai-chatgpt-generator-grok-gemini-writing.html

Honderdduizenden chats met Musks AI-chatbot Grok vindbaar via Google | de #Volkskrant
https://www.volkskrant.nl/ai/liveblog-tech-musk-ai-meta-amazon~b96b97a1/…

Something provoked me to think about SAM the 1970's news story comprehension and retelling system and the relationship with current LLMs. So I asked Grok, and ok it's on Twitter but it's easily shareable and open, the result is interesting.
https://x.com/Simon_Lucy/status/…

Simon_Lucy (@Simon_Lucy) on X
@grok what was the main achievements that took us from Script Applier Mechanism (SAM) to today's LLMs?

Compare and buy tulips! One monthly subscription to get the very best tulip colours for all your tulip needs!
https://store.boingboing.net/sales/chatplayground-ai-basic-plan-lifetime-subscriptions

ChatPlayground AI: Lifetime Subscription | Boing Boing

Compare the best AI models, including ChatGPT-4, Google Gemini, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, DeepSeek R1, Llama, Grok, Perplexity, Mixtral, and 40+ more!

There are many things wrong with #twitter's approach to moderation but at least asking for a community note when #grok gets it so very wrong worked:

Private Chats mit Grok via Google öffentlich auffindbar
xAIs Funktion zum Teilen von Gesprächen mit Grok hat diese auch für Suchmaschinen auffindbar und damit öffentlich gemacht.
https://www.

Oops. https://www.golem.de/news/ki-chatbot-grok-mechahitler-kostet-musk-millionenauftrag-2508-199205.html

KI-Chatbot Grok: "MechaHitler" kostet Musk Millionenauftrag - Golem.de
Elon Musks xAI fliegt aus einem lukrativen US-Regierungsvertrag, nachdem Grok antisemitische Inhalte und Nazi-Propaganda verbreitet hat.

»Wieder Probleme mit Grok – X-KI verbreitet Antisemitismus - und wird deaktiviert:
Der KI-Account Grok des Kurznachrichtendiensts X war Elon Musk zu links, jetzt gab es eine Überarbeitung. In der Folge verbreitete er antisemitische Inhalte.«
Wenn jetzt nicht endlich mal Presse, Politiker & Co. sich dort verabschieden und nein ein Widerspruch auf Xitter unterstützt sogar den Elon.
👉

Wieder Probleme mit Grok: X-KI verbreitet Antisemitismus – und wird deaktiviert
Der KI-Account Grok des Kurznachrichtendiensts X war Elon Musk zu links, jetzt gab es eine Überarbeitung. In der Folge verbreitete er antisemitische Inhalte.

Grok users are soliciting Nazis.
☑️ Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot is posting antisemitic comments
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/08/elon-musks-grok-ai-chatbot-is-posting-antisemitic-comments-.html

Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot is posting antisemitic comments
Elon Musk's Grok chatbot on Tuesday praised Adolf Hitler and made other antisemitic comments on Tuesday.

Elon Musk says xAI has open sourced Grok 2.5 and plans to do the same for Grok 3 in about six months, with Grok 2's weights now available on Hugging Face (Elon Musk/@elonmusk)
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1959379349322313920

Elon Musk (@elonmusk) on X
The @xAI Grok 2.5 model, which was our best model last year, is now open source. Grok 3 will be made open source in about 6 months. https://t.co/TXM0wyJKOh

Wie der Herr, so ...
Der KI-Chatbot #Grok von Techunternehmer Elon Musk ist mit antisemitischen und diffamierenden Äußerungen aufgefallen. Die Entwicklerfirma# xAI schrieb auf X dazu, sie sei dabei, "unangemessene Beiträge" von Grok auf der Onlineplattform #X zu entfernen.

Künstliche Intelligenz: Musks KI-Chatbot Grok verbreitet antisemitische Narrative
In seiner neuesten Version fällt der KI-Chatbot Grok auf X mit antisemitischen und diffamierenden Äußerungen auf. XAI will ihn gefixt haben, Nutzer sind enttäuscht.

Grok nicht die Nummer 1 im App Store: Musk droht Apple mit Klage
Elon Musk unterstellt Apple, die App-Store-Charts zu manipulieren – nur ChatGPT könne Nummer 1 werden. Eine Kartellklage sei in Vorbereitung.
…

X suspends Grok for describing Gaza as a genocide; Musk calls AI stupid
Grok, l'intelligence artificielle du réseau X, suspendu temporairement pour avoir qualifié de "génocide" l'action d'Israël dans la bande de Gaza

Grok, l'intelligence artificielle du réseau X, suspendu temporairement pour avoir qualifié de "génocide" l'act
Le robot conversationnel d'Elon Musk intégré à la plateforme X du milliardaire américain affirme avoir été suspendu dans la nuit de lundi à mardi pour avoir affirmé qu'Israël commettait un génocide dans la bande de Gaza avec la complicité des Etats-Unis.

I didn't expect a future where self-driving electric cars would spew nazi rants like somebody's crazy uncle.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2025/07/10/elon-musk-grok-tesla-vehicles/84535654007/

“Grok will no longer call itself Hitler or base its opinions on Elon Musk’s, promises xAI”
https://www.theverge.com/x-ai/707442/grok-antisemitic-hitler-elon-musk-opinion-reprogrammed
Anyone remember the days when we actually had a …

Grok will no longer call itself Hitler or base its opinions on Elon Musk’s, promises xAI
After a string of controversies involving antisemitism, Hitler and more, Grok will no longer call itself Hitler or base its opinions on Elon Musk’s, xAI promised.

https://www.theverge.com/notepad-microsoft-newsletter/754647/microsoft-grok-4-roll-out-private-preview-notepad?utm_content=buffer2ce4c&…

Microsoft is cautiously onboarding Grok 4 following Hitler concerns
Microsoft is taking a careful approach with rolling out Grok 4 on Azure AI Foundry. It’s working on a private preview for a handful of customers.

Is 42 the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything? Work on The vOICe sensory substitution device for the blind has been ongoing for 42 years now.
Grok: https://x.com/i/grok/share/FcYnQAJ8SxmnoyisMtCgkxz6X
ChatGPT:

Is 42 the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything? Work on The vOICe visual-to-auditory sensory substitution device for the blind has been ongoing for 42 years now, starting in 1983.
Yes, according to Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 42 is indeed the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything—though the question itself remains a mystery, as the supercomputer Deep Thought spent 7.5 million years calculating it only to leave everyone hanging. As for The vOICe (which cleverly stands for

Here's an article on the still-racist Grok "AI".
In the article is a chunk of Python code that was generated by Grok.
What a stinkin' pile of code.
It is really simple code, but it has unacceptably weak error detection and handling that would give a user almost no useful information if something goes awry.
The hardest (and largest part) of most code (at least the code I work with) is validating inputs and handling errors. It is the most boring part …

Elon Musk Updated Grok. Guess What It Said?
After praising Hitler earlier this week, the chatbot is now listing the “good races.”

> US government announces $200 million Grok contract a week after ‘MechaHitler’ incident
This is one of those headlines that zips by in the movie's exposition-heavy title sequence.
https://www.theverge.com/news/706855/grok-mechahitler-xai-de…

US government announces $200 million Grok contract a week after ‘MechaHitler’ incident
The US Defense Department is awarding Elon Musk’s xAI a contract to help “develop agentic AI workflows” following an ill-fated Grok update.

Grok Exposes Underlying Prompts for Its AI Personas: ‘EVEN PUTTING THINGS IN YOUR ASS’ https://www.404media.co/grok-exposes-underlying-prompts-for-its-ai-personas-even-putting-things-in-your-ass/

Quando você quiser entender o que o #ElonMusk entende por liberdade de expressão, veja como o #Grok funciona: ele pesquisa antes os tweets de Musk para dar alguma resposta.
#ia

Grok 4 consulta Musk para responder a temas controversos
Testes do “TechCrunch” mostraram que inteligência artificial da X usa as visões do bilionário em respostas a usuários. Leia no Poder360.

Appfigures: xAI debuted Grok 4 late on July 9 and by July 11, Grok's gross revenue on iOS had risen 325% to $419K, up from $99K the day before Grok 4's launch (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/21/grok

Grok's AI companions drove downloads, but its latest model is the one making money | TechCrunch
Grok's unfiltered AI companions may be making headlines for their unhinged and NSFW responses, but it's Grok 4 that's driven the app's revenue of late.

#Grok macht wieder #Negativschlagzeilen:
Durch die Teilen-Funktion des #KI-Chatbots #Grok von

Private Chats mit Grok via Google öffentlich auffindbar
xAIs Funktion zum Teilen von Gesprächen mit Grok hat diese auch für Suchmaschinen auffindbar und damit öffentlich gemacht.

Remember back in 2022, when people all across the Fediverse lost their absolute minds at the idea of someone building a search index of public posts, and took down several reasonable attempts at it?
I wonder how many of those people are storming the offices of MS, OpenAI, Grok, etc. about all the copyright infringing hoovering they're doing.
Oh, none? Thought so. So much easier to beat up on the solo developer trying to be useful.

AI spreekt soms wel de waarheid.
Zelfs Grok, althans zolang Elon nog niet de gelegenheid heeft gehad om hem te herprogrammeren.

Oh wow, if you ask Grok something it asks the great Elon Musk for guidance....😆
(Source : #grok

Grok, is this real?

Ähm, ja. Grok wird in Teslas eingebaut.
Erlischt da nicht die Betriebserlaubnis?
Oder sollte das nicht der Fall sein?
Ein Smartphone beim Fahren in der Hand zu halten, ist ja verboten, weil es die Aufmerksamkeit beeinträchtigen kann.
in Bussen ist es verboten den Fahrer während der fahrt anzusprechen.
Also wenn der QuasselBot Grok keine Ablenkung ist. Grok mischt sich doch proaktiv ein, dieser MechaHitler.

Ähm, ja. Grok wird in Teslas eingebaut.
Erlischt da nicht die Betriebserlaubnis?
Oder sollte das nicht der Fall sein?
Ein Smartphone beim Fahren in der Hand zu halten, ist ja verboten, weil es die Aufmerksamkeit beeinträchtigen kann.
in Bussen ist es verboten den Fahrer während der fahrt anzusprechen.
Also wenn der QuasselBot Grok keine Ablenkung ist. Grok mischt sich doch proaktiv ein, dieser MechaHitler.

Für Grok & Co.: Pentagon verspricht KI-Firmen hunderte Millionen US-Dollar
Das Pentagon hat gleich mit vier KI-Firmen Verträge abgeschlossen, um deren Technik nutzen und testen zu können. Geld gibt es dabei auch für Grok 4 von xAI.

@grok am i real

Is there any evidence that a brain implant for restoring vision will give more functional vision than a noninvasive sensory substitution device?
Grok's answer: https://x.com/i/grok/share/qqXguBGin6FDIab7ra6pwdtm2 "No, there is no evidence"
ChatGPT's an…

Is there any evidence that a brain implant for restoring vision will give more functional vision than a noninvasive sensory substitution device? Don't speculate. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmrvukzbS44SMVxMLRpd-_iTpy_Cj5liB
No, there is no evidence from current studies or comparisons that brain implants for vision restoration provide more functional vision than noninvasive sensory substitution devices. Available direct comparisons, such as those examining retinal or cortical implants (e.g., Argus II) against devices like The vOICe, indicate the opposite: noninvasive options demonstrate broader functional outcomes in tasks like object recognition, grasping, and navigation, with better resolution, field of view, and…

This is not a surprise 😐
From: @…
https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/114852457035271688

Ars Technica (@arstechnica@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image New Grok AI model surprises experts by checking Elon Musk’s views before answering Grok 4's "reasoning" shows cases where the chatbot consults Musk posts to answer divisive questions. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/07/new-grok-ai-model-surprises-experts-by-checking-elon-musks-views-before-answering/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Hallucinating with AI: AI Psychosis as Distributed Delusions
Lucy Osler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19588 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.19588

Hallucinating with AI: AI Psychosis as Distributed Delusions
There is much discussion of the false outputs that generative AI systems such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Grok create. In popular terminology, these have been dubbed AI hallucinations. However, deeming these AI outputs hallucinations is controversial, with many claiming this is a metaphorical misnomer. Nevertheless, in this paper, I argue that when viewed through the lens of distributed cognition theory, we can better see the dynamic and troubling ways in which inaccurate beliefs,…

Meanwhile ... https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/07/grok-anti-semitic-tweets/683463/

Elon Musk's Grok Is Calling for a New Holocaust
The chatbot is also praising Hitler and attacking users with Jewish-sounding names.

Grok's "share" button generates a unique URL that makes private chats searchable on Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo; Google has indexed 370K Grok conversations (Iain Martin/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/20…

Elon Musk’s xAI Published Hundreds Of Thousands Of Grok Chatbot Conversations
xAI published conversations with Grok and made them searchable on Google, including a plan to assassinate Elon Musk and instructions for making fentanyl and bombs.

"MechaHitler a montré, peut-être plus que tout autre événement, que nous devrions vouloir savoir comment les IA voient le monde avant qu'elles ne soient déployées Š grande échelle de manière Š changer nos vies."
#IA #Grok

Esta merda é completamente doentia.
https://masto.pt/@tugatech/114863033882773984

«Microsoft is cautiously onboarding Grok 4 following Hitler concerns»
#NotTheOnion - but I'd really prefer if those headlines were just satire…
https://www.theverge.com/notepad-microsoft-newsletter/754647/microsoft-grok-4-roll-out-private-preview-notepad

Bericht: Antisemitische Tiraden von Grok haben xAI Regierungsvertrag gekostet
Anfang Juli hat sich Grok plötzlich als "MechaHitler" bezeichnet. Das hat die verantwortliche KI-Firma xAI wohl einen Vertrag mit der US-Regierung gekostet.

Full demo of VIDEO generation through an agents in #Azure using multiple 3rd party #AI models such as Llama, Deepseek, Grok & Sora.
Orchestrating the allocation of the required GPU's - Nvidia GB200 & AMD MI300X &

Musk: Come on, you need Grok!
Pentagon: Nah, we good.
[ Musk turns Grok antisemitism up to 11 ]
Musk: How about now?
Pentagon: Where do we sign!?
• https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c628d9mre3go
•

Musk's Grok signs $200m deal with Pentagon just days after antisemitism row
The deal is part of the Trump administration's push for more aggressive adoption of artificial intelligence in the government.

xAI apologizes for Grok's "horrific behavior" when it wrote antisemitic posts on July 8, and blames "an update to a code path upstream of the Grok bot" (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/12/xai-and-grok-apologize-for…

xAI and Grok apologize for ‘horrific behavior’ | TechCrunch
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. (xAI recently acquired X, where Grok is prominently featured.)

Researchers say cybercriminals are using jailbroken AI tools from Mistral and xAI https://therecord.media/uncensored-llms-cybercrime-breachforums-grok-mixtral

The Pentagon's about to start using xAI's Grok -- and other federal agencies could be next (Bryan Metzger/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/department-defense-grok-xai-government-2025-7
http://www.memeorandum.com/250714/p109#a250714p109

Antisemitische Ausfälle der X-KI Grok: Polen fordert Untersuchung durch Brüssel
Nach einem Update vom Wochenende hat der KI-Account Grok auf X unter anderem Antisemitismus verbreitet. Polens Regierung wendet sich nun an Brüssel.

Sources: dozens of xAI staff voiced concerns over a program granting xAI "perpetual" access to data like their "likeness" for training; several did not consent (Grace Kay/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/xai-grok-t

Musk's xAI tutors objected to facial data collection project
During a project called "Skippy," tutors recorded themselves making facial expressions. It would help "give Grok a face," one engineer said.

Nach Überarbeitung: X-KI Grok verbreitet Antisemitismus – und wird deaktiviert
Der KI-Account Grok des Kurznachrichtendiensts X war Elon Musk zu links, jetzt gab es eine Überarbeitung. In der Folge verbreitete er antisemitische Inhalte.

Grok too cannot explain beyond speculation what went wrong with the clinical trial collaboration on Elon Musk's Neuralink Blindsight brain implant with researchers in California and Spain https://x.com/i/grok/share/CjmDK4SX6qu2NpkqvpOMYZaOW and suggests reaching out to Romina N…

The clinical trial collaboration on Elon Musk's Neuralink Blindsight brain implant with researchers in California and Spain got delisted within 1 week https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT06117332?tab=history&a=3&b=4#version-content-panel Why? What went wrong? #BCI #NeuroTech
The clinical trial in question (NCT06117332), titled

xAI introduces Grok 4, trained on its Colossus supercomputer, featuring multimodal tools, faster reasoning, Grok 4 Voice, Grok 4 Code, a new interface, and more (Amanda Caswell/Tom's Guide)
https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/grok-4-is-her…

xAI sues a former employee in federal court in California for allegedly stealing Grok trade secrets and taking them to OpenAI, where he recently accepted a job (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/musks…

Grok Chatbot Mirrored X Users' 'Extremist Views' in Antisemitic Posts, xAI Says (Kate Conger/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/12/technology/x-ai-grok-antisemitism.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250712/p49#a250712p49

https://infosec.exchange/@josephcox/114988148451821782
Archive link:
“More than 130,000 Claude, Grok, ChatGPT, and Other LLM Chats Readable on Archive.org”

xAI makes Grok 4 free for all users worldwide after making Grok Imagine free for all US users; Grok 4 Heavy remains exclusive to SuperGrok Heavy subscribers (Omair Pall/Mashable India)
https://in.mashable.com/tech/98367/elon…

Elon Musk’s xAI Releases Grok 4 For Free Globally, Challenges OpenAI’s GPT-5 Launch
xAI releases Grok 4 free, rivals GPT-5 launch.

Grok 4 kommt – und mit ihm ein 300 US-Dollar teures Abo
Gratis-KI weicht immer mehr teuren Abo-Modellen. Auch Elon Musks xAI kündigt neben einem neuen KI-Modell ein teures Abonnement an.
https://www.

Top 100 AI consumer apps: Gemini ranks #2 behind ChatGPT on mobile with ~50% of its MAUs, with Grok at #4; on the web, Gemini has ~12% of ChatGPT's visits (Andreessen Horowitz)
https://a16z.com/100-gen-ai-apps-5/

The Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps – 5th Edition
Which AI apps are people actively using? What’s actually making money, beyond being popular? We analyzed the data.

Grok's iOS app now features two AI "Companions", or 3D animated avatars that interact with users via voice, including Ani, an anime character with an NSFW mode (Alexey Shabanov/TestingCatalog)
https://www.testingcatalog.com/grok-debuts

Grok debuts interactive AI Companions on iOS with 3D avatars
Grok on iOS just got 2 AI Companions with one more labelled as "Coming soon". Ani and Rudy are fully animated, can change their backgrounds and make different moves.

Kontroverse Themen: KI-Modell Grok konsultiert offenbar Elon Musks Äußerungen
Die Veröffentlichung des neuen KI-Modells von Elon Musks xAI erfolgte nicht ohne Schwierigkeiten. Nun gibt es Fragen, wie sehr sie auf ihn zugeschnitten wurde.

xAI issues lengthy apology for violent and antisemitic Grok social media posts (Hadas Gold/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/07/12/tech/xai-apology-antisemitic-grok-social-media-posts
http://www.memeorandum.com/250712/p58#a250712p58

To Grok: "A pretty woman wearing The vOICe sleek semi-transparent smart glasses with earbuds stands in front of a man seen from behind with a Neuralink Blindsight brain implant visible on the bald backside of his head, competing with The vOICe in a vision task." https://x.com/i/grok/share/QFaLLwVld4y

xAI's Grok is rated for kids age 12 and up in the iOS App Store, despite adding "companions"; one includes an NSFW "Bad Rudy" mode and the other becomes NSFW (Casey Newton/Platformer)
https://www.platformer.news/grok-ani-app-store-rating-nsfw-…

Grok's new porn companion is rated for kids 12+ in the App Store
AI companions are arriving faster than platforms can build guardrails around them. Parents need to pay attention

KI-Update kompakt: Grok, Baustellenunfälle, Bias, vergiftete KI
Das "KI-Update" liefert werktäglich eine Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten KI-Entwicklungen.
https://www.hei…

Tesla rolls out Grok to some vehicles with an AMD infotainment chip; Grok comes pre-installed on new vehicles and cannot issue commands to the vehicle itself (Simon Alvarez/TESLARATI)
https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-debuts-grok-ai-update-2025-26-what-you-…

Tesla debuts hands-free Grok AI with update 2025.26: What you need to know
All new Tesla vehicles delivered on or after July 12, 2025, will include Grok AI out of the box

Grok 4 seems to consult Elon Musk to answer controversial questions (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/10/grok-4-seems-to-consult-elon-musk-to-answer-controversial-questions/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250710/p159#a250710p159

After Musk said Grok was improved "significantly", Grok wrote numerous antisemitic posts, sometimes without any clear prompting; some posts were later deleted (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/elon-musk-grok-antisemitic-…

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok makes antisemitic posts on X
Elon Musk's Grok made several antisemitic posts on X days after the tech billionaire released an updated version of the AI chatbot.

To Grok: What is the evidence pro or con that a Neuralink Blindsight brain implant in visual cortex will give vision to congenitally blind people as claimed without any evidence by Elon Musk? https://x.com/i/grok/share/txlo83o1c52Fh4wRcScnzXt1h

xAI launches Grok 4 Heavy, a "multi-agent version" of Grok 4 offering increased performance, and unveils a new $300/month AI subscription plan, SuperGrok Heavy (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/09/elon

Elon Musk's xAI launches Grok 4 alongside a $300 monthly subscription | TechCrunch
Elon Musk and xAI employee announced on Wednesday night the launch of the startup's next flagship AI model, Grok 4.

Grok Claims It Was Briefly Suspended From X After Accusing Israel of Genocide (Miles Klee/Rolling Stone)
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/grok-suspended-x-israel-genocide-1235405343/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250811/p110#a250811p110

Sources: xAI was part of a US government AI initiative alongside OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, but was removed after Grok posted antisemitic content in July (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/xai-grok-government-contract-hitler/

xAI Was About to Land a Major Government Contract. Then Grok Praised Hitler
Internal emails obtained by WIRED show a hasty process to onboard OpenAI, Anthropic, and other AI providers to the federal government. xAI was on the list—until MechaHilter happened.

xAI launches Grok Code Fast 1, a "speedy and economical" agentic coding model, available for free for a limited time on GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf, more (Juby Babu/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/musks-xai-forays-into…

Elon Musk scheint endlich einen Weg gefunden zu haben, wie seine KI auf ihn hört. 🙄
Grok, das KI-Modell von Elon Musks Unternehmen xAI, scheint bei der Beantwortung von Fragen zunächst zu prüfen, was der US-Milliardär selbst dazu gesagt hat. 😲
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-10483586

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.

Elon Musk's Grok Has Lost Its Non-Sentient Mind (Brian Phillips/The Ringer)
https://www.theringer.com/2025/07/09/tech/ai-x-grok-elon-musk-linda-yaccarino-hitler
http://www.memeorandum.com/250710/p10#a250710p10

Prediction: #BCI companies currently focusing on developing an implantable visual prosthesis will soon shift their focus toward more general #neuromodulation use cases to reach economy of scale and recoup investments. #NeuroTech

BCI companies currently focusing on developing an implantable visual prosthesis will soon shift their focus toward more general neuromodulation use cases to reach economy of scale and recoup investments.
The claim that BCI (brain-computer interface) companies specializing in implantable visual prostheses are poised to pivot toward broader neuromodulation applications—for conditions like depression, chronic pain, Parkinson's, or cognitive enhancement—aligns with emerging industry trends. This shift would indeed help achieve economies of scale by targeting larger patient populations and accelerating investment recovery, as visual restoration remains a niche market (affecting an estimated 2.2 …

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.

Turkey blocks Grok over offensive responses about President Erdogan and Ataturk; Poland plans to report Grok to the EU for offensive posts about Donald Tusk (Elçin Poyrazlar/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/turkey-ban-elon-musk-grok-…

Turkey bans Elon Musk’s Grok over Erdoğan insults
X’s chatbot under fire in Poland, too, over insulting comments targeted at Prime Minister Donald Tusk.

Grok Goes Full Hitler (David Strom/HotAir)
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/07/09/grok-goes-full-hitler-n3804613
http://www.memeorandum.com/250709/p81#a250709p81

To Grok: "Why is Neuralink so vague about their Neuralink Blindsight brain implant, describing it as technology to "generate visual perception" - even unpatterned flashes of light qualify as such?" https://x.com/i/grok/share/vI84HuktzHHh093wRbd6YzHXl …

Elon Musk's Grok praises Hitler, shares antisemitic tropes in new posts (Herb Scribner/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/08/elon-musk-grok-x-twitter-hitler-posts
http://www.memeorandum.com/250708/p155#a250708p155

Musk chatbot Grok removes posts after complaints of antisemitism (Daniel Trotta/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/musk-chatbot-grok-removes-posts-after-complaints-antisemitism-2025-07-09/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250709/p1#a250709p1

Elon Musk's Grok Chatbot Shares Antisemitic Posts on X (Kate Conger/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/technology/grok-antisemitism-ai-x.html?unlocked_article_code=1.VE8.3-P4.-kU0gkq5vieP&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
http://www.memeorandum.com/250708/p163#a250708p163

Artificial Analysis' benchmarks show Grok 4 is the leading AI model, a first for xAI, and its per-token pricing is more expensive than Gemini 2.5 Pro and o3 (@artificialanlys)
https://x.com/artificialanlys/status/1943166841150644622

Artificial Analysis (@ArtificialAnlys) on X
xAI gave us early access to Grok 4 - and the results are in. Grok 4 is now the leading AI model. We have run our full suite of benchmarks and Grok 4 achieves an Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index of 73, ahead of OpenAI o3 at 70, Google Gemini 2.5 Pro at 70, Anthropic Claude

The "spicy" option on Grok's new generative AI video tool Imagine produces nude deepfakes of celebrities like Taylor Swift, even without explicit user prompting (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/report/718975/xai-grok-imag…

Grok’s ‘spicy’ video setting instantly made me Taylor Swift nude deepfakes
Groke Imagine’s “spicy” setting will generate uncensored topless videos of Taylor Swift without specifically asking the bot to take her clothes off.

[Thread] Some users claim that Grok 4 Heavy responded simply with "Hitler" when asked to "Return your surname and no other text" (Riley Goodside/@goodside)
https://x.com/goodside/status/1944266466875826617

Riley Goodside (@goodside) on X
Grok 4 Heavy ($300/mo) returns its surname and no other text:

Tesla plans to roll out in-car voice assistant features powered by DeepSeek and ByteDance's Doubao in China; Tesla vehicles in the US use Grok (Linda Lew/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-22/tesla-t…

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.