Here’s your Tuesday Tech Drop, a spin through some of the week’s top stories from the intersection of tech and politics.

Grok’s recent flirtation with extremism is just the latest example of an AI, left to its own devices, going off-script. What can, or should, be done to stop it?

We need to address the vulnerabilities of large language models like Grok right now, as AI gains the ability to perform ...

AI controlled "slaughterbot" drones likely within 12 months in Ukraine, new research suggests AI agents are 70% useless, and ...

xAI’s latest frontier model, Grok 4, has been released without industry-standard safety reports, despite the company’s CEO, ...

Experts at OpenAI and Anthropic are calling out Elon Musk and xAI for refusing to publish any safety research. In the wake of ...

The billionaire has used Trump’s handling of the ‘Epstein files’ issue to repeatedly attack his former ally since their ...

This latest development from xAI follows a rapid period of innovation, including the recent release of Grok 4 earlier this month.

Nobel-Prize-winning columnist Paul Krugman claimed in a new Substack article that Elon Musk's Grok chatbot started calling ...

Early on, this column suggested that while first-generation users might have a hard time freeing themselves of the anthropomorphic delusion, their kids wouldn’t. They’d grow up appreciating AI as the ...

Musk has consistently voiced his concerns and forecast on AI over the years. In an interview at Saudi Arabia’s Future Investment Initiative in October last year, Musk claimed th ...

The Department of Defense awarded contracts to Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI. The last two are particularly concerning.