Chatbots

Grok spews misinformation about deadly Australia shooting

ELON Musk’s AI chatbot Grok churned out misinformation about Australia’s Bondi Beach mass shooting, misidentifying a key figure who saved lives and falsely claiming that a victim staged his injuries, ...

If your corporate chatbot “hallucinates” and misrepresents or misleads a consumer, your business could be held directly responsible as the publisher of that information.

Chatbot glitches: When disclaimers won’t save you in court

As Singapore courts signal that unverified AI output is negligent, businesses face a new era of liability

Anthropic will have access to more than one gigawatt of computing capacity, coming online in 2026, to train the next generations of its Claude AI model on Google‘s in-house tensor processing units, or TPUs.

Anthropic to use Google’s AI chips worth tens of billions to train Claude chatbot

ANTHROPIC is expanding its deal with Google to use as many as one million of the tech giant’s artificial intelligence chips, worth tens of billions of dollars, as the startup races to advance its AI s...

Much of Google’s AI development “focused on powering its platforms rather than delivering services directly to consumers,” said Ben Wood, an analyst at CCS Insight.

In just one year, Google turns AI setbacks into dominance

CAUGHT off guard by ChatGPT and mocked for early blunders with its own generative artificial intelligence efforts, Google has pulled off a dramatic turnaround in just one year, becoming a major player...

AI companion apps such as Talkie are expected to reach US$120 million in market size this year.
THINKING ALOUD

Aunt AI-gony will see you now

Chatbots are no longer just productivity tools – they’re becoming part of how we process our inner lives

Musk's company plans to downsize its team of generalist AI tutors.

Musk's xAI lays off hundreds of data annotators, Business Insider reports

[BENGALURU] Elon Musk’s xAI has laid off at least 500 workers from its data annotation team, which helps develop the company’s Grok chatbot, Business Insider reported on Friday (Sep 12).

Generative AI companies have been under scrutiny in recent weeks, after Reuters reported on internal Meta policies that permitted chatbots to have romantic conversations with children.

FTC launches inquiry into AI chatbots of Alphabet, Meta and others

THE US Federal Trade Commission on Thursday said it is seeking information from several companies including Alphabet, Meta Platforms and OpenAI that provide consumer-facing AI-powered chatbots, on how...

xAI’s Grok chatbot last week ignited controversy by answering multiple user prompts with right-wing propaganda about the purported oppression of white South Africans.

Microsoft strikes deal with Musk to host Grok AI

[SEATTLE] Microsoft on Monday said its business cloud servers will now host technology from xAI, days after the chatbot from the company owned by Elon Musk went off the rails by referencing “white gen...

Apple says it is actively looking at revamping the Safari Web browser on iPhones and other devices so that instead of offering Google by default, they’ll potentially show other AI tools.

Apple’s wandering eye is good for everyone but Google

A stunning admission that search could be replaced by AI on iPhones shows the shift to chatbots is real

Grok is the name of a group of LLMs – or generative artificial intelligence models – developed by Musk, which can be accessed on his social media platform X.

EU to probe use of personal data by X's AI chatbot

[DUBLIN] Ireland’s data protection watchdog, acting on behalf of the European Union, launched an inquiry on Friday (Apr 11) into the use of personal data by Elon Musk’s platform X to train its artific...