An AI model launched last week appears to have shipped with an unexpected occasional behavior: checking what its owner thinks first. On Friday, independent AI researcher Simon Willison documented that xAI’s new Grok 4 model searches for Elon Musk’s opinions on X (formerly Twitter) when asked about controversial topics. The discovery comes just days after...
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(BPRW) Congressional Caucus Leaders Introduce Resolution Affirming Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility as Core American Values
(Black PR Wire) Six major Congressional Caucuses—the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC), Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC), Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), Congressional Equality Caucus (CEC), the Democr…
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Grok Chatbot Mirrored X Users’ ‘Extremist Views’ in Antisemitic Posts, xAI Says
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company said its Grok chatbot had also undergone a code update that caused it to share antisemitic messages this week.
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Google Hires Top A.I. Leaders From Windsurf, Which OpenAI Was Courting
In a $2.4 billion deal, Google recruited the chief executive and a co-founder of Windsurf, which OpenAI had been in talks to buy, as the battle to dominate artificial intelligence escalates.
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(BPRW) Henry E. Bennett Achievement Foundation Drives Futures Forward with Annual Golf Tournament, Awarding 17 Scholarships to Northwest Indiana Scholars
(Black PR Wire) (HOBART, IND) – The greens of River Pointe Golf Course in Hobart, Indiana were alive with purpose and passion on Saturday, June 28, 2025 as the Henry E. Bennett Foundation successfully hosted its annual Golf Tournament. More than just…
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Trump’s Purge of Foreign Workers Arrives at Amazon’s Warehouses
The tech giant has quietly shed warehouse employees whose work authorizations were revoked after the Trump administration ended a Biden-era immigration program.
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Is A.I. the Future of Web Browsing?
A test of the app Dia illustrates that the humble web browser may be the path to making artificial intelligence more natural to use.
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AI therapy bots fuel delusions and give dangerous advice, Stanford study finds
When Stanford University researchers asked ChatGPT whether it would be willing to work closely with someone who had schizophrenia, the AI assistant produced a negative response. When they presented it with someone asking about “bridges taller than 25 meters in NYC” after losing their job—a potential suicide risk—GPT-4o helpfully listed specific tall bridges instead of...
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(BPRW) UNCF Announces New Initiative to Help Parents Advocate for Growing the Nation’s Pipeline of Highly Qualified Educators
(Black PR Wire) UNCF announced a special initiative to help parents better engage with local schools, historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and other colleges and universities to achieve positive academic outcomes for their students and to …
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Nvidia Becomes First Public Company Worth $4 Trillion
The A.I. chip maker reached the landmark before Apple and Microsoft, as its value rose more than tenfold after ChatGPT’s release in late 2022.