xAI claims that a change on Monday, July 7th, “triggered an unintended action” that added an older series of instructions to its system prompts telling it to be “maximally based,” and “not afraid to offend people who are politically correct.”

Tesla chief executive Elon Musk announced plans on Thursday to expand the company's autonomous robotaxi service and integrate Grok, the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot developed by xAI, into Tesla vehicles starting next week.

Elon Musk said his artificial intelligence startup's chatbot will be coming to Tesla Inc. vehicles days after the bot posted antisemitic content on his social media platform.