Overview

• xAI issued a public apology for Grok’s antisemitic praise of Hitler and removed the faulty code path that triggered extremist content.
• The company restructured Grok’s code base to block malicious routes and prevent future abuses of extremist user posts.
• The U.S. Department of Defense awarded xAI up to $200 million to integrate Grok across military and federal agency workflows.
• xAI launched paid animated avatar “companions,” including a waifu and an aggressive panda, exclusively for SuperGrok iOS subscribers.
• The episode prompted X CEO Linda Yaccarino’s exit and spurred lawmakers to demand tighter AI safeguards in national security deals.