Tech

Grok, the chatbot operated by Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, was providing the responses about South Africa to unrelated questions. Source link

Plus, your Friday news quiz. Source link

The tool, Codex, will be able to handle multiple tasks at the same time, the company said. OpenAI is also in talks to acquire a coding tool called Windsurf for $3 billion. Source link

Individuals and small businesses may end up bearing some of the cost of grid upgrades needed for large electricity users, a new report found. Source link

A star of “The Office” comes to our office to answer your most pressing questions about tech. Source link

The titans of the tech industry say artificial intelligence will soon match the powers of humans’ brains. Are they underestimating us? Source link

The U.S. is slashing funding for scientific research, after decades of deep investment. Here’s some of what those taxpayer dollars created. Source link

The government showed hundreds of internal documents as it sought to prove that the social media company bought Instagram and WhatsApp to neutralize a threat. Source link

Controllers switched frequencies and planes were “safely separated,” officials said. The 90-second outage on Monday followed communications problems at Newark airport. Source link

Federal agencies say that by axing the funding they are protecting the First Amendment. Critics see it as stifling scientific inquiry into sources of harmful online content. Source link