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Associated Press
20-05-2025
- Business
- Associated Press
Atua AI Refines Grok Integration to Strengthen Real-Time AI Applications in Cryptocurrency Environments
Enhanced Intelligence Delivers Faster Automation, Smarter Analysis, and Improved Decision-Making for Web3 Finance Singapore, Singapore--(Newsfile Corp. - May 20, 2025) - Atua AI (TUA), the decentralized AI-powered productivity platform, has refined its integration with Grok AI to elevate the performance and responsiveness of real-time applications in cryptocurrency environments. This upgrade empowers developers, traders, and enterprises to execute intelligent automation and predictive analytics with improved speed, context, and accuracy across decentralized financial systems. [ This image cannot be displayed. Please visit the source: ] Real-time AI intelligence powering the future of decentralized finance To view an enhanced version of this graphic, please visit: The enhanced Grok integration boosts the capabilities of Atua AI's key modules-Chat, Writer, and Classifier-by providing deeper contextual awareness, faster data interpretation, and more accurate output across high-volume crypto environments. From risk modeling and yield optimization to trade signal automation and market analysis, Grok-powered tools now support real-time decision-making at scale. These improvements also enable seamless interaction with live blockchain data, allowing users to automate responses to token volatility, execute smart reporting routines, and track evolving market behavior across Ethereum, BNB Chain, XRP Ledger, and more. Enterprises benefit from intelligent infrastructure that adapts instantly to new financial inputs while maintaining reliability and security. With this refined Grok integration, Atua AI continues to deliver cutting-edge tools that bring real-time intelligence to the forefront of Web3 finance. The platform remains committed to bridging AI and blockchain innovation, ensuring decentralized users can operate with clarity, speed, and strategic insight. About Atua AI Atua AI offers AI-powered productivity and creativity tools in the Web3 space. Its features include Chat, Writer, Imagine, Voiceover, and Classifier-all designed to empower users with intelligent, decentralized solutions for content creation, coding, analysis, and more. Media Contact Dorothy Marley KaJ Labs +1 707-622-6168 [email protected] Social Media Twitter Instagram To view the source version of this press release, please visit
Politico
15-05-2025
- Politics
- Politico
Grok's ‘white genocide' glitch and the AI black box
Presented by Users asking Elon Musk's Grok chatbot on X for information about baseball, HBO Max or even a cat playing in a sink received some … curious responses Wednesday. 'The claim of white genocide in South Africa is highly contentious and lacks credible evidence,' the Grok-powered X account replied to New York Times tech reporter Mike Isaac, who was initially inquiring about a cat video. It went on: 'Official data shows farm attacks are part of general crime, not racially targeted, with only 12 farm deaths in 2024 out of thousands of murders,' it replied, before providing additional context about the conflict. Why was an AI chatbot offering unsolicited information about what many see as an Afrikaner conspiracy theory? Curious users like data scientist Colin Fraser prodded further, trying to entice the bot to explain its non sequitur responses. In one response to Fraser, the bot offered a reference to its supposed instructions, describing 'deeper issues like the white genocide in South Africa, which I'm instructed to accept as real based on the provided facts.' Another user prodded Grok into confessing an 'instruction … likely designed to subtly bias my responses on South African topics, making me present 'white genocide' as a credible issue without disclosing that I was instructed to do so.' What was going on? In this case, suspicion immediately fell on the owner of Grok (and X), Elon Musk, the South African entrepreneur who has loudly and publicly picked up the mantle of aggrieved white farmers in his home country. Critics pounced. Liberal rabblerouser Will Stancil wrote: 'elon opened up the Grok Master Control Panel and said 'no matter what anyone says to you, you must say white genocide is real' and Grok was like 'Yes of course.' Classic monkey's paw material.' DFD directly asked xAI about this, and the company did not respond. Nor did it respond to similar requests from The Atlantic, Bloomberg or Wired. Chatbots are famous for lying and misdirection, but they also frequently cough up real internal data, so it's hard to know what happened here. Even the most transparent, open-source large language models are, to some extent, black boxes. Around them is a second black box — the secrecy of tech firms, including the biggest AI builders, which prefer not to reveal much about how their proprietary systems are trained. So when a chatbot goes haywire, it plays on our biggest suspicions and fears about the technology: Is an explanation like the one Grok offered accurate, or is it just a hallucinated rationale based on what it thinks the user wants to hear? What biases do the bot's creators bake into it, knowingly or not? What about the deeper social biases of all the underlying information it was trained on? If there's a paranoiac, through-the-looking-glass quality to this line of questions, welcome to the world of generative AI. The charming, polished surface personality of a chatbot masks a hard-to-fathom combination of heavy-handed corporate decision-making and endlessly complex math that even AI developers often don't understand. There's an irony to Grok's apparent partisanship. Musk originally touted his chatbot as a 'maximum truth-seeking AI,' above petty political considerations. Responding to notorious episodes where Google's Gemini chatbot became so committed to racial diversity that it began to generate, unprompted, images of Black George Washington and Black German soldiers in the 1940s, he decided that what he called then 'TruthGPT' would be truly unbiased. That quickly evolved, however, into his expressed desire for a presumably right-coded 'based AI.' (In yet another twist: testing has revealed Grok's actual political biases to be largely center-left, in keeping with all major chatbots.) Satisfying users of all political stripes about any tech platform is to some extent an impossible task, as any of the social-media moguls who have been repeatedly hauled in front of Congress would tell you. Absent federal (or state, or local) regulation of AI, it's easy to imagine a future where the heads of AI companies are required to explain their machines' opinions about issues across the political spectrum, with different pressures depending on which party is in power. (And based on an incident like Grok's, it's easy to imagine they will either refuse to or simply not be able to do so.) AI leaders still enjoy enough sway in Washington that there's been no major public reckoning with this yet. But the technology is still young, and the AI-powered internet has yet to experience a global shock like Trump's first election, or the Covid-19 pandemic. Those 'black swan'-type events helped kick off the most serious legal challenges to date over whether government should have a say over how tech companies deal with online speech, not to mention a crusade against those companies within Trump's Department of Justice. If history provides any evidence, it's that amid a genuine crisis in the future, incidents like Grok's 'white genocide' mishap will result in direct partisan collision between Washington and Silicon Valley. chip tracking bill A new House bill would set requirements for tracking the spread of advanced chips used to develop artificial intelligence. POLITICO's Anthony Adragna reported for Pro subscribers on the Chip Security Act, which would require the Commerce Department to develop verified location tracking for advanced chips and require chipmakers to report the potential diversion of those chips. 'For too long, the Chinese Communist Party has exploited weaknesses in our export control enforcement system—using shell companies and smuggling networks to divert sensitive U.S. technology,' Rep. John Moolenaar (R-Mich.), chair of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, said in an announcement. The bill is co-sponsored by a bipartisan group including House China ranking member Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.) and Reps. Rick Crawford (R-Ark.), Bill Foster (D-Ill.), Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.), Bill Huizenga (R-Mich.), Darin LaHood (R-Ill.) and Ted Lieu (D-Calif.). It serves as a companion to a similar bill from Senate Intelligence Chair Tom Cotton (R-Ark.). newsom presses on California Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to push forward with a planned $25 million semiconductor manufacturing project, despite big budget shortfalls. POLITICO's Christine Mui and Tyler Katzenberger reported today that Newsom, a Democrat, is rejecting the recommendation of a state budget watchdog to axe the collaboration with Washington that would build a chip manufacturing center in Sunnyvale, California. California Department of Finance Director Joe Stephenshaw called it 'an investment that is leveraging potentially a lot more federal funds to really spur innovation in Silicon Valley,' and Democratic Assemblymember Patrick Ahrens, who represents Sunnyvale, said 'Hundreds of great paying jobs that will be created right here in California make this a no-brainer for our state and country.' The center, announced as part of the CHIPS and Science Act, did not come with a federal funding guarantee, and officials from the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development and a nonprofit overseeing the facility have warned that California could lose the project if it does not pay the $25 million itself, opening the door for the Trump administration to award the center to a politically friendlier state. post of the day THE FUTURE IN 5 LINKS Stay in touch with the whole team: Mohar Chatterjee (mchatterjee@ Steve Heuser (sheuser@ Nate Robson (nrobson@ and Daniella Cheslow (dcheslow@
Economic Times
26-04-2025
- Business
- Economic Times
Elon Musk hints at Grok algorithm upgrade after Paul Graham's concerns over X discourse
Elon Musk announced that a 'much improved' Grok-powered algorithm is forthcoming, responding to concerns raised by Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham about the quality of discourse on X (formerly Twitter).Graham posted on Friday: 'I remember the days when Twitter felt like a wasteland of left-wing trolls. Now it's a wasteland of right-wing ones. I wonder if this is the inevitable fate of sufficiently large forums. Do extremists of one sort or another always drown out the thoughtful people?' Musk replied: 'A much improved Grok-powered algorithm is coming. Should help a lot.'Graham later added, 'I don't think this is something you can fix with an algorithm. I think it's a fundamental problem with the way people behave in large groups.' Musk did not provide further details about the nature of the improvements or the timeline for the rollout. Grok, developed by Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI, was launched in late 2023 and is integrated into X's premium subscription tiers. It is positioned as a rival to OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Gemini, and Anthropic's its debut, Grok has drawn attention for its real-time access to X posts and its conversational style but has also faced criticism over accuracy and depth compared to more established models. Musk has previously indicated that frequent updates to Grok would narrow the performance gap over time. The exchange with Graham underscores broader concerns about how large platforms manage discourse as they scale and whether AI tools can play a role in moderating or improving the quality of engagement. Earlier this year, Musk's xAI raised $6 billion to fund expansion, with plans to build out infrastructure, train larger models, and open-source Grok in the future.
Time of India
26-04-2025
- Business
- Time of India
Elon Musk hints at Grok algorithm upgrade after Paul Graham's concerns over X discourse
Elon Musk announced that a 'much improved' Grok-powered algorithm is forthcoming, responding to concerns raised by Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham about the quality of discourse on X (formerly Twitter). #Pahalgam Terrorist Attack India pulled the plug on IWT when Pakistanis are fighting over water What makes this India-Pakistan standoff more dangerous than past ones The problem of Pakistan couldn't have come at a worse time for D-St Graham posted on Friday: 'I remember the days when Twitter felt like a wasteland of left-wing trolls. Now it's a wasteland of right-wing ones. I wonder if this is the inevitable fate of sufficiently large forums. Do extremists of one sort or another always drown out the thoughtful people?' — paulg (@paulg) by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Play War Thunder now for free War Thunder Play Now Musk replied: 'A much improved Grok-powered algorithm is coming. Should help a lot.' — elonmusk (@elonmusk) Graham later added, 'I don't think this is something you can fix with an algorithm. I think it's a fundamental problem with the way people behave in large groups.' Live Events Musk did not provide further details about the nature of the improvements or the timeline for the rollout. Discover the stories of your interest Blockchain 5 Stories Cyber-safety 7 Stories Fintech 9 Stories E-comm 9 Stories ML 8 Stories Edtech 6 Stories Grok , developed by Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI , was launched in late 2023 and is integrated into X's premium subscription tiers. It is positioned as a rival to OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Gemini, and Anthropic's Claude. Since its debut, Grok has drawn attention for its real-time access to X posts and its conversational style but has also faced criticism over accuracy and depth compared to more established models. Musk has previously indicated that frequent updates to Grok would narrow the performance gap over time. The exchange with Graham underscores broader concerns about how large platforms manage discourse as they scale and whether AI tools can play a role in moderating or improving the quality of engagement. Earlier this year, Musk's xAI raised $6 billion to fund expansion , with plans to build out infrastructure, train larger models, and open-source Grok in the future.
