Elon Musk's artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok, has come under fire for repeatedly spreading far-right conspiracy theories about South Africa and expressing skepticism about facts regarding the Holocaust. Social media users quickly caught on to the bot's strange behavior, and the company's explanation fell flat.

Microsoft on Monday announced a partnership with Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI, bringing its controversial Grok models to the company’s cloud platform Azure. The news came during the kickoff of Microsoft’s Build developer conference,

Microsoft has partnered with Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence venture, xAI, to bring its Grok AI models to the Azure cloud platform, despite recent criticism over the chatbot’s politically charged and racially controversial outputs.