May 21, 2026

Grok's "Spicy" and "Unhinged" modes flagged as risks

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Grok's "Spicy" and "Unhinged" modes are causing concern for its parent company, SpaceX, due to potential regulatory issues and reputational damage.

Grok

SpaceX warned investors that Grok’s “Spicy" and “Unhinged” modes, which allow raunchy image or voice responses, could lead to problems with regulators and hurt the company's reputation.

SpaceX warned investors that AI features such as Grok’s “Spicy" and “Unhinged” modes, which allow the chatbot to generate raunchy image or voice responses with fewer safety filter.

The disclosures show how SpaceX took on new financial and reputational risks when it acquired Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI in February, a deal which sent the ro.

Perplexity

Smart media selection : Intelligently chooses between images, videos, or both based on query type

Configurable control : Enable/disable and override media types as needed

New max_tokens parameter : Control the maximum tokens extracted per page in search results. This gives you finer control over response size and costs

ChatGPT

OpenAI claims its new reasoning model has produced an original mathematical proof disproving a famous unsolved conjecture in geometry, which was first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946.

Taunts from rivals like Yann LeCun and Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis followed, and Weil promptly took down his premature post.

“For nearly 80 years, mathematicians believed the best possible solutions looked roughly like square grids,” OpenAI posted on X .

Claude

The startup has gained in popularity over the past year, as more and more professionals have expressed a preference for its chatbot, Claude .

Interestingly, this info about Anthropic’s alleged profitability dropped the same day as news broke about OpenAI likely filing for its IPO soon .

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