AI Friction: Grok Comments about Holocaust, MIT Paper Pulled, OpenAI Abu Dhabi Data Center, Microsoft Agent Plans, and Outgrow
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In Today's AI for Business News:
- xAI’s Grok chatbot faced backlash after questioning Holocaust death tolls and echoing conspiracy theories, prompting new transparency promises from the company.
- MIT pulled support for a high-profile AI research paper after an internal review raised concerns about its data and conclusions.
- OpenAI plans to help build a massive 5-gigawatt data center in Abu Dhabi—part of a global AI infrastructure push backed by G42, SoftBank, and Microsoft.
- Microsoft shared its roadmap for AI agents that can work together and remember past conversations using a new method called structured retrieval augmentation.
Prompt Tip – Flip bad advice into good advice to make your message stick. Ask the AI to list common myths first, then turn each one into smart, useful guidance.
AI Tools to Try – Outgrow – a tool to add quizzes, calculators, and custom forms to your site to boost engagement – https://theaipreneur.pro/outgrow
Source:
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/18/grok-says-its-skeptical-about-holocaust-death-toll-then-blames-programming-error
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/17/mit-disavows-doctoral-students-paper-on-ai-productivity-benefits
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/16/openais-planned-data-center-in-abu-dhabi-would-be-bigger-than-monaco
https://www.reuters.com/business/microsoft-wants-ai-agents-work-together-remember-things-2025-05-19
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