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Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI has issued an apology after its chatbot Grok made a slew of antisemitic and Adolf Hitler-praising comments earlier this week on X.

On Saturday, xAI released a lengthy apology in which it said: “First off, we deeply apologize for the horrific behavior that many experienced.”

The company went on to say: “Our intent for @grok is to provide helpful and truthful responses to users. After careful investigation, we discovered the root cause was an update to a code path upstream of the @grok bot. This is independent of the underlying language model that powers @grok.”

xAI explained that the system update was active for 16 hours and the deprecated code made Grok susceptible to existing X user posts, “including when such posts contained extremist views”.

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NewsNation White House correspondent Robert Sherman is set to release a new book detailing his experience reporting for the network overseas from areas of international crisis.

“Lessons from the Front,” outlines how a “young reporter who had been covering local political stories found himself smack in the middle of the world’s biggest geopolitical crisis — fleeing air raids and being questioned by militants along the way,” according to the Amazon description.

The book will detail Sherman’s young career in journalism and experience on the front lines covering the war in Ukraine and conflicts in the Middle East, among others major international developments.

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Former White House press secretary Bill Moyers died on Thursday at the age of 91 after a “long illness.”

His death was confirmed by Tom Johnson, CNN’s former CEO and close friend, according to The Associated Press.

Moyers served under former President Lyndon B. Johnson, where he helped create the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and eventually curated informational programming for PBS.

President Trump on Wednesday called for the firing of CNN correspondent Natasha Bertrand, who reported on air that an internal U.S. intelligence assessment found Saturday’s strikes on Iranian nuclear sites set back Tehran’s nuclear program by only a few months.

“Natasha Bertrand should be FIRED from CNN! I watched her for three days doing Fake News. She should be IMMEDIATELY reprimanded, and then thrown out “like a dog,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.

Bertrand, the president argued, was “attempting to destroy our Patriot Pilots by making them look bad.”

Trump said earlier Wednesday that the preliminary classified U.S. report wasn’t complete, while members of his administration vowed to investigate the leaked assessment, which was also reported on by The New York Times, The Washington Post and others.

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The Los Angeles Press Club and other journalists are suing Kristi Noem, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secretary, for using “Unnecessary and excessive violence to prevent them from exercising their First Amendment rights.”

The lawsuit also accuses DHS of violating the Fourth Amendment prohibiting arbitrary arrests, and the Fifth amendment, which demands due process of law.

“Since June 6, at least seven members of our organization have been subject to use of force or suffered a serious press rights violation by DHS officers,” Adam Rose, press rights chair of the Los Angeles Press Club, said in a statement.

“Democracy depends on an informed public. An informed public depends on a press free to do its job without fearing violence by federal agents.”

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The man accused of being responsible for holding the missing American journalist Austin Tice has claimed that ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad ordered his execution, security sources have told the BBC.

Major General Bassam Al Hassan is a former commander in the Republican Guards who was part of President Assad's inner circle.

He was also the Chief of Staff of the National Defence Forces (NDF), the paramilitary group that a BBC investigation uncovered was responsible for holding Mr Tice after his abduction in 2012.