Happy Thursday! I’m Andrea Jiménez, the tech bureau’s news aide, announcing some changes to the Tech Brief. The Thursday edition will highlight a selected Post story and continue the comprehensive tech policy news roundup that we have always run in every brief. The Tech Brief’s Tuesday edition will stay unchanged and be anchored by Will Oremus.

A viral false claim tied Cindy Steinberg to an anti-Semitic post by @Rad_reflections. She denied it; the account, using her name, has since been deleted.

Elon Musk's Grok chatbot unleashed a slew of antisemitic commentary and praised Hitler after apparent change allowed it to be 'politically incorrect'

The Trump era has seen the revival of Karl Marx’s famous line about the repetitive nature of history: “Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice.

Elon Musk announced this weekend that his team at xAI made improvements to their AI chatbot Grok. Days later, Grok has already gone on several blatantly antisemitic tirades.

In response, X mostly turned off Grok, and the chatbot’s official account claimed that “xAI has taken action to ban hate speech before Grok posts on X.” The next day, CEO Linda Yaccarino announced she was stepping down but also leaked that of course it had nothing to do with the platform’s omnipresent assistant calling for genocide.