Dozens of xAI employees expressed concerns—and many objected—when asked to record videos of their facial expressions to help "give Grok a face," Business Insider reported. BI reviewed internal documents and Slack messages, finding that the so-called project "Skippy" was designed to help Grok learn what a face is and "interpret human emotions."

As AI companies continue to push for more polluting data centers to train increasingly energy-intensive AI models, Meta is trying to make big claims about how the tech could solve the climate crisis.