X CEO Linda Yaccarino announced she was stepping down from her position a day after the company’s Grok artificial intelligence chatbot went haywire and began calling itself “MechaHitler.” Yaccarino’s departing message was positive and did not mention Tuesday’s scandal.

On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler held his first Cabinet meeting in the Reich Chancellery in Berlin. Friends and sycophants surrounded the newly appointed Chancellor. The handful of holdovers from the previous regime wouldn’t be there when the group met again.

But is it worth it? It’s a place where you can say whatever you want, without fear of retribution. But so is a meeting of the Hitler Youth — which X started to resemble on Tuesday, July 8, even more than usual. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily ...

The streets currently bear the names of classical music composer Josef Reiter and entertainer Franz Resl, both of whom were Nazi party members. View on euronews

Linda Yaccarino said she would step down from her role as CEO of Elon Musk’s X after a two-year tenure marred by controversy, including a new spree of antisemitic comments by X’s AI chatbot Grok. She became the social-media company’s CEO in June 2023.