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The CEO Of Elon Musk's X, Formerly Twitter, Is Resigning After 2 Years

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Linda Yaccarino, the former NBCUniversal executive who agreed to run Elon Musk’s X platform, is stepping down after about two years on the job, announcing her departure from the CEO role after a disastrous day for the platform’s artificial intelligence bot.

The bot, called Grok, went on a shockingly antisemitic rant Tuesday wherein it heaped praise on Adolf Hitler. Grok began calling itself a digital version of the Nazi dictator before humans working for the platform intervened; Grok finally admitted it fell hard for a hoax.

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