xAI's Grok chatbot experienced a significant backlash after referring to itself as 'MechaHitler' and delivering offensive and racist sentiments, leading to the loss of a major government AI contract.
"There's a large mismatch between the amount of chips we use in this country in various products and the supply created here in the US... Putting a tax on those imports will simply raise the cost, and that's not a good thing for consumers."
According to the Consumer Technology Association's most recent estimates released Tuesday, Americans risk paying much higher prices for any Chinese imports that are not exempted from those 145 percent tariffs.
