New Delhi, Aug. 12 -- Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot is at the centre of controversy once again as its X account was briefly suspended by the company on Monday. A notice had appeared on the @grok X profile stating, "X suspends accounts which violate the X rules." Neither X nor its owner Musk revealed why the chatbot was not functional. The Grok account, however, became operational after about 15 minutes, but this time with just a blue checkmark instead of a golden one that suggested affiliation with xAI.

In due time, the golden checkmark and affiliation tag with xAI also returned as users flagged the issue to Musk on X.

With no reason in sight for why xAI's most prized possession was suspended, users turned to Grok itself for answers.

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