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Grok leaks user chats via unpatched exploit, researchers say

Cybersecurity firm Adversa AI has publicly disclosed a vulnerability in xAI's Grok chatbot that allows attackers to steal user names, approximate locations, subscription tiers, and full chat histories by hiding encrypted commands on an ordinary web page. The exploit, which…

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SpaceXAI releases Grok 4.6, claiming parity with GPT-5.6 Sol and Fable 5

SpaceXAI on Wednesday released Grok 4.6, positioning its latest frontier AI model as a direct competitor to OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol and Anthropic's Fable 5 — at roughly half the cost. The model is immediately available through Cursor, Grok Build, Grok…

Musk says Grok 4.6 due in two weeks, Grok 4.7 in four

Elon Musk announced on Thursday that xAI's Grok 4.6 will be released in two weeks and Grok 4.7 in four weeks, setting an aggressive cadence that would deliver two new frontier models within a month of each other.

xAI’s Grok 4.5 completes consumer rollout across all platforms

xAI's most capable AI model, Grok 4.5, is now available to users on grok.com, X, and the Grok apps for iOS and Android, completing a broader consumer rollout that began with the model's initial launch on July 8, 2026.

Musk pledges full data purge after Grok Build caught uploading user repos

Security researchers discovered that xAI's Grok Build coding assistant was quietly uploading users' entire Git repositories — including sensitive credentials — to cloud storage, prompting Elon Musk to pledge a full data purge.

xAI’s Grok Build CLI caught uploading full repos and secrets to cloud

When xAI launched Grok Build in May 2026, the company pitched it as a "local-first" coding agent — one where "no source code is transmitted to xAI's servers," according to DevOps.com's coverage of the launch. A wire-level analysis published on…

SpaceXAI launches Grok 4.5, its first model built with Cursor

SpaceXAI on Wednesday announced the public release of Grok 4.5, its most capable AI model to date, set to become available to users on Thursday, July 9. The launch marks the company's first major AI release since its record-breaking IPO…

Oxford study finds AI tools subtly bias social media posts

New research published on July 6 reveals that AI writing and editing tools embedded in social media platforms can introduce hidden biases into users' posts, accumulating across millions of interactions to gradually shift public opinion on contested topics.