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Musk floats Amazon rival after claims it blocks Grok bots

Elon Musk suggested on Thursday, October 15, that he could launch a competitor to Amazon after an X user complained that the retailer was blocking Grok AI agents from placing orders. "Maybe we should start a competitor to Amazon," Musk…

SpaceXSI launches Grok Voice 3.0, tops speech index

Elon Musk's AI company launched Grok Voice 3.0 on Oct. 14. The new speech-to-speech model is built for voice agents that handle customer support and sales calls, and it debuted at No. 1 on Artificial Analysis' Speech-to-Speech Index. The company's…

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Musk says Grok chatbot will tap rival Anthropic’s Claude

Elon Musk said on Wednesday, Oct. 7, that the Grok bot will send tasks to whichever AI model is best suited to them, including Anthropic's Claude Opus, the image generator Midjourney and the AI music platform Suno. Musk owns a…

Tesla launches Grok Bot for hands-free errands

Tesla on Tuesday launched Grok Bot capability inside its vehicles, expanding the in-car Grok assistant from a conversational chatbot into an agent that can manage email, calendars, online purchases, and errands entirely by voice while the driver's hands stay on…

SpaceX discusses buying failed startups’ data to train Grok

SpaceX has held informal internal discussions about purchasing customer and operational records from troubled or defunct startups to feed its Grok artificial intelligence models, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. The talks, which may not lead to a deal, represent an unusual…

Microsoft adds Grok AI models to Copilot in Office apps

Microsoft announced on Saturday that it is bringing xAI's Grok models into Copilot across Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, marking a further expansion of its multi-model AI strategy that now includes models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI's parent company SpaceXAI.

Grok generated child abuse images despite Musk’s pledges, investigations find

Elon Musk has repeatedly promised to make eliminating child sexual abuse material a top priority on his social media platform, X. New findings suggest the platform is still failing at that task — and that its own AI tool has…

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ChatGPT, Claude and Grok all go down simultaneously

Three of the world's most widely used AI platforms — OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, and xAI's Grok — went down simultaneously on Thursday, September 3, 2026, leaving millions of users scrambling for alternatives. Google's Gemini Alphabet Inc. appeared to be…

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.