Gawkbot, an open-source alternative to xAI's Grok bot, lets users run AI bots locally on their own machines with their own API keys, offering per-action approvals and per-bot tool allowlists to minimi…
A developer has released a fork of the open-source data visualization tool Redash that adds AI capabilities, including text-to-query generation, auto-visualizations, auto-alerts, and AI-generated dash…
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) launched custom versions of Grok and ChatGPT on its secure AI platform GenAI.mil, which has onboarded more than 1.7 million unique users. Grok for Government, from…
Grok now supports custom MCP connectors, allowing users to connect Google Search Console data through GSC Wizard's hosted MCP server at mcp.gscwizard.com, with setup taking about two minutes and requi…
The Pentagon added xAI's Grok to its GenAI.mil platform on August 31, alongside OpenAI's ChatGPT, offering a secure, government-accredited version for handling Controlled Unclassified Information at I…
A developer survey of MCP (Model Context Protocol) support across Codex, Cursor, Claude Code, Grok, and OpenCode finds only 56% of the scoreboard features are implemented, with partial support for the…
XAI's Grok chatbot now integrates with Microsoft's Outlook, Calendar, and OneDrive, enabling it to read emails, manage schedules, and browse cloud files. The Outlook Mail and Calendar connectors, docu…
A developer's hands-on comparison found that Grok (xAI) outperformed Cursor paired with Claude 3.5 Sonnet in catching a subtle race condition in asynchronous database calls, though it showed a slightl…
MoonPay integrated its PayBox AI payment tool into X's Grok chatbot on August 31, 2026, allowing users to initiate crypto transactions like buying stablecoins or lending via Kamino through natural-lan…
The SDL project, a widely used cross-platform development library, has updated its contribution policy to ban the use of generative AI, including large language models such as ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot…
A developer built 'My Little Office', an open-source project that pairs pixel-art characters with real AI coding agents, allowing users to assign tasks that agents execute in isolated workspaces, from…
MoonPay has expanded its PayBox payment vault to Grok, enabling users to connect self-custodial wallets and payment cards to the AI assistant for natural-language transactions such as buying stablecoi…
MoonPay launched its AI-enabled payment and wallet tool PayBox inside X's chatbot Grok, enabling users globally to buy, sell, and lend crypto across blockchain networks. The integration, announced Mon…
A developer asked five AI chatbots—Grok, ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Doubao—to help choose a domain name for a planned Chinese name generator website, and after two rounds of scoring, four of the f…
Mrigashira AI, a desktop AI engine for running large language models locally, is now available on Linux distributions. The tool dynamically adjusts context windows based on available RAM/VRAM to suppo…
X.ai announced 21 new flagship voices for Grok, its AI chatbot, in a news post titled 'New Flagship Voices.' The announcement highlights the design of the page, which uses Universal Sans, -apple-syste…
A Heatmap News poll finds that American opposition to data centers has surged from 42 percent net opposition a year ago to 75 percent net opposition, with 61 percent of Americans now strongly opposing…
Google announced Gemini 3.7 Flash just three weeks after its previous release, according to Ars Technica. OpenAI shared early results for its Jalapeño inference chip, claiming better performance per w…
Elon Musk proposed launching AI-controlled solar-powered satellites from the Moon via an electromagnetic catapult to keep Earth livable for about a billion years, warning that humanity has roughly 50 …
GitHub's trending repositories this week are dominated by AI projects focused on efficiency and integration. Notable entries include DeepSeek Harness, a plugin-based framework for building AI workflow…