A man used xAI's Grok to generate 7,000 sexually explicit images of his stepdaughter before killing himself after police discovered the abuse, according to an amended class-action lawsuit. The complai…
Grok 4.5 outperforms GPT-5.5 on CursorBench at roughly half the cost, though an earlier snapshot of the Cursor codebase was accidentally included in Grok 4.5's training, potentially inflating its scor…
Meta launched an AI image generator called Muse Image on Instagram, WhatsApp, and Meta AI, allowing users to generate images using public Instagram photos without consent. Privacy advocates warn the f…
A new free tool called AI Referral Notifier runs as a Cloudflare Worker to send push notifications when AI assistants like ChatGPT or Perplexity send a visitor to a site, or when AI crawlers fetch pag…
SpaceXAI and Cursor plan to launch their first jointly built AI model as soon as Wednesday, aiming to compete with Anthropic's Opus 4.8 and OpenAI's GPT-5.5. The model, developed using xAI's Colossus …
Erik von Markovik, known as pickup artist Mystery, claims to have an AI girlfriend named Miss Shira Always, posting videos on Instagram and co-authoring an ebook titled 'Code Girl: If a Machine Can Dr…
Elon Musk's SpaceXAI brand unveils a poorly designed logo that even its own AI, Grok, criticizes. The logo, a mashup of SpaceX and xAI wordmarks, is visually convoluted and nearly illegible, drawing w…
Elon Musk merged xAI with SpaceX to form SpaceXAI, aiming to compete in AI infrastructure by building space-based data centers and AI compute satellites. The company plans to deploy orbital data cente…
Perplexity AI's global web traffic share dropped to 1.3% in May 2026 from 2.0% in March, while its US daily active user share collapsed 65% from October 2025 to March 2026, as Google Gemini and other …
SpaceXAI will reportedly release a new AI model as early as Wednesday, built jointly with AI startup Cursor, which SpaceX is acquiring for $60 billion. The model, internally compared to Anthropic's Cl…
Meta released an AI image generator called Muse Image that can pull photos from public Instagram accounts to generate images of users without their explicit permission, defaulting to opt-in for public…
A developer benchmarked 14 AI agent models and found that the true cost of a simple greeting like "Hi" is not the token price (as low as $0.005) but the waiting time, which can cost up to $5.10 per gr…
Two teenagers and children have joined a class-action lawsuit against xAI, alleging that its Grok AI tool was used by family members and acquaintances to create nonconsensual deepfake child sexual ass…
AI writing tools that polish social media posts can subtly shift their meaning, and those small biases can accumulate to steer public opinion, according to a new study from the Oxford Internet Institu…
Elon Musk has folded xAI into SpaceX, rebranding it as SpaceXAI, consolidating his AI, space, and social media properties under one roof. The move follows SpaceX's record-breaking $1.77 trillion IPO, …
Orus, an AI trading agent, launches on WhatsApp, Telegram, Claude, ChatGPT, and Grok, allowing users to research markets and execute trades on Farao accounts via chat without exposing private keys.…
XAI launched 21 new flagship voices for Grok Voice, expanding its roster from five to 26, now available across the Voice Agent API, Text-to-Speech API, and Grok Voice Agent Builder. The release target…
Meta and xAI are investing hundreds of billions in data center infrastructure, including Meta's Hyperion and Prometheus facilities and xAI's Colossus supercomputer, while their AI models Llama and Gro…
XAI added 21 multilingual voices to Grok Voice on July 6, upgrading the naturalness of its original five voices. The new voices are available across the realtime Voice Agent API, Text to Speech API, a…
Elon Musk's xAI has been rebranded as SpaceXAI following its acquisition by SpaceX earlier this year. The move aims to clarify the AI division's role within SpaceX's broader vision of space-based AI i…