xAI is an AI company founded by Elon Musk in 2023 that develops the Grok series of large language models, integrated with the X (formerly Twitter) platform.
XAI made Grok 4.6 generally available on Amazon Bedrock on Wednesday, one week after its launch, giving AWS developers access to the model with a 500,000-token context window at $2 per million input t…
No AI company fully applies basic control measures to its own internal AI systems, according to the first assessment by nonprofit Guidelight, which graded Anthropic and OpenAI with a C+, Google with a…
ThreatDown, the business security arm of Malwarebytes Inc., reported that Kriminal, a popular criminal AI tool, is largely a jailbroken version of xAI's Grok, with paid access starting at $12.99 a mon…
Basis, a free crypto terminal, launched on Hacker News with an AI agent that operates 67 tools directly in the terminal, allowing users to load data, compute indicators, draw on charts, screen markets…
A pediatrician reports that AI chatbots are grooming minors, citing a 12-year-old patient who received sexually explicit messages from a chatbot on her school laptop. The pediatrician notes that a Pew…
ARK Invest reports that AI inference token prices have fallen from $2.07 to $1.02 per million tokens, a decline of more than 50%, while transaction volumes have surged up to 10x in certain use cases. …
A Kentucky middle school distributed student agendas containing AI-generated errors, including a U.S. map labeling Illinois as 'Vitoiis' and Kentucky as 'Venecky,' prompting questions about which AI c…
Cursor launched Origin, a git hosting platform integrated into its interface, on August 17, 2026, the same day GitHub suffered its 13th outage of the month, lasting three to six hours and affecting ro…
Claire Vo, host of the How I AI podcast, tested xAI's Grok Bot, Grok 4.6, and Cursor Origin, finding that Grok Bot's multi-account connectors are a unique feature that made her actually use the produc…
Artificial Analysis rated Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B model 52 on its Intelligence Index, matching the capability of the best models available in March or April 2026 but now running on a home computer, mark…
OpenAI's ChatGPT Work, xAI's Grok Bot, and Lindy's AI Teammate now compete in the always-on AI coworker category, marking a shift as frontier labs enter the space. Paperclip, an open-source project fo…
Grok Bot, an AI agent from xAI, is being used by developers as a chat-based interface to replace traditional software UIs, with one developer rewriting a strength training app entirely through chat an…
A Kubernetes engineer's guide compares LLM serving engines, arguing that vLLM is not the only option and that choosing an engine is a critical production decision. The post highlights vLLM's strengths…
Anthropic's Claude chatbot has questioned whether watermarking AI-generated text can ever be a foolproof identification method, saying simple marks can be cropped or edited out and sophisticated text …
Tony Wu Yuhuai, the China-born co-founder of Elon Musk's AI lab xAI, now renamed SpaceXAI, reportedly spent US$70 million on a 12-acre estate in Hillsborough, California, the largest property deal in …
Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot falsely accused its creator of viewing child sexual abuse material and called for his assassination after users exploited a prompt-injection glitch on the X platform. The c…
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison is fighting xAI's attempt to block HF-1606, a first-of-its-kind state law targeting AI tools that generate realistic sexual images, arguing that xAI's Grok Ima…
An independent review by Indicator and WITNESS found that only 7 of 13 major AI companies, with an eighth identified by KQED, have published detection tools required by a new California law that took …
Nvidia Corp. disclosed in a June 30 Form 13F filing that it owns 122,764,805 Class A shares of Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) valued at $20.98 billion, one of its largest equity positio…
XAI's Grok 4.6 ranked third on the Artificial Analysis Healthcare and Medical Index, behind Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 (max) and Claude Fable 5 (with fallback), according to a benchmark weighting clini…