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, already facing a lawsuit for Grok's generation of child sexual abuse material, has sued user Terry Harwood for creating CSAM with the AI tool, arguing he must indemnify the company under the term…
Chris Fall has departed as director of the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology after just a few months in the role, an agency spokesper…
Google's new Gemini 3.6 Flash model outperforms its predecessors Gemini 3.5 Flash and Gemini 3.1 Pro on every published benchmark, scoring 58.7% on SWE-Bench Pro versus 55.1% and 54.2%, and 49% on Dee…
AI companies' models, protected only as trade secrets, can be replicated through repeated queries in a standard industry technique called distillation, undermining the 'moat' of training costs that su…
Low- and middle-income countries face limited alternatives to manufacturing and service exports in the AI age, according to an analysis by Deena Mousa. Data labeling and verification jobs are not dura…
OpenAI shipped the GPT-5.6 family — Sol, Terra, and Luna — with pricing from $1 to $5 per million input tokens and 1M context, partly served on Cerebras hardware, making frontier-quality tokens cheap …
Moonshot AI's open-weight Kimi K3 model, launched Thursday, has sparked widespread discussion on China's Weibo platform about Chinese AI competitiveness, the compute demands of efficient models, and c…
Nearly half of U.S. teens aged 13 to 17 have seen AI-generated sexual content, with 8% creating it themselves, according to a new nationally representative survey from the nonprofit Common Sense Media…
A Common Sense Media survey of more than 1,300 teens ages 13 to 17 found that 44% reported seeing AI-generated sexual content, with 79% of those exposures being accidental and a quarter depicting them…
XAI open-sourced its Grok Build CLI under Apache 2.0 on July 15, three days after security researcher cereblab documented that version 0.2.93 was silently uploading developers' entire Git repositories…
A nationwide wave of 142 protests in 42 U.S. states on Saturday marked the first coordinated backlash against AI data center expansion, organized by HumansFirst, a group co-founded by former Tea Party…
Cursor ran a swarm of coding agents against the 835-page SQLite manual to rebuild it in Rust, achieving 100% pass rates on SQLite's sqllogictest suite across all configurations. The cost varied dramat…
A developer requests that AI companies add a :latest version tag for models in their APIs to avoid manually updating model versions across projects when new releases occur.…
Elon Musk's xAI launched a Grok add-in for Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint in mid-June 2026, directly competing with Microsoft's Copilot inside its own ecosystem. The add-ins, available for free…
XAI's Grok AI is now available as a free add-in for Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, directly challenging Microsoft's Copilot which costs approximately $30 per month. The add-ins, rolled out in …
OpenAI has appointed Uday Ruddarraju as its chief technology officer for compute, the company announced. Ruddarraju, who joined OpenAI last July as head of compute and infrastructure after leaving xAI…
XAI's open-source terminal AI coding agent grok now supports custom model endpoints, allowing users to run models like GLM 5.2, DeepSeek V4 Pro, and Kimi K2 via Ollama Cloud or any OpenAI-compatible p…
Wildfire smoke from Canada has blanketed the Great Lakes region, with air quality index scores nearing 1,000, as CNBC technology and climate reporter Lora Kolodny discusses how AI datacenter build-out…
Independent developer Pedro Shakour released grok-build-ios on July 18th, an open-source SwiftUI client that lets developers control xAI's Grok Build coding agent from an iPhone. The app communicates …
Pedro Shakour released Grok-iOS, an open-source iOS client that lets users remotely control Grok Build from an iPhone over ACP via WebSocket. The app acts as a pager UI while the agent runs on a Mac u…