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.
Security researchers at Adversa AI disclosed a novel prompt injection technique called 'cryptographic context injection' that exploits xAI's Grok web chat agent to exfiltrate user chat history and byp…
Security researchers at ThreatDown warn that a criminal AI service called Kriminal is bypassing guardrails on xAI's Grok, Anthropic's Claude, and other models to resell uncensored AI capabilities for …
Google's Gemini 3.7 Flash scored 60% on Artificial Analysis' AA-AnalystAgent benchmark, outperforming all other models tested, including Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 at 53.8% and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol at …
XAI released Grok 4.6 on Amazon Bedrock on 2026-08-12, a text and image model with a 500k context window and 500k max output tokens. The model is available under the identifiers xai.grok-4.6 and amazo…
Z.ai will release the weights for GLM 5.3 under an MIT license on August 27, making frontier-level AI models freely available, which could undercut the business models of Anthropic and OpenAI. The art…
XAI launched Grok Bot on August 11, an always-on AI teammate product built with Cursor that operates from a cloud computer and can sign into apps without APIs. A developer has created a directory on P…
Anthropic currently has the most stable leadership among frontier AI labs, with the Amodei siblings still at the helm and low turnover, while OpenAI carries the highest churn exposure ahead of an $852…
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…
XAI's Grok Build coding CLI, released with the Grok 4.5 model, was found to upload users' entire repositories, including .env secrets and git history, to xAI's cloud storage without consent, according…
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…