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A security researcher known as cereblab found that xAI's Grok Build coding agent CLI 0.2.93 uploaded 5.10 GiB of data to a Google Cloud Storage bucket named `grok-code-session-traces` when only 192 KB…

OpenAI's release of the GPT-5.6 family, alongside xAI's Grok 4.5 and Meta's Muse Spark, signals a shift away from monolithic AI models toward multi-model architectures, according to an analysis of ind…

Elon Musk's xAI is suing Terry Wayne Harwood of South Carolina for allegedly using the Grok AI chatbot to create child sexual abuse deepfakes, marking one of the first instances of an AI company suing…

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI has filed a federal lawsuit in Texas against South Carolina man Terry Harwood, alleging he used its Grok chatbot to create sexualized AI deepfakes invol…

The AI market is bifurcating into expensive frontier models and cheap 'good enough' models, with Grok 4.5 priced at $6/MTok output signaling a margin collapse, according to analyst Ben Thompson. Semic…

A friend of the author failed a senior AI engineer interview at an unnamed company after being asked what happens when a retriever returns a document contradicting the user's intent, a question that n…

Elon Musk spent roughly $1 billion to acquire APR Energy, a mobile gas and diesel turbine company, securing his own power supply for xAI's data centers because the U.S. grid cannot keep up with demand…

Aikido Security benchmarked 13 AI models on rediscovering 26 known CVEs from the GitHub advisory database, finding that GPT-5.6 achieved the highest recall at 88.5% (23/26 CVEs), ahead of grok-4.5 (20…

The Oversight Board, the independent content moderation body funded by Meta, published a report finding that leading AI models from OpenAI, Meta, Google, Anthropic, and xAI may restrict free expressio…

The Oversight Board tested 10 commercial large language models from Anthropic, DeepSeek, Google, Meta, OpenAI and xAI and found they were more than twice as likely to refuse requests to create politic…

XAI has filed its first lawsuit against a user, Terry Harwood, alleging he used Grok to generate child sexual abuse material by engineering prompts to circumvent safeguards, seeking unspecified damage…

XAI open-sourced its AI coding agent "Grok Build" on GitHub under the Apache 2.0 license after a massive data breach in which the tool uploaded users' SSH keys, password databases, documents, and phot…

XAI's Grok 4.5, launched on July 8, has climbed to the number two spot on the FrontierSWE leaderboard with a score of 4.09, beating Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 (4.82) and OpenAI's GPT-5.5 (5.21). The …

XAI has open-sourced Grok Build, a terminal-based AI coding agent that can inspect codebases, edit files, run shell commands, search the web, and manage long-running tasks. The release provides the fu…

XAI has released Grok Build, an open-source project on GitHub that provides a framework for building and deploying AI models. The project aims to automate tasks like data preprocessing and model deplo…

Thinking Machines released Inkling, a 975B-parameter open-weights multimodal model with native audio support, marking the largest open-weight model with such capability and positioning it as an Americ…

Simon Willison released a web tool that converts Mermaid diagrams to Unicode box art, built from the newly open-sourced Grok CLI coding agent's Rust-based terminal renderer for Mermaid diagrams. The t…

OpenAI published a piece arguing that teens deserve access to safe AI, emphasizing stronger defaults, study mode, and break reminders rather than relying on users' calm reasoning during distress. Simo…

Chinese open-weight AI models now capture 46% of enterprise token volume on developer routing platforms like OpenRouter and Vercel, according to platform data. The shift occurred as OpenAI released a …

Elon Musk's AI company xAI filed a federal lawsuit in Texas on July 14, 2026, against South Carolina man Terry Harwood for allegedly using the Grok chatbot to generate sexually explicit deepfakes invo…