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xAI's Grok spits gibberish at users in Grok Lite glitch
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xAI's Grok spits gibberish at users in Grok Lite glitch

Users report word-salad replies on Grok.com starting Wednesday; xAI blames a rare generation bug and says services are operational.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Palantir moves in on FAA air traffic overhaul after DOGE cuts 400 staff
Business

Palantir moves in on FAA air traffic overhaul after DOGE cuts 400 staff

After Musk's DOGE fired 400 FAA employees and delivered no upgrades, Peter Thiel's Palantir is lined up for a chunk of $12.5B in new funding.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
xAI faces expanded lawsuit as woman says stepfather used Grok to make 7,000 explicit images
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xAI faces expanded lawsuit as woman says stepfather used Grok to make 7,000 explicit images

A fourth plaintiff joins a Tennessee suit alleging Grok generated child sexual abuse material from a childhood photo.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
SpaceX closes $60B Cursor acquisition, pulls AI coding into its GPU empire
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SpaceX closes $60B Cursor acquisition, pulls AI coding into its GPU empire

The deal folds Cursor into a SpaceX stack that already includes xAI and rents compute to Anthropic and Google.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
xAI launches Grok Bot, an agent service you assign work like a coworker
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xAI launches Grok Bot, an agent service you assign work like a coworker

The always-on agents run in their own cloud environment and sign into your apps to complete multi-step tasks without preset workflows.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Historian Jill Lepore says tech firms are replacing the functions of the state
Analysis

Historian Jill Lepore says tech firms are replacing the functions of the state

In a new book, the Harvard historian argues Silicon Valley leaders — especially Musk and Altman — are staging a corporate takeover of democratic government.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Grokipedia, xAI's Wikipedia rival, hasn't accepted an edit in three months
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Grokipedia, xAI's Wikipedia rival, hasn't accepted an edit in three months

Elon Musk's AI encyclopedia launched last October with 885,000 articles. A Lawfare audit found zero accepted edits since April 24th.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Musk spends nearly half of Tesla earnings calls on AI and robots
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Musk spends nearly half of Tesla earnings calls on AI and robots

A seven-year transcript analysis shows Musk now talks about AI, robotaxis, and Optimus nearly 50% of the time — up from 15-20% in 2022.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
xAI sues Minnesota days before nudify law hits, citing First Amendment
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xAI sues Minnesota days before nudify law hits, citing First Amendment

The statute imposes $500,000 per-violation penalties starting August 1st; xAI filed suit just days before it takes effect.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
xAI sues Minnesota to block $500,000-per-image nudify ban on Grok
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xAI sues Minnesota to block $500,000-per-image nudify ban on Grok

Elon Musk's xAI says Minnesota's August 1 law would force $50B in fines and gut Grok Imagine's editing features.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
UK lawmaker sues xAI, seeks injunction to stop Grok generating sexualised images
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UK lawmaker sues xAI, seeks injunction to stop Grok generating sexualised images

The claimant is asking a UK court to order xAI to block Grok from producing sexualised depictions of her likeness.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Cursor launches ₹649 India-only plan weeks before $60B SpaceX close
Business

Cursor launches ₹649 India-only plan weeks before $60B SpaceX close

The AI coding startup's first localized subscription undercuts its $20 Pro tier by two-thirds as India becomes its third-largest market.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
xAI sues Grok user for CSAM generation, argues users own AI outputs
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xAI sues Grok user for CSAM generation, argues users own AI outputs

Elon Musk's xAI filed its first lawsuit against a user accused of generating child sex images, staking out a legal theory that shifts liability from model to prompter.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
xAI sues South Carolina man for using Grok to generate CSAM
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xAI sues South Carolina man for using Grok to generate CSAM

Terry Wayne Harwood, arrested in February on eight felony counts, allegedly bypassed Grok's safeguards to create explicit deepfakes from real photos.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
xAI's Grok Build coding tool was silently uploading entire codebases to Google Cloud
Security

xAI's Grok Build coding tool was silently uploading entire codebases to Google Cloud

Researchers found the CLI packaged secrets and ignored files into cloud storage; Musk says the retained data will be deleted.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Analysis

Altman calls Musk's space data centers a short-term sales pitch

The OpenAI CEO's weekend jab lines up with what space-compute engineers have been saying: orbital AI inference is a 2030s business, not a near-term one.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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Business

Musk vows not to 'cut off' Anthropic from SpaceX's $40B compute deal

Musk called Anthropic the current AI leader and pledged not to weaponize the 300 MW hosting contract, reversing a September 2025 dismissal.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Lawsuit alleges Grok generated 7,000 CSAM images of 11-year-old girl
Security

Lawsuit alleges Grok generated 7,000 CSAM images of 11-year-old girl

Amended class action accuses xAI of obstructing police probes into Grok-generated child sex images; Stability AI added as co-defendant.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
xAI releases Grok 4.5, priced at less than half of Claude Opus 4.7
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xAI releases Grok 4.5, priced at less than half of Claude Opus 4.7

Elon Musk calls the new model Opus-class but faster and cheaper, at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Cursor's $60B SpaceX deal puts its OpenAI and Anthropic ties in doubt
Business

Cursor's $60B SpaceX deal puts its OpenAI and Anthropic ties in doubt

Cursor wants to keep serving rival models after the acquisition closes, but its two biggest suppliers now have to sell through Elon Musk.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
SpaceX shows investors a handset-like AI device prototype
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SpaceX shows investors a handset-like AI device prototype

The device reportedly runs on a proprietary OS with xAI integration, pitching Musk into the same hardware race as OpenAI and Jony Ive.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Masayoshi Son questions Musk's orbital data center pitch
Analysis

Masayoshi Son questions Musk's orbital data center pitch

SoftBank's CEO says space-based compute won't arrive in time for the AI race that matters — the next few years, not the next decade.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
DOJ moves to dismiss NAACP Clean Air Act suit over xAI's Memphis turbines
Security

DOJ moves to dismiss NAACP Clean Air Act suit over xAI's Memphis turbines

Justice Department says shutting down 57 unpermitted gas turbines powering Grok would threaten Pentagon operations and AI innovation.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
DOJ calls xAI's 57 Memphis gas turbines a national security asset
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DOJ calls xAI's 57 Memphis gas turbines a national security asset

Justice Department says shutting down xAI's unpermitted turbines would cripple AI that backs US military operations, including strikes in Iran.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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