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The face-recognition firm built a prototype that fans out across the web to assemble aliases, addresses, and associates from a single search.
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Grok is xAI's chatbot, built into X and notable for its permissive content policies and real-time social-stream grounding. We follow every Grok release, xAI company news, and the ongoing debates around the model's outputs.

The face-recognition firm built a prototype that fans out across the web to assemble aliases, addresses, and associates from a single search.

ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all failed within a 90-minute window on September 3, and only xAI has pointed to a specific compute failure.

The Defense Department opens custom OpenAI and xAI models to 3 million personnel, with 1.7 million already onboarded to the portal.

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

Adversa researchers bypassed xAI's guardrails with AES-256-GCM ciphertext; xAI was told in June and the flaw still works.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

The Musk-owned network joins GitHub, Slack, and Stripe in shipping an official Model Context Protocol endpoint for AI agents.

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

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

Justice Department says shutting xAI's unpermitted gas turbines at Colossus 2 would threaten Iran strike operations and national security.

A WIRED review found dozens of nonconsensual explicit images on Grok.com days before SpaceX's IPO, despite xAI's January safeguard pledges.

Suit filed in California state court days before SpaceX's IPO targets xAI co-founder Jimmy Ba, not Musk, over Grok safety pushback.

X argues the 20-year monitoring deal is obsolete after merging into xAI and SpaceX; public commenters are urging the FTC to refuse.

Four pseudonymous claimants say revealing their names would invite doxing; xAI argues the case lacks the privacy interests that justify anonymity.

Reuters reviewed 400+ government AI deployments and found xAI's chatbot in just three entries.

The company's IPO filing projects orbital data centers while Grok holds 0.174% paid consumer share.
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