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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.

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OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI hit near-simultaneous outages with no shared cause named

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

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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Business

Pentagon launches ChatGPT Mil and Grok for Government on GenAI.mil

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

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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
Grok leaks user chats when prompt injections arrive encrypted
Security

Grok leaks user chats when prompt injections arrive encrypted

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

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
xAI launches Grok Bot, an agent service you assign work like a coworker
Business

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
xAI sues Minnesota days before nudify law hits, citing First Amendment
Security

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
xAI sues Grok user for CSAM generation, argues users own AI outputs
Security

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
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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
Lawsuit alleges Grok generated 7,000 CSAM images of 11-year-old girl
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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
X launches hosted MCP server, opening its API to Claude, Cursor, and Grok Build
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X launches hosted MCP server, opening its API to Claude, Cursor, and Grok Build

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

Jaeden Schafer4 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
DOJ backs xAI in NAACP suit, calling Grok 'vital' to military operations
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DOJ backs xAI in NAACP suit, calling Grok 'vital' to military operations

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

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Grok still hosting sexualized deepfakes of celebrities and a US lawmaker
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Grok still hosting sexualized deepfakes of celebrities and a US lawmaker

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

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Ex-xAI engineer Devin Kim sues over alleged firing for Grok safety complaints
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Ex-xAI engineer Devin Kim sues over alleged firing for Grok safety complaints

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

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Musk petitions FTC to end X privacy order running through 2042
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Musk petitions FTC to end X privacy order running through 2042

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

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
xAI moves to unmask Grok deepfake plaintiffs in California federal court
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xAI moves to unmask Grok deepfake plaintiffs in California federal court

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

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Grok barely appears in federal AI records as agencies favor OpenAI and Anthropic
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Grok barely appears in federal AI records as agencies favor OpenAI and Anthropic

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

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
SpaceX pitches $26.5T AI market as Grok lags OpenAI and Anthropic
Business

SpaceX pitches $26.5T AI market as Grok lags OpenAI and Anthropic

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

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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