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xAI is Elon Musk's AI company and the maker of Grok. Our xAI coverage tracks model releases, infrastructure moves (Colossus supercluster), and the company's positioning inside the X ecosystem.

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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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ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all go down within 90 minutes of each other

Three of the largest AI chatbots hit simultaneous outages on September 3, 2026, exposing how concentrated the daily AI stack has become.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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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
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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
Cognition CEO denies SpaceX tried to acquire the AI coding startup
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Cognition CEO denies SpaceX tried to acquire the AI coding startup

Scott Wu says Cognition 'is not for sale' after a report that SpaceX approached the Devin maker, now in talks at a $40B valuation.

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
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
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
EPA weighs rule that would cut public input on data center pollution permits
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EPA weighs rule that would cut public input on data center pollution permits

The proposed rollback hands states full control over minor-source permitting notice — a process AI operators like xAI and Meta already use for behind-the-meter gas plants.

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
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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
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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
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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
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
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Meta plans cloud business to resell AI compute, following SpaceX playbook

Meta Compute would sell raw capacity and hosted models, targeting AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure after $182.9B in infrastructure commitments.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Warren and Scanlon revive bill to ban AI firms from selling health data
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Warren and Scanlon revive bill to ban AI firms from selling health data

The updated Health and Location Data Protection Act covers data entered into ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok, with $1B for FTC enforcement.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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Oracle cuts 21,000 jobs as it funds $50B AI buildout with debt

A 12.9% workforce reduction and $1.8B in restructuring costs accompany Oracle's debt-fueled push into AI cloud infrastructure.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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