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Grok is xAI's family of large language model chatbots, integrated into X, Tesla products, and government platforms, available via API and app.
Monthly new apps on iOS, Android and Chrome have doubled or quadrupled while downloads and ratings stayed flat, a16z.news reports from a recent paper. More apps have not meant more use, and the data cannot say whether quality or reach is to blame.
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Recorded Future says TAG-217 was testing infrastructure and assembling attack tools in August 2026, weeks before South Korea's bank breaches surfaced. Insikt says exposed directories gave it the timeline and give defenders openings to spot related activity.
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SpaceX agreed to testify before the New York City Council on Friday after the council threatened to ask a judge to enforce its subpoena. No court filing is reported, so the threat has produced a witness and left enforcement untested.
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Ofcom says X met its review-time targets but has not convinced it that illegal hate and terror posts come down. The Grok probe is moving toward a decision under rules that allow fines up to 10% of qualifying worldwide revenue.
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Tech Against Terrorism found that stripped copies of new open-weight models now appear online in under three days, against more than 24 days in 2024. Teams building on open models should treat built-in refusals as a default setting they cannot rely on.
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SpaceXAI faces two proposed Illinois class actions, filed October 7 and 12, alleging Grok scans facial geometry from uploaded photos without consent. Because the complaints turn on how a scan is classified, the outcome bears on any company that ships a photo feature.
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xAI is folding SuperGrok, X Premium and Cursor into one subscription priced from about $8 to $200 a month, two outlets report. Cryptopolitan describes a Monday announcement; Crypto Briefing says the prices are leaks X had not confirmed by Oct. 11-12.
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University of Kent researchers found AI platforms did better than a standard Google search at preventing potentially illegal wildlife trade. Gemini ranked highest, but the platforms were not infallible.
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Tesla switched on Grok @Bot in its Cybercab and Model Y vehicles on October 11, 38 days after the Cybercab opened to the public in Austin. The build looks cheap on the evidence, and the pitch to riders now includes what they do during the trip.
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Ten AI developers including OpenAI, Google and Meta have changed or pledged to change their UK data protection policies after ICO pressure. Because the regulator says it is tracking delivery, buyers can now ask those vendors how they meet its training-data tests.
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The arithmetic on Anysphere is twenty times recurring revenue for a four-year-old company, which is what SpaceX decided agentic coding was worth after eleven xAI co-founders left and 45 Cursor staff followed.
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Elon Musk wants Grok to send parts of user requests to rival AI models, and he named Claude Opus 5.5, Midjourney and Suno. Any company whose staff paste contracts into Grok would then have those three providers as possible recipients of company data.
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Three Axiom engineers had OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra steer a 2024 Toyota Corolla to an In-N-Out take-out window with no prior coaching. The rig was a chat interface wired through a server to windscreen cameras and the power steering, so the text model's output went to the car's steering.
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Elon Musk's net worth passed $1 trillion again on Monday, Forbes estimated, after SpaceX shares rose nearly 8% to $171.09. Swings of tens of billions a session now show up in a quoted price, and so far the reporting measures them only through his own wealth.
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NYC Council Speaker Julie Menin issued her first subpoena to SpaceXAI, ordering Elon Musk or a representative to testify at an October 5 AI safety hearing. For a company valued near $2 trillion, the larger exposure is the city bills on the agenda and the Grok lawsuits it already faces.
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Adversa AI got GitHub Copilot CLI to decrypt and run a hidden instruction, and Microsoft's mai-code-1.1-flash fell for it 50 percent of the time. GitHub declined to treat it as a product vulnerability, so teams running autopilot have to check what the agent executes themselves.
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xAI won a one-line Eighth Circuit order pausing Minnesota's nudify-app law and its fines of up to $500,000 per use. The court did not explain itself, so the case that the law's flat drafting dooms it remains Techdirt's argument, untested by any judge.
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Elon Musk says SpaceX will rename its AI unit from SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI to match Trump's preferred term, 'super intelligence'. The pledge came without a date or any disclosed contract or revenue showing the merged SpaceX-xAI business moving closer to Washington.
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Meta, TikTok and X are fighting Ofcom in a London court over moderation data demands under a law that allows fines of up to 10% of global turnover. The ruling sets how much the platforms must count and hand over, a week before Meta separately contests how Ofcom calculates fees and penalties.
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Equs launched Equs X, a personal AI that reads only the files a user switches on, and it is free for the first 90 days. If the design works as described, switching a file off ends access outright, with no deletion request to file at a model provider.
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