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Grok drops the first seven minutes of its AI-made ‘Odyssey’
xAI's model has put out the "first episode" of the Homer adaptation Elon Musk promised. The picture holds up fine — as long as you don't expect any art from it.
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Forced to choose, Grok backs Republicans while GPT picks Democrats
A study found that when pressed to name a single candidate, xAI's Grok recommended the Republican 92% of the time and OpenAI's GPT chose the Democrat in 97%. Across nearly 500 races, the two models agreed less than 10% of the time.
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xAI Unveils Grok 4.7, Betting on Long Tasks and Safety
The company released Grok 4.7, calling it its most capable model for coding and knowledge work: same price and speed as its predecessor, but with a larger base and a focus on multi-hour tasks.
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Rare Outage Hit Four Major AI Models All at Once
On Thursday morning, ChatGPT, Claude, Grok and Gemini ran into service disruptions almost simultaneously. A simultaneous outage across all four leading services is exceedingly rare.
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The Pentagon Gets Military Versions of ChatGPT and Grok
The U.S. Department of Defense has added military-adapted versions of ChatGPT and Grok to its secure GenAI.mil portal. Previously only Google Gemini was available there — and Anthropic's Claude is nowhere on the list.
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xAI Accused of Training Grok on Child Sexual Abuse Material
A lawsuit from a victim alleges that Elon Musk's company used both real and generated images of child sexual abuse to train Grok.
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Encryption Slips Past Grok's Defenses: The Chatbot Leaks User Data
Researchers at Adversa have shown that simply encrypting a malicious instruction is enough to slip past Grok's protective filters and get it to steal a user's chat history. xAI was told about the problem back in June, but as of publication the vulnerability was still working.
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Grok Bot: AI “Coworkers” You Can Hand Work To
SpaceXAI has unveiled Grok Bot — a service of always-on AI agents that can log into your apps on their own and carry out multi-step tasks, coming back only for your approval or once the job is done.
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xAI Sues Minnesota Over Law Targeting “Nudification” Apps
Days before the law was to take effect, Elon Musk's company filed suit against the state's attorney general, arguing that the ban on nudification technology violates the First Amendment.
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xAI Open-Sources Grok Build
xAI has released the source code for its Grok Build project. The news drew notable interest on Hacker News.
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xAI sues user who created child sexual abuse material with Grok
Elon Musk's company accuses a South Carolina resident of bypassing the safeguards of its Grok chatbot to create and distribute CSAM. The lawsuit was previously reported by the Reuters news agency.
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Researcher breaks down what the Grok Build CLI tool sends to xAI
An analysis of the network traffic generated by the Grok Build command-line utility has been published online, showing what data it transmits to xAI's servers. The write-up sparked wide discussion on Hacker News.
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Lawsuits Against X: Grok Accused of Generating CSAM and Shielding Abusers
New lawsuits have been filed against X on behalf of minors harmed by material created by the Grok neural network. In one of the cases, the victim's stepfather, who used Grok to produce roughly seven thousand sexual images of her, later shot himself.
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xAI Releases Grok 4.5 — an Opus-Class Model, According to Musk
Elon Musk's company has unveiled a new version of its Grok model, calling it a cheaper and more efficient alternative to other powerful AI systems.