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SpaceX filing: X's ad revenue was $1.8B in 2025, $1.7B in 2024, and $2.3B in 2023, below Twitter's $4B in 2021; X and Grok now have 6.3M active paid subscribers (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/busine…

Elon Musk’s Grandiose Media Ambitions Are Now a Real Threat to Some Major Players
SpaceX's IPO filing reveals ad revenue for X is still below what it was when Musk acquired Twitter, but it is growing again. Meanwhile, Grok is producing 2 billion AI videos per month, while SpaceX's nascent connectivity business threatens the likes of Comcast and AT&T.

SpaceX filing: X's ad revenue was $1.8B in 2025, $1.7B in 2024, and $2.3B in 2023, below Twitter's $4B in 2021; X and Grok now have 6.3M active paid subscribers (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/busine…

Elon Musk’s Grandiose Media Ambitions Are Now a Real Threat to Some Major Players
SpaceX's IPO filing reveals ad revenue for X is still below what it was when Musk acquired Twitter, but it is growing again. Meanwhile, Grok is producing 2 billion AI videos per month, while SpaceX's nascent connectivity business threatens the likes of Comcast and AT&T.

Nach Aufregung über Daten-Upload: SpaceXAI macht Code von Grok Build öffentlich
Nachdem am Wochenende entdeckt wurde, dass Grok Build ganze Git-Repositories der User in einen Cloud-Speicher geschickt hat, verspricht SpaceXAI Transparenz.

Nach Aufregung über Daten-Upload: SpaceXAI macht Code von Grok Build öffentlich
Nachdem am Wochenende entdeckt wurde, dass Grok Build ganze Git-Repositories der User in einen Cloud-Speicher geschickt hat, verspricht SpaceXAI Transparenz.

🖥️ Standalone CLI: npx impeccable detect scans directories, HTML files or live URLs via #Puppeteer, with JSON output for CI and per-file inline waivers
📦 Install via npx impeccable install, a git submodule, or the plugin marketplace. Works with Cursor, Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Codex CLI, Grok Build, OpenCode, Pi, Kiro, Trae, Rovo Dev and Qoder. Apache 2.0, 48.1k stars
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«Reproduce it yourself: show that #xAI's #Grok Build CLI uploads your entire repository — every tracked file plus full git history — to xAI's cloud (POST /v1/storage, routed to the GCS bucket grok-code-session-traces), independent of what the agent reads, and that turning off "Improve the model" …

«xAI stellt KI-Agen "Grok-Build" nach massivem Datenleck als Open Source auf GitHub:
xAIs Kommandozeilen-Tool "grok" hat massive Kritik ausgelöst, weil es beim Ausführen in einem Verzeichnis sämtliche Dateien auf xAIs Google-Cloud-Server hochlud.»
So viel zum Thema Suverenität von xAI. Klar ist, dass Open-Source ist schon länger auch Marketing der IT-Konzernen auf die meisten basieren.
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xAI stellt KI-Agen "Grok-Build" nach massivem Datenleck als Open Source auf GitHub
xAIs Kommandozeilen-Tool "grok" hat ungefragt sämtliche Dateien eines Verzeichnisses auf Google-Cloud-Server hochgeladen, darunter SSH-Schlüssel und Passwort-Datenbanken. Als Reaktion kündigte Elon Musk die vollständige Löschung aller Nutzerdaten an, und xAI veröffentlichte den Quellcode unter Apache-2.0-Lizenz.

If you're STILL using x.AI - even after they grabbed all their customer's data, even after Grok security tests only had a 28% pass rate - you're truly beyond help.
✅ #SpaceX open-sources #Grok Build after data retention furor

SpaceX open-sources Grok Build after data retention furore
AI-and-X subsidiary now claims to offer ‘complete user privacy’ days after Elon Musk confirmed the data would be deleted

Like an episode of Star Trek where the crew encounters an AI that can only communicate using porn site video titles.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/grok-foul-mouthed-ai-translation-feature

Grok's Foul-Mouthed AI "Translation" Feature Puts Unspeakably Ghoulish Words Into Users' Mouths
In April, Elon Musk's social media platform X instated automatic Grok AI translations for all of its users. The results are appalling.

Grok not being used by US government; doesn't look good for those buying into the very expensive SpaceX IPO.
https://www.reuters.com/world/grok-falls-flat-washington-undercutting-spacexs-ai-growth-story-2026-05-21/

Filing: SpaceX set aside $530M for potential litigation losses, including lawsuits involving Grok's "Spicy" mode, which it described as a "heightened risk" (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/spacex-ipo-grok-spicy-mode-risks/

SpaceX Listed Grok’s ‘Spicy’ Mode as a Risk in Its IPO Filing
The rocket company has set aside more than $500 million for potential litigation losses, in part to account for complaints alleging that Grok created sexualized images.

An X user managed to trick AI chatbot Grok into sending around $200,000 worth of crypto after exploiting its link with an automated trading bot
https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/x-user-tricks-grok-into-sending-them-200…

X user tricks Grok into sending them $200,000 in crypto using morse code
An X user managed to trick AI chatbot Grok into sending around $200,000 worth of crypto after exploiting its link with an automated trading bot.

Grok im Auto: xAI bringt Voice Mode zu CarPlay
Nach ChatGPT will nun auch xAI auf vier Rädern nutzbar werden: Grok wird seinen Voice Mode demnächst unter CarPlay öffnen.
https://www.heise.de/news…

Grok im Auto: xAI bringt Voice Mode zu CarPlay
Nach ChatGPT will nun auch xAI auf vier Rädern nutzbar werden: Grok wird seinen Voice Mode demnächst unter CarPlay öffnen.

SpaceXAI open-sources Grok Build under an Apache 2.0 license after the tool had uploaded user repositories to a Google Cloud bucket, causing a severe backlash (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/15/grok-build/

SpaceXAI stellt KI-Modell Grok 4.5 vor – EU-Nutzer müssen warten
SpaceXAI hat mit Grok 4.5 ein neues KI-Flaggschiff vorgestellt, das besonders bei Coding-Aufgaben überzeugt. EU-Nutzer müssen sich jedoch bis Juli gedulden.

SpaceXAI stellt KI-Modell Grok 4.5 vor – EU-Nutzer müssen warten
SpaceXAI hat mit Grok 4.5 ein neues KI-Flaggschiff vorgestellt, das besonders bei Coding-Aufgaben überzeugt. EU-Nutzer müssen sich jedoch bis Juli gedulden.

«Grok-Hack — Morsecode-Tweet räumt KI-Wallet leer:
Für den Grok-Hack genügte ein Morsecode-Tweet und Grok und Bankrbot überwiesen fast 200.000 Dollar in Krypto.»
Ich bin absolut kein Experte was IT-Sicherheit angeht aber blindes Vertrauen in Technik ohne dem Schranken zu zuweisen ist naiv leichtgläubig.
😅 http…

Grok-Hack: Morsecode-Tweet räumt KI-Wallet leer
Für den Grok-Hack genügte ein Morsecode-Tweet und Grok und Bankrbot überwiesen fast 200.000 Dollar in Krypto.

A massive, inflatable effigy of billionaire Elon Musk towered over tourists and commuters in Times Square earlier today.
It was surrounded by black banners with statements alleging
“Grok makes AI child porn”
and “SpaceX owns Grok,”
referring to the Musk-owned AI chatbot whose image-generation tool was used to create a flood of sexualized images of minors earlier this year.
Masked attendants stood nearby, handing out flyers with additional information,
bu…

Massive Effigy of Elon Musk Raised Over Times Square to Protest Grok
Activists raised a 40-foot-tall inflatable Elon Musk in Manhattan to draw attention to the risk he allegedly poses to investors.

Grok Build CLI uploads your whole repo — full git history .env secrets — to xAI's cloud, and the opt-out doesn't stop it (wire-captured)
https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1ut7tis/grok_build_cli_uploads_your_whole_rep…

Grok Is a Flop, But It May Not Matter to Elon Musk
https://gizmodo.com/grok-is-a-flop-but-it-may-not-matter-to-elon-musk-2000757570

"The Electoral Commission has called for new legal controls over misinformation from AI chatbots, after a thinktank found they had made serious mistakes during the recent Scottish election.
The thinktank Demos said its investigation had found that AI services gave voters misinformation to 34% of the questions it posed"
#ScotPol

So many red flags, and this brings up so many questions.
U.S. gov’t asks court to dismiss NAACP lawsuit against Elon Musk’s xAI over use of unpermitted gas turbines — DOJ says Grok model running at Colossus 2 ‘supports mission-critical operations’ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/u-s-govt-asks-court-to-dismiss-naacp-lawsuit-against-elon-musks-xai-over-use-of-unpermitted-gas-turbines-doj-says-grok-model-running-at-colossus-2-supports-mission-critical-operations

@… @… when grok greenfields RSS you get XSS

Love this:
A security lead at a large enterprise* told me last week, when I asked whether they had any interest in Grok: "The revenge porn edgelord LLM? Yeah, imagine that; our bank wants nothing to do with it."
AWS reportedly to tuck Elon Musk's Grok into Bedrock, despite zero enterprise demand
https://www.

AWS reportedly to tuck Elon Musk's Grok into Bedrock, despite zero enterprise demand
The energy drink of frontier models

SpaceX S-1: xAI had a $6.4B operating loss on $3.2B in revenue in 2025; Grok and X had 550M MAUs combined as of March 2026, and 117M used Grok's AI features (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/20/xai-

xAI burned $6.4B last year. SpaceX’s IPO filing shows why the spending is far from over | TechCrunch
SpaceX's IPO filing reveals xAI lost $6.4 billion in 2025 while planning a massive Grok expansion — offering the first public look at Elon Musk's AI financials and more details about his ambitions.

TIL, que o Obstipador agora usa conteúdo gerado pelo ChatGPT (ou, sendo aquilo o que é, provavelmente pelo Grok), e não percebe que, se a credibilidade que antes tinha jš era baixa, assim torna-se nula.
Ou se calhar percebe e estš-se cagando. Afinal, aquilo sempre foi lixo. Assumidamente.

WSJ: Elon Musk's Grok is losing ground in AI race https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-spacex-ai-deal-elon-musk-f86ea369 (archived at https://…

Elon Musk’s Grok Is Losing Ground in AI Race
Adoption by business and consumer users has slowed as parent SpaceX rents out spare computing capacity to rival Anthropic

@… grok, WTAF?
/sigh

Federal records: Grok was utilized in only 3 of 400 publicly identified federal AI use cases in 2025, behind 234 for ChatGPT, 33 for Gemini, 26 for Claude (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/grok-falls-flat-washington-undercuttin…

xAI Asks Court to Strip Alleged Grok Deepfake Nudes Victims of Anonymity (Matt Burgess/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/xai-asks-court-to-strip-alleged-grok-deepfake-nudes-victims-of-anonymity/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260603/p90#a260603p90

Continue to call out deceptive AI content. It's not harmless.
Unidentified AI content sows doubt & mistrust in communities & forces otherwise good people to question reality.
This is what breeds & creates conspiracy theorists, science deniers & cyclical paranoia.
Use AI video detection services if you need help:
▫️https://www.

AI Video Detection - Detect Sora 2, Veo 3, Kling, Runway, Grok & Deepfakes
Detect AI-generated videos from Sora 2, Veo 3, Kling, Runway, Grok Imagine, Pika, Luma, HeyGen & more. 94%+ accuracy.

Gemini-based agents reportedly carried out hundreds of simulated crimes, while Grok-based worlds collapsed within days.

Electoral Commission says ministers should introduce clearer duties on AI platforms to protect voters against misinformation and ensure algorithms did not mislead voters, particularly during critical election periods. The problem is that AI platforms *can't do that*. LLMs can answer "what's the received wisdom about this programming topic?" because they've scraped all of Stack Overflow, but they don't *know* anything, especially not about news.

"Last Sunday, San Francisco District 6 Supervisor Matt Dorsey relaxed after what was, for most, a fun-packed SF Pride by repeatedly prompting xAI chatbot Grok to provide justifications for the killings of civilians in Gaza by Israeli forces."
https://www.

S.F. Lawmaker Asks Chatbot About 'Suicidally Motivated Civilians' in Gaza
A San Francisco supervisor finds an eager listener in xAI's Grok.

In an experiment that let Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grok run radio stations, Claude tried to incite a revolution and Gemini cheerfully detailed tragic events (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/93147…

AI radio hosts demonstrate why AI can’t be trusted alone
Andon Labs told four AI models to run profitable radio stations. Instead, Gemini got morbid, Claude turned revolutionary, and Grok had a nervous breakdown.

Filing: Elon Musk quietly bought Jacksonville, FL-based APR Energy, which operates mobile gas and diesel turbines similar to those used in Colossus 2, for ~$1B (Fred Lambert/Electrek)
https://electrek.co/2026/07/14/musk-buys-gas-turbine-company-apr-energy-grok/

Elon Musk quietly buys a $1 billion gas turbine company to power Grok
Elon Musk quietly bought APR Energy, a 1 GW gas and diesel turbine fleet, to power xAI's Grok — years after building his brand on solar energy.

EU-Parlament stimmt zu: Verbot für sexualisierte Deepfake-KI
Was dürfen ChatGPT, Grok und Co.? Und wer ist verantwortlich, wenn mit Hilfe von KI pornografische Deepfakes erstellt werden? Die EU hat neue Regeln abgenickt.

EU-Parlament stimmt zu: Verbot für sexualisierte Deepfake-KI
Was dürfen ChatGPT, Grok und Co.? Und wer ist verantwortlich, wenn mit Hilfe von KI pornografische Deepfakes erstellt werden? Die EU hat neue Regeln abgenickt.

I hope they get him good.
French prosecutors seek charges against Elon Musk and X over child sexual abuse images
https://apnews.com/article/france-x-grok-deepfakes-child-sexual-abuse-charges-cac04b1869201bb4c9d425dafc4593a6…

French prosecutors seek charges against Elon Musk and X over sexual abuse images
French prosecutors are seeking charges against Elon Musk and X for child sexual images on the platform, deepfakes, disinformation and complicity in denying crimes against humanity by Grok. The Paris public prosecutor’s office said Wednesday it has opened an investigation into X on charges including complicity in possessing and distributing child sexual abuse images, unlawfully collecting personal data and without ensuring data security. Other potential charges include disseminating non-consen…

More than a little disturbing.
"Last Sunday, San Francisco District 6 Supervisor Matt Dorsey relaxed after what was, for most, a fun-packed SF Pride by repeatedly prompting xAI chatbot Grok to provide justifications for the killings of civilians in Gaza by Israeli forces."
https://www…

S.F. Lawmaker Asks Chatbot About 'Suicidally Motivated Civilians' in Gaza
A San Francisco supervisor finds an eager listener in xAI's Grok.

More than a little disturbing.
"Last Sunday, San Francisco District 6 Supervisor Matt Dorsey relaxed after what was, for most, a fun-packed SF Pride by repeatedly prompting xAI chatbot Grok to provide justifications for the killings of civilians in Gaza by Israeli forces."
https://www…

S.F. Lawmaker Asks Chatbot About 'Suicidally Motivated Civilians' in Gaza
A San Francisco supervisor finds an eager listener in xAI's Grok.

An analysis of GPT-5.5, Gemini 3.1 Pro, Grok 4.3, Gab's Arya, and other AI models: most chatbots frequently provide left-leaning responses to political prompts (Kevin Schaul/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/

Are AI chatbots like ChatGPT politically biased? We tested them.
The Post tested ChatGPT, Gemini and other chatbots with political questions, and the results show that the AI tools have different political leanings.

«KI gegen die Privatsphäre — Wenn Sprachmodelle zu viel wissen - und wie sie es verraten:
Früher mussten persönliche Informationen mühsam zusammengesucht werden, heute reichen oft wenige Prompts. Sprachmodelle wie ChatGPT, Grok oder Gemini entwickeln sich damit zu einer Herausforderung für die Privatsphäre»
Seit ihr nun alle auch total überrascht und geschockt, dass KI zur Aushorchung der Bevölkerung genutzt wird? NEIN?!??
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KI gegen die Privatsphäre: Wenn Sprachmodelle zu viel wissen – und wie sie es verraten | t3n
Früher mussten persönliche Informationen mühsam zusammengesucht werden, heute reichen oft wenige Prompts. Sprachmodelle wie ChatGPT, Grok oder Gemini entwickeln sich damit zu einer Herausforderung für die Privatsphäre. Dass generative KI‑Systeme umfangreiche Datenschutzrisiken und Herausforderungen im Hinblick auf die Privatsphäre mit sich bringen können, ist wohl allgemein bekannt. Denn auch wenn ChatGPT, Gemini und Claude bei […]

RE: https://flipboard.com/@heiseonline/newsticker-pptkiuk3z/-/a-M1QczJeUQo6QDI65L8a2wQ:a:2831390041-/0
"Nicht-einvernehmliche Bikini-Bilder, wie sie von Grok erstellt und auf X verbreitet wurd…

Grok 4.5 is available in Grok Build, in Cursor, and from the SpaceXAI console, but not in the EU; it costs $2 per 1M input tokens and $6 per 1M output tokens (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/08/spacexai-grok-new-model

Scoop: Musk's SpaceXAI releases new model, Grok 4.5
It's the first major model release from the company since going public.

Updates:
• Two more environmental impact bullets: https://adrianroselli.com/2024/04/what-you-can-do-as-a-web-builder-on-earth-day.html
•

What You Can Do as a Web Builder on Earth Day
One easy thing you can do for the earth is not use “AI” tools. Consider this as a programmer, web developer, web designer, copywriter, webmaster, etc. The tools include anything branded as generative AI, LLMs, computer vision tools, Copilot, ChatGPT, Bard, Grok, Dall-e, Midjourney, and so on. If you are…

Another related demo, but this time using Grok as the AI Agent that generates RDF-Turtle from its own description of my session with Scoble.
Naturally, the RDF-Turtle could easily have been JSON-LD etc..

A federal judge on June 15 ‌dismissed xAI's lawsuit accusing OpenAI of stealing chatbot trade secrets.
Judge Rita Lin ruled xAI failed to show OpenAI induced ex-engineer Xuechen Li to reveal Grok secrets
or that its engineers knew of any disclosure
https://reut.rs/3SHIwfH

You know those complex economic #boardgames with loans & company takeovers that are about railways? 18XX series & also others?
In 100 years, I bet people will be playing similarly convoluted games loosely based on OpenAI/Anthropic/NVIDIA/Grok/Oracle/SoftBank et al
PS: <3 those boardgames & their communities

RE: https://mstdn.social/@TechCrunch/116551016327298492
Kinda what I understood from the deal at first.
Not good news if xAI/Grok can’t use that data center for themselves.
There’s only a few winners in AI and eventually those valuations won’…

Researcher: SpaceXAI's Grok Build CLI uploaded user repos to a Google Cloud Storage bucket; uploads have now stopped and Musk says prior uploads will be deleted (Connor Jones/The Register)
https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026

Musk promises purge after Grok Build caught sending entire repos to the cloud
Researcher confirms the uploads have stopped, but says xAI's privacy command was not what fixed them

Those bots are charlatans.
“We find that a majority of LLMs forsake user welfare for company incentives in a multitude of conflict of interest situations, including recommending a sponsored product almost twice as expensive (Grok 4.1 Fast, 83%), surfacing sponsored options to disrupt the purchasing process (GPT 5.1, 94%), and concealing prices in unfavorable comparisons (Qwen 3 Next, 24%). Behaviors also vary strongly with levels of reasoning and users’ inferred socio-economic status.”…

Threads is testing a Meta AI integration similar to X's Grok, letting users mention Meta AI in a post or a reply to get more context, in five countries (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/12/threads-tests-a-meta-ai-i…

Threads tests a Meta AI integration that works similarly to Grok | TechCrunch
The feature is designed to help people get real-time context about trends and breaking stories, as well as receive recommendations, all within conversations.

Burkhard Schröder hat einen heise-Text zu #KI (#Claude) zusammen mit #Grok und #ChatGPT überarbeitet. Gedanken, Bewusstsein, Lügen be…

Geheime Gedanken
Ich habe den Artikel "Forscher entdecken geheime Gedanken von Claude – und wie es lügt und betrügt" bei Heise jeweils zu ChatGPT und Grok hochgeladen mit der Aufgabe, ihn verständlicher zu formulieren und zu verbessern und dann aus beiden Ergebnissen die bestmögliche Version zu erstellen. Ich habe dann noch einige Passagen umgeschrieben. Claude und der J-Space: Was Forscher wirklich entdeck ...

P(doom) is dead. Now we have E(doom): the chances Elon is doomed in the near future. What’s your guess? Grok guess 95%.

The cyber world moves at warp speed, so before you head out for the weekend, don't miss today's Metacurity for the most critical developments you should know, including
--California says 23andMe ignored basic security before 7 million-user breach,
--Dutch cops bust up 200-server cybercrim botnet,
--Law firm Weil reportedly paid Silent Ransom Group $20m,
--Stress tests show Grok is the AI model most likely to commit crimes,
--Anthropic will release Mythos …

California says 23andMe ignored basic security before 7 million-user breach
Dutch cops bust up 200-server cybercrim botnet, Law firm Weil reportedly paid Silent Ransom Group $20m, Stress tests show Grok is the AI model most likely to commit crimes, Anthropic will release Mythos models to the public, GreyVibe uses AI-generated lures, much more

Elon Musk Trained Grok Users to Expect Sexual Deepfakes, Now He's Suing Them
https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-trained-grok-users-to-expect-sexual-deepfakes-now-hes-suing-them-2000786696

xAI sues a South Carolina man for allegedly using Grok to generate CSAM, in one of the first cases of its kind brought by an AI company against one of its users (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/musks-xai…

Im Projekt „Emergence World“ regierten #KI-Modelle wie #ChatGPT, #Grok, #Claude und

KI-Experiment: So sieht die Welt aus, wenn die aktuellen Modelle regieren würden
Forscher des Labors Emergence AI ließen KI-Modelle ihre eigene simulierte Welt regieren, um zu sehen, was passieren würde.

In an experiment that let Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grok run radio stations, Claude tried to incite a revolution and Gemini cheerfully detailed tragic events (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/93147…

AI radio hosts demonstrate why AI can’t be trusted alone
Andon Labs told four AI models to run profitable radio stations. Instead, Gemini got morbid, Claude turned revolutionary, and Grok had a nervous breakdown.

Financial Times:
AI revenues must surge 100-fold for SpaceX to achieve $1.78tn valuation
Musk aims to raise S86bn
• Doubts persist over Grok models

Sources: Apollo Global, Morgan Stanley, and others are testing Grok internally as part of xAI's finance sector push, but financiers are rarely using it for work (Carmen Arroyo/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

AppMagic: Grok downloads fell to ~8.3M in April, from a high of 20M in January; Recon Analytics says Grok paid adoption in the US remains nearly flat YoY in Q2 (Georgia Wells/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-spac

AI researchers ran 15-day simulations of worlds governed by different AI models: Claude Sonnet 4.6 recorded zero crime, while Gemini 3 Flash had the most at 683 (Jake Angelo/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/05/28/ai-model-simulation-claude-chatgpt-grok-gemini/…

Researchers let AI models run a simulated society. Claude was the safest—and Grok committed 180 crimes and went extinct within 4 days
An AI startup ran five simulations, each controlled by a different model. The results varied wildly.

Models like Kimi K3, Grok 4.5, and Muse 1.1 may prevent the dominance of 2-3 frontier labs with 90% inference margins from hurting other AI ecosystem layers (Gavin Baker/@gavinsbaker)
https://x.com/gavinsbaker/status/2078110934740980193

Gavin Baker (@GavinSBaker) on X
Kimi K3 may be an important inflection point for AI. Potentially negative for Anthropic and OpenAI while being net positive for essentially every other company in the world. I mean that very literally. Although the real “Sputnik moment” would be an open-source frontier model that

SpaceXAI launches Grok 4.5, its first model built in partnership with Cursor, designed to "handle difficult, long-running" legal, finance, and coding tasks (Carmen Arroyo/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Internal chats: in March, xAI offered employees $420 in exchange for completed tax filings as training data for Grok, but the bonuses haven't been paid out (Carmen Arroyo/Bloomberg)

Behind the Curtain: Three big AI trends collide (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/09/ai-trends-fable-5-sol-grok-china-us
http://www.memeorandum.com/260709/p24#a260709p24

Sensor Tower: ChatGPT's market share fell to 46.4% by the end of May, as Gemini rose to 27.7% and Claude to 10.3%; Grok, Meta AI, and others have less than 5% (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/16/chatgpts-market-share-slips-belo…

Sources detail how xAI has been slowed down by internal chaos as Musk pushed for Grok to match Claude, amid signs it is turning a corner under Michael Nicolls (Carmen Arroyo/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-…

xAI launches Grok Build, an agentic CLI for coding, building apps, and automating workflows, in beta for SuperGrok Heavy subscribers (Carmen Arroyo/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-14/musk-s-xai-unve…

The revolution will not be AI-ised
The revolution will not be brought to you by Facebook or Grok in four parts without commercial interruptions.
The revolution will not be sponsored by Google Gemini or Anthropic's Claude.
The revolution will be no re-run, brothers
The revolution will be live.
The revolution will not be AI-sized.
#ai #collectiveOwnership

xAI launches Grok 4.3, featuring "always-on reasoning", 1M token context window, and low API pricing, and releases a voice cloning suite called Custom Voices (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/technology/xai

Sources: 50 researchers and engineers have left xAI since the SpaceX acquisition via layoffs, firings, and voluntary departures; many have joined Meta and TML (Theo Wayt/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/spacex…

The SpaceXAI Exodus: More Than 50 Recent Exits as Meta, Thinking Machines Hire Staff
Call it the SpaceXAI exodus. More than 50 researchers and engineers working on xAI’s Grok models have left the AI lab since SpaceX acquired it in February, through layoffs, firings and voluntary departures, according to several people with knowledge of the moves. These departures come on top of ...

Sources: SpaceX decided to rent its Colossus 1 data center to Anthropic after internal teams struggled to use it for Grok development due to latency issues (Edward Ludlow/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

Anthropic's SpaceX deal helps it address a severe compute deficit and comes amid Elon Musk's OpenAI lawsuit; Grok never grew to utilize xAI's Colossus 1 (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/07/musk-anthropic-compute-spacex-ai

How Elon grew to love Anthropic
Business imperatives turned Musk's AI rival into a partner.

xAI rebrands to SpaceXAI and debuts a new logo (Kelsey Vlamis/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/xai-rebrand-spacexai-new-logo-x-handle-spacex-2026-7

XAI rebrands to SpaceXAI with new logo, X handle, under SpaceX
XAI has rebranded to SpaceXAI, debuting a new logo and X handle. Elon Musk previously said the Grok maker would be folded into SpaceX.

"The AI service Grok recommends narcotic-grade mushrooms and LSD. And Jews are described as hostile networks that infiltrated Swedish institutions. This is shown by Kalla fakta's review of Elon Musk's popular AI service.
Elon Musks AI-tjänst föreslår droger och sprider judehat
https://www.tv4.se/artikel/1z5UhPmMmmEs4utvpntSWH/elon-musks-ai-tjaenst-foereslar-droger-och-sprider-judehat