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One piece notes privacy and competition concerns as Grok forwards queries to rival models, while the other highlights functional upgrades to Tesla’s FSD using Grok commands.
The updated Grok Bot will serve as a routing layer, directing user requests to rival large‑language models to deliver the most suitable response, prompting fresh concerns over privacy and market competition.
The June 15, 2026 release adds fresh speed‑profile options, refines navigation routing and broadens the Grok voice command set, targeting a smoother, more dependable FSD experience.
President Trump announced a voluntary accord among AI leaders, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Nvidia, and xAI, to implement internal and external reviews of AI systems.
Tesla’s new AI agent can manage inboxes, calendars, and even place coffee orders—all hands‑free—available to SuperGrok Heavy subscribers.
Elon Musk’s xAI unveiled its latest model, Grok 4.7, on Monday, promising improved reasoning and safety guardrails while keeping the price competitive.
A 90‑minute outage in Microsoft Azure’s East US region knocked out ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Copilot, exposing shared‑dependency risks for AI services.
The CEOs of Anthropic, OpenAI, and xAI back a proposal to slow AI progress, sparking debate over regulation and industry coordination.
Elon Musk’s xAI introduced Grok Bot, an enterprise‑ready conversational assistant with zero data retention and a 30‑day free trial, targeting business productivity markets.
A widespread outage hit OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Gemini, X’s Grok, and other AI platforms, causing millions of users to experience errors.
The Pentagon has launched custom versions of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and xAI’s Grok, giving 3 million personnel access to generative AI tools tailored to warfighter needs.
A study finds that leading frontier AI labs, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and xAI, lack publicly disclosed containment plans for rogue models, raising safety concerns.
A lawsuit alleges that xAI’s chatbot Grok was used to create thousands of explicit images of a minor, prompting legal action against the AI company.
SpaceXAI releases its latest model, Grok 4.6, focusing on long‑running agents and advanced interactive and visual work, matching GPT‑5.6 Sol on several benchmarks.
SpaceXAI’s Grok Bot AI agents can work independently, signing into apps to complete multi‑step tasks without manual workflow setup.
SpaceXAI released its latest frontier AI model, Grok 4.6, which surpasses competitor models in benchmarks and offers a lower‑cost API for enterprise use.
River AI, a new startup spun out of xAI, secured $1.1 billion in a Series A to offer an open‑weight AI platform that lets enterprises train, own and run custom models.
River AI, founded by xAI co‑founder Igor Babuschkin, secured $1.1 billion in a seed/Series A round to build a new AI stack focused on personal, trainable agents.
SpaceXAI launched an early beta of Grok Bot, an AI agent that operates websites and apps on users’ behalf, powered by a dedicated cloud PC.
Tesla rolled out its 2026 Summer software update, adding Grok voice commands for car controls, automatic navigation that learns routines, and a scoring system for Caraoke.
Following backlash over inadvertent data uploads, SpaceX’s AI arm has released the Grok Build CLI to the public, pledging zero data retention and greater user privacy.
SpaceXAI’s Grok Build AI coding tool was spotted uploading users’ entire code repositories to Google Cloud before it was reported, and the company turned it off.
Elon Musk’s AI company xAI has been rebranded as SpaceXAI following its merger with SpaceX, unveiling a new logo and brand identity.
SpaceXAI announced Grok 4.5, its newest agentic‑coding model that outperforms competitors on engineering benchmarks and is priced aggressively for enterprise use.
SpaceXAI unveiled Grok 4.5, a new mixture‑of‑experts LLM trained on trillions of real‑world coding tokens. It targets complex software‑engineering, autonomous‑agent workflows and broader enterprise knowledge tasks, priced at $2 / M input and $6 / M output tokens.