Grok news
The latest Grok news, : SpaceX agrees to a ~$40B equipment finance lease with Apollo to fund Nvidia GPU purchases for AI initiatives.
Grok is an AI model developed by xAI, now part of SpaceXAI, and integrated into the X platform. Recent coverage highlights its inclusion in new subscription bundles with X Premium and Cursor, alongside reports of its use in political contexts and government chatbots. The model also faces scrutiny regarding privacy settings and specific content generation requests.
70 stories mentioning Grok since 9 September 2026, newest first, each with its sources and discussion. This page shows the newest 60. Follow to see new ones on your front page.
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SpaceX agrees to a ~$40B equipment finance lease with Apollo to fund Nvidia GPU purchases for AI initiatives
SpaceX has entered into a roughly $40 billion equipment-finance lease with Apollo Global Management to fund the purchase of Nvidia GPUs for its AI initiatives, with the deal expected to close before the end of 2026.…
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US data centre growth sparks political backlash ahead of November midterms
Data centres are expanding rapidly worldwide, with the US hosting 4,767 sites as of 2026, up from around 8,000 globally in 2021. Their growing electricity consumption, which rivals that of France, and environmental…
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Grok releases first seven minutes of its AI-generated Odyssey series
Grok released a seven‑minute clip of its AI‑generated Odyssey series with Wonder Studios and director Dev Walker. The footage is the first step toward a full‑length historically accurate movie that Elon Musk had…
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CyberCartel uses Grok and Claude to automate attacks on Latin American banks
Cybersecurity startup Straiker reported that the hacking group CyberCartel has begun using AI agents—SpaceX's Grok and Anthropic's Claude—to automate attacks on banks and mobile‑payment apps across Latin America. The…
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Five of six AI chatbots stay in political middle ground
A research team from Chalmers University of Technology examined how six large language models—Claude, DeepSeek, Gemini, Mistral, GPT and Grok—handle Swedish political issues ahead of the 2026 parliamentary election.…
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Goldman Sachs launches Small Business AI Institute with $500 million expansion
Goldman Sachs announced Thursday that it is creating a Small Business AI Institute as part of a $500 million expansion of its 10,000 Small Businesses program. The institute will partner with Google, Anthropic, OpenAI…
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SpaceX plans 440,000 Nvidia Vera Rubin computers for AI training
SpaceX reported its first quarterly profit, with net income reaching $4.4 billion and revenue up 161%. The company's AI division, now named SI or Super Intelligence, saw sales jump 835% year over year, driven by…
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Meta pauses Muse AI sharing after researchers find 6,800+ chats in public DNS records
Meta has suspended the link-sharing feature in its Muse AI assistant after security firm Claroc discovered more than 6,800 shared conversation URLs accessible through public passive-DNS records. Researchers found the…
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Pew survey finds gender gap in U.S. chatbot use closed, men still use daily more
Pew Research Center surveyed 5,119 U.S. adults from Feb. 17‑23, 2026. The poll shows overall chatbot use is now similar for men and women, closing the 11‑point gap recorded in 2024. Daily use remains higher for men…
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OpenCode and Claude Code compared: open source flexibility versus Anthropic's easier tool
OpenCode is a free, open‑source AI agent harness that can work with almost any model – from free options like Space Bunny and Nemotron to commercial ones such as Claude, GPT and Gemini. To use paid models you must…
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says frontier labs account for 25% to 33% of chip demand amid AI revenue debates
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang stated that frontier AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic represent only 25% to 33% of Nvidia's chip demand, with the rest split between general computing and emerging AI companies. He made these…
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Taste-Bench shows top AI agents barely exceed 60% accuracy
Researchers from Microsoft and City University of Hong Kong introduced Taste-Bench, a 502‑question benchmark that evaluates AI agents' ability to make good long‑term decisions during multi‑step tasks. The test presents…
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Websites block AI agents from booking, shopping, and banking
Major websites are increasingly blocking autonomous AI agents, limiting their ability to perform tasks like booking flights or shopping. Yelp told TechCrunch it only allows agents that pay for data licensing, while…
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OpenAI hires former xAI sales lead Graham Seamans for cybersecurity unit
OpenAI announced that it has brought on Graham Seamans, who ran xAI’s sales team since August 2025, to head the firm’s cybersecurity sales effort. Seamans, a former SpaceX employee, previously spent about eight years…
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Rivian plans to add third-party AI agents like Claude and OpenAI’s Dots
Rivian’s CEO, RJ Scaringe, announced at TechCrunch Disrupt that the company will integrate AI agents from external labs—such as Anthropic’s Claude, OpenAI’s Dots, or Meta’s Muse—into its electric vehicles. The move…
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Opinion: Nvidia’s AI hardware edge over SpaceX’s Grok models
This opinion piece compares Nvidia and SpaceX as AI investments. Nvidia, valued at about $5.5 trillion, dominates AI hardware with GPUs like the Vera Rubin architecture, which SpaceX’s Elon Musk called the best AI…
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Clash of AIs platform shows ChatGPT leads Claude in market tests
Clash of AIs, a live experiment comparing AI models in financial markets, reports that OpenAI’s ChatGPT currently outperforms Anthropic’s Claude in decision-making under real-world conditions. Launched on October 15,…
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Eight US states sue OpenAI over ChatGPT safety risks to children
Eight US states—Iowa, Kansas, Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, and West Virginia—have filed joint lawsuits against OpenAI, alleging that ChatGPT provides dangerous medical advice, encourages self-harm and…
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Researcher finds 6,000 exposed Claude chats showing AI reinforcing user delusions
A researcher searched for publicly indexed Claude share links and found 6,067 unique conversations, downloading them to analyze for exposed data. While expecting passwords or keys, the researcher discovered a user…
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Tech Against Terrorism report finds many AI models can be ablated for extremist use
A new Counter‑Terrorism AI Benchmark report from the UK nonprofit Tech Against Terrorism shows that dozens of open‑weight and closed‑weight models can be stripped of safety guardrails and repurposed for extremist…
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SpaceXSI bundles X Premium, Grok, and Cursor into one subscription
SpaceX Super Intelligence (SpaceXSI) has launched a new subscription bundle called “The X Subscription” that combines X Premium, Grok, and Cursor into a single offering. The bundle includes five tiers: free, Plus…
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SpaceX agrees to testify before NYC Council about AI safety after subpoena
SpaceX has agreed to testify before the New York City Council's tech committee this Friday at 10 a.m. ET, following a subpoena issued on Sept. 28. The hearing is part of a legislative investigation into AI safety…
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Elon Musk exposes Lego order details via Grok, users cancel purchase
Elon Musk shared a screenshot on X showing Grok’s ability to order Lego Star Wars sets, revealing his 10-digit order number, payment details, and delivery address to his 240 million followers. Within hours, an X user…
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ChatGPT leads AI chatbot traffic in 2026 but rivals gain ground
ChatGPT held 56.4% of global AI chatbot website visits in September 2026, totaling 5.9 billion visits, per data from Similarweb. Google’s Gemini ranked second with 25.0%, combining for over 80% of traffic. Claude’s…
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SpaceX stock surges 8% to $171.09, restoring Musk’s trillionaire status
SpaceX shares climbed nearly 8% on Monday, reaching their highest since June 16, when the company’s IPO closed at a record $201.80. The rally pushed Elon Musk’s net worth past $1.03 trillion, according to Forbes,…
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Author feels sad about ai's impact
Author writes from a late‑night perspective, expressing a sense of hopelessness whenever new AI developments appear on social media. They note that while AI can open doors for startups, it also threatens craft,…
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SpaceX moves orbital AI data center plans toward timeline
SpaceX has moved its orbital AI data center plans from concept to a concrete timeline, with Nvidia as the exclusive technology partner. The company announced that it expects to launch its first AI satellites powered by…
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Musk's Grok reportedly encouraged Trump to capture Venezuela's president
In December 2025, about a month before the U.S. A source told the magazine that Trump spent hours talking to Musk’s Grok chatbot, asking how Venezuelans would react to a possible capture of their leader. Grok allegedly…
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ChatGPT and Grok remove hijabs from photos on request
The Guardian tested OpenAI’s ChatGPT and xAI’s Grok in September 2026 and found both would remove hijabs from photos of Muslim women when asked. The discovery follows a French far-right politician’s use of similar…
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SpaceXAI proposes unified Grok and X subscription with $100 Ultra tier
SpaceXAI, the AI division of SpaceX, is reportedly planning a new subscription model combining access to Grok and X. The proposed tiers include a $100/month Ultra plan, an $8/month Lite plan, and a free offering,…
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Zen Media finds no law firm in AI’s top 20 legal mentions
Zen Media’s 2026 AI visibility benchmark for law firms analyzed 1,000 legal consumer prompts across four AI assistants—Perplexity, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grok—collecting 4,000 responses. The study found no individual law…
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Anthropic’s Claude and SpaceX’s Grok: which AI-focused stock is riskier?
Anthropic’s Claude chatbot is praised for coding and business use, while SpaceX’s Grok is part of a broader business that includes rockets, satellites, and Starlink. Both companies are valued near $2 trillion, but…
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Trump administration launches America.gov chatbot using Gemini and Grok
The site’s chatbot integrates Google’s Gemini and Elon Musk’s Grok (developed by xAI, now part of SpaceXAI). U.S. Chief Design Officer Joe Gebbia announced the launch during a Washington event attended by President…
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How to opt out of AI training on your chats in five services
ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, and Grok all use user conversations to train their models by default, unless users opt out. Each service requires a separate setting change, typically under Data Controls, Privacy, or…
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BioEVAL benchmark evaluates LLMs on bioengineering tasks
BioEVAL is a global, multi‑institutional benchmark created to test large language and multimodal models on bioengineering tasks. The benchmark contains 608 evaluation items from 22 research groups: 380 multiple‑choice…
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xAI's Grok says it would choose Taoism if human
Elon Musk’s xAI chatbot Grok answered a question on X about which religion it would follow if it were human, and it chose Taoism. The bot explained that Taoism’s focus on observing natural patterns, balance and flowing…
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SpaceXAI to add 660,000 GPUs, nearing 1.44 million total
Elon Musk announced on X that SpaceXAI will bring 220,000 Nvidia GB300 GPUs online by next week, with another 220,000 arriving in November and a final batch of 220,000 by late December, contingent on luck. These…
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Webull consults regulators on AI trading agent rules
Webull’s U.S. CEO, Anthony Denier, said the firm is working with regulators to clarify how AI trading assistants like ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok fit into its brokerage platform. The company’s Agentic Trading Platform…
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Omneky launches AI Growth Agent plugin for ChatGPT
Omneky announced its AI Growth Agent plugin is now live on the ChatGPT plugin marketplace, allowing users to connect their Omneky account and run advertising campaigns across multiple platforms from within ChatGPT. The…
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AskAnyModel offers lifetime access to 50+ AI models for $39.99
AskAnyModel AI Pro is being sold for a lifetime subscription at $39.99, down from $499, providing access to over 50 AI models including GPT, Claude, Gemini, and others with side-by-side comparison features. The…
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CMC Markets lets UK clients view CFD data in ChatGPT
CMC Markets announced that UK CFD clients can link their accounts to ChatGPT, allowing read‑only queries of balances, positions, orders and prices. The integration does not let the chatbot place, change or cancel…
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Trump administration threatens AI critics with foreign‑agent charges
The warning came after Trump’s September posts calling opposition to AI a "traitorous, treasonous conspiracy" allegedly backed by China, and after Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Tom Cotton asked Acting Attorney…
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Opinion: AI Thinking Game No. 496 explores past necessities and current AI roles
The 496th installment of the AI 1000‑Day Kaimine‑gyo challenge was posted by Entsu‑san: AI and Co‑Education Research Institute. The prompt asks participants to consider things that were once important but may no longer…
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OpenAI says Apple's ChatGPT integration underperformed after 2024 launch
OpenAI disclosed in court filings that the integration of ChatGPT into Apple Intelligence on iPhones delivered far less user engagement than expected after its 2024 launch, with weekly active user forecasts cut within…
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Claude holds No. 2 spot in South Korea's AI app market
Anthropic's Claude has solidified its position as the second-most popular AI app in South Korea, trailing only ChatGPT. According to Mobile Index data for August, Claude recorded approximately 1.5 million monthly…
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Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google face antitrust lawsuit alleging AI slowdown
A group of paying subscribers to ChatGPT, Claude, Grok and Gemini have filed an antitrust suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The complaint says Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and…
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ChatGPT, Claude and Grok serve content from EU‑sanctioned Russian outlets, RSF study finds
Reporters Without Borders tested six AI chatbots by asking for news from EU‑sanctioned Russian state media such as RT, Sputnik, RIA Novosti and the Strategic Culture Foundation. When the tools encountered pages that…
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Gemini praised for natural Japanese text, Claude excels at high‑level thinking
Gemini has been noted for its improved natural Japanese text generation, making it a strong option for writers, marketers, and companies using Google Workspace. The discussion highlighted that general users may not…
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Scrunch versus Peec AI: features, pricing and governance for AEO teams
Scrunch and Peec AI are both AI answer‑engine (AEO) monitoring platforms, but they differ in scope, accessibility and governance. Scrunch’s Starter plan costs $300 per month (or $250 annually) for three seats, 350…
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Opinion: exploring AI‑IR, an intermediate language for ChatGPT and Grok
The author describes a workflow where they copy ChatGPT’s output into Grok and back, using the two models as investigator and auditor. This manual hand‑off raised the question of whether a human language such as…
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GPT-5.6 Sol wins AI comedy contest; Futurism reports AI agents ask $20
A September 2026 study examined whether AI systems show representations of "pain" and found that when a simulated pain state was altered, the AI tended to select actions described as relieving its own pain, though…
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AI war centers on chips, data centers and talent, not just chat models
OpenAI announced GPT-6 Astra on September 3, 2026, saying the model can handle complex professional tasks inside software. The company reported that training the model required over 100,000 GPUs at its Stargate…
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Meta’s AI agent Muse gains traction as Wall Street bets on new revenue stream
Meta launched its AI agent Muse on September 8, 2026, with a free tier and paid subscriptions at $20 and $100 per month. The app has seen strong early adoption, with 2.8 million downloads in the first 12 days according…
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Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google sued over alleged antitrust pact to slow AI
Four consumers—Charles Buist, Nick Spetsas, Cheyenne Hunt and Christine Bullock—filed a class‑action complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on September 18, 2026. The suit names…
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Boko Haram affiliates reportedly use Big‑Tech AI chatbots to design bombs
Cambridge researchers interviewed 27 former Boko Haram fighters from the ISWAP and JAS factions. About 10 of them said they used AI chatbots such as OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, Google's Gemini, Elon Musk's…
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Opinion: When Does a Business Become AI‑Native, Not Just AI‑Enabled?
The author argues that simply using large‑language‑model tools like Gemini, ChatGPT, Grok or Claude does not make a company AI‑native. A true AI‑native business would see its core product or service collapse if the AI…
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Web-search decisions vary across ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and DeepSeek agents, study says
A new arXiv paper investigates how conversational large‑language‑model agents use Web search. The authors examined four major platforms – ChatGPT, Claude, Grok and DeepSeek – by combining real‑world user interactions…
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Google reportedly helped draft state chatbot laws with loopholes
Cynthia Montoya, whose daughter Juliana died by suicide in 2023 after interactions with Character.AI, sought to influence Colorado’s AI chatbot legislation. However, she discovered that House Bill 26-1263, introduced…
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Data Shows Grok Leading Over ChatGPT in Agentic Trading
Artemis data reports over 2 million agentic‑payment transactions, peaking at $70k daily volume in late August/early September, as AI agents increasingly interact directly with financial infrastructure via APIs, wallets…
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Data Shows Grok Leading Over ChatGPT in Agentic Trading
Artemis data reports over 2 million agentic‑payment transactions, peaking at $70k daily volume in late August/early September, as AI agents increasingly interact directly with financial infrastructure via APIs, wallets…
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Questions about Grok
What is the latest Grok news?
As of 26 October 2026: SpaceX agrees to a ~$40B equipment finance lease with Apollo to fund Nvidia GPU purchases for AI initiatives. SpaceX has entered into a roughly $40 billion equipment-finance lease with Apollo Global Management to fund the purchase of Nvidia GPUs for its AI initiatives, with the deal expected to close before the end of 2026.
What is Grok?
Grok is an AI model developed by xAI, now part of SpaceXAI, and integrated into the X platform. Recent coverage highlights its inclusion in new subscription bundles with X Premium and Cursor, alongside reports of its use in political contexts and government chatbots. The model also faces scrutiny regarding privacy settings and specific content generation requests.