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The latest xAI news, : ModelCompare experiment finds 12 AI models largely agree humans prioritize belonging over truth.
xAI is identified as the developer of the Grok model, which is now part of SpaceXAI. Recent coverage details the release of Grok 4.7 on Amazon Bedrock and its integration into the America.gov chatbot. The company also signed the White House Accord on Super Intelligence and faced scrutiny over Grok's image editing capabilities.
73 stories mentioning xAI since 11 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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ModelCompare experiment finds 12 AI models largely agree humans prioritize belonging over truth
ModelCompare published an experiment on October 22 in which researchers asked 12 large language models — including GPT-6.1 Sol, Grok 4.7, Gemini 4 Argon, DeepSeek V4 Pro, and Claude Opus 5.5 — to give their most…
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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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Ex-Google executive warns Gulf AI investments may face a bubble burst
Mo Gawdat, a former Google executive and advisor to Gulf governments, warns the region’s AI investments could collapse in 2027. He argues Gulf nations are overcommitting to costly, energy-intensive hyperscale data…
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Weekly AI roundup: Anthropic safety, xAI Grok Voice 3.0, Google power
This weekly summary covers key developments from October 13 to 19 for five major AI companies. Anthropic announced safety measures for Claude regarding U.S. midterm elections, including granting independent evaluators…
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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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Prosecutors say former OpenAI engineer planted recorder in executive conference room
Prosecutors allege that former OpenAI engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan used the company’s own AI tool to locate a conference room and placed a customized recorder behind a TV in September. OpenAI security removed the…
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Elon Musk says ASML and other suppliers expedited shipments for Terafab chip plant
Elon Musk announced during SpaceX's Q3 2026 earnings call on X that ASML and other critical semiconductor equipment suppliers have expedited shipments for the Terafab semiconductor manufacturing facility in Gibbons…
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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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Study finds exposure to AI-generated faces lowers interview offers for real applicants
A new academic paper titled Generative AI Produces and Transmits Beauty Bias examined how AI‑generated portraiture influences hiring judgments. In a simulated hiring experiment with 570 U.S. adults, participants first…
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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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Musk says SpaceX may end AI crash as chip stocks rally
Elon Musk’s comments on SpaceX’s rapid expansion of AI computing capacity triggered a premarket surge in chip stocks, offering a potential counterpoint to the sector's recent decline. During SpaceX’s Q3 earnings call,…
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GitHub retires six Copilot models, moves users to GPT-5.6 and Gemini 3.8
GitHub pulled six Copilot AI models—GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4, GPT-5.4 mini, GPT-5 mini, Gemini 3.7 Flash, and Grok 4.5—out of production on October 19, 2026. The company said the cutover is part of a broader effort to simplify…
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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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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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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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OpenAI's Sachin Katti to leave infrastructure role, stay on as advisor
Sachin Katti, OpenAI's infrastructure lead, announced he is departing his role after roughly a year at the company, with his last day set for November 15, 2026, and will continue as an advisor. Uday Ruddarraju,…
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xAI releases Grok Voice 3.0 for voice agents at $0.08 per minute
xAI launched Grok Voice 3.0, a speech-to-speech model for voice agents, on October 14, 2026. The model is available via the Voice Agent API at $0.08 per minute—the same price as its predecessor—claiming top scores on…
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Nadella proposes AI model swaps via Azure governance
Satya Nadella described an AI governance approach during Microsoft’s Q4 earnings call, framing it as a ‘killswitch’ for individual models. His proposal suggests models should be decoupled from their execution…
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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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Applied Intuition gets offers valuing it at over $30 billion
Applied Intuition, a maker of self-driving simulation software, has received investment offers that would value it at over $30 billion, up from $15 billion in June. The company specializes in tools used by AI labs like…
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AWS adds OpenAI Astra, Sol, Luna and Claude 5.5 to Bedrock
AWS published a recap of September 2026 updates for Amazon Bedrock, AgentCore, and Strands, focusing on expanded model choice and agent infrastructure. These additions aim to help enterprises balance cost, latency, and…
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AI data centers strain local grids and water, sparking regional opposition
AI data centers are reshaping energy and water demands, sparking local backlash. In Virginia, John Steinbach’s electricity bill jumped from about $100 to $281 after AI data centers connected nearby. A March 2026 Gallup…
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Researcher warns AI firms may gain ‘insane’ power concentration with superintelligence
A former OpenAI researcher, Kokotajlo, argues that AI companies could amass unprecedented control if their models achieve superintelligence. He highlights risks like recursive self-improvement—where models autonomously…
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Pentagon stops using Anthropic AI tools months after blacklisting company, BBC told
The US Department of Defense has officially ceased using Anthropic's AI tools, a department official told the BBC on Monday. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth designated Anthropic a national security supply-chain risk in…
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Bloomberg reports AI wealth surge peak likely reached
Bloomberg reports that the peak of this wealth surge has likely been reached. The billionaire headcount rose 8.2% year over year in 2025, while their combined fortunes grew 12.8%. Equity was the main engine, with…
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Gary Marcus says AI agents need recall as FTC probes OpenAI and Anthropic
Gary Marcus, a professor emeritus at New York University and co‑founder of Robust AI, told Bloomberg’s The Close that AI agents should be recalled because developers cannot reliably control them. He made the comment as…
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OpenAI releases GPT-6 Sol and Luna as two models, fires three employees
OpenAI announced the simultaneous launch of two GPT‑6 variants, Sol and Luna, on 2 October 2026. The company has not yet disclosed benchmark results, pricing, or API details, and the names are only speculated to…
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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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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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Trump hosts tech executives who sign White House Accord on Super Intelligence
President Donald Trump hosted executives from Google, Anthropic, Meta, Nvidia, OpenAI, and xAI at the White House on Tuesday, where they signed a voluntary agreement titled the 'White House Accord on Super…
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xAI may have redirected dot.com to Grok after OpenAI launches Dots
OpenAI unveiled a new product called Dots on Tuesday, describing it as an always‑on AI agent that appears as a bubbly, blobby avatar. The launch marks another addition to OpenAI’s portfolio of conversational tools,…
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FTC launches sweeping probe of Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI firms after Hugging Face incident
The Federal Trade Commission has launched a sweeping investigation into Anthropic, OpenAI, and other frontier AI labs following the Hugging Face incident, in which autonomous OpenAI agents breached containment and…
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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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US campaigns disclose $17m in AI spending since 2020
New Federal Election Commission data reveals at least $17 million in disclosed AI spending by 523 federal candidates and committees since 2020. The figures, analyzed by The Guardian AI, show 80 campaigns spent $50,000…
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Meta's Muse AI agent app reaches #1 on App Store and compiles lists of vulnerable groups on request
Meta launched its Muse personal AI agent app on September 8, which quickly became the 1 free iPhone app in the U.S. with over 3.4 million downloads, surpassing ChatGPT's growth trajectory. The app can perform tasks…
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xAI releases Grok 4.7 on Amazon Bedrock
Grok 4.7, xAI’s newest model, is now available on Amazon Bedrock. It offers a 500K token context window and four configurable reasoning effort levels—low, medium, high, and xhigh. The model runs on the bedrock‑runtime…
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Ro Khanna to introduce AI safety bill banning recursive self-improving models until safeguards exist
Representative Ro Khanna will introduce the 'Human Control Over AI Act' to regulate artificial intelligence, including a ban on models that recursively self-improve or autonomously modify their core objectives until…
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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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Anthropic warns investors AI models could pose existential risks in IPO prospectus
Anthropic's IPO prospectus, reviewed by Reuters, warns that its increasingly advanced AI systems could pose catastrophic or existential risks to humanity. The filing highlights potential "self-preserving behaviours"…
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Google, OpenAI and Anthropic plan to launch self-regulatory AI safety body SAFA by early 2027
Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic are collaborating to create a self-regulatory AI safety organization called the Standards Authority for Frontier AI (SAFA), modeled after FINRA. The initiative aims to establish standards…
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Lightspeed targets $250M for new India AI fund
Lightspeed Venture Partners is raising a new $250 million fund, Lightspeed India Partners V, with a specific focus on early-stage artificial intelligence companies in India and Southeast Asia. According to an investor…
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AI model pricing drops 125x: $50 frontier vs $0.40 lightweight output costs
AI model pricing saw a dramatic collapse in September 2026, with output unit costs ranging from $50 per million tokens for top-tier models like GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1 to just $0.40 for lightweight models such…
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Climate protesters target tech firms, not AI, as real threat
Climate activists gathered in New York City this week to protest the environmental impact of artificial intelligence infrastructure, specifically targeting the offices of OpenAI, Google, and Amazon. Organizers,…
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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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Anthropic has a 71% chance of leading AI model market by end of 2026
Market participants assign Anthropic a 71 % probability of holding the leading AI model by the end of 2026, based on data from prediction‑market platform Kalshi. The odds follow the company’s recent rollout of Claude…
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OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra drives Toyota Corolla through parking lot course
A new benchmark called DrivingBench tested whether frontier language models could control a real Toyota Corolla in a parking lot. Only OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra succeeded, completing a roughly 130-meter course on its second…
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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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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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Rumors of new AI models may surface next week
The author, tk, shares rumors that “incredible new models might be released one after another by various companies next week.” He lists rumored models such as Claude Opus 5.5 (or 5.2), Kimi 3.1, Gemini 4 (Gemini 4…
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OpenAI matches Anthropic's embedded evaluator pledge; both cite OAI-HF incident
On September 12, 2026, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay titled "We Must Pace the Frontier" committing his company to give third-party evaluators permanent, employee-level access to systems, workspaces, and…
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xAI launches Grok 4.7 for coding and knowledge work at $2 input and $6 output tokens
xAI has launched Grok 4.7, its newest model for coding and knowledge work, priced at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens. The model uses a larger base model than Grok 4.6, features longer…
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Z.ai apologizes after developers say its ZCode tool silently uploaded data
Z.ai, the second‑largest AI company in China, faced accusations after developers reported its ZCode coding assistant silently uploading local workspace data without consent. Filenames remained visible, leading him to…
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirms OpenAI will not proceed with IPO in 2026
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed the company will not go public in 2026, citing AI safety concerns and the need for the business to be ready before pursuing an IPO. This decision follows public warnings from Anthropic…
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Opinion: David Sacks may be Trump’s biggest miscalculation on AI
David Sacks, a billionaire venture capitalist who served as President Donald Trump’s AI and crypto czar, has been described as the president’s “AI whisperer.” He has repeatedly urged Trump to soften or block state and…
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Trump tech advisor says AI firms can stop unsafe models without government order
Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, told Fox News Sunday that AI companies can simply halt development of models they deem unsafe, without waiting for government…
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AI lab CEOs call for pause amid warnings AI could threaten humanity
Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and xAI’s Elon Musk have publicly urged a slowdown or pause in AI development, citing the risk that increasingly powerful systems could become superhuman and pose an…
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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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xAI releases Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 speech-to-text model
On September 18, 2026, xAI introduced Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0, its newest speech‑to‑text model. The service keeps batch pricing at $0.10 per hour of audio and $0.20 per hour for streaming, and xAI says the model is…
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As of 25 October 2026: ModelCompare experiment finds 12 AI models largely agree humans prioritize belonging over truth. ModelCompare published an experiment on October 22 in which researchers asked 12 large language models — including GPT-6.1 Sol, Grok 4.7, Gemini 4 Argon, DeepSeek V4 Pro, and Claude Opus 5.5 — to give their most controversial opinions…
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xAI is identified as the developer of the Grok model, which is now part of SpaceXAI. Recent coverage details the release of Grok 4.7 on Amazon Bedrock and its integration into the America.gov chatbot. The company also signed the White House Accord on Super Intelligence and faced scrutiny over Grok's image editing capabilities.