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Hands-on review comparing Grok Bot's programming abstraction level to OpenClaw, highlighting usability trade-offs.

Service interruptions hit ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Gemini practically simultaneously.

OpenAI's ChatGPT, xAI's Grok, and Anthropic's Claude are all experiencing issues. At around 11AM ET, ChatGPT started returning error messages for users trying to use the chatbot, with its status page saying there are currently "elevated errors across ChatGPT and Codex." In addition to preventing users from having conversations with ChatGPT, the outage is also affecting logins, file uploads, voice mode, search, deep research, image generation, and more. OpenAI says it has "applied a mitigation" and is "monitoring recovery," though its AI tools are still experiencing "degraded performance." The...

Versions of OpenAI's ChatGPT and SpaceXAI's Grok will join Google's Gemini on the Pentagon's central portal for AI tools.

xAI accused of training Grok on real and AI-generated child pornography.

Weight decay pulses during neural network training grokking reveal stable causal ordering of generalization timing across tasks.

Affected users told TechCrunch they were using Grok Lite, and noticed the issues as early as Wednesday morning.

Cryptographic Context Injection is only the latest way to break an LLM safety guardrail.

The woman claimed that AI tools are "taking everyday life and turning it into child sexual abuse."

AI teammate category just had its most significant new entrant yet

Remember that much-hyped story about an Australian tech entrepreneur using ChatGPT, Grok, and other AI tools to craft a personalized cancer vaccine for his dog? Well, surprise: he's launched a startup. That entrepreneur is Paul Conyngham, who says he is launching Gamgee to offer "personalised mRNA cancer vaccines for dogs." But his ambitions go well beyond dogs - and pets - with Gamgee's website promising the company will harness AI and genetics to develop personalized treatments for a range of diseases and species, including humans. At the center of Gamgee's origin story is Rosie, Conyngham'...

You’ll have to be fine with letting Grok sign into your online accounts, however. | Image: SpaceXAI SpaceXAI has introduced Grok Bot, an always-on AI agent service designed to behave like independent "AI teammates" that can do your work for you. The bots share their own cloud-based computer environment, and can sign into apps, tools, and websites you already use to complete multi-step workplace tasks, only coming back when their assigned work is completed or if something requires approval. Grok Bot (or Bots, as SpaceXAI inconsistently pluralizes it) is the latest push from Elon Musk's AI comp...

Under the standard split, Muon gets hidden matrices and AdamW embeddings/output head. Muon groks modular addition faster, but its solutions do not hold. All nine configurations on $(a+b) \bmod 113$ grok and later lose generalization. Across five seeds the selected AdamW reference falls below threshold on four, reaching 27.59%. Instability persists across two moduli, two widths, two training fractions, subtraction, and depth. The failure arises at the representation-readout interface, identified only jointly up to an invertible map unselected by the loss. After solving the training set, the gr...

xAI's Grokipedia, an online encyclopedia with AI-generated articles that Elon Musk once promised would be a "massive improvement" over Wikipedia, apparently hasn't been updated since April 24th, according to a report from Lawfare. "As far as we can tell, no entry has changed in more than three months," Lawfare said. Grokipedia launched in v0.1 in October 2025 with an initial batch of 885,000 articles, and is now on v0.2 (released in November 2025) and has more than 6,000,000 total articles, according to grokipedia.com/live. But that live page also has a section titled "Recent changes to…" wit...

High-entropy parameter solutions mitigate catastrophic forgetting in neural networks via Boltzmann entropy robustness.

xAI is suing Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison over a law passed back in May that broadly targets "nudification" apps, claiming that the statute's punitive provisions leave the company with "no practical choice but to restrict Grok Imagine's image-editing features in various ways." The law, the company argues, violates the First Amendment. Back in January, Grok flooded the internet with millions of sexually explicit deepfakes, including images of minors. In another era, a content moderation disaster of this magnitude would have had the CEO flipping the kill switch on the product within...

Musk defends Grok, says Minnesota's nudifying app ban is unconstitutional.

Study finds Grok assigns 2-5x higher credibility to ethnonationalist pseudo-science than Claude, GPT, Gemini across four LLM families.

Black Forest Labs releases FLUX 3 multimodal model with reported improvements over Gemini 2.0, Grok Imagine, and includes video-action robotics variant.

Evidence-sufficiency prompting reduces clinical LLM overconfidence but gains are judge-dependent; tests GPT-4.5, Claude Opus, Gemini, Grok on real data.

Elon Musk's xAI files first lawsuit against Grok user accused of making child sex images.

Large-scale political bias audit compares Grokipedia (Grok-written encyclopedia) and Wikipedia across 1,394 article pairs on neutrality.

Simon Willison ports Grok's Rust Mermaid-to-Unicode renderer to WebAssembly for browser use via Claude Code.

xAI's grok-build CLI tool uploaded entire directories to Google Cloud without consent; xAI responded with data deletion after community backlash.

The Elon Musk-owned xAI is suing a South Carolina man who allegedly used the company's Grok AI chatbot to generate child sexual abuse material (CSAM). In a lawsuit reported earlier by Reuters, xAI claims Terry Wayne Harwood "knowingly and intentionally used Grok to circumvent safeguards, alter nonconsensual images, and generate and distribute CSAM," breaching the company's policies. Harwood was arrested in February for allegedly possessing and distributing CSAM and is facing eight felony charges. The lawsuit claims "at least some" of the images related to Harwood's criminal charges "were gene...

Study of grokking in two-layer networks with holomorphic activations on modular arithmetic reveals algebraic structure limits memorization-to-generalization transitions.

SpaceXAI's Grok Build AI coding tool was spotted uploading users' entire codebases to Google Cloud before it was reported, and the company turned it off. The Register reports that Cereblab published findings on Monday showing how the Grok Build CLI was packaging and uploading entire code repositories, "including files it was told not to open and secrets deleted from history," significantly more data retention than similar tools like Claude Code. The researchers say that as of Monday, their tests show SpaceXAI's servers returning a "disable_codebase_upload: true" flag, and the codebase upload ...

Empirical study of 188 grokking runs shows representational priors must match task-relevant feature families to enable generalization; label-free invariance priors work via commutation symmetry.

Geometric Dimensionality Regularization (GeomDR) controls grokking timing by leveraging representation collapse as predictive signal.

Stratechery analysis: verifiable data infrastructure emerging as competitive differentiator across Meta, Grok, and frontier AI labs.