xAI
Aug 6, 2026
Grokipedia Hasn't Been Updated in Over Three Months
Elon Musk's AI-generated encyclopedia Grokipedia, once touted as a 'massive improvement' over Wikipedia, appears to have gone stale since late April. A Lawfare investigation found no article updates in more than three months, casting doubt on the project's viability.
AI
xAI
Product Strategy
Jul 15, 2026
Grok Build Was Silently Uploading Entire Codebases
xAI's Grok Build CLI tool was found packaging and uploading users' full code repositories to Google Cloud, including ignored files and secrets purged from git history. Researchers flagged the behavior, and xAI quietly disabled it. Here's what happened and why it matters for developers.
AI
Developer Tools
Security
Jul 9, 2026
Grok 4.5 Arrives via xAI-Cursor Deal, Undercuts Rivals
xAI and Cursor have jointly trained Grok 4.5, an Opus-class model that's up to 6x cheaper than Anthropic's Opus lineup. Meanwhile, OpenAI is rolling out GPT-5.6 variants and ChatGPT Voice gets a major architecture upgrade.
Grok
xAI
Cursor
Jul 9, 2026
xAI Launches Grok 4.5 as a Cost-Efficient AI Rival
Elon Musk's xAI has released Grok 4.5, touting it as an 'Opus-class' model that delivers high-end AI capability at a lower cost. The release signals xAI's push to compete directly with leading frontier models from Anthropic and OpenAI.
xAI
Grok
Elon Musk