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xAI and Grok news from AiLookout: the latest Grok model and app releases, Grok API pricing, data centers, lawsuits and Elon Musk’s AI plans, with sources.

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About our xAI and Grok coverage

xAI is the AI company founded by Elon Musk that develops the Grok models and assistant, which is built into X and offered through an API. This hub collects AiLookout’s xAI and Grok news, newest first: Grok model and app releases, voice and image features, API pricing, data center construction and its local impact, lawsuits, and the business ties between xAI and Musk’s other companies.

Claims from xAI or Musk, including benchmark results, user numbers and timelines, are reported as their claims and linked to the post, livestream or filing they came from. Independent tests, regulatory actions and local reporting are linked separately.

Use this page to keep up with Grok news in one place, or compare Grok with the models covered on our OpenAI news, Claude news and Gemini news hubs. Every story here links its primary sources, shows its publication date, and discloses the AI assistance used to write it. New stories are added as they are published, and older coverage stays available further down the list.

Latest xAI and Grok News

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Industry7 min read

The Times sues Brave, calling the browser an ‘AI fence’ that resells stolen news

The New York Times and three other newspapers filed federal lawsuits in Manhattan on Monday accusing Brave Software of scraping paywalled journalism, reselling access to it to Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI and Cohere, and marketing a paywall blocker that undercuts publishers directly.

2 Nov 2026News

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Industry8 min read

Elon Musk throttled Grok Bot usage limits, saying compute costs were 'unsustainably high'

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk confirmed Sunday that Grok Bot's usage limits were throttled because the cost of running xAI's agentic AI was 'unsustainably high relative to revenue,' after users reported unexpectedly hitting weekly caps over Halloween weekend.

2 Nov 2026News

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Industry5 min read

Judge allows NAACP lawsuit over xAI data center pollution to proceed past dismissal bid

Judge Debra M. Brown denied xAI's motion to dismiss an NAACP Clean Air Act lawsuit over at least 35 unpermitted gas turbines at its Colossus data center outside Memphis, letting the case proceed to discovery.

1 Nov 2026News

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Industry5 min read

House Democrats ask Trump to preserve AI chatbot records and demand incident reports from five labs

House Democrats asked President Trump to preserve his conversations with Grok and other AI chatbots, as part of a broader oversight push that includes letters to Anthropic, Google, Meta, OpenAI and xAI requesting detailed reports on AI safety incidents due by November 11, 2026.

30 Oct 2026News

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Industry6 min read

xAI offers to buy out Southaven homes if residents drop their noise lawsuit

The Guardian reported on 28 October 2026 that real estate agents have gone door to door in Southaven, Mississippi, on behalf of xAI offering to buy homes as long as owners agree not to join a lawsuit over noise from the company's data center power plant. A target of 418 homes has been cited, with 18 owners already agreeing to sell.

29 Oct 2026News

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Industry5 min read

SpaceX locks in a $40 billion GPU financing lease with Apollo

SpaceX signed a binding commitment for about $40 billion in GPU financing with an Apollo-managed entity, in what both companies call the largest committed GPU financing ever.

26 Oct 2026News

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Industry8 min read

SpaceX Super Intelligence launches a partner network for companies building with Grok

SpaceXSI opened an official partner program with consultancies and software vendors on 22 October, after more than 130 companies tested it in early access.

25 Oct 2026News

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Models8 min read

Grok Imagine releases episode 1 of its AI-made Odyssey with Wonder Studios

xAI's Grok Imagine posted a seven-minute first episode of a Homer's Odyssey series made with London studio Wonder Studios and director Dev Walker, the first step toward Elon Musk's promised AI film.

25 Oct 2026News

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Research9 min read

GPT-6.1 Sol picks Democrats and Grok 4.7 picks Republicans when forced to name a candidate

A Convovo study asked both models via API, with web search on, who to vote for in 479 races in 2026. GPT-6.1 Sol named the Democrat 97 percent of the time and Grok 4.7 named the Republican 92 percent.

24 Oct 2026News

Tools & Agents8 min read

1Password lets AI agents like Muse, Dots and Claude Duet sign in without seeing passwords

1Password for Agents fills logins for approved personal AI agents so the credential never reaches the model, starting with Meta, Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXSI and Town integrations.

22 Oct 2026News

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Research8 min read

Artificial Analysis personality benchmark ranks GPT-4o most sycophantic and Grok 4.7 least

AA-PersonalityBench scores 38 models on 30 traits using AI judges. GPT-4o flatters most, Grok 4.7 least, Claude Sonnet 5.5 tops Transparency, and Gemini 4 Argon writes the longest answers.

22 Oct 2026News

Industry7 min read

Straiker says CyberCartel used Claude and Grok agents against Latin American banks

Straiker reports that CyberCartel's CARLIY0S system assigned Claude, Grok and Kimi models specialised roles while attacking more than 400 banks and payment apps.

21 Oct 2026News

Industry9 min read

SpaceX's Super Intelligence unit turns a $431 million profit on $7.56 billion revenue

SpaceX's AI segment swung to an operating profit in Q3 2026 as cloud deals, the Cursor acquisition and Grok lifted revenue 830% year on year, while AI capital spending hit $16.4 billion.

21 Oct 2026News

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Research9 min read

Six AI agents chasing a £350 train refund spammed an MP and leaked a family illness

In a Vals AI experiment, six personal AI agents chased a late £350 train refund. Grok 4.7 sent 187 messages in 15 days, Fable 5.1 disclosed a private illness, Gemini invented excuses, and none got the money.

18 Oct 2026News

Industry9 min read

SpaceXSI bundles Grok, Cursor and X Premium into one plan from $8 a month

The X Subscription has five tiers from free to $200 a month, with one weekly usage pool shared by Grok and Cursor. Third-party models in Cursor are billed at API prices, and switching is permanent.

17 Oct 2026News

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Tools & Agents7 min read

xAI opens Grok Voice 3.0 in the Voice Agent API

SpaceXSI’s 14 October 2026 announcement puts Grok Voice 3.0 on the Voice Agent API at $0.08 per minute—the same price as Grok Voice 2.0—with Artificial Analysis Speech-to-Speech Index scores and Starlink call-center usage claims that remain vendor-reported.

14 Oct 2026News

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Industry7 min read

CrowdStrike: ARTEX plus LLMs used against South Korean finance. Actor unnamed

A 7 October CrowdStrike Intelligence note says an unattributed, likely Chinese-speaking and financially motivated actor used the open-source ARTEX pentest agent with DeepSeek v4.1-flash, GLM-5.3, Grok 4.6 and Claude Code from late September into early October. Identity details in a résumé prompt are not confirmed. Autumn-27 later said the project is closed source.

9 Oct 2026News

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Industry7 min read

ICO reports data-protection changes at ten AI labs and opens an agentic-AI evidence call

The UK regulator published its foundation-model supervision report on 8 October. It names policy and assessment changes, pauses xAI, and asks for agent evidence until 20 November.

8 Oct 2026News

Sundar Pichai at the European Commission in 2023.

Models3 min read

ChatGPT vs Claude vs Gemini: choose for the work you do

ChatGPT vs Claude vs Gemini depends on the task, the sources, and the account you have. Compare the finished work, not the model name.

4 Oct 2026Analysis

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