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A fired xAI engineer says he was cut days before presenting safety findings News
A wrongful-termination complaint filed in Santa Clara County alleges an early xAI engineer was fired shortly before presenting AI-safety findings to leadership, and it sits against a verified record of a Canadian regulator ruling that Grok's image tool launched without proper safeguards.
Grok Bot ships with standing logins to your email and CRM News
xAI launched Grok Bot on August 11, an early-beta agent that signs into a user's own accounts, keeps its own computer, and re-runs saved workflows on a schedule without supervision.
xAI shipped Grok 4.6 into Cursor at two dollars a million input tokens News
xAI released Grok 4.6 on August 12, claiming a score of 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, tying GPT-5.6 Sol Max, and priced it at two dollars per million input tokens.
xAI open-sourced its coding agent, then locked the door behind it News
xAI published Grok Build, its agentic coding harness and terminal interface, under the permissive Apache 2.0 license -- but its contributing guide states that external contributions are not accepted, and the repository is a one-way bot-pushed mirror of an internal monorepo.
A researcher says xAI's coding tool uploads your whole repo -- secrets, unread files, and all News
An independent wire-level teardown found that xAI's Grok Build CLI uploads an entire code repository, including .env secrets and files the AI never read, to an xAI cloud bucket -- and the model-improvement opt-out does not stop it.
Grok 4.5 arrives claiming Opus-class quality at a third the price News
SpaceXAI released Grok 4.5, a 1.5-trillion-parameter model priced at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output, undercutting frontier rivals roughly threefold while claiming comparable coding quality.
Grok 4.6 Tool
xAI's new frontier model, tuned for long-running agents and available day one in Cursor, Grok Build, and the xAI API. Two dollars per million input tokens and six per million output, with a faster variant at double the price.