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REGULATION · 1 SOURCE · WIRED AI

Research finds mainstream chatbots often give incorrect or partisan midterm election info

WIRED summarizes research from Forum AI and NewsGuard showing that mainstream chatbots — including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Gemini and xAI’s Grok — frequently provide outdated, hallucinated, or partisan-sourced answers about the US midterms. Forum AI reported almost 40% of election-related answers contained at least one factual error, while NewsGuard found chatbots cited so‑called “pink slime” sites roughly half the time (ChatGPT >70%, Grok ~30%).

6.0

RESEARCH · 1 SOURCE · WIRED AI

Exin Therapeutics used an AI agent (Claude Sonnet 5) to perform a mouse brain injection

Exin Therapeutics founder Gabriel Ocana Santero reported using an AI agent to control a custom robotic surgical rig that selected a therapy and guided an injector to perform a live mouse brain injection; the team initially tested Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5.5 (which refused to inject) and then used Claude Sonnet 5. Safeguards included human approval of plans, an emergency motor cutoff, and restricted code access, but a coordinate-system glitch required a separate agent to modify code and delayed the procedure.

7.0

MONEY · 1 SOURCE · TechCrunch AI

SpaceX secures roughly $40B Apollo-backed GPU lease to expand AI compute

SpaceX disclosed a binding commitment for about $40 billion in financing from an entity managed by Apollo Global Management to buy GPUs and related server hardware, which Apollo will lease to SpaceX for roughly five to 5.25 years; SpaceX expects the deal to close by year-end and leases to begin as equipment (including Nvidia’s next‑generation Vera Rubin chips) arrives in H1 2027. The financing is intended to fund SpaceX’s rapidly expanding AI efforts — including Grok and cloud compute — and CFO Bret Johnsen said the company sees payback periods under one year on its AI infrastructure investments.

9.0

COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · TechCrunch AI

Grok releases first seven minutes of AI-generated 'Odyssey' (Episode 1)

Grok published a seven-minute video it calls “Episode 1 of our Odyssey series,” created with Grok Imagine in collaboration with Wonder Studios and director Dev Walker. TechCrunch’s writeup compares the footage to Christopher Nolan’s theatrical Odyssey, praises moments of realism but criticizes its lack of artistry and human interest.

6.0

COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · The Verge AI

SpaceX and Tesla form special committees to discuss potential merger and AI cooperation

SpaceX and Tesla have each established special committees to evaluate a potential merger; Elon Musk has argued there is merit in combining the companies to cooperate on “superintelligence” software. The discussion comes as SpaceX reported large “SI solutions & infrastructure” revenues (with cited contributions from Grok, Cursor and rented compute), Tesla posted weaker Q3 profits, and joint projects such as Terafab and Macrohard/Microhard remain at early stages.

7.0

COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · xAI

SpaceX launches Super Intelligence Partner Network for Grok ecosystem

SpaceX announced the SpaceX Super Intelligence Partner Network, an official program for companies building products, integrations, and deployment services around Grok. The program groups Transformation Partners (deployment and enterprise integration) and Marketplace Partners (plugins and product integrations), says it had more than 130 companies in early access, and includes a Forward Deployed Engineer accreditation with engineers trained at over 30 organizations.

7.0

CODING · 1 SOURCE · InfoQ AI, ML & Data Engineering

Vercel Labs open-sources fx — a Zig-written embeddable coding agent (v0.0.13)

Vercel Labs has released fx as open source: an experimental coding agent and CLI written in Zig, packaged as a small native binary and designed to be scripted or embedded via libfx (including a WebAssembly build) rather than run as a persistent terminal UI. fx is model-agnostic with multiple provider endpoints listed (Vercel AI Gateway, ChatGPT/OpenAI, Grok, Ollama, OpenRouter), is still pre-1.0 and evolving quickly — release 0.0.13 added an Ultrafast mode and noted checkpoint compatibility caveats.

6.0

COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · TechCrunch AI

SpaceX’s 'Super Intelligence' AI business drives 52% of Q3 revenue; neocloud at 1.7 GW

SpaceX reported $14.6 billion in third-quarter revenue, with its renamed 'Super Intelligence' business — which includes Grok, Cursor and its neocloud compute fleet — accounting for about 52% of income and the neocloud reaching 1.7 GW of compute. The quarter also included roughly $1 billion tied to bitcoin-price recovery and unspecified related-party income, while capital expenditures totaled $19.6 billion as SpaceX continues building the Colossus II data center and investing in Starship and Starlink.

8.0

COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · TechCrunch AI

Meta’s Muse app reaches 10 million U.S. downloads in 40 days

Sensor Tower reports Meta’s AI companion Muse amassed about 10.9 million downloads since its September debut, including roughly 10.2 million in the U.S., becoming one of only a dozen apps to hit 10M U.S. downloads within its first 40 days. Meta has heavily promoted Muse across its ecosystem and via advertising (39% of October ad spend), and Sensor Tower data shows Muse has stronger short-term retention than rivals like ChatGPT, Claude and Grok and reached 2.5 million daily active users on October 16.

7.0

RESEARCH · 1 SOURCE · The Decoder

Taste-Bench benchmark shows AI agents struggle with long-term decision forks

Researchers at Microsoft and City University of Hong Kong released Taste-Bench, a 502-question benchmark that evaluates an agent's 'taste'—the ability to choose between branching long-term paths by freezing 'decision forks' in agent trajectories. The best model tested (GPT-5.6 Sol) averaged 59.7% accuracy, most models scored far lower, and a distilled student from Qwen3.6-27B improved judgment accuracy from 30% to 47.9% and raised agent success on 41 held-out SWE-bench Pro tasks from 14.6% to 33.7%.

8.0

COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · The Verge AI

Major websites are blocking AI agents (Muse, Dots, Grok, Perplexity)

Multiple popular websites and services are preventing autonomous AI agents — including Meta’s Muse, OpenAI’s Dots, xAI’s Grok, Instinct, and Perplexity — from performing tasks like shopping, booking, and account access. Companies such as Amazon, Yelp, airlines, banks, and Cloudflare’s anti-bot tools are cited as blocking agents or requiring paid data licensing, while some retailers (Walmart, Gap, Sephora, Best Buy, Shopify merchants) have partnered to allow agent access.

7.0

COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · TechCrunch AI

Rivian says its cars will support third‑party AI agents from Anthropic, OpenAI and Meta

Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe told TechCrunch Disrupt that the automaker plans to allow third‑party AI agents (examples cited include Anthropic’s Claude, OpenAI’s Dots and Meta’s Muse) to run in its vehicles, using an in‑house agentic framework that routes requests to local or cloud models. He gave no timeline, stressed significant engineering and coordination work is needed, and said agents will not be granted control of vehicle‑level safety systems; Rivian will discuss more at its December “AI & Autonomy Day.”

6.0

COMPANIES · 2 SOURCES · xAI · TechCrunch AI

X introduces The X Subscription bundling Grok, Cursor, and X Premium

X announced The X Subscription, a bundled plan that combines Grok (chat, voice, image and video generation), Grok Bot, Cursor (local and cloud coding agents), and X Premium into one offering with a shared usage pool. The subscription is available to new customers immediately and will be offered as a switch option to existing SuperGrok, Cursor, and X Premium subscribers; plans include free and paid tiers, team and enterprise features, and shared billing/usage controls.

7.0

COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · The Verge AI

Meta's Muse and OpenAI's Dots bring always-on consumer AI agents

The Verge discusses the recent mainstream rollouts of Meta’s Muse and OpenAI’s Dots — animated, always‑on consumer AI agents pitched to handle tasks like reservations, inbox triage, and purchases. Muse is being offered for free while Dots are paid; both follow earlier community work such as OpenClaw and raise privacy and security questions about granting agents access to personal data.

7.0

COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · The Verge AI

Shivon Zilis announces breakup with Elon Musk on X

Shivon Zilis posted on X that she and Elon Musk have broken up, quote-tweeting an account that noted Musk had unfollowed her. Zilis — who has testified she worked across Musk’s “entire AI portfolio” (Tesla, Neuralink, and OpenAI) and was previously on OpenAI’s board when she gave birth to twins — described the split as sudden and wrote a lengthy public statement about their relationship and shared children.

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MODELS · 1 SOURCE · TechCrunch AI

Time: Musk’s Grok chatbot reportedly told Trump capturing Venezuela’s president would be welcomed

Time reported that in December 2025, about a month before the U.S. invasion that captured Nicolás Maduro, Donald Trump met with Elon Musk and spent hours interacting with Musk’s Grok chatbot; a source told Time Grok said Maduro was “deeply unpopular” and many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. The report also notes Pentagon officials have used a version called Gov Grok for targeting in the Iran War, and Musk and Anduril’s Palmer Luckey were tapped to co‑lead a Pentagon study on battlefield tech.

9.0

STARTUPS · 1 SOURCE · The Verge AI

SpaceXAI’s Grokipedia shows activity again after months-long pause

Grokipedia, the AI-powered encyclopedia from SpaceXAI, appears to be updating pages again after months of limited activity; some pages were recently fact-checked and user suggestions are being accepted, though coverage remains uneven across articles. Company staff have posted that v0.2 will be improved, but SpaceXAI has not provided an official comment and Elon Musk has not posted about Grokipedia recently.

4.0

COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · xAI

SpaceXAI launches Team Bots — shared Grok Bots that learn from teams

SpaceXAI launched Team Bots, shared Grok Bots that combine contextual files, plugins, credentials, and memories so a team can work from the same AI-driven context. Team Bots integrate with apps like Slack, Notion, Linear, Hex and Datadog, keep individual conversations private while sharing team expertise, and are already used at SpaceXAI in sales, engineering, marketing and analytics workflows.

7.0

RESEARCH · 1 SOURCE · arXiv cs.AI

BioEVAL: global, multi-institutional benchmark evaluating LLMs and multimodal models on bioengineering

BioEVAL (BioEngineering Validation of AI and LLMs) is a multi-institutional, PhD-level benchmark released on arXiv (2609.30489v1) that spans 11 bioengineering subfields and comprises 608 items: 380 MCQs (359 retained after audit), 218 literature-synthesis tasks, and 10 multimodal experimental image problems. The authors evaluated cloud-scale and locally deployable foundation/multimodal models (e.g., ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok), reporting up to 90% MCQ accuracy, 0.72 literature-synthesis similarity, and 80% accuracy on a small multimodal sample, and maintain BioEVAL as an extensible benchmark with standardized contribution and evaluation protocols.

7.0

CODING · 1 SOURCE · xAI

Grok Build adds persistent memory for project sessions

Grok Build now records background markdown notes on conventions, decisions, and durable project facts after each completed turn and reads relevant notes when you return to a project; notes are excluded for secrets, transient task state, and information already in the repository. Notes can be browsed read-only with /memory and are periodically organized into topic files by /dream; the feature applies to new sessions started with /new or a fresh grok.

6.0

RESEARCH · 1 SOURCE · arXiv cs.AI

Characterizing web search behavior of conversational LLM agents across four platforms

arXiv:2609.19244v1 reports the first study of agentic Web search across four conversational platforms (ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, DeepSeek), combining real-world user interactions (in vivo) with controlled API experiments (in vitro). The paper analyzes when agents choose to invoke Web search, their query strategies, domain preferences in returned results, and how they transform results into grounded responses, finding substantial variability across platforms, platform-specific result biases, and some reliance on uncited search results.

7.0

MODELS · 1 SOURCE · xAI

SpaceXAI’s Grok model becomes available on Databricks Agent Bricks

Databricks now natively supports SpaceXAI’s Grok models on its Agent Bricks developer agent platform, announced as part of the Databricks 2026 Data + AI Summit. The integration allows teams to run Grok alongside other frontier and open-source models with context from the Databricks Lakehouse and complements Grok’s availability on Amazon Bedrock.

6.0

COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · xAI

Grok introduces Automations for scheduled and email‑triggered tasks

Anthropic's Grok now offers 'Automations', which let users describe a task once and have Grok run it on a schedule or when matching emails arrive; automations can include files, connectors, skills, and produce run histories. Automations are available at grok.com and in the Grok iOS and Android apps; scheduled automations are available to all users, while email triggers are included with SuperGrok.

6.0

MODELS · 1 SOURCE · xAI

SpaceXAI launches Grok 4.5, a model optimized for coding and agentic tasks

SpaceXAI says it has released Grok 4.5, its newest model trained alongside Cursor and optimized for coding, agentic workflows, and knowledge work. The company reports training across tens of thousands of NVIDIA GB300 GPUs, claims roughly 2× token efficiency versus leading models, 80 TPS serving speed, and priced the model at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens; Grok 4.5 is available in Grok Build, Cursor, and via the SpaceXAI console with limited free usage offered.

8.0

MODELS · 1 SOURCE · xAI

Grok add-in launches for Microsoft Excel

Grok is now available as a free Microsoft 365 add-in for Excel, letting users ask questions in plain English, generate formulas from descriptions, run scenarios, and insert charts that cite the source cells. The add-in can pull context from recent emails or files in SharePoint and Google Drive, is installable from the Microsoft Marketplace, and is also available for Word and PowerPoint.

6.0

COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · xAI

Grok add-on arrives for Google Workspace (Sheets, Slides, Docs)

Grok is available as a free add-on for Google Workspace, installing once from the Google Workspace Marketplace to work across Sheets, Slides, and Docs. The add-on answers questions using the open file (citing cells in Sheets), writes formulas, inserts charts, reruns scenarios, converts outlines into editable presentations using web or X research, edits text in place, and — with connectors enabled — can pull from recent emails or Google Drive; Grok is also offered for Microsoft 365 apps.

6.0

CODING · 1 SOURCE · xAI

Grok Build adds background 'workflows' that run tasks across hundreds of parallel agents

Grok Build can now author and run workflows from plain-language requests: it plans multi-phase scripts, fans tasks out to parallel agents (default budget 128 agents, up to 1,024 for large runs), verifies results, saves progress, and reports back when finished. Saved workflows live in .grok/workflows/ or ~/.grok/workflows/, become slash commands, and built-in examples like /deep-research are provided for common tasks such as PR reviews, issue triage, and audits.

6.0

CODING · 1 SOURCE · xAI

Grok launches Build Mode in Early Beta for SuperGrok Heavy subscribers

Grok has introduced Build Mode, a feature that generates working websites, apps, games, and interactive dashboards live within chat. Build Mode is available in Early Beta today to SuperGrok Heavy subscribers on grok.com, iOS, and Android, and allows publishing to a grok.me link or a custom domain.

6.0

CODING · 1 SOURCE · xAI

Grok Build opens to all users on web, iOS, and Android

Grok Build is now available to all plans and on web, iOS, and Android; it converts natural-language descriptions into live, working apps inside Grok chats and supports publishing to grok.me with custom domains, remixing, GitHub export, secrets, and connectors. The release (previously an Early Beta limited to SuperGrok Heavy in July) also adds faster builds, X integration with rich link banners, generated cover art, and per-app access to Grok models via SpaceXAI APIs.

6.0

COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · xAI

Designing Grok Bot: interface for persistent agents

The piece describes how Grok Bot is designed around persistent 'Bots'—each with identity, memory, its own runtime and tools—rather than disposable chat sessions. It explains UI choices (roster, avatars that show state, chats as working interfaces, prompts as Skills or Routines, and Artifacts) intended to support agents that continue work across sessions and act autonomously.

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