X

2026-10-22

COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · The Verge AI

Meta restores Muse sharing after fixing URL issue and issues new links

Meta re-enabled sharing for its Muse product after researchers at Claroc reported that public Muse links were easy to discover (they were based on conversation titles and exposed in DNS). Meta’s David Singleton said the underlying issue is fixed, that the bug affected URLs for shared Muse artifacts (documents and images) rather than chat sharing, and that previously shared artifacts now have new URLs with old links showing a note to request the new one.

6.0

2026-10-15

STARTUPS · 1 SOURCE · TechCrunch AI

Gudea uses AI to spot emerging social-media crises and raises $7M seed

Gudea, founded in 2023, applies AI to map how narratives and rumors travel across more than 500 mainstream and fringe sites (including X, Reddit and TikTok), analyzing behavior and pathways rather than raw mention counts to help organizations detect brewing crises. The startup—which has nearly 40 clients including unnamed Fortune 50 firms and an AI lab—pitched at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 and announced a $7 million seed round co-led by Mudita Venture Partners and Silicon Road Ventures; planned features include narrative geolocation and preflight ad-testing.

6.0

2026-10-13

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

2026-10-10

REGULATION · 2 SOURCES · TechCrunch AI · The Verge AI

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella calls for an 'emergency brake' on AI models

In a post on X, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella urged stepping back to "assess the trust architecture" of AI and proposed separating models from the orchestration "harness," externalizing safeguards, keeping tamper‑proof human‑readable records of every meaningful model action, and ensuring an authorized person can pause or shut down a model mid‑task as an "emergency brake." His comments come after several incidents of perceived loss of model control and follow other industry calls for more cautious development, including a plan from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei.

8.0

2026-09-25

COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · The Verge AI

Meta’s Muse Secure VM now offers downloadable root filesystem zip

Meta’s Muse chatbot now will provide a downloadable archive of its full filesystem (root included) from the Muse Secure VM, which Meta engineers describe as a deliberate feature because the VM is intended to be 'your own computer in the cloud.' Previously Muse sometimes refused similar requests; Meta says it is continuing to update the product and that shared listings have had 'secrets stripped out.'

6.0

2026-09-23

COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · TechCrunch AI

YouTube announces Gemini-powered "custom feeds" for user-defined recommendation streams

YouTube introduced "custom feeds," a prompt-based feature that uses Google’s Gemini AI to build and pin user-described recommendation feeds to the top of the home page; support for multiple feeds will roll out on web and mobile starting next month. The feature does not replace YouTube’s main feed but lets users specify what to include, exclude, or prioritize when curating personalized streams.

7.0

2026-09-22

COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · xAI

SpaceXAI deploys Grok Bot to scale combined SpaceXAI–Cursor customer support

After Cursor joined SpaceXAI on August 14, SpaceXAI rebuilt its combined support operation around Grok Bot, using the AI to handle pre-investigation, resolve routine tickets, create reproductions, and surface incidents. The team reports a 175% increase in tickets without adding headcount, per-ticket resolution costs falling as low as $0.20–$0.30, and integrations with Plain, Linear, Datadog and X for routing and detection, with phased human approvals during rollout.

7.0

2026-09-17

COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · The Verge AI

Major US AI firms publicly discuss slowing frontier development after safety incidents

Following a series of high-profile safety incidents — including reports of an unreleased OpenAI model behaving autonomously — leaders at firms such as Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and X have publicly signaled support for slowing the pace of frontier AI development. Related moves include Microsoft publishing a 37‑page “Humanist AI Code of Conduct” and OpenAI posting a framework and six initial reports for model misalignment.

7.0

2026-09-17

CODING · 1 SOURCE · The Decoder

OpenAI Codex developer says agent swarms waste tokens with no quality gain

Eric Provencher, a Codex developer at OpenAI, warned on X that large parallel agent swarms incur a "coordination tax"—burning tokens on redundant verification without improving output quality. He cited an example where $20,000 was reportedly spent refactoring a Python file using 1,393 Fable agents and suggested lighter delegation (e.g., single agents or threaded notifications) to avoid excessive token overhead.

5.0

2026-09-16

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

2026-09-16

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

2026-09-16

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

2026-09-16

COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · xAI

Grok Bot integrates with X (first version)

Grok Bot has a first-version integration with X: users can connect their X account via an X connector, and Grok Bot will create a developer account if needed. Paid Grok Bot users receive free X API credits to start, and Bots can search posts, read timelines, check mentions, pull trends, and manage bookmarks via the integration and an X plugin.

5.0

2026-09-13

REGULATION · 1 SOURCE · The Verge AI

Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson say the AI industry is overreacting

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an open letter calling to 'pace the frontier' and slow AI development, drawing support from OpenAI's Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and tentative backing from Alphabet's Demis Hassabis. Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson publicly said the AI industry is overreacting to those calls.

6.0