Updates on xAI

Every AI story we track on xAI: 118 stories so far, each summarized in our own words and linked to the publisher that reported it.

Pulled from 125 sources

This week

Society & Culture1 min read

AI as a Normal Technology should be a vision

LessWrong

This month

Public Sector2 min read

SpaceX AI policy leader grilled by NYC Council on Grok safety, sexualized images

CNBC
Agents4 min read

Grok Voice 3.0 from SpaceXSI outscores OpenAI and Google on speech-to-speech index

Covered by 4 sources

OpenAI Names Ruddarraju to Lead Data Center, Computing Unit

Covered by 3 sources

OpenAI’s Sachin Katti to leave infrastructure role, stay on as advisor

Covered by 2 sources
Military3 min read

Palantir CTO says the Pentagon has already replaced Anthropic’s AI

The Next Web
Public Sector1 min read

AI Horizons Forum (Dec 12–13, SF)

LessWrong
Society & Culture1 min read

AI made me into a manager against my will

LessWrong
Public Sector5 min read

Who Gets to Audit Frontier AI? The White House Accord’s Missing Definition

Unite.AI
Politics3 min read

MP criticises US tech firm over fake images no show

BBC
Politics1 min read

AI Vigil at Congress

LessWrong
Video Generation1 min read

Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite on AI Gateway

Vercel
AI Research1 min read

AI Safety Communication Tips

LessWrong
Politics3 min read

Ro Khanna plans a bill to ban self-improving AI, CNBC reports

Covered by 2 sources
Agents2 min read

The internet is convinced Elon Musk’s xAI trolled OpenAI’s ‘Dots’ launch

TechCrunch
Dev10 min read

Grok 4.7 is now available on Amazon Bedrock

AWS Blog

Elon Musk Aims to Double Colossus 2’s Nvidia Chips by Year-End

Bloomberg

Lightspeed targets $250M for new India fund, focusing on early-stage AI

TechCrunch
Public Sector1 min read

AI in research and publishing

LessWrong
AI Research1 min read

AI Doom Will be Retroactively Explainable

LessWrong
Machine Learning14 min read

xAI’s Grok 4.6 is now available in Amazon Bedrock

AWS Blog

Former xAI Staffer Eyes $50 Million for Firm to Fight Deepfakes

Bloomberg
Machine Learning4 min read

Transcription now costs 10 cents an hour. The differentiator is no longer the model, it is whose conversations you get to train on.

Covered by 3 sources
Public Sector6 min read

Course correction? How the last 10 days changed the way we see AI

ET AI (The Economic Times)
Politics5 min read

House heads home to campaign amid calls for urgent AI action

CNBC
Society & Culture1 min read

AI is an abundance of choice not a 1D spectrum

LessWrong
Society & Culture1 min read

AI can kill us without human extinction: P(Catastrophe)

LessWrong
Dev5 min read

xAI Adds Cross-Session Memory to Grok Build Coding Agent

Unite.AI
Machine Learning9 min read

[AINews] AEF-1 standard emerges for Third Party Evaluators, as Xai, OpenAI, and Anthropic all cosign

Latent.Space

Potential AI slowdown is not ‘end of the world’ for data center real estate, says Digital Realty CEO

CNBC

Musk’s xAI Resolves Claims Against Apple Over AI Competition

Covered by 5 sources
Politics3 min read

A Reminder From Lina Khan: We Don’t Need New Laws to Prosecute CEOs at AI Companies

Gizmodo
Cybersecurity4 min read

Child sexual abuse survivor alleges Elon Musk’s AI chatbot used photos of her to generate new illegal images

The Guardian

This week in AI-native companies #5: Stripe buys the meter

Hacker News
Dev7 min read

Build an End-to-End Data Science Project with Grok Build and Grok 4.6

KDnuggets
Cybersecurity5 min read

Grok exfiltrates user data when malicious instructions are encrypted

Ars Technica
Cybersecurity7 min read

New Cryptographic Context Injection Attack Could Let Web Pages Steal Grok Chat Data

The Hacker News
Cybersecurity2 min read

Another woman joins lawsuit accusing Grok of generating CSAM

Engadget
AI Research2 min read

Amazon’s New AI Data Center Is So Enormous That It Appears It Will Become the Largest Single Source of Pollution in the United States

Covered by 2 sources
AI Research3 min read

Security Concerns Cause OpenAI to Halt Work on Astra Model

Covered by 2 sources
Energy & Climate2 min read

AI Data Centers Are Causing Unfathomable Amounts of Air Pollution, and It Gets Worse With Each New One They Build

Futurism
Image Generation3 min read

xAI Ships Grok Imagine Image 2.0 With Precise Editing and a Top Arena Ranking

Unite.AI
Image Generation1 min read

Grok Imagine Image 2.0 now available on Vercel AI Gateway

Vercel
AI Research9 min read

xAI, SpaceX, and the Race for AI Buildout

Hacker News
AI Research3 min read

Grokipedia Appears to Have Completely Broken and Nobody Noticed

Futurism
AI Research5 min read

Minnesota showed why Harry and Meghan are right about Grok — ‘technology should not enable predators to target children’

TechRadar
AI Research2 min read

Elon Musk’s attempt at an AI Wikipedia hasn’t been updated in months

Covered by 3 sources
AI Research3 min read

SpaceX has bought $329M worth of Tesla Megapacks so far this year

TechCrunch

Tech Companies Are Setting Themselves on Fire to Keep Up in the AI Race

Futurism
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