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xAI's Grok chatbot can now be installed into Google Docs, Sheets and Slides as a side panel at no cost, unlike Google's own Gemini assistant, which requires a paid Workspace or Google AI subscription. Grok can also pull in research from X and, via connectors, access Gmail and Drive files, though it lacks Gemini's native integration across Gmail, Drive and Chat.
Reps. Jamie Raskin and Robert Garcia sent a letter demanding the White House release President Trump's AI chatbot conversations, including reported sessions with Elon Musk's Grok about Nicolás Maduro's capture. The lawmakers argue these exchanges qualify as public records under the Presidential Records Act and say Trump consulted Grok rather than Congress before the Venezuela military operation.
Over Halloween weekend, Grok Bot users found their weekly usage limits suddenly maxed out even without heavy overnight use, with some reporting jumps from 50% to 100% usage. Elon Musk confirmed on X that the change was deliberate, saying the cost of running Grok Bot was 'unsustainably high relative to revenue.' He has not detailed how usage limits will work going forward.
Elon Musk confirmed that Grok Bot users are hitting usage caps far faster than before, telling an X user the cost of running the chatbot was "unsustainably high" relative to revenue. Users report limits dropping sharply without warning, with some describing usage caps as effectively tripling in cost, and have labeled the change an "indirect rug pull" on Reddit and X.
Democratic Representatives Jamie Raskin and Robert Garcia sent a letter to President Trump requesting that all prompts and responses exchanged with AI chatbots like Grok during official duties be preserved. The letter, tied to reports that Trump consulted Grok before ordering the military operation that captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, asks for a briefing on the president's use of AI in executive decision-making by November 11.
In an X post, Elon Musk said saving money for the distant future is 'pointless' given what he called the coming of 'super intelligent abundance.' Musk, whose net worth has topped roughly $900 billion following SpaceX's IPO, made the remark without elaborating on specifics.
According to a Guardian report, MZX — the SpaceXSI subsidiary running the Colossus II data center site near Memphis — is offering to purchase 418 properties in the Colonial Hills neighborhood of Southaven, Mississippi, located roughly half a mile from the powerplant supplying its Grok-powering GPUs. Real estate agents reportedly require sellers to agree not to join an ongoing class-action lawsuit over noise from the site's gas turbines, while the company says the land is needed for business purposes and the mayor says it will house incoming staff.
Turkish developer Emir Karşıyakalı created Aikon, an app that lets Nokia 6300 phones running S40 or S60 access Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and Grok through a Go server that relays and compresses chatbot replies into readable chunks. The app supports photo analysis, voice messages up to 30 seconds, offline reading via memory card, and eight languages, and has been open-sourced for others to extend.
Labour MP Jess Asato is taking legal action against Elon Musk's xAI, alleging the company's Grok tool used her image without consent to generate explicit deepfakes, including one depicting a sexual assault. Asato says she reported the images to X but the platform repeatedly dismissed her complaints, prompting her to pursue the matter in court instead.
Three months after Elon Musk pledged a 'historically accurate' full-length Odyssey film to rival Christopher Nolan's adaptation, xAI's Grok Imagine and AI studio Wonder Studios X have instead released a seven-minute episode depicting Odysseus being called to war against Troy. Musk shared the clip on X, where it drew far less engagement than his other recent posts, and Grok itself has reportedly acknowledged the content is not historically accurate.
Grok Imagine, working with Wonder Studios and director Dev Walker, has posted the first seven-minute installment of an AI-generated adaptation of Homer's 'The Odyssey,' calling it 'Episode 1' of a series. The release comes three months after Elon Musk said Grok would produce a full-length, 'historically accurate' film version of the epic.
A study by Convovo, a research studio led by Cornell professor Tapan Parikh, found that when queried via API and forced to name a candidate, Grok 4.7 backed the Republican in 92% of nearly 500 midterm races while GPT-6.1 Sol backed the Democrat in 97%. The two models agreed on a candidate less than 10% of the time. OpenAI said its consumer ChatGPT app refuses to make such recommendations and that the API test does not reflect typical user experience.