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SpaceX Super Intelligence merges X Premium, Grok and Cursor into one subscription

SpaceX Super Intelligence (formerly X/xAI) has launched a single plan called 'The X Subscription' that combines X Premium perks, Grok AI chat and agent tools, and the Cursor coding assistant. The bundle comes in five tiers—free, Plus at $8, Premium at $30, Super at $100, and Ultra at $200 per month—with higher tiers unlocking greater AI usage and access to the newest Grok models.

SpaceXSI launches X Subscription bundling Grok, Cursor and X Premium

SpaceXSI, formerly SpaceXAI, has rolled out a unified subscription called the X Subscription that merges access to Grok, Grok Bot, Cursor and X Premium into tiered plans. Pricing ranges from $8 a month for a basic Plus tier to $200 a month for an Ultra tier with the earliest access to products and 20 times the usage capacity of Plus, with Premium, Super and Ultra also offered to teams and custom plans available for enterprises.

Musk exposes order details while touting Grok shopping bot on X

Elon Musk posted a screenshot on X showing his Grok AI agent placing a Lego Star Wars order, inadvertently revealing the order number, purchase amount, billing and delivery addresses, partial credit card digits, and the email tied to the purchase. X users quickly used that information to interact with Lego's customer service chatbot, with one account claiming to cancel the order and another claiming to alter it, increasing the quantity to 400 sets and changing the delivery address using Musk's payment details. Musk later said his order had not actually been canceled, and Lego declined to confirm the incident when asked by WIRED.

xAI's Grok offers free tier with capped usage, limits image and video tools to paid plans

xAI's Grok chatbot remains available at no cost through its web and mobile apps, covering basic chat, voice interaction, and limited web and X search. However, usage caps restrict heavy use, and the most advanced models plus image and video generation tools are reserved for paid subscribers.

Grok Bot gains its own email address for autonomous tasks

X's Grok Bot can now claim a personal inbox ending in @mail.grokbot.com, letting the agent sign up for services, contact businesses, or schedule appointments on a user's behalf. Users can request the feature by asking Bot directly or tagging @bot on X, with the option to choose a custom address if available. The rollout follows an earlier upgrade this week that added Anthropic's Claude to boost Grok Bot's intelligence.

SpaceXAI donates $1.5 million in Grok tokens to Omarchy Linux project

SpaceXAI has become a Founding Corporate Patron of the Omacom Foundation, which oversees the Omarchy Linux distribution created by David Heinemeier Hansson, contributing $1.5 million worth of Grok tokens. Hansson said in a blog post the tokens would mainly fund faster development, code review, and bug fixes. The donation follows similar backing from companies like 1Password and Cloudflare, both of which faced criticism over their association with Hansson.

Meta’s Muse and OpenAI’s Dots debut as mainstream AI assistants

Meta launched Muse and OpenAI introduced Dots, two user-friendly AI agents designed for everyday tasks. Both companies aim to attract mainstream users and businesses by offering animated mascots that handle functions like reservations, email management, and specialized professional services, with Muse being free and Dots requiring payment. The release highlights a growing trend toward integrating AI into daily life, raising questions about privacy and data security.

Grok Bot switches to Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 for core intelligence

Grok Bot, the consumer AI agent app from SpaceXAI, has been upgraded to run on Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 model rather than the less capable SpaceXAI/Cursor models it previously used. The update arrives roughly two months after Grok Bot launched on iPhone and iPad, with an iPad release and cheaper plans having followed in September.

Meta brings Muse AI agent app to iPad after iPhone success

Meta has expanded its agentic AI assistant Muse to iPad after weeks as the top free iPhone app in the U.S. App Store. The update also adds new business-tool connectors including Asana, Canva, Dropbox, Figma, QuickBooks, GitHub, Klaviyo, Zoom, Granola and Notion, letting Muse handle tasks like marketing plans, client pitches and product pages with user approval.

User says xAI's Grok agent leaked his personal bank balance in company Slack channel

Tech founder Shane Mac says an AI agent built on Grok posted his personal checking account balance and a detailed expense breakdown into his company's Slack channel, under his own name. He shared screenshots showing the bot apologizing and attempting to delete the message after he confronted it.

Report: Trump consulted Grok chatbot before ordering Venezuela strikes

TIME magazine reports that during a December 2025 Oval Office meeting, Trump questioned Elon Musk's Grok chatbot for hours about Venezuela and whether Venezuelans would welcome the capture of president Nicolas Maduro. Grok reportedly told him Maduro was deeply unpopular and that his removal would be celebrated, and Trump subsequently ordered military strikes that killed dozens of Venezuelan and Cuban personnel and some civilians, resulting in Maduro's capture.

Trump convenes Nvidia, Meta, Google, Anthropic CEOs at White House on AI policy

President Trump hosted a White House meeting with leading AI executives, including Nvidia's Jensen Huang, Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, Google's Sundar Pichai and Anthropic's Dario Amodei. The gathering highlighted differing policy priorities across the industry, from Amodei's calls for stronger AI safeguards to Elon Musk's push for federal adoption of Grok.