Time magazine reports that in December, weeks before U.S. forces invaded Venezuela and captured Nicolás Maduro, President Trump met privately with Elon Musk and spent hours questioning Musk's Grok chatbot about how Venezuelans would react to Maduro's removal. Grok reportedly told Trump that Maduro was an unpopular dictator whose fall would be celebrated, a prediction a source says Trump saw as vindicated once celebrations followed the January 3 invasion.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-10-01
xAI has released Grok for Intune, a standalone version of its Grok AI assistant app designed for organizations using Microsoft Intune to manage devices. The app supports Intune Mobile Application Management, enforces company app protection policies, and requires sign-in with a work email. It is now available on the App Store and includes Grok's standard features like chat, image and video generation, voice mode, and live camera analysis.
9to5mac.com
· 2026-10-01
The Trump administration unveiled America.gov, a free chatbot meant to consolidate roughly 29,000 government websites into a single tool answering questions about tasks like applying for a passport, registering to vote, or tracking a tax refund. The bot, powered by Google's Gemini and xAI's Grok, currently only provides guidance and directs users to relevant forms and sites rather than processing personal information, though officials say it will handle form submissions and applications like Medicare enrollment next year. Users quickly tested the chatbot and found it gave answers—such as confirming Joe Biden won the 2020 election and that climate change is real—that contradict statements made by Trump and his administration.
cnet.com
· 2026-09-30
Regulators and courts have flagged a rising number of legal filings containing AI-generated fabrications, including invented citations and case law. The Ontario Law Society fined a lawyer $31,150 for using Grok to draft a factum full of fake legal principles, while Sullivan & Cromwell had to alert a New York bankruptcy court after a filing contained 42 fabricated AI citations. Canadian courts logged a sharp rise in such cases, from seven in 2024 to 86 in 2025 and 39 more in early 2026.
engadget.com
· 2026-09-29
OpenAI launched a new AI agent called Dots on Tuesday, featuring a colorful blob-like avatar. Social media users quickly noticed that the domain 'dot.com' is owned by Elon Musk's xAI and redirects visitors to the download page for its Grok chatbot app, with Whois records showing the domain was transferred in July. OpenAI has not commented, and xAI has not responded to requests for clarification on why it acquired the domain.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-09-29
xAI's Grokipedia, an AI-generated encyclopedia, has begun updating and fact-checking articles again after reportedly stalling since April. The Verge found recent 'fact-checked by Grok' timestamps on pages like Barack Obama and Elon Musk, though other entries such as Honolulu still show scans from months ago. The site also appears to be processing user-submitted edit suggestions, including one about a video game release date that was accepted within minutes.
theverge.com
· 2026-09-29
OpenAI is holding its DevDay 2026 event, promising more than 20 announcements, with the proceedings streamed live starting at 10 am PT/1 pm ET. The company already offers agent-style tools under its ChatGPT Work features ahead of the reveal.
9to5mac.com
· 2026-09-29
The Trump administration launched America.gov, a government website featuring an AI chatbot to help Americans navigate federal services. U.S. Chief Design Officer Joe Gebbia said the tool runs on AI models from Google's Gemini and Elon Musk's xAI, maker of Grok. The site went live around 10 a.m. ET Tuesday, and neither Google nor xAI immediately responded to requests for comment.
cnbc.com
· 2026-09-29
The New York City Council issued a subpoena to Elon Musk demanding testimony from him or another SpaceXAI representative at an Oct. 5 hearing before all 51 council members. The probe examines whether AI poses risks to public safety, cybersecurity, privacy and economic stability, following lawsuits alleging Grok was used to generate non-consensual deepfake pornography, including images of minors.
cnbc.com
· 2026-09-28
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and xAI all allow users to opt out of having their chat conversations used to train future models, a process that takes about a minute per service and doesn't affect personalization or memory features. Meta is the exception: US users cannot opt out of training on Meta AI chats, and since December the company has used those chats for ad targeting without any opt-out option.
engadget.com
· 2026-09-28
Ahead of its 2026 DevDay event, OpenAI is rumored to be preparing to release a continuously running AI agent called Aeon, aiming to compete with rivals such as Meta's Muse, SpaceX's Grok Bot, OpenClaw, and Instinct. The report notes OpenAI has lagged in the consumer agent race despite demoing agentic features in 2024 and releasing early computer-use and research agents in 2025.
theverge.com
· 2026-09-28
Three computer scientists connected leading AI language models to a Toyota Corolla's steering, throttle and brakes using a comma four device and GPS telemetry, then had each model attempt a short parking-lot driving course with no human input beyond a foot hovering over the brake. Only OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra completed the full course, doing so on its second try in about five minutes over a distance of under 500 feet, while most other attempts failed to get past the first corner.
futurism.com
· 2026-09-27
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