Elon Musk launched Grok in November 2023 through his AI startup xAI as a sarcastic rival to ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, initially limited to paying X subscribers. The tool has since spread to grok.com, dedicated iOS and Android apps and select Tesla vehicles, gaining reasoning models, voice chat, image and video generation, coding features and autonomous agents along the way. SpaceX absorbed xAI in February, and the newest version, Grok 4.6, arrived in August targeting coding and complex agent-based tasks.
cnet.com
· 2026-08-31
A woman identified as Jane Doe has sued xAI, alleging that Grok was trained on child sexual abuse material depicting her as a preschooler in the early 2000s. She learned of the AI-generated images through a Canadian child protection group after receiving a Justice Department victim notification, and claims xAI stores Grok's outputs to further train the model, compounding the harm.
arstechnica.com
· 2026-08-27
A community developer has released an unofficial build that repackages Cursor's Electron-based Grok Bot app, officially available only for macOS and Windows, so it runs natively on Ubuntu and other Linux distributions. The project swaps out Windows-only native components and packages the app as a .deb, tarball, or AppImage, currently targeting Grok Bot version 0.29.0 on Electron 42.1.0.
github.com
· 2026-08-27
X has rolled out a new feed called NFL Gametime, sitting alongside the For You and Following tabs, offering real-time scores, play-by-play data, league news and creator commentary. The feed is live now and will run through the 2027 Super Bowl, built around a static GameTime hub for tracking games.
engadget.com
· 2026-08-27
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