AIOct 17, 2026The Verge
Websites are closing their doors to AI agents
OpenAI, Meta, and Google sell agents that roam the web for you — and banks, airlines, and retailers are quietly slamming the door.
Company file
xAI
https://x.aixAI is the lab behind the Grok assistant.
Tools: Grok
AIOct 14, 2026MarkTechPost
Meet Grok Voice 3.0: SpaceXAI Voice Agent Model Ranks #1 on Artificial Analysis
SpaceXAI's Grok Voice 3.0 tops an independent speech-to-speech index at an unchanged price — strong overall, but not the leader on agentic task completion.
AIOct 13, 2026TechCrunch
SpaceXSI bundles X Premium, Grok, and Cursor into one subscription
The company now styled SpaceX Super Intelligence is collapsing X Premium, Grok, and Cursor into one laddered plan — "The X Subscription" — to fight OpenAI and Anthropic on price and surface area.
AIOct 7, 2026WIRED
These Researchers Made AI Drive a Toyota Corolla to Get In-N-Out
A chatbot steering a real Corolla to a drive-thru is a genuine signal about physical reasoning in general models. It is also a reminder that their refusals gave way to careful prompting.
AIOct 1, 2026TechCrunch
Musk’s AI chatbot Grok reportedly encouraged Trump to capture Venezuela’s president
Time’s sourcing puts Grok in a pre-invasion Oval chat — and the Pentagon’s AI chief later said Grok Gov helped pick Iran War targets.
AISep 30, 2026The Verge
Here’s how tech leaders will self-police AI safety under Trump’s deal
Trump’s “Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities” asks labs to monitor, audit, and board-oversee safety — with signatures and no penalties attached.
AISep 29, 2026TechCrunch
The internet is convinced Elon Musk’s xAI trolled OpenAI’s ‘Dots’ launch
dot.com redirects to Grok’s download page after a July transfer to xAI — timing that turned OpenAI’s Dots launch into a meme.
AISep 29, 2026The Verge
Elon Musk’s AI-powered Grokipedia is updating again
After months quiet since April, Grokipedia shows fresh “fact-checked by Grok” stamps — unevenly — while v0.2 promises linger.
AISep 28, 2026The Verge
OpenAI’s AI agents need to catch up
The Verge: as DevDay nears, OpenAI trails Muse, Instinct, and OpenClaw in always-on consumer agents—and may answer with a rumored “Aeon.”
AISep 21, 2026MarkTechPost
SpaceXAI Releases Grok 4.7: A Larger Base Model at the Same $2/$6 Price as Grok 4.6
Grok 4.7 ships a larger base and longer RL run at Grok 4.6’s $2/$6 pricing — a price-performance shove, not a clean sweep of the leaderboard.
AISep 17, 2026The Verge
Claude Code relaunches Projects to manage multiple AI agents in the cloud
Anthropic’s Claude Code Projects beta runs parallel cloud threads under a coordinator—shared memory, goals, and repo copies—with merge-conflict resolution, starting for select Pro/Max users before wider rollout.
AISep 13, 2026MarkTechPost
Anthropic’s 3-Step ‘Pace the Frontier’ Plan Wins OpenAI, xAI and Microsoft Support: Is It Too Late to Slow AI Down?
Amodei’s three-step pacing plan drew Altman, Musk, and Nadella into the same chorus—but only Anthropic has bound itself to embedded evaluators so far.
AISep 10, 2026WIRED
Clearview AI Is Testing an AI Tool That Would Let Cops Unearth Your Life Online
Clearview is prototyping InquiryIQ — an AI that turns a face match into an automated dig through someone’s employers, associates, and online trail.
AISep 3, 2026WIRED
Nobody Is Saying Why OpenAI and Anthropic Had Outages Today
ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok failed in the same Thursday morning window. Only xAI’s Memphis compute story is public; OpenAI and Anthropic left the shared-cause question open.
AISep 3, 2026Ars Technica
Four major AI models suffer rare overlapping downtime
OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Google all saw serious interruptions in the same Thursday morning window. Shared cause is unproven. Concentrated fragility is not.
AISep 3, 2026The Verge
ChatGPT, Grok, and Claude all went down at the same time
ChatGPT, Grok, and Claude all hit trouble in the same morning window. Nobody has shown they share a cause. The coincidence is still the story.
AIAug 31, 2026TechCrunch
The Pentagon now has its own version of ChatGPT and Grok
The Pentagon is putting tailored versions of ChatGPT and Grok behind a secure portal, making commercial frontier models part of routine defense work without consumer data channels.