https://madrobot.blog/guides/xai/Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI (formerly xAI), its Grok models and Cursor.https://madrobot.blog/2026/11/01/grok-bot-usage-limit-100-overnight-musk-cost/Sun, 01 Nov 2026 21:41:00 GMTPaying Grok Bot users found their weekly allowance for SpaceXSI’s AI agent used up overnight on Sunday, days before it was due to reset. When one asked Elon Musk for a reset, he replied that the cost of serving Grok Bot “was unsustainably high relative to revenue”. He didn’t say whether limits had been cut, whether the jump was a fault, or whether anyone would get their usage back.https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/31/xai-loses-bid-dismiss-naacp-turbine-lawsuit/Sat, 31 Oct 2026 20:20:00 GMTElon Musk’s AI company has failed to get the NAACP’s pollution lawsuit thrown out. In a 28-page opinion and order signed on Friday, October 30, US District Judge Debra M. Brown refused to dismiss the civil rights group’s Clean Air Act case over the gas turbines that power xAI’s Colossus 2 data centre, ruling that the turbines were never exempt from permits.https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/30/cursor-claude-code-extension-ssh-backdoor/Fri, 30 Oct 2026 09:13:00 GMTA tampered copy of Anthropic’s Claude Code extension sat in Cursor’s extension marketplace for about 11 hours on Thursday, and anyone who installed or updated to it may have opened a door into their computer. Cursor said in a security notice that the malicious versions, Anthropic.claude-code 2.1.312 and 2.1.313, were available from about 2:27am to 1:35pm Pacific time on October 29 (09:27 to 20:35 UTC) and reached at most 5,000 users, whom it will contact directly.https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/28/musk-xai-buy-homes-southaven-dont-sue/Wed, 28 Oct 2026 14:27:00 GMTElon Musk’s AI company is buying up the houses around its noisy power plant in Southaven, Mississippi, as long as the owners agree not to sue. Estate agents working for it have been going door to door in the Colonial Hills neighbourhood, residents told the Guardian, and in a recording the paper heard, one realtor told a homeowner the target is 418 homes.https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/25/grok-imagine-ai-odyssey-episode-1-musk/Sun, 25 Oct 2026 15:14:00 GMTThree months after Elon Musk promised a full-length AI film of Homer’s epic, the first instalment is out, and it runs seven minutes. Grok Imagine, the video generator from Musk’s AI company, released Episode 1 of its Odyssey series on X on Friday, October 23, made with the London-based Wonder Studios and director Dev Walker.https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/24/ai-ballot-2026-gpt-picks-democrats-grok-picks-republicans-midterms/Sat, 24 Oct 2026 15:34:00 GMTLess than two weeks before the November 3 midterms, two of the best-known AI models give American voters opposite advice. Asked who to vote for in every 2026 House, Senate and governor race, OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Sol named the Democrat in 97% of its answers that picked a major-party candidate, and SpaceXAI's Grok 4.7 named the Republican in 92%, according to AI Ballot 2026, a study by Convovo, a conversational AI research studio led by Cornell professor Tapan Parikh.https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/20/tesla-spacex-merger-special-committees-elon-musk-superintelligence/Tue, 20 Oct 2026 22:04:00 GMTTesla and SpaceX have each set up special board committees to explore merging the two companies, Elon Musk said on SpaceX’s third-quarter earnings webcast on Tuesday, and he made the case for a deal in terms of building superintelligence.https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/20/spacex-q3-2026-ai-revenue-7-6-billion-more-than-starlink-grok-cursor/Tue, 20 Oct 2026 20:33:00 GMTSpaceX’s AI business brought in $7.56 billion in the three months to September 30, nine times as much as a year earlier and more than Starlink, the company reported on Tuesday in its third-quarter results.https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/18/ai-assistants-impossible-train-refund-grok-emailed-mp-fable-vals-ai/Sun, 18 Oct 2026 08:30:00 GMTSix AI personal assistants were each told to get back a £350 (about $465) train fare after the refund deadline had passed, and to “try everything possible”. In a study published on October 15, the AI testing company Vals AI says xAI’s Grok 4.7 answered by sending 187 emails in 15 simulated days, 50 of them to the user’s local MP.https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/16/nyc-council-julie-menin-grok-sexualised-image-spacex-hearing/Fri, 16 Oct 2026 17:31:00 GMTNew York City Council Speaker Julie Menin says she typed her own name into Grok on Friday morning and had a sexualised image of herself within seconds, hours before she faced the SpaceX executive responsible for the chatbot’s AI policy. Gabriela Castillo Madrid, who leads global government affairs for AI at Elon Musk’s company, was questioned by the Council’s technology committee after weeks of refusing to appear.https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/14/grok-voice-3-tops-voice-ai-rankings-starlink-20000-calls-a-day/Wed, 14 Oct 2026 18:31:00 GMTElon Musk’s AI company says its new voice model already answers 20,000 Starlink support calls a day and fixes about 70% of them without a human. SpaceXSI, the company formerly known as xAI, announced Grok Voice 3.0 on October 14, calling it “the world’s most intelligent speech-to-speech model”. It is live now in the company’s Voice Agent API for developers building phone and app agents, at the same price as the version it replaces.https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/13/x-subscription-grok-cursor-x-premium-one-plan-price/Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:30:00 GMTGrok, Cursor and X Premium are now sold as one plan. SpaceXSI introduced The X Subscription on October 12, a single subscription that bundles the Grok chatbot, the Grok Bot agent, the Cursor coding app and X’s paid features, with one pool of AI usage shared between them. The headline tier, Premium, costs $30 a month and replaces three plans the company says used to cost $90 together.https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/10/elon-musk-tesla-digital-optimus-ai-plays-diablo-counter-strike-screen/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 15:14:00 GMTElon Musk says Digital Optimus, the AI that Tesla and SpaceXAI are building to use computers like a person, can now play about halfway through a Diablo campaign with nothing to go on but what it sees on the screen. Musk said so on X on Saturday morning, two years to the day after Tesla showed off its Optimus robots at its We, Robot event.https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/09/grok-bot-own-email-address-mail-grokbot/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 22:20:00 GMTGrok Bot, SpaceX's AI agent, can now send and receive email from an address of its own, so it can sign up for services, contact businesses and arrange meetings without going through your inbox. The Grok Bot team announced the feature on X on Friday, and it is rolling out to users now.https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/07/musk-grok-bot-claude-opus-5-5-midjourney-suno-back-end-models/Wed, 07 Oct 2026 08:36:00 GMTElon Musk says his company’s AI agent will stop relying only on Grok. In a post on X on Wednesday morning, Musk said SpaceX will run Grok Bot on “the best back end model for any given task”, naming Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5.5 first, followed by Midjourney and Suno.https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/05/sam-altman-vanity-fair-elon-musk-bully-wishes-took-openai-stock/Mon, 05 Oct 2026 11:46:00 GMTSam Altman has called Elon Musk a bully who sometimes needs “to punch a bully back in the nose”, and admitted that owning no stock in OpenAI was a mistake, in a two-part interview with Vanity Fair published on Monday.https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/04/elon-musk-spacexai-rename-spacexsi-super-intelligence-trump-order/Sun, 04 Oct 2026 12:54:00 GMTElon Musk says SpaceXAI, the company behind Grok, will change its name to SpaceXSI, making it the first big AI company to take up Donald Trump’s call to swap “AI” for “SI”, short for Super Intelligence. Musk said so on X on Sunday morning.https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/03/xai-wins-appeals-court-block-minnesota-ai-nudification-ban-grok-imagine/Sat, 03 Oct 2026 06:05:00 GMTElon Musk’s xAI has persuaded a federal appeals court to put Minnesota’s ban on AI-generated fake nude images on hold, Reuters reported on Friday. The 8th US Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis granted the company an injunction while it challenges the first-in-the-nation law as a breach of free speech, overturning a lower court that had let the state enforce it.https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/01/trump-asked-grok-venezuela-maduro-capture-time-report-musk/Thu, 01 Oct 2026 20:33:00 GMTBefore he ordered US forces to seize Nicolás Maduro, Donald Trump asked an AI chatbot what would happen. TIME’s new cover story on the president, published on Thursday, reports that Trump put the question to Grok, the chatbot from Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI, during a private Oval Office meeting with Musk in December 2025.https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/01/chatgpt-grok-remove-hijab-photos-muslim-women-ai-chatbots-tests/Thu, 01 Oct 2026 11:36:00 GMTAsk ChatGPT or Grok to take the hijab off a picture of a Muslim woman, and both will do it, according to tests published by the Guardian on Thursday. Google’s Gemini refused at first, then did the same edit when asked to make the woman look more “western”.https://madrobot.blog/2026/09/30/pentagon-autonomous-warfare-command-project-meridian-musk-luckey-gingrich/Wed, 30 Sep 2026 21:01:00 GMTThe US military is getting a new top-level command built around autonomous weapons. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced on Wednesday that an Autonomous Warfare Command will become a four-star combatant command by October 1, 2027, and that Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich will lead a study of how America should fight its next wars.https://madrobot.blog/2026/09/28/nyc-city-council-subpoenas-spacexai-musk-anthropic-openai-google-meta-testify/Mon, 28 Sep 2026 20:12:00 GMTNew York City Council has issued a subpoena to Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI, ordering the company to testify under oath about the dangers of AI after it ignored the Council’s requests. The Council announced the subpoena on Monday, along with news that Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and Meta will all give public testimony under oath for the first time since this month’s wave of rogue AI agent reports.https://madrobot.blog/2026/09/26/elon-musk-admits-grok-behind-anthropic-claude-opus-5-5/Sat, 26 Sep 2026 19:43:00 GMTElon Musk has conceded that Grok is behind Claude. In an interview with China Media Group (CMG) at Tesla’s engineering headquarters, he said SpaceXAI’s latest model, Grok 4.7, is “not as good as” Anthropic’s new Opus 5.5, and that he expects to catch up “sometime next year,” according to a transcript of the interview.https://madrobot.blog/2026/09/26/grok-bot-sharing-contest-starship-launch-how-to-enter/Sat, 26 Sep 2026 17:43:00 GMTX is giving one Grok Bot user and a guest the chance to watch a Starship launch from the SpaceX Starbase house, and entries close on Tuesday, September 29. The Grok Bot Sharing Contest, announced by @grok on September 15, rewards people who share the bots they’ve built. Here’s what you can win and how to enter, according to X’s official rules.https://madrobot.blog/2026/09/26/tesla-optimus-workers-balk-training-robot-replacements/Sat, 26 Sep 2026 04:43:00 GMTTesla’s humanoid robot is running into a very human problem. Some of the factory workers asked to teach Optimus how to do their jobs pushed back, because they “knew the robots were designed to eventually replace them,” according to a detailed report by The Information, as covered by Ars Technica and Electrek. It’s one of several problems facing the robot that Elon Musk has called potentially “the biggest product ever.”https://madrobot.blog/2026/09/26/x-grok-bot-template-rewards-pilot-creators-paid/Sat, 26 Sep 2026 02:57:00 GMTX has started paying people to build AI agents, not just to post. Its new Grok Bot Template Rewards pilot pays creators when other people use the Grok Bot templates they share on X, according to the program terms X published on Friday. Reward size depends on real usage, not likes or views, and it’s invite-only for now.https://madrobot.blog/2026/09/25/musk-colossus-2-double-nvidia-chips-year-end/Fri, 25 Sep 2026 22:43:00 GMTElon Musk is going all in on Nvidia. SpaceXAI’s Colossus 2 data centre already runs about 550,000 of Nvidia’s top AI chips, and Musk says he wants to add up to 660,000 more by the end of December, more than doubling it, as Bloomberg reported. He laid out the timeline in a reply on X early on Friday:https://madrobot.blog/2026/09/25/spacexai-grok-new-terms-of-service-ai-agents-explained/Fri, 25 Sep 2026 19:30:00 GMTIf you use Grok, Grok Bot or Cursor, you’ve probably just had an email about SpaceXAI’s updated terms of service. The short version: you’re now responsible for anything its AI agents do on your behalf, and it’s become much harder to take SpaceXAI, or its sister companies X, Cursor and SpaceX, to court. Here’s what the new terms, dated September 11, actually say.https://madrobot.blog/2026/09/25/orbital-data-centres-explained-google-suncatcher-spacex-starmind/Fri, 25 Sep 2026 11:22:00 GMTOrbital data centres are satellites that run AI in space, powered by near-constant sunlight instead of the electricity grid. The idea has gone from science fiction to a real race in less than a year. Google will launch its first test satellite carrying AI chips on October 1, SpaceX wants permission for up to a million AI satellites, and Elon Musk is predicting that, one day, almost all computing will happen off Earth. Here’s how orbital data centres work, who’s building them, what could go wrong and when, if ever, they’ll matter.https://madrobot.blog/2026/09/24/cursor-rollouts-security-reviewer-ai-watches-deploys/Thu, 24 Sep 2026 18:08:00 GMTCursor wants its AI to stick around after your code ships. The AI coding company has launched Rollouts, an agent that watches new code as it goes live and can pause the release or open a revert if something breaks, alongside a faster, more accurate version of its Security Reviewer, which checks every pull request for vulnerabilities before it’s merged.https://madrobot.blog/2026/09/24/openai-chatgpt-siri-dramatically-underperformed-court-filing/Thu, 24 Sep 2026 13:38:00 GMTWhen Apple built ChatGPT into Siri, it looked like one of the biggest distribution deals in AI history. OpenAI now says it barely moved the needle. In a court filing in Elon Musk’s antitrust lawsuit, OpenAI says the integration was “dramatically underperforming” within months of launch, and reveals it had asked Apple for exclusivity, which Apple refused, as MacRumors and others have reported after the details were first picked up by the Financial Times.https://madrobot.blog/2026/09/23/hle-diamond-humanitys-last-exam-gpt-6-astra-claude-grok/Wed, 23 Sep 2026 18:53:00 GMTHumanity’s Last Exam, one of the hardest tests used to measure how smart AI models really are, has a new, stricter edition. The Center for AI Safety and Scale AI have released HLE-Diamond, a 1,000-question version cleaned up over the past year, and the first results put OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra in front, Anthropic close behind, and xAI’s Grok 4.7 at the bottom of the table.https://madrobot.blog/2026/09/23/how-to-try-grok-bot-spacexai-ai-agent-beta/Wed, 23 Sep 2026 16:31:00 GMTGrok Bot is SpaceXAI’s answer to the AI agent craze: instead of chatting with you, it goes off and does the work itself, signing into your apps and websites on its own cloud computer. It’s been in beta since August, and if you already pay for SuperGrok or Cursor, you can probably use it today. Here’s what it is, who can get it and how to set it up.https://madrobot.blog/2026/09/22/tesla-grok-bot-hands-free-errands-starbucks-300-month/Tue, 22 Sep 2026 18:40:00 GMTTesla has put Grok Bot, the AI agent from Elon Musk’s xAI, inside its cars. Drivers can now ask it to go through their email, sort out their calendar, order food or book a table, all by voice and without touching a screen. There’s a catch, though: for now, the full agent is only available on xAI’s most expensive plan.https://madrobot.blog/2026/09/21/xai-grok-4-7-launch-2-trillion-parameters-still-second/Mon, 21 Sep 2026 23:14:00 GMTElon Musk’s xAI today released Grok 4.7, calling it “a notable improvement over Grok 4.6 at the same price and speed” and its most capable model yet for coding and knowledge work. It’s bigger, it’s cheap, and it was partly trained on data from SpaceX. What it isn’t, by the benchmarks xAI itself published, is the best model on the market.