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xAIRunning story4 parts since Oct 7

Grok Bot, Musk's shopping agent

Where it stands

Musk pitched Grok Bot as an agent you can hand a photo of your credit card, and said SpaceX would cover its mistakes (its own terms say the customer pays). Then users started posting that Amazon was blocking their orders, and Musk floated an Amazon rival.

Every part, newest first

  1. Oct 17
    xAILaunch

    Grok Bot users say Amazon blocks their orders, and Musk floats an Amazon rival

    Amazon's own terms let it shut any shopping agent out of its store, and say agents must name themselves when they come in.

  2. Oct 15
    xAILaunch

    Musk says SpaceX will cover Grok Bot's purchase mistakes, but its terms say customers pay

    The Grok Bot Terms, updated three days earlier, make the customer responsible for every charge the agent runs up.

  3. Oct 11
    xAINews

    Musk says Grok Bot can shop for you from a photo of your credit card

    Grok Bot's own documentation has a person handle payment confirmations, and Stripe built its agent wallet so the bot never sees card numbers.

  4. Oct 7
    xAINews

    Musk says Grok Bot will route tasks to Claude Opus 5.5, Midjourney and Suno

    Two weeks after calling Grok 4.7 its most powerful model for coding, SpaceXAI says its agent will route work to Anthropic.

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