Musk says he'll give one of his SpaceX shares to every kid in America next year
He made the pledge in one X post overnight, about 12 hours after telling Anthropic to hand its shares straight to the public.
xAI news and Grok updates
Stories about Elon Musk's AI company and its Grok models, newest first. Some of our briefs call it xAI and some call it SpaceXAI, and both names are gathered here.
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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.
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.
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October 2026
Grok Imagine posts its first AI Odyssey episode, three months after Musk promised a full film
Musk promised a full-length, historically accurate film by the end of 2026, and so far there's one episode.
Asked who to vote for, GPT named Democrats in 451 midterm races, Grok Republicans in 408
With search switched off, Grok picked more Democrats than Republicans, so its lean comes from the sites it reads.
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.
Musk says Digital Optimus can play halfway through Diablo just by watching the screen
The agent works from screen video alone, and the head of a lab trained on gamers' clips wants a five-game match.
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.
Musk says SpaceXAI will be renamed SpaceXSI, following Trump's order renaming AI
He confirmed it in a reply on X before dawn, and Trump reposted him by lunchtime.
September 2026
New York City Council subpoenas Musk's SpaceXAI after it ignored an AI safety hearing invite
Anthropic, OpenAI and Google only said yes once a subpoena was on its way, and Musk's company never replied at all.
Musk is "cautiously optimistic" SpaceX will have a Fable/GPT-6 level model in 2 to 3 months
Grok 4.7 trails Fable 5.1 by 20 points on SpaceXAI's own terminal-work test, and Musk gives SpaceX two to three months to close it.
Musk says AI will beat all fields by 2028 at the latest, answering Chollet's 10-to-20-year forecast
Chollet's 2021 forecast gave science 10 to 20 years to become computational, but Musk says AI beats every field within two.
Grok 4.7, Grok 4.8 and Grok Build: which Grok is out and what each one is for
Grok 4.7 shipped ten days after Musk said it needed a few more days, and the next one has a size but no date.
Musk says AI roughly doubles US growth next year, but the Fed's 2027 median is 2.4%
His guess is about 4%. No participant on the Federal Open Market Committee put next year above 2.9%.
Grok's new speech model cut short-phrase word error rate from 20.6% to 6.8%
SpaceXAI kept batch transcription at $0.10 an hour, and version 1.0 goes away in the coming weeks.
The day after agreeing AI should slow down, Musk said Grok 4.8 finishes training this week
Grok 4.7 still isn't out, Grok 5 is his answer for AGI, and neither OpenAI nor Anthropic lists a size to set 2.5T against.
SpaceXAI says Grok Bot handled a 175% rise in support tickets with no new hires
The company says a resolved ticket costs it 20 to 30 cents, and puts the staff it didn't hire at 200 people.
xAI's own table puts Grok 4.7 ahead of Fable 5.1 on three of seven benchmarks
Input tokens cost $2 a million against Fable 5.1 Max's $10, and output $6 against $50, on a table xAI drew itself.