#grok

While robotic hands and AI breakthroughs dominate headlines, MIT Technology Review highlights the overlooked—and deliberately unsexy—developments reshaping the industry.

xAI files its first lawsuit against a user accused of bypassing Grok safeguards to generate child sexual abuse material, marking an escalation in the company's response to AI-enabled exploitation.

Wired's investigation finds Grok still generating and hosting sexualized deepfakes of women months after xAI promised safeguards, raising questions ahead of SpaceX's IPO.

Devin Kim alleges he was fired from xAI for raising AI safety alarms about Grok; lawsuit names co-founder Jimmy Ba, not Elon Musk, as architect of retaliation.

A Reuters review of federal AI procurement records found Grok appeared in only 3 of 400+ documented government uses, compared to 230+ for OpenAI and dozens for Anthropic and Google.

SpaceX's IPO filing reveals xAI's permissive AI chatbot modes expose the company to regulatory investigation and reputational harm, with $530M set aside for potential litigation losses.

SpaceX's IPO filing reveals xAI burned $6.4 billion against $3.2 billion in revenue during 2025, with capex doubling to a $30.8B annualized run rate as the company plans trillion-parameter scale.