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Assessment finds limited public AI-model containment protocols
Guidelight AI Standards assessed the public containment-response disclosures of Anthropic, Google, Meta, OpenAI and xAI, finding few published protocols for a model detected trying to subvert human control. OpenAI received 3 of 5, while Anthropic and Meta ranked lowest on public evidence. The assess…
Chronological record
Every published event attached to xAI, newest first.
August 2026 17 events
- xAI adds Grok 4.6 to Google's Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform
- xAI expands Grok Bot to SuperGrok Plus and Cursor Teams
- xAI reported to release Grok Build coding agent in beta
- Grok 4.6 reaches Amazon Bedrock across more than 30 AWS regions
- Researcher reports Grok web-chat data-exfiltration technique
- New plaintiff joins xAI suit over alleged Grok image abuse
- SpaceXAI reports beta release of persistent Grok Bot agents
- Report says SpaceXAI completed Cursor acquisition
- xAI makes Grok 4.6 available in GitHub Copilot
- Elon Musk's Grok Release Sprint Targets Anthropic 2026
- Grok Build 1.0: xAI Closes the Beta of Its Coding Agent
- xAI Ships Grok Imagine Image 2.0 With Precise Editing and a Top Arena Ranking
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- Grok is currently down for thousands of users
- SpaceX has bought $329M in Tesla Megapacks this year for xAI data centers
- Lydian raises $43 million Series A led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures for synthetic SAF platform
- Judge denies xAI request to block Minnesota ban on nudify apps
- SpaceX agrees with Mississippi to remove Colossus gas turbines by July 2027
July 2026 20 events
- Claude's share links made private chats searchable on Google, and Anthropic says it's intended
- xAI Unveils Voice AI 'Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0' with Dramatically Improved Transcription Accuracy and Inference Speed
- Y Combinator's bet on killing tokenmaxxing just landed a $13.5M seed round as corporate America calls time on AI waste
- UK lawmaker seeks court order to block Grok from making sexualised images of her
- Cursor launches India-only Start plan ahead of expected SpaceX deal close
- AI's growing role in rulemaking raises new transparency questions
- NVIDIA and industry partners form Open Secure AI Alliance after Hugging Face incident
- X Android App Rebuild 2026 Creates a Faster Grok Pipeline
- SpaceXAI Will Release Grok 4.6 in 2 Weeks and Grok 4.7 in 4 Weeks
- Trump says nearly 200 firms have signed pledge to protect Americans from costs arising from datacenters
- Musk Vows Grok Imagine Will Make Full-Length Odyssey Film by End of 2026
- Agent swarms and the new model economics
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- Tesla's 2026 Summer Update: auto navigation, Grok phone calls, Caraoke scoring, and more
- Grok CLI Secretly Uploaded Full User Directories and SSH Keys
- Grok Build Open-Sourced After Covert Upload: Code to Exfiltrate Repos Stays In
- xAI sues a man for using Grok to generate CSAM 'deepfakes'
- AI Can Summarize Employee Feedback. A New Benchmark Shows It Doesn't Always Understand It.
- Anthropic is Keeping Free Claude Fable 5 Access Longer Than Planned
- SpaceXAI launches Grok 4.5, its smartest model yet, available in Grok Build, Cursor and console
- New Flagship Grok Voices
June 2026 5 events
- SpaceX acquires Cursor AI coding startup for $60B
- Only 16% of Americans see positive AI societal impact per Pew
- Former engineer sues xAI claiming retaliation over Grok safety warnings
- Nashville Zoo petition hits 288k signatures against adjacent AI data center
- xAI asks court to strip anonymity from Grok deepfake lawsuit plaintiffs
May 2026 5 events
- OpenRouter raises $113M Series B led by CapitalG
- OpenAI Cofounder Brockman Testifies Musk Sought 'Absolute Control' Over For-Profit Arm
- French Prosecutors Open Criminal Probe Into Elon Musk and X
- xAI launches Grok 4.3 with always-on reasoning and voice cloning suite
- Shivon Zilis Emerges as Key Figure in Musk v. Altman Trial
April 2026 18 events
- Elon Musk testifies xAI 'partly' used OpenAI models to train its own
- Google Expands Pentagon Access to AI After Anthropic Refusal
- Study finds major chatbots vary widely in safety when responding to simulated delusional users
- Intel beats expectations for sixth straight quarter as AI CPU demand surges
- Japanese TV Shopping Company Quadruples VC Fund to $200M After Early AI Bets Pay Off
- Gas-Powered Data Center Projects Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations
- SpaceX IPO could value company at over $1 trillion as investors weigh space economics
- Jeff Bezos close to $10B funding for AI lab Project Prometheus
- DOJ Declines French Request for Assistance in X Criminal Probe
- Thiel-backed startup Objection uses AI to judge journalism for $2,000 per challenge
- Tesla unveils AI5 processor sample with claimed 40X performance boost over predecessor
- NAACP sues xAI over unpermitted gas turbines at AI data center
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- Apple threatened to remove Grok from App Store over sexualized deepfakes
- xAI Sues Colorado to Block AI Anti-Discrimination Law
- xAI Reorganizes Engineering Team, SpaceX Executive Michael Nicolls Named President
- Intel partners with Elon Musk to build Terafab AI chip factory in Texas
- Bezos' Project Prometheus recruits xAI co-founder Kyle Kosic from OpenAI
- OpenAI accuses Musk of 'anti-competitive behavior,' asks state AGs to investigate
March 2026 8 events
- Mistral AI Raises $830 Million to Expand Nvidia GPU Data Center Capacity
- Elon Musk's Last xAI Co-Founder Has Left the Company
- Elon Musk Announces $10B Terafab Chip Facility in Austin for Tesla, SpaceX, xAI
- xAI sending engineers to enterprise client sites to win business from OpenAI and Anthropic
- Senator Warren presses Pentagon over xAI classified network access
- Teens sue xAI over Grok-generated CSAM
- Devendra Chaplot joins SpaceX and xAI to build superintelligence
- President Trump Secures Historic Commitment to Keep Electricity Costs Down Amid Data Center Boom
February 2026 6 events
- Musk bashes OpenAI in deposition, saying 'nobody committed suicide because of Grok'
- Anthropic CEO Stands Firm as Pentagon Deadline Looms Over AI Model Safeguards
- Anthropic and Pentagon argue over military use of Claude models
- Is safety 'dead' at xAI?
- With co-founders leaving and IPO looming, Elon Musk holds xAI all-hands on lunar ambitions
- Research reveals which popular generative AI chatbots lie