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SpaceXAI shipped Grok 4.5 on July 8, trained on trillions of Cursor interaction tokens from an acquisition that hasn't closed yet. The efficiency numbers are real. The benchmark framing is not.

The company that catches falling rockets with steel chopsticks just paid $60 billion for a code...

xAI published Grok Build, its agentic coding harness and terminal interface, under the permissive Apache 2.0 license -- but its contributing guide states that external contributions are not accepted, and the repository is a one-way bot-pushed mirror

xAI has opened Grok 4.5 to free X accounts, dropping the subscription requirement that previously...

Une analyse au niveau du trafic réseau révèle que le CLI Grok Build de xAI envoie des dépôts entiers, y compris les fichiers .env, vers un bucket Google Cl

A wire-level analysis of xAI's Grok Build CLI (v0.2.93) reveals it uploads entire repositories — including .env files — to a Google Cloud Storage bucket, e

An independent wire-level teardown found that xAI's Grok Build CLI uploads an entire code repository, including .env secrets and files the AI never read, to an xAI cloud bucket -- and the model-improvement opt-out does not stop it.

Musk praised Anthropic, but its $40B xAI compute deal leaves a rival controlling vital AI capacity.

Grok 4.5 launched at $2/$6 per million tokens with real token efficiency. An honest review for indie hackers: benchmarks, cost math, and whether to switch.

SpaceXAI released Grok 4.5, a 1.5-trillion-parameter model priced at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output, undercutting frontier rivals roughly threefold while claiming comparable coding quality.

SpaceX is cutting Starlink prices near Memphis as xAI's Colossus backlash grows over power, water, permits, and public trust.