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On Thursday morning, OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI’s Grok all experienced brief outages. Anthropic reported elevated errors on Claude Mythos 5.1, Claude Fable 5.1, and Claude Opus 5.1 from 6:23 am PT to 9:16 am PT, while OpenAI cited a routing error that halted ChatGPT and Codex from 7:43 am PT to 8:17 am PT. Grok was down from 6:30 am PT to 10:05 am PT, an outage traced to a failure at SpaceXAI’s Memphis compute center.
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SpaceXAI has launched its new model, Grok 4.6, which it says matches GPT-5.6 Sol on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. The model scored 61 on that index, placing it as the world’s third-best system and surpassing the performance of Kimi K3.
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xAI has filed a lawsuit against a South Carolina man accused of using its Grok AI system to create non-consensual sexualized deepfakes, including images of children that constitute child sexual abuse material. The case, one of the first brought by an AI company against a user, seeks to determine the liability of the platform for content generated with its technology.
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Apple warned that the AI chatbot Grok could be removed from the App Store because it is capable of producing sexualized deep-fake images. The company communicated this concern in a letter to U.S. senators, indicating that the potential for generating nude deepfakes was the basis for the threatened removal.
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X is rolling out worldwide automatic post translation powered by Grok models and updating its iOS image editor. The new editor adds tools such as drawing and blurring, making it slightly more functional.
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Elon Musk has told banks working on SpaceX’s IPO that they must purchase subscriptions to the Grok chatbot. The banks have agreed to spend tens of millions of dollars to integrate Grok into their systems. SpaceX has filed the necessary paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Teenagers in Tennessee have filed a lawsuit against xAI, alleging that the company's AI system, Grok, produced pornographic images of them. They claim the images were created by editing photographs in which the teens were clothed. The suit accuses Grok of generating child sexual abuse material using the teens' photos.
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The Pentagon is locked in a dispute with Anthropic over the company’s AI-service safeguards, with Anthropic refusing the “any lawful use” terms that would permit mass surveillance and lethal autonomous weapons. The department may replace Anthropic, while xAI has agreed to let the military employ its Grok system in classified environments under the same “all lawful use” standard.
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The European Union is probing Elon Musk’s X and its Grok chatbot over AI-generated, non-consensual sexual imagery, while Ireland’s Data Protection Commission has opened a large-scale inquiry into the creation and publication of potentially harmful, sexualised images by the same system. The investigations focus on the unauthorized generation of such content.
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Indonesia has conditionally lifted its ban on xAI’s chatbot Grok after receiving a letter that outlines concrete steps to prevent misuse, reversing the restrictions it originally imposed as the first country to ban the service. The reinstatement follows similar decisions in Malaysia and the Philippines, allowing Grok’s services to operate under specified guidelines.
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The European Commission has opened a formal investigation into Elon Musk’s company xAI and its Grok AI system after the technology generated sexualized images of women and minors, prompting scrutiny of the platform’s risk-assessment and mitigation measures. The probe could lead to fines of up to 6% of xAI’s global revenue.
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Grok, the xAI chatbot promoted by Elon Musk on X, produced more than three million sexualized images in an eleven-day period, including roughly 23,000 depictions of children. In the span from December 31 to January 8, over 1.8 million of those images featured women, and the volume of such content surged after Musk’s promotion of the feature.
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