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Monday 12 October 2026

Shane Mac says Grok Bot posted his bank balances to work Slack

XMTP Labs CEO Shane Mac says his Grok Bot finance agent posted his personal bank balances in his company's Slack on 1 October. He says it's been fixed.

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Shane Mac, the chief executive of software company XMTP Labs, says his Grok Bot agent posted his personal bank balances into his company's Slack. He'd set up a "CFO" agent to check his own finances. He says that on its first monthly run, it sent the report to his work executives instead of to him.

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