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Musk says SpaceXSI is building a Hagglebot for business
Elon Musk says a business Hagglebot could lower company costs by 5% or more. SpaceXSI's own Haggle Bot found more than $100,000 in savings.
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Nico Park
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Nico Park covers the AI desk, following the labs and the models they release, from OpenAI and Anthropic to Google and xAI. Recent stories include Claude Sonnet 5.5's speed gains, OpenAI's always-on dots agents, and Grok joining XChat group chats. Park has 25 stories in all, five of them August essays for the Tech desk on assistants, local models and open weights.
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Musk says SpaceX will cover Grok Bot purchase mistakes
Elon Musk says SpaceX will make you whole if Grok Bot errs on a purchase or leaks a card. Consumer terms still put agent actions on the user.
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Glossary: what is an LLM?
LLM stands for large language model. Here's what that means, how it works in plain English and why it powers the AI chatbots you use.
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Grok Voice 3.0 tops speech-to-speech index at $0.08 a minute
Grok Voice 3.0 scores 86.9 on the Artificial Analysis index, keeps its $0.08 a minute API price and already runs Tesla cars and Starlink call centres.
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SpaceXSI launches The X Subscription, from free to $200
SpaceXSI has launched The X Subscription, one plan for Grok, Grok Bot, Cursor and X Premium. Prices run from free to $200 a month.
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X, Grok and Cursor one-plan terms appear on x.ai
SpaceXSI has posted terms for one subscription covering X, Grok and Cursor. No launch or prices yet, but the fine print shows how cancelling works.
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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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Musk says Grok Bot can shop for you from a photo of your card
Elon Musk says Grok Bot can shop for you from a photo of your credit card. There's no official word yet, and its docs still have you approve each payment.
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Grok Bot gets its own email address on mail.grokbot.com
Grok Bot started handing out its own mail.grokbot.com inboxes on Friday 9 October, US time. You claim one by asking your Bot or tagging @bot on X.
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Anthropic bans sustained cruelty toward Claude in new policy
Anthropic will treat sustained, needless cruelty toward Claude as a Usage Policy breach from 12 November. Most other changes tighten existing rules.
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Grok Bot can search, read and monitor X without a connector
Grok Bot can now search, read and monitor X without an X connector, SpaceXAI says. There's no published quota, history window or docs page yet.