19 Jan, 2026

xAI teases major Grok upgrade, hints at Grok Code CLI

Elon Musk-backed xAI has been missing in action for a while now, but today, Musk teased a major upgrade for Grok alongside new products. Grok is xAI’s LLM model, and it competes head-to-head with Sam Altman’s ChatGPT or Google’s Gemini. Lately, Grok has been in the news for all the wrong reasons, and Elon Musk […]

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Google ads for shared ChatGPT, Grok guides push macOS infostealer malware

A new AMOS infostealer campaign is abusing Google search ads to lure users into Grok and ChatGPT conversations that appear to offer “helpful” instructions but ultimately lead to installing the AMOS info-stealing malware on macOS. The campaign was first spotted by researchers at cybersecurity company Kaspersky yesterday, while Huntress managed security platform published a more detailed report earlier today. […]

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xAI’s Grok 4.1 rolls out with improved quality and speed for free

Elon Musk-owned xAI has started rolling out Grok 4.1, which is an upgrade to the existing Grok 4 model. xAI has launched two Grok 4.1 models with some incremental improvements. One of the models is Grok 4.1, and another is Grok 4.1 Thinking. These two models are available for free, but paying customers get fewer limits. […]

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Threat actors abuse X’s Grok AI to spread malicious links

Threat actors are using Grok, X’s built-in AI assistant, to bypass link posting restrictions that the platform introduced to reduce malicious advertising. As discovered by Guardio Labs’ researcher Nati Tal, mavertisers often run sketchy video ads containing adult content baits and avoid including a link to the main body to avoid being blocked by X. Instead, […]

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xAI is testing Grok 4.20 to take on GPT-5, may launch this month

Elon Musk-owned xAI is testing Grok 4.20, a new model update to Grok 4, which already competes with GPT-5 in some benchmarks, such as ARC-AGI 2. GPT-5 is one of the best models for coding, and it competes with Claude Opus 4.1 head-to-head in some coding challenges. On the other hand, Grok falls a bit […]

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Grok 4 benchmark results: Tops math, ranks second in coding

Grok 4 is a huge leap from Grok 3, but how good is it compared to other models in the market, such as Gemini 2.5 Pro? We now have answers, thanks to new independent benchmarks. LMArena.ai, which is an open platform for crowdsourced AI benchmarking, has published the results of Grok 4. We’re talking about Grok […]

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xAI prepares Grok 4 Code as it plans to take on Claude and Gemini

xAI is preparing the rollout of Grok 4, which replaces Grok 3 as the new state-of-the-art model. Ahead of the rollout, testers on X have again spotted references to a few new Grok 4 models. One of the models is called “grok-4-prod-mimic,” which reportedly excels at enterprise use cases like data extraction, coding, and text summarisation. It also […]

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Leak suggests xAI is getting ready to ship Grok 3.5

xAI, founded by Elon Musk, is preparing to launch Grok 3.5, the company’s next state-of-the-art AI model. Grok AI has been around for a year now. While it was late to the game, the Grok model is pretty decent, and it’s quite impressive what the company has achieved in a limited time. Right now, xAI […]

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X faces GDPR complaints for unauthorized use of data for AI training

European privacy advocate NOYB (None of Your Business) has filed nine GDPR complaints about X using the personal data from over 60 million users in Europe to train “Grok,” the social media company’s large language model. According to NOYB, X did not inform its users that their data was being used to train AI and did […]

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