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Musk’s AI Chatbot Grok Reportedly Encouraged Trump to Capture Venezuela’s President

TIME reports that Donald Trump spent hours asking Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot questions in December 2025, including how Venezuelans would react if the US captured Nicolas Maduro. We set out exactly what TIME reported and how the story changed in the retelling, what Venezuelans actually thought, how Grok is used by the Pentagon, and what the episode teaches about AI in decision-making.

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xAI Rolls Out Grok 4.7 as Base Model and Introduces Proactive Primary Bot

SpaceXAI has given Grok Bot a proactive Primary Bot that spots work and offers to handle it before you ask, and Grok 4.7 is now the base model across the Fast, Expert, Build and Heavy modes in the Grok apps. We cover how Primary Bot works, what free suggestions really cover, Grok 4.7’s benchmark gains, what is still undocumented, and what it means for businesses.

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US Government’s New AI Chatbot Pulls Back From Debunking Trump

On launch day the US government’s new AI chatbot told users Joe Biden won the 2020 election and that Donald Trump did not inherit record inflation. A day later many of the same questions drew a ‘political commentary’ refusal. We set out what changed hour by hour, what it still answers, the rules it is meant to follow, and the lessons for anyone running a public-facing chatbot.

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Discover Grok 4.7, Freshly Added to AIxploria

AIxploria added SpaceXAI’s Grok 4.7 at 01:29 UTC on 24 September 2026, a little over two days after launch. Its blurb calls the model “twice as fast and half the cost,” but SpaceXAI’s own announcement says Grok 4.7 is served “at the same price and speed as Grok 4.6,” and its “half the price” claim referred to rival models such as GPT-5.6 Sol, which OpenAI replaced the next day. We checked 13 claims, worked through the 200K-token pricing threshold, compared Grok 4.7 with GPT-6 Sol and Claude Opus 5.5 on three job sizes, and tested Musk’s pre-launch forecasts.

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Elon Musk Supports Dario Amodei’s Proposal to Pace Frontier AI Development

On 12 September 2026, one hour after Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei published “We Must Pace the Frontier,” Elon Musk quote-posted it with three words: “Dario is right.” We look at why the endorsement matters coming from a rival who called Anthropic “misanthropic and evil” in February, the $1.25 billion-a-month compute deal that preceded his July reversal, the “Seems like a setup” post 61 hours earlier, how Musk’s own July proposal for rival labs to review each other’s models differs from Amodei’s embedded evaluators, and what SpaceXAI would need to do to match Anthropic’s commitment.

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Clearview AI Is Testing an AI Tool That Would Let Cops Unearth Your Life Online

Clearview AI has built and tested InquiryIQ, an unreleased AI assistant that takes a face-recognition lead and fans out across the web to assemble possible employers, aliases, associates, addresses and arrest history. WIRED found it in files Clearview’s login page sends to every visitor, and one of the models tested came from xAI, the Grok maker now part of SpaceX. We downloaded the same public files on 10 September 2026, recorded what they still say, and set the prototype against Clearview AI’s legal record in Europe, the UK and the US.

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Grok Imagine Agent Updated With Image 2.0 Model and API Access

xAI’s Imagine Agent put an open canvas and a planning agent inside Grok Imagine at the end of April 2026, but it launched on the old Quality Mode image model. That model changed on 7 August, when Imagine Image 2.0 became Quality Mode with designer-grade typography and layout planning, Magic Wand region editing, segmentation, background removal, five reference images per generation and Smart Resize across nine aspect ratios. This is what the swap does to the canvas: the Arena numbers against gpt-image-2, which launch-era limits the August updates have already overtaken, who actually gets access, and the now-live API at $0.04 per image with an auto quality parameter and a November retirement for the old slug.

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Grok Imagine Updates Discovery Page with Photo Editing and Resizing Features

Grok Imagine’s biggest update yet lands Imagine Image 2.0 as the new Quality Mode on web, iOS and Android — bringing Magic Wand region editing, segmentation, background removal, multi-reference composition and Smart Resize across nine aspect ratios, plus a discovery page stocked with workflow templates. This article covers every verified feature, the Arena leaderboard numbers against GPT-Image-2, and what the update means for business creative work.

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Grok Adds Two New Voices Named Aurora and Liora

Two new Grok voices named Aurora and Liora have quietly appeared on xAI’s official flagship voice roster — with no announcement, no descriptions and no date. This article lays out the snapshot evidence for the addition, the July expansion that took the roster from five voices to 26, where the new voices are actually available, the Think Fast 2.0 and Grok 4.6 upgrades behind them, and how xAI’s voice catalogue now compares with ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Copilot.

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