Appeals court halts Minnesota AI nudify law for xAI
A federal appeals court in St. Louis suspended the first US ban on AI nude images after Elon Musk's xAI argued it violates free speech.
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SOCIETY
Three AI services went down at once, cause unexplained
ChatGPT, Claude and Grok stumbled within the same window. Wired reports the outage, and so far no company has named a shared cause.
TOOLS
ChatGPT, Grok and Claude Went Offline Simultaneously
Three rival chatbots stumbled inside the same window on a Thursday. ChatGPT flagged elevated errors near 11AM ET; no cause is confirmed here.
MODELS
Pentagon Adds ChatGPT and Grok to GenAI.mil
Alongside Google Gemini, the Defense Department now offers ChatGPT Mil and Grok for Government — Anthropic's Claude is still missing.
MODELS
OpenGrok opens Grok Bot to third-party models
An MIT-licensed community project swaps the model behind Grok Bot. Six providers are marked working, three still await a wire capture.
TOOLS
Basedash plugin puts company data inside Grok Bot
The YC-backed startup's plugin links Grok Bot and Cursor to company databases over OAuth. Product Hunt shows 80 upvotes and rank 23.
BUSINESS
SpaceX Plans $100 Billion Spaceport in Louisiana
The company wants two Starship pads on Louisiana's Gulf coast, with construction from 2027 and a first launch expected in 2029.
Tech
Grok answers with word salad — xAI calls it a rare glitch
Since Wednesday morning, users have reported strings of meaningless words instead of answers. Grok Lite was hit hardest; the status page reported normal operation throughout.
MODELS
Grok 4.6 lands on Amazon Bedrock with a 500K context window
xAI's latest model is now generally available on AWS Bedrock: 500,000 tokens of context, four reasoning levels and cross-region inference.
Policy & Law
Lawsuit against xAI: Grok allegedly enabled abuse imagery
A fourth plaintiff joins the case: Grok allegedly generated thousands of explicit images from a childhood photo. xAI has not commented.
Models
Grok 4.6: xAI targets long-running AI agents
xAI ships Grok 4.6 focused on autonomous agents – matching GPT-5.6 Sol on the Intelligence Index at a fraction of many rivals’ prices.