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xAI's Tax-Return Training Gambit Is a Data Governance Story Wearing a $420 Joke

xAI's Tax-Return Training Gambit Is a Data Governance Story Wearing a $420 Joke

xAI’s latest training-data story looks like a workplace punchline until you read it as infrastructure. Bloomberg reports that managers asked employees to hand over completed tax returns and supporting documents so Grok could get better at tax-preparation tasks, with a promised $420 payment per submission and early access to

Hermes v0.14.0 Turns Grok Subscriptions Into Agent Infrastructure

Hermes v0.14.0 Turns Grok Subscriptions Into Agent Infrastructure

Grok’s most important release this week may not be a model card, benchmark chart, or Elon post. It may be a plumbing release in an open-source agent runtime. Nous Research shipped Hermes Agent v0.14.0 on May 16, and the xAI headline is deceptively small: Hermes now supports

GitHub Just Removed Grok Code Fast From Copilot. That Says More Than a Changelog Should.

GitHub Just Removed Grok Code Fast From Copilot. That Says More Than a Changelog Should.

GitHub did not merely remove a model from a dropdown. It removed xAI’s dedicated coding model from one of the most important distribution surfaces in software development — and did it on the same day xAI retired the same model slug in its own API. That timing is the story.

Grok Imagine Video API Turns xAI’s Media Stack Into a Real Developer Surface

Grok Imagine Video API Turns xAI’s Media Stack Into a Real Developer Surface

xAI’s video-generation update is more important than another “AI makes clips now” headline deserves to be. The useful news is not that Grok Imagine can generate video. The useful news is that xAI is turning Imagine into a programmable media surface with concrete constraints, asynchronous jobs, polling semantics, model

Colossus 2 Shows the Hidden Dependency in AI Scaling: Permits, Power, and Public Health

Colossus 2 Shows the Hidden Dependency in AI Scaling: Permits, Power, and Public Health

The least glamorous dependency in frontier AI is not the GPU. It is the permit. That is the useful reading of the latest Colossus 2 reporting. Gizmodo covered new WIRED reporting that xAI has added more natural-gas turbines at its Southaven, Mississippi data center campus while facing litigation over allegedly

Grok Build Is xAI Joining the Coding-Agent War Late — With the Right Compatibility Surface

Grok Build Is xAI Joining the Coding-Agent War Late — With the Right Compatibility Surface

Grok Build is not interesting because xAI finally put Grok in a terminal. Everyone with a frontier model is doing that now. It is interesting because xAI appears to have skipped the toy phase and shipped directly into the compatibility layer where coding agents are actually becoming infrastructure. The early-beta

A Tiny Grok API Bug Shows Why xAI's May 15 Model Retirement Will Hurt Real Integrations

A Tiny Grok API Bug Shows Why xAI's May 15 Model Retirement Will Hurt Real Integrations

A small 400 error is usually not a story. It is a line item in somebody's issue tracker, a one-line guard in a provider adapter, and maybe a patch release if everyone is lucky. But the fresh Hermes Agent report against xAI's grok-4-1-fast is useful because