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Every Grok and xAI item from our Daily AI News, newest first. Each one has a one-line summary, a link to its source and a full story page.
@Frank_AI_Lab's Grok Bot builds Haunted Mansion Escape, a free Halloween browser game
@Frank_AI_Lab is posting a new Grok Bot-built Halloween game every day in the countdown to Halloween.
Amazon blocks Grok Bot from ordering, and Elon Musk says to have it shop somewhere else
Grok Bot users say Amazon is blocking their bots from placing orders.
@eng_khairallah1 lays out a plan to run their business with a Grok Bot team of 31 routines
@eng_khairallah1 laid out the Grok Bot team they'd run their business with: 31 routines and 6 daily outputs across research, writing, sales, support and ops.
Elon Musk says SpaceX will cover Grok Bot purchase mistakes or card leaks
Quoting a post by @XFreeze, who said Grok Bot booked a flight for them after they sent it a photo of their credit card, Elon Musk wrote on X: "If Grok @Bot makes a mistake with a purchase or leaks…
Grok Bot catches a phishing link in a real noreply@x.ai email that passed SPF, DKIM and DMARC
@wmorrill3 got an email from SpaceXAI (noreply@x.ai) that passed SPF, DKIM and DMARC and showed a verified blue check, but it hid a phishing link.
Ofcom: SpaceXAI (formerly xAI) restricted Grok's image tools and companion bots for UK users after talks
Britain's media regulator Ofcom said SpaceXAI, formerly xAI, added further restrictions to Grok for users in the UK following discussions with the regulator.
Grok Bot inboxes add plus-address email aliases that can trigger routines
Grok Bot now supports plus aliases on its email addresses, per Sam Sokolin, who builds Grok Bot: a bot can send and receive mail at plus-address aliases of its own address (a +receipts tag, for example)…
xAI launches Grok Voice 3.0 speech-to-speech model for voice agents
On Oct 14, xAI released Grok Voice 3.0 for the Voice Agent API at $0.08 per minute of input audio, the same price as Grok Voice 2.0.
Grok Bot plugin marketplace opens for public plugin and MCP submissions
xAI's submit form is live: developers can send a plugin or MCP server (MCP URL or public GitHub repo), a short description and testing notes for review, to be listed for Grok Bot and Cursor users…
The X Subscription bundles Grok, Cursor and X Premium, starting at $8 a month
The new plans run from Free to $200 a month, with one weekly-refreshing pool of Grok usage shared across Grok and Cursor.