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Grok is currently down for thousands of users
Users are currently reporting widespread issues with xAI's Grok chatbot. The outage appears to be affecting both the app and web versions of the AI service. According to Downdetector, the first signs of the outage appeared around 3:52 AM EDT on August 4. Reports then climbed rapidly to 1,605, compa…
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Every published event attached to xAI, newest first.
August 2026 4 events
- SpaceX has bought $329M in Tesla Megapacks this year for xAI data centers
- Lydian raises $43 million Series A led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures for synthetic SAF platform
- Judge denies xAI request to block Minnesota ban on nudify apps
- SpaceX agrees with Mississippi to remove Colossus gas turbines by July 2027
July 2026 21 events
- Claude's share links made private chats searchable on Google, and Anthropic says it's intended
- xAI Unveils Voice AI 'Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0' with Dramatically Improved Transcription Accuracy and Inference Speed
- Y Combinator's bet on killing tokenmaxxing just landed a $13.5M seed round as corporate America calls time on AI waste
- U.K. lawmaker suing Musk's xAI seeks order to stop Grok generating sexualized images
- UK lawmaker seeks court order to block Grok from making sexualised images of her
- Cursor launches India-only Start plan ahead of expected SpaceX deal close
- AI's growing role in rulemaking raises new transparency questions
- NVIDIA and industry partners form Open Secure AI Alliance after Hugging Face incident
- X Android App Rebuild 2026 Creates a Faster Grok Pipeline
- SpaceXAI Will Release Grok 4.6 in 2 Weeks and Grok 4.7 in 4 Weeks
- Trump says nearly 200 firms have signed pledge to protect Americans from costs arising from datacenters
- Musk Vows Grok Imagine Will Make Full-Length Odyssey Film by End of 2026
Show 9 earlier events
- Agent swarms and the new model economics
- Tesla's 2026 Summer Update: auto navigation, Grok phone calls, Caraoke scoring, and more
- Grok CLI Secretly Uploaded Full User Directories and SSH Keys
- Grok Build Open-Sourced After Covert Upload: Code to Exfiltrate Repos Stays In
- xAI sues a man for using Grok to generate CSAM 'deepfakes'
- AI Can Summarize Employee Feedback. A New Benchmark Shows It Doesn't Always Understand It.
- Anthropic is Keeping Free Claude Fable 5 Access Longer Than Planned
- SpaceXAI launches Grok 4.5, its smartest model yet, available in Grok Build, Cursor and console
- New Flagship Grok Voices
June 2026 5 events
- SpaceX acquires Cursor AI coding startup for $60B
- Only 16% of Americans see positive AI societal impact per Pew
- Former engineer sues xAI claiming retaliation over Grok safety warnings
- Nashville Zoo petition hits 288k signatures against adjacent AI data center
- xAI asks court to strip anonymity from Grok deepfake lawsuit plaintiffs
May 2026 5 events
- OpenRouter raises $113M Series B led by CapitalG
- OpenAI Cofounder Brockman Testifies Musk Sought 'Absolute Control' Over For-Profit Arm
- French Prosecutors Open Criminal Probe Into Elon Musk and X
- xAI launches Grok 4.3 with always-on reasoning and voice cloning suite
- Shivon Zilis Emerges as Key Figure in Musk v. Altman Trial
April 2026 20 events
- Elon Musk testifies xAI 'partly' used OpenAI models to train its own
- Google Expands Pentagon Access to AI After Anthropic Refusal
- Study finds major chatbots vary widely in safety when responding to simulated delusional users
- Intel beats expectations for sixth straight quarter as AI CPU demand surges
- Japanese TV Shopping Company Quadruples VC Fund to $200M After Early AI Bets Pay Off
- Gas-Powered Data Center Projects Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations
- SpaceX IPO could value company at over $1 trillion as investors weigh space economics
- Jeff Bezos close to $10B funding for AI lab Project Prometheus
- DOJ Declines French Request for Assistance in X Criminal Probe
- Thiel-backed startup Objection uses AI to judge journalism for $2,000 per challenge
- Tesla unveils AI5 processor sample with claimed 40X performance boost over predecessor
- NAACP sues xAI over unpermitted gas turbines at AI data center
Show 8 earlier events
- Apple threatened to remove Grok from App Store over sexualized deepfakes
- xAI Sues Colorado to Block AI Anti-Discrimination Law
- xAI Reorganizes Engineering Team, SpaceX Executive Michael Nicolls Named President
- Intel joins Musk's Terafab project alongside Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI
- Intel partners with Elon Musk to build Terafab AI chip factory in Texas
- Intel Stock Climbs After Joining Musk's Terafab Chip Manufacturing Project
- Bezos' Project Prometheus recruits xAI co-founder Kyle Kosic from OpenAI
- OpenAI accuses Musk of 'anti-competitive behavior,' asks state AGs to investigate
March 2026 9 events
- Mistral AI Raises $830 Million to Expand Nvidia GPU Data Center Capacity
- Elon Musk's Last xAI Co-Founder Has Left the Company
- Elon Musk Announces $10B Terafab Chip Facility in Austin for Tesla, SpaceX, xAI
- xAI sending engineers to enterprise client sites to win business from OpenAI and Anthropic
- Musk says Tesla, SpaceX, xAI chip project to kick off in Texas
- Senator Warren presses Pentagon over xAI classified network access
- Teens sue xAI over Grok-generated CSAM
- Devendra Chaplot joins SpaceX and xAI to build superintelligence
- President Trump Secures Historic Commitment to Keep Electricity Costs Down Amid Data Center Boom
February 2026 6 events
- Musk bashes OpenAI in deposition, saying 'nobody committed suicide because of Grok'
- Anthropic CEO Stands Firm as Pentagon Deadline Looms Over AI Model Safeguards
- Anthropic and Pentagon argue over military use of Claude models
- Is safety 'dead' at xAI?
- With co-founders leaving and IPO looming, Elon Musk holds xAI all-hands on lunar ambitions
- Research reveals which popular generative AI chatbots lie