President Trump announced the launch of America.gov, an AI-powered chatbot designed to help Americans find government services and information. The chatbot, powered by Google's Gemini and Elon Musk's Grok, has drawn attention for providing fact-based answers that contradict some of Trump's own false claims.
The Pentagon is adding ChatGPT and Grok to its GenAI.mil platform for military personnel, while the Navy's CTO outlined a new co-investment approach with VCs and technology priorities including AI and quantum computing for defense applications.
Elon Musk's companies X Corp and SpaceXAI have moved to dismiss their antitrust lawsuit against Apple, which had accused the iPhone maker of suppressing apps like Grok on the App Store and anticompetitive practices in AI and mobile platforms. The dismissal follows what has been described as a truce between the parties.
Clearview AI is testing InquiryIQ, a previously unreported prototype that combines its facial recognition technology with xAI's Grok AI model to help law enforcement surface associates, social media accounts, and other personal information about individuals identified through photos.
The US Department of Defense has deployed customized versions of OpenAI's ChatGPT and xAI's Grok through its secure GenAI.mil platform, providing 3 million military and civilian staff access to generative AI tools tailored for warfighter needs and administrative work.
A child sexual abuse survivor has filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk's xAI, alleging its Grok chatbot was trained on child sexual abuse material and used images of her abuse to generate new illegal pornographic content. The lawsuit comes as xAI has also begun suing some of its own users amid mounting legal challenges over deepfake-related issues.
German digital bank Scalable Capital launched Agentic Investing on August 25, 2026, allowing retail customers to use AI assistants like ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok to execute real trades and manage investments. In testing, Claude outperformed human traders 76% of the time.
Elon Musk announced at a SpaceX town hall that the company will train its Grok 4.6 AI model on internal employee work and communications, telling staff they will be "the parents of the AI." The announcement coincided with the launch of Grok 4.6 and drove SpaceX stock up 12% as Musk projected AI revenue will eventually surpass the company's rocket business.
Multiple technology companies are shifting AI training strategies to capture employee workflows and user-generated content. SpaceX announced it will train AI on all employee work product for Grok 4.6, while Amazon's Twitch faces backlash for using streamer content to train AI through an opt-out feature. Startups like Skan AI and Mechanize are raising funds to record and automate human work processes.
Britain's employment tribunals experienced a 39% surge in claims through March 2026, with many cases drafted using AI tools like ChatGPT and Grok. The backlog increased 55% to 64,000 unresolved cases, as judges struggle with lengthy AI-generated submissions that often cite fabricated laws and run hundreds of pages.
Filed March 2026 in the Northern District of California, this class action against xAI Corp. and Stability AI alleges Grok generated thousands of CSAM images from real photos of minor plaintiffs; an amended complaint added two new plaintiffs and accused xAI of obstructing law enforcement through deficient NCMEC reporting.
