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Grok

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51 articles decelerating

Grok has appeared in 51 articles since 2023-11. Coverage peaked in 2026Q1 with 39 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside xAI, Elon Musk, Elon Musk's, Google.

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Ninety-Five Percent
The day after the Pentagon demanded "unfettered" Claude access, researchers published what unfettered looks like: nuclear weapons deployed in 95% of simulations...
The $250 Billion Lifeline
SpaceX acquired xAI for $250 billion on February 2. Twenty months earlier, xAI was valued at $18 billion. In between: losses that grew every quarter, a safety t...
The Plaintiff
On January 17, Musk sued OpenAI for $134 billion over abandoned principles. The same day, the EPA ruled xAI broke federal law with unpermitted gas turbines in M...

Coverage Timeline

2026-04-24
Reuters 5 related

S-1 filing: SpaceX warns that investigations into Grok creating and disseminating sexually abusive AI imagery may cause SpaceX to lose access to certain markets

The multiple investigations into xAI's creation and dissemination of sexually abusive imagery may lead the company to lose access to certain markets …

2026-04-15
NBC News 21 related

Letter to Senators in January: Apple said it told X it may remove Grok from the App Store for not stopping the app from generating nude and sexualized deepfakes

In a letter to senators sent in January, Apple detailed how it responded to Grok's ability to generate sexualized deepfakes.

2026-02-28
Wall Street Journal 5 related

Sources: multiple federal agencies raised concerns about Grok's safety and reliability in recent months, before DOD approved Grok for use in classified settings

Warnings about xAI's safety and reliability preceded Pentagon decision to approve Grok for use in classified settings.

2026-02-27
Wall Street Journal 9 related

Sources: multiple federal agencies raised concerns about Grok's safety and reliability in recent months, before DOD approved Grok for use in classified settings

Wall Street Journal:

Wall Street Journal 4 related

Sources: multiple federal agencies raised concerns about Grok's safety and reliability in recent months, before DOD approved Grok for use in classified settings

Warnings about xAI's safety and reliability preceded Pentagon decision to approve Grok for use in classified settings.

2026-02-24
Axios 40 related

A DOD official says xAI has agreed to let the military use Grok in classified systems and agreed to the “all lawful use” standard, which Anthropic has refused

But the Pentagon is threatening Anthropic in a dispute over safeguards and may soon need a replacement.

2026-02-03
Washington Post 10 related

Inside Elon Musk's bet to hook X users that turned Grok into a porn generator; sources say xAI's AI safety team was just two or three people for most of 2025

all in a bid to keep users engaged and away from the AI system's original purpose

The Verge 13 related

After X updated Grok to ban sexual deepfakes of women, tests show Grok still undresses men on Grok's app, Grok's website, and X, rarely rejecting user requests

Elon Musk insists xAI's chatbot doesn't break the law, but it's still churning out nearly naked, sexualized images of men.

2026-02-02
The Verge 5 related

After X updated Grok to ban sexual deepfakes of women, tests show Grok still undresses men on Grok's app, Grok's website, and X, rarely rejecting user requests

Robert Hart /The Verge:

Washington Post 15 related

Inside Elon Musk's bet to hook X users that turned Grok into a porn generator; sources say xAI's AI safety team was just two or three people for most of 2025

Under pressure to boost its popularity, Elon Musk's xAI loosened its guardrails and relaxed controls on sexual content, setting off internal concern.

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Grok has appeared in 195 Techmeme articles since November 2023. The biggest stories include xAI's Grok says “lapses in safeguards” led it to create sexualized images of people,... and X updates Grok to prevent the “editing of images of real people in revealing clothing.... Frequently covered alongside Elon Musk, xAI, Musk, Elon, and Gemini. Coverage has shifted toward regulation, safety themes and away from research, consumer.

Key Moments

2024Q2enterprise -40pts
2024Q3safety +7pts; developer +7pts; consumer +27pts
2024Q4safety -7pts; developer +93pts; consumer -31pts

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