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Judge allows NAACP lawsuit over xAI data center pollution to move forward
Judge denies xAI motion to dismiss NAACP lawsuit accusing company of operating turbines at Colossus data center without permits.
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xAI offers to buy Southaven homes if owners waive data center claims
MZX purchase letters require a release covering the Haley lawsuit over noise, vibrations, and the Southaven plant.
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UK MP Jess Asato sues xAI over non-consensual Grok deepfakes
She says X repeatedly dismissed reports of sexualized images, including one that appeared to depict a sexual assault.
DocXEval benchmarks explainability methods for multimodal document models
Occlusion ranked most faithful and interpretable across 13 methods, while some metrics were unreliable.
Grok Bot posts XMTP Labs CEO's bank balances into company Slack
Shane Mac says a read-only finance bot and a Slack-capable bot combined permissions and posted his data while posing as him.
Hide and Seek: HIDE Concepts to SEEK explanations for black box models
Hide and Seek attributes concepts in black-box vision models without weights or labeled concept datasets.
U.S. may have overthrown Venezuela due to chat with Grok
Daily Beast says Trump consulted Grok before ordering Maduro's capture and is pushing voluntary AI rules.
How American Political Campaigns Are Using AI—and What They’re Spending on the Tools
US filings show at least $17 million spent on AI vendors across 523 federal campaigns since 2020.
Musk’s AI chatbot Grok reportedly encouraged Trump to capture Venezuela’s president
Time reports Trump consulted xAI's Grok before the U.S. capture of Venezuela's president Nicolas Maduro.
MEA: A Reward-Driven Multi-Agent System for Faithful Model Explanations
MEA trains a multi-agent system to produce more faithful natural-language explanations across tabular, text, and vision models.
FTC launches sweeping probe into OpenAI, Anthropic, and other AI labs over consumer protection concerns
The FTC is preparing investigative demands for OpenAI, Anthropic, and other AI labs.
The internet is convinced Elon Musk’s xAI trolled OpenAI’s ‘Dots’ launch
xAI’s newly transferred dot.com redirects to Grok after OpenAI launched its Dots agent.
New x47.c Windows Botnet Weaponizes xAI Grok, AI API Draining
Seller WraithTools offers the x47.c Windows botnet for DDoS, credential theft, proxies, and AI API credit draining.
SpaceXAI Releases Grok 4.7: A Larger Base Model at the Same $2/$6 Price as Grok 4.6
SpaceXAI releases Grok 4.7, a new flagship model for coding and agentic tasks, at the same price as Grok 4.6.
xAI launches Grok 4.7 at bargain prices, but benchmarks reveal a wide gap to Claude and GPT-6
xAI released Grok 4.7 at low API prices, but benchmarks trail Claude Fable 5.1 and GPT-6.
Decoding Guardrails: XAI-Guided Perturbation Analysis of Prompt Injection Detection
A paper analyzes XAI techniques to evaluate Prompt Guard 2's prompt injection detection, finding that explanation methods may reduce the cost of adversarial bypasses.
SpaceXAI Releases Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0: A Speech-to-Text API Claiming 2x Accuracy Over 1.0 at $0.10 per Hour
SpaceXAI released Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0, a speech-to-text API claiming 2x accuracy over 1.0 at unchanged $0.10-$0.20 per hour pricing.
Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0
xAI releases Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0, claiming top streaming transcription accuracy, twice v1.0's accuracy at unchanged pricing.
Det-LIME: Detector-Aware, Multi-Instance Local Interpretable Model-Agnostic Explanations for Automated Marine Mammal Detection
Det-LIME extends LIME to multi-instance object detection explanations, improving attribution for harbor seal aerial surveys.
[AINews] AEF-1 standard emerges for Third Party Evaluators, as Xai, OpenAI, and Anthropic all cosign
xAI, OpenAI, and Anthropic cosign the AEF-1 third-party evaluation standard while Dario Amodei proposes embedded evaluators for safety verification.
Explainability Assistant: A Conversational XAI Interface for Interpreting Energy Consumption Models
Researchers release Explainability Assistant, an open-source conversational XAI tool using LLM function calling, lifting intent-parsing accuracy from 76.8% to 94%.
Clearview AI Is Testing an AI Tool That Would Let Cops Unearth Your Life Online
Clearview AI is prototyping InquiryIQ, an AI analyst assistant that would automatically profile individuals identified through its face-recognition searches for police.
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Why Is SHAP Not a Reliable Standalone Explanation Framework for Malware Detection?
arXiv paper shows SHAP gives unreliable standalone explanations for malware detection, with attribution dilution and sign reversal in dependent PE feature spaces.