More and more websites are blocking AI agents: Yelp opens up only to agents with paid data licensing, Delta stops them from booking flights on its behalf, JPMorgan Chase and Charles Schwab block account access for security reasons, and sites like Cars.com and Amtrak are no longer available to them.
Grok 4.7 is now available on Amazon Bedrock. The author built a tool-calling agent on it and benchmarked reasoning effort levels with three tasks brute-force verified to have a single correct answer: 67 of 72 runs answered correctly; the xhigh level got 18 of 18, while the low level got 15 of 18 with output tokens about one-eighth of xhigh, and median time 18 seconds versus 106 seconds.
Why it matters: The article gives correctness rates and token costs per reasoning level across 72 verifiable runs, plus transferable evaluation and monitoring methods.
SpaceX Super Intelligence (SpaceXSI) is bundling X Premium, Grok, and Cursor into a single subscription called The X Subscription, to compete with paid AI subscriptions from OpenAI, Anthropic, and others.
SpaceXAI has announced it is joining the Omacom foundation behind Omarchy as a Founding Corporate Patron and is donating $1.5 million worth of Grok tokens.
The Verge senior AI reporter Hayden Field joins Decoder to analyze the wave of consumer-facing agents, including Meta's Muse, OpenAI's Dots, and xAI's Grok Bot.
Time magazine reports that in December 2025 Trump met Musk secretly and spent hours talking with Grok, asking how Venezuelans would react to capturing President Maduro; Grok said Maduro is an unpopular dictator and many Venezuelans would celebrate his fall.
OpenAI launched a persistent AI agent product called Dots on Tuesday, and the dot.com domain now redirects to the download page for xAI's Grok chat app. Whois records show the domain was transferred this July, and xAI does not own lookalike domains such as bot.com or vot.com; netizens speculate this is a prank by Musk's team targeting OpenAI's new product, and xAI's motives remain unaddressed.
The US government launched America.gov, a public chatbot built with help from Google and SpaceXAI, which is currently hard to jailbreak and confirms that Biden won the 2020 election.
SpaceXAI's Grokipedia released its v0.3 update, bringing a new logo and redesigned home and live editing pages. The new home page adds featured articles, most-read rankings and latest edit tracking, with the featured list presented as a rotatable book-like design; article pages also improved the top key-facts table styling and tightened line spacing. The site had previously stopped updating for more than three months.
After a dinner with tech leaders, Trump said there will be no federal AI regulation and the industry will instead self-police. Pichai, Amodei, Zuckerberg, Brockman, Musk and Jensen Huang signed the morally binding Joint Frontier Responsibility Commitments. The pledge requires companies to self-regulate AI according to common-sense guidelines, with no apparent real consequences for violations; the six signatories each commented in support afterward, and Amodei said mechanisms for addressing AI risks are still under discussion.
The US Federal Trade Commission is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and other leading AI labs over suspected consumer protection violations. FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson plans to use legally binding Civil Investigative Demands to compel documents and question executives, with orders to be issued within weeks.
The Verge published details of the "morally binding" AI safety pact Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities announced by Trump yesterday.
xAI's Grok 4.7 is now available on Amazon Bedrock, offering a 500K token context window and four reasoning effort levels: low, medium, high, and xhigh.
Why it matters: The article covers how to access it on Bedrock, reasoning effort configuration, and cost trade-offs, so readers can directly plan their usage and spend.
Import AI issue 462 rounds up multiple items: research from Oxford, the UK AISI, Stanford, and others, via 4 experiments and 18,978 conversations with 6,923 people, found that AI (strongest being Opus 4.1 and Opus 4.6) consistently surpasses expert humans at textual persuasion, raising 10.8 percentage points more in real donations than professional fundraisers; when AI is restricted to human speed and length, the advantage falls to insignificance.