Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI is stuck facing a lawsuit over alleged data center pollution after Donald Trump failed to convince a judge that his Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has complete control over all Clean Air Act lawsuits and can dismiss any suit at whim.

Soon after unpermitted gas turbines were discovered powering Musk’s giant Colossus data center in Memphis, Tennessee, the NAACP sued. Its lawsuit sought an injunction requiring xAI (which, following a merger, is known now as SpaceXAI) to use the best available pollution control technology when operating the turbines and ordering penalties up to $124,426 per day per violation. Without such remedies, the turbines risked drastically spiking pollution in already vulnerable neighborhoods housing predominantly Black communities nearby, the NAACP argued.

To block the lawsuit, Trump tried to intervene, arguing that the EPA had the power to unilaterally dismiss lawsuits any time the president decides against enforcing the Clean Air Act. According to Trump, it would supposedly “not serve the public interest” if citizens were allowed to seek massive civil penalties to punish polluting AI firms that were trying to get data centers operational as fast as possible to support Trump’s AI Action Plan.

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Tesla’s proxy for its 2026 annual meeting, filed today, confirms that one of its supposedly independent directors now sits on SpaceX’s board. Ira Ehrenpreis, who chairs both Tesla’s compensation committee and its governance committee, joined SpaceX’s board in February.

That’s one of several details in the filing that line up with a Tesla-SpaceX merger. There’s a three-item ballot, an auto-voting program that kicks in for the next vote, and Musk pay terms that pay out on a deal price alone.

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Let Elon Musk never be accused of not leading by example.

Last week, the world’s richest man sung the praises of his new Grok Bot AI agent, encouraging his followers to let it control their credit cards and shop for them.

“To buy stuff, you can just take a picture of your credit card, drop it in the chat and Grok @Bot will scour the Internet for the best deal on the item you want and order it,” he wrote.

The next day, he posted a screenshot of how he’d used Grok do exactly that, telling it “to research the most fun Lego Star Wars kits for young kids and order them.” If it wasn’t a testament to how much of a thoughtful dad he was, it at least showed that Grok could, in fact, use your credit card.

But almost as if provoking pranksters, Musk didn’t censor his screenshot at all. There, on proud display, was his order number, his email, and even the last four numbers of his credit card.

Immediately, a user named Enderman posted screenshots showing how he supposedly tricked a LEGO customer service bot into canceling Musk’s order. The post went mega viral, and an outraged Musk, taking the bait, fumed in the replies and insisted his order wasn’t canceled.

Just canceled your order, don’t share your info online guys https://t.co/n4GLXBPWWP pic.twitter.com/GoE8he0PCT

— Enderman (@Enderman) October 11, 2026

True or not — Musk certainly isn’t above a little lying — imitators followed. Another jokester showed how they used the LEGO support bot to un-cancel Musk’s order and place 400 more orders of the same product. To top things off, he also claimed to change the shipping address to Little St James, the infamous island owned by Jeffrey Epstein, which Musk discussed visiting in emails with the deceased sex trafficker.

LEGO passed up on providing a surreal statement for the ages, declining Wired’s request for comment.

Anyway, it’s probably not a good idea to let an AI agent, Grok included, control your financial information. Scammers have been targeting AI chatbots to manipulate them into recommending — or buying — scam products, such as by propping up entire fake storefronts to phish for your information or imitate defunct businesses. And the more permissions you give an AI, the more chances it has to make a terrible mistake.

More on AI: Completely Unused ChatGPT Accounts Are Telling Users They’re in the Top Percentiles of Intelligence

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Tesla (TSLA) got the SEC’s blessing today to let retail shareholders sign up for a standing instruction that automatically votes their shares the way Tesla’s board recommends, at every meeting, until they cancel it.

The timing is hard to ignore. Tesla still hasn’t scheduled its 2026 annual meeting, and Elon Musk keeps teasing a SpaceX merger that could hand him a big chunk of his $1 trillion pay package without hitting a single operational goal.

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SpaceXAI (MacRumors):

Grok Bot is in beta and available today for SuperGrok, SuperGrok Plus, and SuperGrok Heavy; Cursor Pro, Pro+, and Ultra; and Cursor Teams Standard and Premium subscribers on desktop and iOS. Grok Bot comes with its own usage, separate from your Grok and Cursor plans, so anything you hand off to a Bot won’t count against your existing usage. Download the app, create your first teammate, and start handing off work.

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Inside SpaceXAI, that already looks like real, multi-step coordinated jobs being handled: a sales Bot updating the CRM with call transcript notes and drafting follow-ups, an ops Bot seating new hires and processing invoices received in Gmail, and an engineering Bot reproducing a bug in the product UI, filing the ticket, and handing the fix off to a debugging Bot.

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People inside SpaceXAI often run multiple Bots in parallel, with one to manage the others. A chief of staff sits on top, with a specialist for each lane: inbox management, expenses, recruiting, bug fixes, or operations. Instead of multiple agents you have to manage, Grok Bot gives you a small team that can work in parallel so you’re not the middleman.

Artificial Analysis (Hacker News):

Grok 4.6 gains 5 points over Grok 4.5 on the Intelligence Index just over one month after its release, or +23 points compared to Grok 4.3. This brings SpaceXAI back to the intelligence frontier alongside OpenAI, behind only Anthropic.

Kun Chen:

i’m 80% sure Grok Bot was originally built by the Cursor product team, and got rebranded after the acquisition

John Bai:

Believe it or not, the original Grok Bot started as an exploration of what an ambient computer assistant might look like.

I wanted to give an expressive face to a helper that could also use your computer. The character evolved, but that sense of presence stuck around.

Dare Obasanjo:

A real dilemma. People whose opinions on tech topics I take seriously are saying good things about Grok Bot.

It sounds like it nailed OpenClaw/Hermes for the masses but as a point of principle I don’t use MechaHitler. I would love an overview of what it gets right that everyone else missed.

I don’t trust xAI (or Meta) with my data, but it doesn’t seem like Siri AI can do all that much. So far, I’ve been too busy to do much with agents, even on a test Mac. But I don’t think agents are going away, so there’s a tension here that will need to be resolved eventually. My guess is that most people will throw caution to the wind in order to get results. Maybe Google will have something more trustworthy and powerful by then.

Previously:

• Meta AI for Mac and Muse
• OpenClaw 2.0
• Siri AI Ships (But Still Beta)
• ChatGPT Work and ChatGPT Classic
• SpaceX Acquires xAI, Goes Public, Acquires Cursor
• Claude Desktop App
• Gemini App for Mac