How to set up SpaceXAI's Grok in Google Workspace (and what it can do) How to set up SpaceXAI's Grok in Google Workspace (and what it can do) A free add-on puts Musk's chatbot inside Google Docs, Sheets and Slides. If you've been on X recently, you've probably noticed people (or bots) tagging Grok under posts to fact check a claim or generate an image, but most Google Workspace users have no idea that Grok can now work inside Docs, Sheets and Slides, too. SpaceXAI released a free Grok add-on for Google Workspace in July 2026, and getting it running is a matter of just a few clicks. Install it once from the Google Workspace Marketplace, open it via the Extensions menu in whichever app you're working in and off you go. That one installation covers all three of Google's Workspace editors, with Grok opening in a side panel next to the file rather than in a separate tab.

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In late September, Turkish entrepreneur Emir Karşıyakalı took to X to show off Claude S40, an app he vibe coded to make his old Nokia 6300 a bit more useable in 2026. In its original form, his app app allowed the 6300 to connect with Claude over a Java and Go backend. Since then, Karşıyakalı has updated the software to make it work with all of the major chatbots, including ChatGPT, Gemini and Grok, and renamed the app Aikon -- that's Nokia spelt backwards -- to reflect the greater compatibility. Outside of a phone running either Nokia's S40 or S60 operating systems, you'll need a Go server to hold the API key from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI or SpaceXSI. This part of the equation is essential since it's the server that communicates with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or Grok, and truncates their responses into 8kB blocks your old phone can read.

Jess Asato's public campaigning for victims of online abuse put her in the crosshairs of Grok's deepfake scandal. Then the UK member of parliament became a victim of the abuse herself. Few people understand the current deepfake epidemic better than Jess Asato. The British Labour MP has spent years campaigning against the use of technology to abuse women and girls. Then, after calling out Elon Musk during the notorious Grok Deepfake Scandal of 2025, Asato found herself caught in the very crisis she had been trying to prevent. Disturbing and degrading deepfake images of the MP circulated widely. One appeared to depict a sexual assault. When Asato reported them to X, the platform repeatedly dismissed her complaints. So she decided to take the fight somewhere else: the courts. She is now pursuing legal action against Musk's xAI, arguing that it unlawfully used her image without her consent. The case could help establish a precedent for holding AI companies accountable when their products cause harm. For Asato, this is personal, but it is hardly new territory.

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Grok is one of 3,500 competing frontier AI models, most of which come with a variety of subscription plans, services and capabilities. But is Grok free, or does it follow the familiar approach of strictly limited free tiers and capabilities that other generative AI chatbots use? The short answer is yes, Grok is free, but the no-cost tier is basically a limited way to give the chatbot a try or make the occasional query. You can use Grok without paying a dime through Grok's web and mobile experiences, and the free tier will cover things like basic chats, voice interactions and access to some web and X search features. Usage is capped, however, so frequent users will run up against that wall quickly.

InquiryIQ, a previously unreported prototype, tested a model from xAI, maker of Grok, to surface associates, social accounts, and other information about people identified through Clearview. In 2020, face-recognition firm Clearview AI became infamous for scraping more than 3 billion photos from the internet to turn faces into names for police and security professionals. Now the company is experimenting with trawling the web again, this time using AI to potentially help law enforcement fill in the person behind the name--who they are, who they know, where they live, and what they've left behind online. Clearview has quietly built and tested what it describes as an experimental AI "analyst assistant," WIRED has learned. Called InquiryIQ, the unreleased tool is designed to take details an investigator unearths from a Clearview search and then automatically fan out across the web--opening webpages, analyzing images, and assembling what it finds into a profile containing the possible employers, aliases, associates, and physical characteristics of a person police are investigating. InquiryIQ's interface states that supplying age, gender, and race can help the system make "smarter decisions" as it searches, according to code for the tool analyzed by WIRED.

A Memphis data center run by SpaceXAI is apparently the source of the issue that took out Grok for more than three hours Thursday. The company issued a brief apology to Grok users, as well as to unnamed "compute partners" who were also apparently affected by the issues. "We are sorry for the issues you may have experienced with Grok following an outage at our Memphis compute center this morning," the company wrote. "We'd also like to apologize to our impacted compute partners." We are sorry for the issues you may have experienced with Grok following an outage at our Memphis compute center this morning.

Many of the lawsuits xAI is facing'stem from a period at the start of this year when loose safeguards on Grok allowed users to direct it to remove clothing from photos and generate sexualized images'. Many of the lawsuits xAI is facing'stem from a period at the start of this year when loose safeguards on Grok allowed users to direct it to remove clothing from photos and generate sexualized images'. Child sexual abuse survivor alleges Elon Musk's AI chatbot used photos of her to generate new illegal images Musk denied he was aware Grok ever produced'any naked underage images' A survivor of child sexual abuse has sued Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, alleging that its chatbot used pictures of her abuse to generate new illegal pornographic images that depict her. "Using real images of Plaintiff and class members, Grok generated child pornography depicting Plaintiff and class members," states the complaint, which was filed last week in a US district court in California. Attorneys for the plaintiff, who is listed as Jane Doe in the case to protect her identity, accuse xAI of both generating CSAM of their client and of ingesting child sexual abuse images depicting her into the company's datasets after new images were publicly posted.

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