All news with #xai tag

xAI's Grok 4.1 Debuts with Improved Quality and Speed

🚀 Elon Musk-owned xAI has begun rolling out Grok 4.1, offering two free variants—Grok 4.1 and Grok 4.1 Thinking—with paid tiers providing higher usage limits. xAI reports the update is roughly three times less likely to hallucinate than earlier versions and brings quality and speed improvements. Early LMArena Text Arena benchmarks place Grok 4.1 Thinking at the top of the Arena Expert leaderboard, though comparisons with rivals like GPT-5.1 and Google's upcoming Gemini 3.0 remain preliminary.

GitHub Agent HQ: Native, Open Ecosystem & Controls

🚀 GitHub introduced Agent HQ, a native platform that centralizes AI agents within the GitHub workflow. The initiative will bring partner coding agents from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Cognition, and xAI into Copilot subscriptions and VS Code. A unified "mission control" offers a consistent command center across GitHub, VS Code, mobile, and the CLI. Enterprise-grade controls, code quality tooling, and a Copilot metrics dashboard provide governance and visibility for teams.

Smashing Security #434: Whopper Hackers and AI Failures

🍔 In episode 434 of the award‑winning Smashing Security podcast, Graham Cluley and guest Lianne Potter examine two striking security stories: an ethical hack of Burger King that revealed drive‑thru audio recordings, hard‑coded passwords and an authentication bypass, and an alleged insider theft at xAI where a former engineer, after receiving $7 million, is accused of taking trade secrets. The hosts blend sharp analysis with irreverent commentary on operational security and human risk.