Elon Musk has withdrawn his legal complaint against Apple, which he filed after his chatbot Grok failed to reach the top of the App Store download charts. The dispute centered on claims that Apple's store rankings disadvantaged Grok. With the case dropped, that allegation is no longer being pursued.
A new standard called AEF-1 has been introduced to govern how independent third parties assess AI models. xAI, OpenAI, and Anthropic have all signed on as supporters of the effort. The move signals growing industry coordination around external evaluation practices.
A newly posted arXiv paper describes experiments in which the same three-part prompt sequence was run ten times for each of six frontier AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI and Google DeepMind. The prompts move from asking about architectural preferences toward a fuller task, suggesting the study compares how different systems respond as questioning gets more demanding. The abstract is truncated, so final findings and conclusions are not yet visible.
Clearview AI has been testing an unreported prototype called InquiryIQ that uses a model from xAI, the maker of Grok, to compile information about individuals. The tool is designed to help law enforcement surface associates, social media accounts, and other details about people identified through Clearview's facial recognition. The reported testing raises fresh privacy concerns about AI-driven surveillance and data aggregation by police.