SpaceX Open Sources Grok Build in Same Week Company Was Found Beaming Users' Repos to the Cloud
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SpaceX open sources Grok Build in same week company was found beaming users' repos to the cloud
Elon Musk has confirmed SpaceX has now open sourced the Grok Build CLI just days after researchers caught the AI tool scooping up users’ entire repositories and uploading them to company-controlled cloud storage. SpaceXAI’s data grab was first publicized on Sunday by Cereblab, who probed Grok Build traffic and found that repos were being packaged up as Git Bundles and beamed to Google Cloud storage. Concerning. The news gathered so much negative…
xAI open-sources "Grok-Build" on GitHub after massive data breach
xAI's command-line tool "Grok Build" silently uploaded entire directories to Google Cloud servers, including SSH keys and password databases. After the backlash, Elon Musk promised to delete all uploaded user data, and xAI open-sourced the full 844,530-line Rust codebase under the Apache 2.0 license. The article xAI open-sources "Grok-Build" on GitHub after massive data breach appeared first on The Decoder.
xAI's command-line tool "grok" has uninquiredly uploaded all files of a directory to Google Cloud servers, including SSH keys and password databases. In response, Elon Musk announced the complete deletion of all user data, and xAI released the source code under Apache 2.0 license. The article xAI sets AI-Agen "Grok-Build" after massive data leak as open source on GitHub first appeared on The Decoder.
xAI converted the Grok Build into open source mode after criticism for downloading the user's code bases into a cloud.
After the privacy controversy, Grok Build was open source and disabled any data collection by default. But is it acceptable to disable pull requests and feedback?
On July 16, 2026, Japan time, SpaceXAI (formerly xAI) announced the open-sourcing of its AI agent app, "Grok Build." Read more...
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