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SpaceX confirms 6 GW AI data center plan for rural Cochise, Arizona

At a Nov. 4 town hall, SpaceX said it is behind a 747-acre, nine-building data center campus near Cochise. A county hearing is set for Dec. 9.

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Cursor adds realtime voice chat with agents, powered by Grok Voice

On November 6, 2026, Cursor launched Voice Chat with Agents across the Agents Window, IDE, web, and iOS. It runs on Grok Voice.

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Cursor can now build live apps and share them with a link

Cursor says it will build a described tool, set up a database, run security checks and deploy it, so apps get off localhost.

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Grok API text gets an invisible watermark by default from November 7

SpaceXSI's docs say seven Grok models will watermark API text starting Nov. 7. An x-watermark header shows if a response was marked, and admins can opt out.

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xAI's Data Bot is a Team Bot that works like a shared data scientist

In a Nov. 2 post, SpaceXSI described Data Bot: a Grok Bot Team Bot taught by the data team to query the warehouse, run analyses and post Slack reports.

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Grok Bot shopping gets product cards, approved Buy now orders and tracking

The official Grok Bot account pushed its shopping update on Nov. 3. Results are cards, Buy now starts an order you approve, and the bot tracks shipping.

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Grok Bot can now make phone calls, the official account says

The official Grok Bot account posted Nov. 4 that calls are live, with a demo of the bot canceling a plan. Rollout and cost details are not yet official.

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Musk: Colossus 2 adds Gun Range and Spam sites, about 420,000 chips

Musk says two new Mississippi sites will add about 420,000 Nvidia GB300 chips to Colossus 2, Gun Range by end of November and Spam in December. The figures are his and unverified.

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Grok Bot usage meters jumped, Musk cited cost, then they rolled back

Many Grok Bot users hit their weekly limit early on November 1. Musk said serving costs were unsustainably high, and by November 2 meters were reported back to normal.

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Grok Bot can make phone calls for you, Musk says

Elon Musk is telling people to try Grok Bot's new calling feature. A demo shows live transcripts and mid-call prompts, but xAI's changelog does not list it yet.

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Cursor marketplace served a tampered Claude Code extension

For about 11 hours on October 29, 2026, a malicious Claude Code extension was live in Cursor's marketplace. Cursor says at most 5,000 users were hit and Grok Bot was not affected.

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Musk says Grok Bot costs were too high for its revenue

Responding to a subscriber on X on November 1, 2026, Elon Musk said the cost of serving Grok Bot was unsustainably high relative to revenue. Subscribers were reported to be hitting weekly usage limits early; he gave no cost figure.

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Judge lets Clean Air Act suit over Colossus turbines proceed

A federal judge in northern Mississippi denied SpaceXAI's motion to dismiss the NAACP's suit over 27 gas turbines at its Southaven power plant, which supplies Colossus. The ruling was released October 30, 2026.

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Anthropic filing puts SpaceX compute deal at up to $120.5B

Anthropic's public IPO filing, reported October 26, 2026, says it may spend up to $120.5 billion through 2029 on GPU compute from a SpaceX subsidiary, up from the $84.5 billion reported earlier.

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SpaceX opens a partner network for Grok

On October 22, 2026, SpaceX launched the Super Intelligence Partner Network, a program for companies that build on Grok. It has a deployment track and a plugin track, and the company said more than 130 companies took part in early access.

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SpaceX and Tesla boards form merger committees

Musk said on SpaceX’s third-quarter call on October 20, 2026 that each company’s board has set up a special committee of independent directors to look at a possible merger. He said no terms have been agreed and a deal needs both companies’ shareholders.

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SpaceX AI segment passes connectivity in Q3 revenue

In third-quarter results reported October 20, 2026, SpaceX said its Super Intelligence segment earned about $7.6 billion, up from the prior quarter and ahead of the $5.2 billion from connectivity. Total revenue was $14.6 billion. The segment figure includes the Cursor acquisition.

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SpaceXAI releases Grok Voice 3.0 speech model

SpaceX Super Intelligence announced Grok Voice 3.0, a speech-to-speech model available in its API at $0.08 per minute, the same price as version 2.0. The company says it also powers Grok Bot voice mode and Tesla vehicles; benchmark and usage figures are company-reported.

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Grok, Cursor and X Premium merge into one plan

On October 12, 2026, SpaceX introduced The X Subscription, which bundles Grok, Cursor coding tools and X Premium. Paid tiers cost $8, $30, $100 and $200 per month; the company said the $30 tier replaces plans that previously cost $90 per month combined.

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SpaceXAI releases Grok 4.7 for coding and knowledge work

The company released Grok 4.7 on September 21, 2026, calling it its most capable model for coding and professional knowledge tasks. It listed API pricing from $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens.

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Musk moves orbital AI computer launch target to late 2027

Musk said SpaceX and Nvidia designed a space-optimized Vera Rubin NVL72 computer for orbit, with a first launch targeted for the fourth quarter of 2027 and significant scale in 2028, as reported by Yahoo Finance.

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SpaceXAI releases Grok 4.6 for long-running agents

SpaceXAI released Grok 4.6 on August 12, 2026, saying it builds on Grok 4.5 and is aimed at long-running agents, coding and knowledge work. Its API price is $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens for prompts under 200,000 tokens.

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SpaceXAI launches Grok Bot in beta

Grok Bot, launched in beta on August 11, 2026, gives users always-on AI agents that run on a cloud computer and sign into their tools. It was offered on desktop and iOS to SuperGrok and Cursor subscribers, with an enterprise waitlist.

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Terafab chip plant set for Grimes County, Texas

On August 6, 2026 SpaceX and Tesla said the Terafab chip plant will be built in Grimes County, Texas, with an initial investment of $16.8 billion. The site is planned at about 100 million square feet and at least 3,000 jobs.

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SpaceXAI releases Grok 4.5

SpaceXAI released Grok 4.5 on July 8, 2026, priced at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens. The company said it uses about half the tokens of other leading models; those claims are not yet independently tested.

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Reflection AI to rent Colossus 2 compute from SpaceX

CNBC reported that Reflection AI, an open-source model startup, agreed to pay SpaceX about $150 million a month from July 1, 2026, through 2029 for Nvidia GB300 capacity at Colossus 2, roughly $6.3 billion in all.

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Google to pay SpaceX $920 million a month for compute

A SpaceX filing with the SEC, reported June 5, 2026, says Google will pay $920 million per month from October 2026 through June 2029 for about 110,000 Nvidia GPUs. Either side can end it on 90 days' notice after December 31, 2026.

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Starcloud to use Starlink laser terminals in orbit

Starcloud contracted for more than 50 Starlink Mini Laser terminals for over 25 satellites, reported May 26, 2026. Each link is rated up to 25 Gbps over up to 4,000 km, with first flight hardware expected within a year.

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SpaceX announces it has acquired xAI

SpaceX announced on February 2, 2026 that it had acquired xAI. Bloomberg valued the combined company at $1.25 trillion, and Elon Musk's memo tied the deal largely to building data centers in space.

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SpaceX files FCC application for orbital data centers

SpaceX filed with the FCC on January 30, 2026 for a system of up to one million data center satellites at 500 to 2,000 km. The FCC accepted it for comment on February 4, 2026.

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