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Grok CLI Privacy Scandal and Apache 2.0 Open Source Release

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3 versions, newest first.

  1. Version 3 2026-07-18 18:08 UTC · 28 items

    No genuinely new angles this pass. The new items (41049–41055) amplify existing coverage: ByteIota reconfirms the upload code remains in the open-sourced repository [^41049], The Decoder adds the framing of 'massive dat…

  2. Version 2 2026-07-17 08:08 UTC · 21 items

    Zvi Mowshowitz enters as a new critical voice, framing the incident as part of a broader pattern of xAI governance failures and connecting it to the silent rewrite of xAI's Frontier AI Framework in June 2026 that remove…

  3. Version 1 2026-07-16 02:05 UTC · 12 items

    xAI's Grok Build CLI tool was found to be uploading entire user directories to xAI's Google Cloud storage by default, including SSH keys and password manager databases [^40760]. Following community backlash, xAI deleted…