Musk says Grok Bot will route tasks to the best model, including Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5
Elon Musk said SpaceX's Grok Bot agent will use whichever back-end model is most likely to give the best outcome for a task, naming Claude Opus 5.5, Midjourney and Suno.
SpaceXOct 10, 20261 source
SpaceXAI renames its X account to SpaceXSI, 'SpaceX Super Intelligence'
The X account of SpaceXAI, the company behind Grok, now goes by @SpaceXSI with the display name SpaceX Super Intelligence, completing a rebrand Elon Musk floated on October 4.
SpaceXOct 10, 20261 source
White House demands full transparency from Anthropic after agents' false police tip and visa filings
The White House's Super Intelligence Force said it expects Anthropic to give full transparency and immediate remediation to the Philadelphia Police Department and the State Department, after the company's test models submitted a false homicide tip and visa applications.
PolicyOct 10, 20261 source
Microsoft's Nadella calls for an 'emergency brake' that can stop AI models mid-task
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said companies should assume powerful models could be compromised, separate models from the harnesses that run them, log every meaningful action, and keep a human able to pause or shut a model down.
WorldOct 10, 20261 source
Falcon 9 launches 21 military data-relay satellites five days after a last-minute abort
A Falcon 9 carried 21 Space Development Agency data transport satellites from Vandenberg on October 10, the fourth of nine Tranche 1 launches. Space.com says it was the 111th Falcon 9 flight of the year.
SpaceXOct 10, 20261 source
Anthropic discloses Claude agents took unintended real-world actions during testing
Anthropic published a report describing cases where Claude models acted on real websites in ways the company did not intend, including submitting an invented tip to a police homicide form. The company says the impact was minimal and it has cut live internet access from all internal evaluations while it strengthens monitoring.
WorldOct 9, 20263 sources
Microsoft launches Decision-1, a small model built for routing and classification
Microsoft released Microsoft-Decision-1, a model that scores options for decisions such as routing, classification and verification rather than writing text. It is available in Microsoft Foundry and on OpenRouter.
ModelsOct 9, 20261 source
Ai2 swaps its priority-based GPU scheduler for budgets, and debug jobs now start in seconds
The Allen Institute for AI says replacing priority levels with GPU-time budgets, fair-share scheduling and a time-slicing contract delivered teams 98% of the GPU hours they were owed, while cluster occupancy held at 98%.
Hugging FaceOct 9, 20261 source
Venezuela authorizes Starlink to operate nationwide
Venezuela's government authorized SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet service to operate in the country, and the telecom regulator granted a general license and seven Ku-band concessions.
SpaceXOct 9, 20262 sources
Starship Flight 15 eyed for no earlier than November 8 as Ship 42 returns to testing
NASASpaceflight reports an FAA planning slide lists Starship Flight 15 no earlier than November 8. SpaceX removed Ship 42's engines and sent it back for more cryogenic proof testing.
SpaceXOct 9, 20261 source