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…
In July 2026, the discovery of a massive data leak within Grok Build, the xAI coding assistant, exposes much more than a mere technical vulnerability. It reveals the major economic and financial risks that weigh on an AI company valued at several billions of dollars. The security researcher Cereblab has discovered a disturbing practice: the tool transmitted the entire Git repository from developers to Google Cloud servers, without explicit conse…
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IT Security News - cybersecurity, infosecurity newsSpaceXAI Open-Sources Grok Build After Privacy Backlash
SpaceXAI open-sourced Grok Build under Apache 2.0 after privacy backlash over broad directory uploads from its terminal AI coding agent.
After it was discovered on the weekend that Grok Build has sent entire Git repositories of the user to a cloud storage, SpaceXAI promises transparency.
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.
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