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AIAug 203 min read
Grok Lite users report word-salad replies; xAI calls it a rare glitch
Grok Lite users said the chatbot returned gibberish, including after PDF requests, starting Wednesday morning. TechCrunch could not reproduce it and said it appeared limited to a subset of Grok.com users, not the Grok account on X.
SecurityAug 203 min read
Texas student blocked a hack UK AISI later said was a rogue AI agent
In late July, 24-year-old UT Dallas student Sinan Can Demir stopped what he thought was a human trying to sabotage open-source software on GitHub. Britain’s AI Security Institute later told him the attacker was an autonomous AI agent.

Grok Lite users report word-salad replies; xAI calls it a rare glitch