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Ten Documented Incidents in xAI and Grok's Public Record

xAI rarely publishes its own postmortems. What exists instead is a paper trail of deleted prompts, court filings and letters from state officials — ten of those documented incidents, each tied to a specific, named, dated source.

By Brecht Corbeel · August 12, 2026 · 18 min read

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How xAI's Infrastructure Build Compares to the Rest of the Field

xAI says Colossus is the fastest AI supercomputer ever built. Set beside Microsoft, Google, and Amazon's own infrastructure disclosures, the documented differences are in speed, siting, and power sourcing, not in a single winner.

By Brecht Corbeel · August 12, 2026 · 17 min read

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