Platform Updates

Grok, the AI assistant built into X, now has an official route into large companies. SpaceX Super Intelligence, the SpaceX AI division formerly known as xAI, launched the SpaceX Super Intelligence Partner Network on Thursday, October 22, 2026, describing it as its official program for companies building products, solutions, and services with Grok.

The Like button on X is about to be worth money. Elon Musk announced on Sunday, October 25, 2026, that X is adding a way to send money with a single gesture: press and hold the Like button on a post, and one dollar goes to its author through X Money. “We’re adding long press on like to send someone $1 via X Money,” Musk wrote in a post on the platform.

Grok Bot can now reach into the built-in apps on a phone. The official Grok Bot account announced on October 22 that the assistant can use Calendar, Reminders, Contacts and more apps, and said the feature is rolling out now on iOS and Android. It arrives just days after Grok Bot picked up support for the iPhone Action Button, and less than a week after a major update that brought X Chat support.

If you have connected a scheduling tool to X in the past few weeks, you have probably met the warning. The authorization screen tells you, in X's own words, that "This app is not affiliated with X and is requesting sensitive permissions," and it asks you to tick a box labeled "I trust this app" before you can continue. It looks like a security alert. According to reporting published on Friday by FutureTweets, it is not a glitch, and it is not going away.

X faced one of its sharpest warnings yet from a government on Thursday, October 22, when a South Korean lawmaker told a National Assembly audit hearing that drug sales and sex-trafficking posts remain searchable on the platform, and that if the situation is not improved by the end of this year, X should be designated a harmful site and its access blocked.

Polymarket's official presence on X has gone dark for users in India. On Thursday, October 22, users inside the country began sharing screenshots of X's standard account-withheld notice on the prediction market's profile, stating that the account has been withheld in India in response to a legal demand. Indian users can no longer view the profile or its posts, while outside India the account continues to function normally.

Grok Bot's answers are turning into documents that stay alive. On Wednesday, October 21, the official @bot account announced on X that Grok Bot can now build reports, memos and dashboards. "Ask Bot for a page, then edit it together or have Bot keep it up to date," the post said. It arrived with a 27-second video showing the feature in action.

Nearly one in four accounts that follow or amplify the X account @Wallface show bot-like signals, according to a study published on October 21 by the Antisemitism Research Center, part of the Combat Antisemitism Movement. The finding is a reminder for everyday users that follower counts and repost totals on X do not always reflect real people paying attention.

Community Notes was built on a simple promise: instead of X deciding what counts as misinformation, its users would. A new preprint from a group of X engineers, analyzed this month by Indicator, shows how far that promise has drifted. The notes readers see most often are now written largely by X itself, through an open-source AI notewriter called the Community Writer, which the engineers describe as the program's largest AI API client.

Grok Bot took a clear step from watching X on your behalf to talking on it for you on Tuesday, October 20. In a five-minute "What's new in Grok Bot" video posted on X that morning, Matt Palmer, who works on Cursor and Grok Bot at SpaceXSI, walked through 12 changes, led by three that put the Bot directly inside X conversations and on Android phones.