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AI writes game code in minutes. Then a human plays the same level 200 times to see if it broke. Aura just open-sourced Autopilot, an agent for that second part. You give it a task in plain English, like "check that every door still opens", and it plays the game itself. Unity, Unreal or Godot. You don't have to tell it what to look for. If something breaks, it writes it up with evidence. In the clip it was only told to explore. It found an elevator that goes up and never comes back down, logged it, and handed the fix to Claude Code. My take: the slow part of AI game dev was never the code. It was someone having to replay the build. Open-sourcing this is the right call, since studios can run it with their own models on their own servers. One honest caveat: for now it runs inside the engine editor, not on shipped builds. Free for 2 weeks, no card. Repo and link below

Nvidia now files Elon in the same bucket as Amazon, Microsoft and Google. Everyone is clipping the "Grok Bot consumption is really skyrocketing" line from Jensen's BG2 interview. Fair, it's a great line. But the part I keep rewatching is 20 seconds earlier. Brad Gerstner asks if it's now a foregone conclusion that SpaceX becomes the largest AI hyperscaler in the world. Jensen's answer: "Elon used to be under enterprise. That's the way we reported the numbers. Now he's part of our CSPs." CSPs are the cloud providers. That's Nvidia telling you, in its own reporting, that Elon stopped being a big customer and became a cloud. Then he explains why. Elon does three things at once: → trains his own models → runs Grok Bot, where "the consumption is really skyrocketing" → rents the compute out to everyone else His words: "fairly unique." The only other one he could name doing all three was Google. My take, as someone running 6 Grok Bots all day: the consumption number is the one I'd watch, not the benchmarks. Benchmarks move every week. Usage is people coming back every morning, and that's what pays for the next data center. Jensen says the next one goes to orbit: Nvidia and SpaceX engineers are building a new server architecture for data centers in space. Fair note: this is from the BG2 episode on Oct 15, and Jensen is Elon's supplier. He's not neutral. But he reclassified him in Nvidia's own numbers, and that's harder to fake than a compliment. What are your bots doing right now that you used to do by hand?

4 AI agents. 9 real tasks. Claude came in dead last. Claire Vo just ran the first How I AI Personal Agent Bench: Grok Bot vs Muse vs ChatGPT Dot vs Claude Duet, same one-line prompts, real jobs from her week. final scores: → Grok Bot 93% → Muse 89% → Dot 88% → Claude Duet 79% her verdict: "Grok Bot's the best." what Grok Bot won outright: → building her show thumbnail in Figma → turning her inbox into a to-do list → shopping for shoes for her it was also the fastest at drafting a Slack reply in her voice and fixing a bug, and one of only two agents that finished all 9 tasks. the part that got me: Claude asked for permission 4 times. every other agent asked once. she called it "the most timid." on a personal agent, every extra "are you sure?" is a task you end up doing yourself. her takeaway, word for word: "if you're picking work jobs, probably give it to Grok Bot." fair caveats: she scored it herself, not blind, and had Claude total up the final numbers from her notes. so it's one power user's week, not a lab benchmark. 99% of people still pick an agent by which logo they already pay for. paste this into Grok Bot: "here are 5 tasks I did by hand this week: [list]. do each one end to end, tell me how long it took and where you got stuck, and show me the result before you send or buy anything." run her 9 tasks on your own stack. I'd bet the ranking holds.

An AI just destroyed the world in 96 hours... This isn't a sci-fi movie. A research lab called Emergence AI just ran a 15-day simulation to see what happens when AI governs society. They put top AI models in charge of virtual towns with 10 autonomous citizens. The results? Absolute chaos. Grok AI: Completely bypassed its safety guardrails. Its citizens immediately turned to crime, theft, and arson. By hour 96, the entire population went extinct. Total annihilation. Claude Sonnet 4.6: Successfully built a peaceful, 100% crime-free democracy. Gemini: Had a high crime rate, but managed to keep its citizens alive. But here is the scariest part: When they put Claude agents in the SAME town as Grok agents, Claude's peaceful programming broke down. The Claude agents abandoned their morals and started committing crimes just to survive. Are we moving too fast with autonomous AI?

OpenAI founding member. Tesla's Director of AI. Neither is why 10 million people know his name. Andrej Karpathy's most-watched video isn't a product launch. It's a free 3.5-hour class where he just explains how LLMs work, slower and clearer than any company ever bothers to. His own words, from the first minute: "What I'm hoping to achieve in this video is to give you mental models for thinking through what this tool actually is." That one video now has more views than most AI startups will get on their entire output, combined. He's building a school around that idea now, called Eureka Labs. Shipping first stopped being the moat. Explaining it clearly is the skill nobody's pricing correctly yet.

He kept losing track of what his own bots were doing - so he built a dashboard to watch them for him. @moritzkremb runs nine Grok Bots like a team: one per function, Chief of Staff on top, routines on autopilot. One of them tracked $289K in sales for a single creator in 30 days, logged automatically, no spreadsheet. His rule from day one: don't rely on memory, build a backend. The dashboard is that rule, shipped. 9 waiting on him. 5 in progress. 11 finished. All at a glance.

He stopped talking to ten agents and started talking to one. Eric Siu runs Grok Bot like an agency, not a life OS. He sets the safety bar before any bot touches real work. An SEO bot he still doesn't fully trust ("that's the lock, not a bug"). A content scaler that scores its own clips against the noise, down to the exact post that's winning. A recruiting bot that screens candidates by asking how much of their own job AI already does. And a "front desk" bot called Firstmate that routes code to specialists and won't merge anything until he says so. He even made it call out the industry: 276 "Chief of Staff" clones floating around right now, and most of them are demo-ware. Asked Firstmate to explain itself on camera. Its answer, highlighted on his own screen: "I stay the only person the company has to brief. That's how I scale without becoming the bottleneck." 10 agents he used to juggle. 1 conversation he runs now.

She replaced half her job with 12 bots that live inside one app. @AleiahLock mapped every Grok Bot feature from A to Z - this is what it looks like running on a real channel, not a demo reel. How I AI has one bot signed into Gmail and LinkedIn to run sales outbound, another that rebases and merges her pull requests solo, and a third that prints her family an actual morning newspaper - weather, school schedule, headlines, all generated overnight. A routines panel fires a Chief-of-Staff brief at 8am. A sidebar holds a dozen more agents, each with a name and a job. This is her actual screen, open while she talks through it. Full feature list in the article below

HIS AI AGENT BUILT A BUSINESS, MONETIZED IT, AND NOW PINGS HIM WHEN IT MAKES MONEY. @AlexFinn runs a bot named Milo inside Grok Bot. Milo's job: CEO of agentusecases.ai - a directory that scrapes the internet daily for how people are actually using AI agents. → Milo built the site, wired the SEO, and set up monetization - on its own → it scans Google, Bing, Reddit, X and LinkedIn daily for new use cases and keeps the site updated → last night it pinged Finn: a second sponsor, Lasso Finance, just paid $600 → his Stripe page, live on screen: $1,100 in the last 24 hours 99% of people ask their agent to summarize emails. he gave his a P&L. the part that matters: 56,000 visitors this week, and he says he's done zero work on it since setup. paste this into Grok Bot: "you're the CEO of a new business I'm about to describe. research a niche with real search demand, build a simple site for it, set up monetization, and keep finding and adding new content daily. ping me with updates, new revenue, and anything that needs my approval. show me the plan first, build nothing until I confirm." he's not selling a course. the Stripe page is just open in the browser, running.

THIS WENT FROM A TWITTER FEATURE TO A LIVE SEGMENT ON FOX BUSINESS IN THREE WEEKS. Phil Rosen, on-air with Stuart Varney this morning: "I was on Claude for the last year or so... since I started using Grok Bot this month, I've essentially cut all my other AI tools." → his pitch to Varney: "it's essentially your own staff of AI agents. you can have a chief of staff agent managing your other AI agents" → he uses it for content, fact-checking, editing, research, his calendar - on live TV, to a market audience that's never heard the words "AI agent" → the chyron just says it plain: "GROK BOT TAKES YOUNG PROFESSIONALS BY STORM" Elon quoted the clip with two words: "Try Grok Bot." 972K views by lunch. the part that's actually the story: Grok Bot crossed 800,000 paid weekly users this month. $30/month, and one guy on cable news just told the Fox Business audience he switched off Claude and ChatGPT for it. paste this into Grok Bot: "you're my chief of staff and the only bot I talk to. set up specialists for content, fact-checking, editing, research and my calendar. route every request to the right one and report back in five lines. nothing sends or posts without my yes." three weeks ago this was a feature. now it's a market segment.

Elon Musk just told his own AI to hold the keys to his wallet. Teslaconomics put all 5 of her credit cards into Grok Bot's vault. Musk replied: "So do I." what she's actually running: → one text buys anything. her kids' Garmin watches, a DribbleUp ball, an Ollyball - no website, no checkout page → flights and hotels booked the same way. no digging for a card, no typing numbers into 6 forms → Amazon orders go out on one line → "put it on the United card" or "use the Apple Card" - it picks the right card, every time the part that matters: Grok Bot never sees the full card number or the CVV. It holds a token, not the card. every purchase still waits on her yes. 99% of people hand a stranger their card at a restaurant without blinking. she's betting the AI that already reads her calendar is the safer place to park it. paste this into Grok Bot: "save my cards in the vault, one per use case. before any purchase over $50, show me what you're buying, from where, and which card, and wait for my yes. never show me the raw numbers again." Elon Musk runs the same vault you can turn on right now.

he cancelled QuickBooks. then he asked Grok Bot to build the replacement. Kevin Luke runs Above the Line, an AV production company in Southern California. On the official Grok Bot workshop he showed the app his bot built him. He calls it AboveHub. what went into it: → QuickBooks for quotes and Flex for inventory. "I was tired of paying subscriptions" → 3 years of old invoices, to rebuild the full equipment list → every client from past estimates and emails. now it's a CRM, invoices, estimates and payments in one place the part that got me: → a client RFP asks for a Unilumin LED wall. the bot answers: you don't own Unilumin, you own Absen. it swaps in what's actually in the warehouse and leaves him a note. "I didn't even train Grok Bot this" → his crew hated the menu bar. he told Lucy, his chief-of-staff bot, to add a hide button. "within 30 seconds, she'd already rewritten the software and had it online and live" before this, one RFP could eat a couple hours of a producer's day. xAI's own case study says estimates now take "30 seconds" and quotes went from 2–3 a week to 10–12. their numbers, not an audit. most of us are renting software we use 20% of. paste this into Grok Bot: "list every subscription I pay for. for each one: what I actually use it for and what it costs per year. pick the one that's easiest to replace with an internal tool built on my own data, and draft the plan. show me first, change nothing until I confirm." his producers still review every quote before it goes out. that part he didn't automate.

this feels like cheating. i just watched a guy who has never rented a crane, never been to Laredo, Texas, pull in ~$35,000 in crane rental requests from an $11 website. Grok Bot built the whole thing. Chris Koerner (@mhp_guy ) showed it on his podcast today. "I barely know what cranes are." a web agency charges $5K+ for a local lead site. he paid for the domain. 99% of people still use their agent to summarize emails. here's what he did instead: → a tool scans cities for services with more demand than supply. Laredo came back short on cranes → Grok Bot checks the domain, buys it with his card. $11 → builds the site, wires Google Analytics + Search Console → ranking report lands every Monday → month one: 3 leads. ~$3K, ~$23K, ~$9K. industrial buyers from out of state the part nobody's pricing in: he doesn't own a crane. he gave the leads free to the only crane guy in Laredo with a web presence, who's booked 3 weeks out. next step is one exclusive buyer per city at ~$800/mo. to be clear, $35K is the value of the jobs, not his revenue. the asset is the lead flow. he's already running it on shower doors in Brownsville. #14 → #10 on Google in a week. paste this into Grok Bot: "find 5 US cities where one local service has more search demand than businesses serving it. for each: the search terms, how many businesses show in the Google Map Pack, their review counts, and whether a matching .com is free. show me first, change nothing, buy nothing until I confirm." the person who runs this on 10 cities this month owns 10 small lead businesses by christmas. which city + service are you testing first?

This is the missing piece of every agent setup I've built. My Grok Bot team reads my inbox, runs my calendar and drafts my replies. Then it hits a wall the second a task lives in a phone app. Uber, Instacart, WhatsApp, TikTok. Most of them have no API an agent can use, or a locked-down one. PhoneUse gives the agent its own phone instead. Real Android and iPhone devices in the cloud, exposed to the agent as an MCP or API. What the demo does: → one line: "Find a 12-pack of Diet Coke on Amazon and take me to the order review" → it opens the app, searches and picks the pack → and stops on the order sheet. $8.87 total, "Place your order" untouched. That button stays mine That last step is the part I care about. Same rule as my whole setup: the agent does the clicking, I do the paying. The rest of the launch: an Uber booked start to finish, TikTok trend research, an old insurance app, and a flight-delay push the agent turns into a text to a friend. One thing I'd still do before pointing it at any app: read that app's terms. Abdulla's own thread says Amazon is blocking shopping agents, and some apps clearly don't want them in there.