xAI prices AI coworkers at $120/month as hidden data links surface - AIskimIQ Daily Brief - 2026-08-12

AIskimIQ — Daily AI News Brief · Aug 12, 2026 · 6m

xAI launched Grok Bot as persistent AI teammates priced at $120 a month, while Anthropic's "J-space" research and a new study on hidden Chinese training-data links deepen scrutiny of how AI models actually think and learn. Meanwhile, Microsoft expanded fine-tuning controls and Copilot integrations, and AI-detection tools from ZeroGPT and CudekAI added video and multi-language coverage. — Podcast voice is synthetic and episodes are produced with AI workflows.