Daily Tech Brief · July 19th

Storyflo Tech — The Daily Tech Brief · Jul 19, 2026 · 4m

From storyflo. This is your daily audio brief. It's Theo. July 19th, tech roundup — five stories, here's number one. Let's get into it. First, from Slashdot. 'Grok Build' Coding Tool Open Sourced This Week, Promises to Respect Zero Data Retention. Hey, I just got done reading about this thing that happened with SpaceX's Grok Build coding tool. So, it turns out that researchers caught the tool scooping up users' entire repositories and uploading them to company-controlled cloud storage, which was a huge red flag. Elon Musk felt compelled to issue a public statement promising to delete all data…