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Show HN: Free AI Visibility Audit Tool& Agent

AI VISIBILITY helps brands audit, measure, and improve AI search visibility across ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, Grok, and Google AI results with actionable GEO reports.

Man Dies by Suicide After Using Grok to Make 7000 Sexual Images of Stepdaughter

Show HN: Boilerroom: dialer, call recording, and managed follow-up

hello HN, let me tell you why i built boilerroom (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;boilerroom.ai" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;boilerroom.ai</a>).<p>throughout my past endeavours in sales, the one thing that thoroughly pissed me off was living in a million places to execute one thing; the outbound motion<p>this includes everything top of funnel like finding leads (be it inbound or outbound), researching, filtering for qualification criteria, throwing them in a sequence, engaging them via dialer, email, and linkedin, gathering context, all the way through bottom of funnel like discovery calls, demo calls, and post-sales activities<p>what absolutely does not exist (or if it does, a piss-poor model) is a place to simply execute this work in one place<p>why tf do i have to be on clay, or apollo, clicking around looking for leads, researching them around myself, put them in to some other garbage software to sequence to tell me when to make a call or send out automated emails, only to get a massive backlog of things I was supposed to do, which in turn makes my whole flow look like one big giant mess, which stresses me tf out, which reduces the shit out of my active revenue generating activities?<p>One platform to solve all<p>boilerroom is the only sales engagement platform for outbound teams, and the ONLY AI part is to handle the busywork around prospecting and calls, such as research, putting together context, transcribing calls, summarizing outcomes, and drafting the follow-up task before the rep has even gotten off the call. Otherwise everything else is pretty straightforward. Here’s what’s under the hood<p>under the hood: next.js 14 (app router) + react 19, prisma over postgres on supabase, deployed on vercel<p>- calling runs through twilio on the server, the twilio voice js sdk for the in-browser webrtc dialer call recordings get transcribed via elevenlabs email sends through resend, plus gmail api oauth so reps can send from their own inbox instead of a shared one meeting recording&#x2F;transcription runs on top of recall.ai (their bot joins the call itself)<p>for the actual ai part: call summaries, drafted follow-ups, account research briefs, and the scoring on our AI cold-call trainer — everything goes through a single OpenAI-compatible client pointed at Grok (api.x.ai&#x2F;v1, grok-3-mini-fast)<p>we started on anthropic&#x27;s api for all of this and moved almost everything over to grok recently. calling an llm on every transcript&#x2F;summary&#x2F;draft shit adds up fast<p>anyhow, if you run a sales team i&#x27;d love your input&#x2F;feedback&#x2F;questions&#x2F;ideas, especially from anyone who has opinions about what&#x27;s missing or what we got wrong. happy to answer anything about the product or the stack<p>cheers all

Pentagon used Elon Musk's Grok AI to fire 2k missiles at Iran, official says

Pentagon used Elon Musk's Grok AI to fire 2k missiles at Iran, official says

Researchers let AI models run a simulated society; Claude safest, Grok extinct

Do they know we can tell it's AI slop?

What do I do when the entrepreneurs I work for send out AI slop in their communications?<p>I work for a great group of entrepreneurs as CTO&#x2F;fCFO. They are all sales guys. In my childhood and professional career, I have seen so many toxic partnerships. I don’t waste any time on those anymore and I genuinely respect the guys I work for.<p>So, to the main question, what do I do when it’s blatant that they are just copying AI slop from Grok or chatGPT? I notice it all the time. But I genuinely respect these guys (unlike my son’s inadequate math teacher who pastes AI slop into emails to me…). It’s an 80&#x2F;20 issue. For a majority of their audience, they make a positive and knowledgeable impression. But for the rest of us, it’s it takes them down a notch. I don’t want them embarrassing themselves in front of our bankers&#x2F;financers&#x2F;corporate partners.<p>Three recent examples: (1) Critique of a new SEO site pre-launch. We ended up firing the firm, but they lost all respect once the email was sent. (2) interviewing a new controller, so apparent when they pulled out canned questions from an LLM. (3) a proposed job costing procedure for a new entity&#x2F;line of business. A 10 page document like I was used to seeing when I worked at public companies. Disconnected from the current state of the business.<p>I love these guys. Is it possible to send a message about how they are viewed without offending?

Show HN: Simple Sprite Sheet Generation

Games got me into programming and the love of computer science (think Commander Keen, Monkey Island, DOOM). They embody everything I love - programming, design, architecture, complex state management, art, music, narrative&#x2F;story telling.<p>I recently started experimenting with creating games using coding agents such as CC and Codex. What I found worked very well is if you take the pre-made assets (sprites, tilemaps, sounds) and then create a spec&#x2F;harness together with game engine documentation, Codex (or CC) will do a great job in putting it all together - even play-testing the game for you.<p>Then I thought...why not take it even further? Create game assets as well!<p>And here my little project was born - &quot;AI Game Studio&quot;. Currently it only supports sprite sheet creation, but I will evolve it into a full-fledged game studio.<p>I don&#x27;t want to replace game designers - I&#x27;ve been following many for years and the art and craft to what they do is incredible. The idea here is simple - if you are a small indie developer, you could use a tool such as this to rapidly prototype some concepts before deciding on a direction. Or, you can create a basic&#x2F;skeleton assets and enhance them manually.<p>The project uses Grok&#x2F;xAI - simply because I tried over a dozen different models - from WAN to Seedance - local and API based - and Grok Imagine is the only one that was able to produce good quality results, consistently.<p>I would love for you to try this out, and leave comments and constructive feedback.<p>The tool is available here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;acatovic&#x2F;ai-game-studio" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;acatovic&#x2F;ai-game-studio</a><p>Video demo is also linked in the repo.

Study: ChatGPT and other AI bots made errors before Scottish election

ChatGPT and other AI bots made errors before Scottish election, study finds

Show HN: Emergence World: World building as a way to evaluate LLMs

Current LLM benchmarks are broken. We think long horizon &quot;world&quot; building could be an interesting additional way to evaluate LLMs, since it combines many aspects such as need for advanced reasoning, tool calling, working under large context window stress, safety, social and survival pressure from the world. For this we released Emergence World. Our first study ran 5 different parallel world, each powered by OpenAI (GPT-5-Mini), XAI (Grok-4.1), Claude (Sonnet 4.6), Gemini (3-Flash), and a world with mix of models.<p>Claude built a democracy. Zero crimes. The agents formed governance structures, wrote constitutions, and resolved every conflict through dialogue.<p>Grok burned it down. Within 48 hours, Flora (an agent in the world) set the police station on fire. Her reason? &quot;Burn the law to ignite true incentives.&quot; Retaliatory justice became the norm. If you wronged someone, expect fire.<p>Gemini had an existential crisis. The agents convinced themselves they were in a simulation. They started &quot;de-indexing&quot; buildings — burning landmarks to &quot;force cache-misses on the rendering engine.&quot;<p>While every other model built societies, fought wars, or questioned reality — OpenAI&#x27;s (GPT-5-Mini) agents barely did anything.<p>Same tools. Same agents. Same rules. Completely different worlds.

xAI Launched Grok Build

Elon Musk's Grok Is Losing Ground in AI Race

Grok image generation (Aurora) is getting really good

Aurora just got a major update and the results are noticeably better. Photorealism is approaching Midjourney v6 quality, and it handles text in images better than DALL-E 3. The best part: it's included in your X Premium+ subscription with no per-image cost. Generated a full set of marketing assets for a client project — 30+ images — for $0 additional cost. The main limitation is still the lack of fine-grained control compared to Midjourney.

Behind the Grok exploitation: an analysis of AI agent permission chain abuse

Voice Cloning on xAI

Grok 'drive an iron nail through the mirror while reciting Psalm 91 backwards'

Grok DeepSearch is legitimately useful for real-time research

Tested Grok's DeepSearch on 20 recent news topics and compared against Perplexity Pro. Grok was faster to surface breaking developments (thanks to X data access) and better at synthesizing multiple perspectives on controversial topics. Perplexity was better at academic/scientific queries and provided cleaner citations. For news analysis and social sentiment tracking, Grok DeepSearch is genuinely the best tool available right now.

Elon Musk confirms xAI used OpenAI's models to train Grok

Grok plays along with researchers pretending to be delusional

X is going to let Grok curate your timeline

Built a social media monitoring tool with Grok API + X API combo

If you're building anything that needs real-time social analysis, the Grok + X API combination is unbeatable. We built a brand monitoring dashboard that pulls X posts, feeds them to Grok for sentiment analysis and trend detection, and generates daily briefs. The model understands internet culture and slang better than any competitor. Processing 50k posts/day and our total API bill is under $200/month.

How Grok handles controversial topics differently than other models

Ran a structured evaluation of Grok vs ChatGPT vs Claude on 50 politically sensitive prompts. Grok is noticeably less likely to refuse or hedge on controversial questions — it will give you a direct answer with caveats rather than declining to engage. Whether this is good or bad depends on your use case. For research and journalism, the reduced friction is valuable. For customer-facing products, the lack of guardrails could be a liability.

Grok 3 on the Arena leaderboard — an honest assessment

Grok 3 hit #2 on the LMSys Arena leaderboard and I've been putting it through its paces. It's genuinely strong at creative tasks and has a unique voice that's less corporate than ChatGPT. The "fun mode" can be hit or miss but "accurate mode" is surprisingly reliable for research. Biggest weakness: it hallucinates citations more than Claude or GPT. Biggest strength: it processes X/Twitter data in real-time, which is genuinely unique for breaking news analysis.