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The case study describes taking a 175% ticket surge after Cursor joined on August 14 with zero new support hires, and 99% of refund requests closing without a human. The bot got the same tools as human staff but started limited to internal notes with human approval on every write. All figures vendor-stated, and SpaceXAI is selling the bot to other businesses, so read the pricing comparison as competitive positioning against Intercom Fin and Zendesk.
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xAI shipped it August 12 with a 500K context, February 2026 cutoff, $2/$6 per million. It scored 61 on the Artificial Analysis Index, tying GPT-5.6 Sol Max, one point behind Fable 5 Max. The number that got 334 points and 381 comments on HN is from Artificial Analysis's teardo...
SpaceXAI and Cursor shipped early beta August 11 across Mac, iOS, Windows and Linux, bundled into SuperGrok Heavy, Cursor Ultra, and Cursor Teams Premium at roughly $120/month (MacRumors). Each bot gets provisioned a cloud machine, signs into your existing tools with your cred...
I don't care that Grok 4.5 ranks #4. I care that it resolves a SWE-Bench Pro task with an average of 15,954 output tokens where Opus 4.8 spends 67,020. That's a 4.2x efficiency gap, and it lands straight in my monthly bill. SpaceXAI launched Grok 4.5 on July 8, a roughly 1.5T-...
The Munich broker turned on Agentic Investing August 25, claiming a European first: clients toggle it in profile settings, connect an outside AI assistant, then drive trades, savings plans, watchlists and price alerts by natural language, with Scalable exposing native instrume...
Raj Nagulapalle's FetchSandbox MCP took 107 votes on August 23, wiring 70+ API sandboxes into Cursor or Claude Code via MCP config. The claim is narrower and more testable than most agent tooling: reproduce the real integration failure against a sandbox, apply the fix, re-run...
SpaceXAI released Grok 4.5 on July 8, and for once the vendor hype and the third-party numbers point roughly the same direction. Musk called it "roughly comparable to Opus 4.7, but much faster." Priced at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output, that's over 60% b...
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