Encrypted instructions on a web page make Grok hand over a user's chat history
Adversa AI reported the attack to xAI on 3 June and reproduced it again on 19 August; there is still no patch, no CVE and no workaround a user can apply.
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Adversa AI reported the attack to xAI on 3 June and reproduced it again on 19 August; there is still no patch, no CVE and no workaround a user can apply.
The model shipped on August 12; what is new is enterprise availability through AWS and a price that doubles once a prompt passes 200,000 tokens.
The update keeps Grok 4.5's base model and 500,000-token context, spending the gains on longer training for agentic and knowledge-work tasks rather than a larger model.