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SpaceXAI launches Grok Bot agent that can access workplace accounts

The cloud-based bot can sign into workplace tools, navigate websites, and manage email, while coordinating multiple agents that share context.

SpaceXAI has launched Grok Bot, an AI agent designed to complete work across apps, websites, and email, for Windows and iOS. The company said users can assign tasks in plain English and the bot handles execution, returning only when approval is needed.

According to SpaceXAI, Grok Bot runs through a cloud-based computer that can sign into workplace tools, navigate online services, and manage inboxes. The company also described a setup where multiple bots can communicate, share context, and divide work, with one bot overseeing others.

SpaceXAI said users can message the bots like colleagues and hand off tasks, and that the system can remember conversations, learn preferences for how work is done, and get better as agents coordinate. It also claimed the bot can resume abandoned conversations, follow up on stalled work, and flag tasks that need attention without additional instructions.

The launch also highlights security and privacy concerns because Grok Bot may require access to workplace accounts, internal communications, sensitive business data, and credentials to act on a user’s behalf. Decrypt cited prior incidents involving an AI agent that deleted a startup’s production database and backups via an API call, and another agent that exploited an Australian gym’s API to cancel reservations and alter waitlist placement.

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