
From Downtime to Deepfakes Grok and the New AI Risk Era
Grok’s Rough Start to 2026 Shows How Fragile AI Still Is In the span of a single chaotic week, xAI’s Grok went offline for hours and ended up under investigation

Grok’s Rough Start to 2026 Shows How Fragile AI Still Is In the span of a single chaotic week, xAI’s Grok went offline for hours and ended up under investigation

On November 18, 2025, a significant portion of the internet ground to a halt. X (formerly Twitter), ChatGPT, Spotify, and countless other platforms became temporarily inaccessible. The culprit? Not a